Christos Pliotas obtained a BSc in Physics at the University of Athens and an MSc and PhD at the University of Aberdeen. He did his postdoc at the University of St Andrews with James H. Naismith FRS and was subsequently awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship and became a principal investigator at the Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews. Christos moved to the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, at the University of Leeds in October 2018, where he was an Assistant Professor in Integrative Membrane Biology, until May 2023. During his time in Leeds, he received a BBSRC New Investigator Award (2019) and the Sir Robin MacLellan Award for outstanding research funded by Tenovus (2022). As of June 2023 Christos and his lab have moved to the School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, at The University of Manchester, to take up his new post as a Reader in Structural Biological EPR Spectroscopy. As of January 2024, Christos has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) and has been also affiliated with the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. In Manchester, Christos will launch and direct the new BBSRC-funded BioEmPiRe Centre for Structural Biological EPR Spectroscopy in 2025.