Antonios Stamatakis was born in Greece in 1971. He obtained his PhD in Biology (Neurobiology-Physiology) from Crete University, Greece, in 2000. He is Professor of Biology-Biology of Behaviour in the Faculty of Nursing, in the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He is among the very few faculty members in Greece doing research on Behavioural Neuroscience and teaching Neuroscience at the undergraduate and graduate level.

His scientific interests are in the field of the biological base of behaviour (using rodents as experimental animals), including epigenetic effects of early life experiences on neonatal and adult brain, with special emphasis on prefrontal cortex and amygdala structure and function. Moreover, he studies mechanisms of learning and memory, maternal behaviour, and sex differences in stress responses. He has employed a variety of experimental approaches ranging from neurochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, image analysis to a wide range of behavioural tasks for animals (rodents and birds).

He is currently supervising 5 PhDs and 1 post-doc, he has supervised 3 and co-supervised 6 PhD theses, all with topics in Neuroscience; he has published 68 articles in international, peer-reviewed scientific journals and he has also translated scientific books in Greek. He is currently Principal Investigator in one national research grant (ELIDEK). He has been the Principal Investigator in 5 Scientific Projects funded by the University of Athens, he has participated as Senior Scientist in 1 Scientific Project funded by EU (Horizon 2020, MIS634880), 3 by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology and 1 funded by The Latsis Foundation. He has received both national and international awards for his studies and research.

He has extensive teaching experience both at the undergraduate and graduate level as he has been teaching since 2005 classes such as Neurosciences, Neuroscience and Education, Biology of Behaviour, Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Biology & Psychophysiology of Stress, Cell Biology, Physiology. He is currently member of the Administrative Committees of the “Athens International Master’s Program in Neurosciences”, NKUA and the “Clinical Biochemistry-Molecular Diagnostics” (NKUA).

He has served as member of the Governing Council of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience from 2007 until 2013, as Secretary General from 2013 until 2015 and as President of this Society from 2015 until 2017. He was member of the Governing Council of IBRO and FENS (2015-2017). He has served as member of the Executive Committee of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) (2012-2014) and as Secretary General of this Society for two terms 2014-2016 and 2017-2020. He is member of the "Advanced School Sub-Committee" of the International Society for Neurochemistry from 2011 until now.