Dr Nikolaos C. Kokkinos is Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the School of Science of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece. He is the Director of the Petroleum Institute (PI) at DUTH, and he is the Program Director of the MSc in Oil and Gas Technology at DUTH. Moreover, Dr Nikolaos Kokkinos serves as Section Officer of the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) in Greece (Kavala Section) since 2013; he is in charge of the Modeling and Simulation in Process Engineering Laboratory at DUTH; and he holds a Research Director position at Hephaestus Laboratory (hal.edu.gr). He has over ten years’ experience in the academia as a lecturer on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in O&G Engineering and additional ten years’ experience in the O&G Industry as an engineering consultant. Furthermore, Dr Kokkinos is certified Master Instructor for Training and Accreditation on control room operations in emergency responses, employing state of the art infrastructure, such as Virtual Crisis Control Room and Drilling Simulator. Dr Nikolaos Kokkinos collaborated with the Organic Geochemistry Unit (OGU) at the University of Bristol (UK) as Post-Doctoral Research Associate; he holds a PhD in Petroleum Process Simulations, an MPhil in Applied Catalysis, an MSc in Information Technology and a BSc in Petroleum Engineering. He is editor and reviewer in various scientific journals in the field of petroleum & natural gas engineering, applied catalysis, biofuels and scientific simulations. Dr Nikolaos Kokkinos has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. His research interests, among others, include process modeling and simulation, petroleum engineering, biofuels and applied catalysis.