Dr. Zacharis is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Analysis at the School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry at AUTH in 2001 and obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2006 from the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry of the same Department.

From 2010 to 2022, he served as an Editor of the international scientific journal Open Chemistry. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of several international scientific journals, including Microchemical Journal (Elsevier), Instrumentation Science and Technology (Taylor & Francis), Molecules (MDPI), Analytica (MDPI), Sci (MDPI), Advances in Analytical Chemistry, and Current Chromatography. His publication record includes more than 140 research articles published in reputable, peer-reviewed, international scientific journals. He has also served as Guest Editor for more than 10 special issues of scientific journals. His scientific work has received 2,566 citations, and he has an h-index of 28.

He received the Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Health Sciences in both 2022 and 2023. Most recently, he was included in the prestigious World’s Top 2% Scientists ranking for 2026.

He serves as a reviewer for more than 70 international scientific journals and has reviewed over 1,200 manuscripts. He has supervised one postdoctoral researcher and three PhD candidates, as well as more than 30 postgraduate students.

His research interests focus on the development and application of novel analytical methods based on separation techniques for the analysis of pharmaceutical products and biological samples.