Theodoros Samaras received the Physics degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1990; the MSc degree in Medical Physics (with distinction) from the University of Surrey, UK, in 1991; and the PhD degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 1996. In 1998, he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, where he was mainly involved with dosimetry of electromagnetic fields He subsequently moved to the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, where he conducted research on treatment quality of microwave hyperthermia for cancer treatment with a Marie-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission. In December 1999, he returned to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he is currently a Professor.
His research interests include numerical techniques and computational modelling with applications to biomedical technology, as well as the therapeutic applications and safety of electromagnetic fields and radiation. He is currently coordinating the SEAWave project (https://seawave-project.eu/) funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, which investigates potential health effects of the 5G millimetre wave radiation. He has been serving as a member of several national and international standardization committees and as the national representative to European research co-ordination actions. Theodoros is a member of the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) of the European Commission's DG SANTE. Since July 1, 2022, he has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Bioelectromagnetics (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1521186x). He is also an Affiliate Professor to the Department of Physics of the University of Malta.