Dr. Anastassia Rissanou is Assistant Researcher at the Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece. She has basic education in Physics and long expertise in modeling of soft materials. Systems of interest are polymers, colloids, biological molecules such as peptides, proteins, RNA/DNA, as well as hybrid nanostructured materials of the aforementioned matrices with organic or inorganic nanofillers.  She is skilled in various simulation methods in atomistic and coarse-grained level, as well as multi-scale simulation techniques. She has many publications in high-impact international journals and participations in many national and international conferences.