Iannis Talianidis received his diploma from the Semmelweis University Medical School in Budapest Hungary in 1981. He continued his post-graduate studies in the Department of Biochemistry of the same University, where he obtained his PhD degree in Biology. Between 1985 and 1987, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Dept. of Biological Chemistry of Harvard University Medical School. He continued his postdoctoral studies at the Dept. of Chemistry of UC Berkeley until 1990, when he joined IMBB-FORTH as Group Leader. He served as Director of the IMBG at the BSRC Al.