Education
He studied engineering, both electrical and mechanical, at the National Technical University of Athens. Upon receiving his degree in 1970, he moved to the United States. and studied in Chicago, Illinois at Northwestern University.
He studied engineering, both electrical and mechanical, at the National Technical University of Athens. Upon receiving his degree in 1970, he moved to the United States. and studied in Chicago, Illinois at Northwestern University.
After attending and graduating Greek and British schools, in 1965 he left Cairo and moved to Athens, Greece. In 1975, after receiving his Doctor of Philosophy, he moved to New York State and taught at the University of Rochester. From there he worked with the Department of Energy and their National Laboratories in New York state and Tennessee, eventually settling in Washington District of Columbia where he joined the Department of Energy full time.
In 1993 Doctor Patrinos succeeded David Galas as the Director of the “Office of Biological and Environmental Research” in the United States. Department of Energy, where he then worked on the Human Genome Project.
Leaving the Department of Energy in 2006, he joined Synthetic Genomics Incorporated. Having gained experience with a lead role in the Human Genome Project, Doctor Patrinos decided to launch the Genomes to Life Program as well as creating the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute.
At Department of Energy he was also involved in initiating the International Panel on Climate Change and the Global Change Research Program within the Department of energy. His work and research has defined many of the policies the United States employs with regard to these fields
Doctor Patrinos is considered a leading authority on structural biology, genomics, global environmental change, and nuclear medicine.
He currently directs research for Urban Sciences and Progress or the CUSP program, and is also a professor of biological, chemical, and mechanical engineering at New York University.
He continues to be involved with Synthetic Genome and their projects that involve synthetic biology applications, and also serves on the Board of Directors of Tsakos Energy and Navigation (TNP). To this day he continues his work in Washington District of Columbia advocating solutions for sustainable global energy and environmental change.