Professor Antoniades Charis is a full Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, and a Consultant Cardiologist in Oxford University Hospitals. He graduated Medicine in Athens Medical School a with hons (top 3%) in 2000. He was awarded his PhD title with hons on the genetics of premature myocardial infarction, and he won multiple prestigious international Young Investigator award competitions. He has published  250 scientific papers and in 2016 he received the outstanding achievement award of the European Society of Cardiology. He is also deputy editor of Cardiovascular Research, editor of British Journal of Pharmacology and associate editor of other journals. He is board member of the British Atherosclerosis Society and one of the founders of the ESC Scientists of Tomorrow.

Prof Antoniades is particularly interested in the control of high blood pressure, and runs a Hypertension clinic at the Oxford University Hospitals. He also has SCCT accreditation and directs the Oxford Academic Cardiovascular CT Programme. He has recently discovered a new method that predicts future heart attacks by analysing coronary CT angiograms.

Prof Antoniades is founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Caristo Diagnostics, a university of Oxford spinout company commercialising novel CT-derived biomarkers for cardiovascular risk prediction.