The Metropolitan of Mesogaea and Lavraeotica was born in 13th of April in 1954 in Thessaloniki.
He studied physics at the University of Thessaloniki and he continued his studies at Harvard and MIT (USA) where he obtained his graduate degrees and doctorate. He worked as a researcher in the laboratory of angiology of the New England Deaconess Hospital (U.S.). At the same time he was a scientific associate at the Space Society of NASA and at Arthur D. Little company.
He has taught at Harvard and M.I.T seminars, at the Medical School of the University of Crete and at the Medical School of the University of Athens.
He studied theology at the Theological School of the Holy Cross in Boston, USA and he was announced Dr at the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki.
He was director of the Hellenic Center for Biomedical Ethics and President of the Bioethics Committee of the Church of Greece.
Studies, research, teaching and administrative activities in details
Fr Nicholas Hatzinikolaou studied physics at the University of Thessaloniki, from where he graduated with distinction in 1976. After completing his military obligations, he continued his postgraduate studies in astrophysics at the University of Harvard (Master of Arts). Then he worked on the study of Fluid Mechanics and Mathematical Physiology and received his MSc at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
His Doctoral studies at HST (joint program of Harvard and MIT) have focused on the field of Biomedical Engineering. Their purpose was the Hemodynamics study of the circulatory system(heart and blood vessels) using Fluid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. In particular, he dealt with the invention, design and study of a non invasive method for diagnosing valvular disease by a sound analysis.
He worked as a researcher and research associate at the Laboratory of angiology of the New England Deaconess Hospital, at the Department of Anesthesiology, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital Boston. Furthermore, he served for two years as a scientific consultant to NASA and the company Arthur D. Little on Aerospace Medical Technology.