Thanasis Zisis obtained his first degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) – School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and then at the beginning of 2006 he was awarded the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge working at the Centre for Micromechanics. His research project during the Ph.D. degree falls in the area of Contact and Impact Mechanics of Microstructured Solids. The Ph.D. was fully funded by the ERSRC and the National Science Foundation.

Upon completion of his Ph.D., Thanasis returned to Greece and worked as a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Computer-Aided Materials Processing-Rheology and Design for Polymers and Composites at the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, NTUA (CAMP R&D). He also worked as a Research Associate at the Institute of Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection at the National Centre of Scientific Research-Demokritos (Greece) in the field of nuclear engineering.

At the beginning of 2008, he was appointed the position of the Adjunct Lecturer at the Dept. of Civil Engineering and at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Thessaly – Greece with both teaching and research responsibilities. There he also worked as a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Strength of Materials and Micromechanics and the Laboratory of Mechanics and Strength of Materials on the area of Computational Mechanics.

At 2012 he was elected Assistant Professor at the National Technical University of Athens – Greece at the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Science, Division of Mechanics. At 2012, he also started cooperating with the Unit of Computational Fracture Mechanics and Dynamics in NTUA where he worked on Contact Problems of Microstructured Materials.

From the beginning of March 2014 until the middle of August 2014 he worked as a Marie Currie Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Solid and Structural Mechanics Group at the University of Trento, Italy.

In August 2014, he was appointed the position at NTUA.