His research team studies the effects of environmental chemicals on human health, particularly with respect to chronic diseases. Since 2004, Makris’s team has published more than 75 peer-reviewed articles and 40 conference proceedings. He has been awarded more than one million euros in external funding since 2008 from the European Union, the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation and the National Institutes for Environmental Health Sciences Center at the Harvard School of Public Health. Makris received his PhD in environmental chemistry from the University of Florida.