Paul N. Panayotatos (S'78-M'79-SM'86) received an undergraduate degree in Physics form the University of Patras, Greece (1974) and both the masters (1975) and the doctoral (1979) degrees in Electrical Engineering form Columbia University in New York.

He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he has been since 1982. He is a member of the Rutgers Microelectronics Research Laboratory (MERL), which he helped establish. He has seventy journal and conference publications, mostly in various areas of photovoltaics, including Schottky barrier and MIS solar cells, transport across grain boundaries, device modeling, and, currently, organic semiconductor solar cells. He has also published on III-Vs, mainly funded by the European Union through a twelve-year collaboration with the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) where he also served as head of the Mircroelectronics Research Group from 1993-1998. He chaired an international conference on III-Vs (EXMATEC 2000) and is involved in faculty governance at Rutgers through the University Senate and the New Brunswick Faculty Council which he chairs in 2000-01.