Dimosthenis Lentzis was born in 1978 in Kavala, where he completed his primary and secondary education. In 1995 he entered the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which he obtained a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree and a doctoral degree. He received a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation for his doctoral thesis on the principle of transparency in the legal order of the European Union. From 2005 to 2012 he worked as an administrator in the Directorate-General ‘Library, Research and Documentation’ of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. In 2013 he returned to Thessaloniki to serve as a lecturer, then as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor (from March 2024 until today) at the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His work (four monographs and dozens of articles and commentaries on judicial decisions) focuses on key issues of European Union law, including its value-based background, its relations with national law, its application by national courts and the protection of the rights it guarantees for European citizens.