Nicholas A. Peppas is a professor in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Pediatrics, Surgery and Pharmaceutics at the University of Texas at Austin. His group has pioneered research in biomaterials, drug delivery, and bionanotechnology which blends modern molecular and cellular biology with engineering principles to design next-generation medicines and devices. He has 2,050 publications, with 220,000 citations (H=215).

He has been awarded the NAE Founders (Ramo) Award, NAM Adam Yarmolinsky Award, the Biomaterials Global Impact Award, the AAPS Global Leader of Pharmaceutical Sciences Awards, and the Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal. Peppas is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, and Academies in China, Korea, India, Mexico, Canada, France, Greece and Romania.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Regenerative Biomaterials (Oxford). He holds a Dipl. Eng. from NTU of Athens (1971), a Sc.D. from MIT (1973) and thirteen honorary doctorates and professorships.