Then he was postdoctoral fellow at the Univ. of California at Berkeley with prof. A. Streitwieser (1991-93), and Univ. of California at Los Angeles with prof. C. S. Foote (1995). Between 1995 and 1997 he served as a visiting professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Crete. He started his academic carrier as an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cyprus (1997-1999). In 1999 he moved to the Department of Chemistry, University of Crete as an assistant professor and in 2009 he was promoted to full professor. Prof. Stratakis is author or co-author of 110 original articles and in a series of chapters in books. His research interests focus on novel applications of supported metal nanoparticles as heterogeneous catalysts in organic transformations, and in biomimetic natural product synthesis.