[5] Avramidis began his academic career in 1987 in Canada at the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor at Department of Wood Science in the Faculty of Forestry.

Avramidis served as the Head of the UBC Department of Wood Science for two consecutive terms, from 2016 to the present.

[7][8] Avramidis along with his colleagues have authored over 250 scientific articles, more than 100 industrial studies, and his research work has received almost 3,000 citations in the Scopus database, until July 2024.

[11][12][13] In 2020, his name was included in the Mendeley Data, published in the journal Plos Biology[14] for the international impact of his yearlong research in wood drying.

In October 2023, a referred metaresearch conducted by John Ioannidis and his team at Stanford University, included Avramidis in Elsevier Data 2022, where he was placed at the top 2% of researchers in the area of wood physics.