Dr. Elmina Kabouraki  received her PhD degree from the department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete. She received her Bachelor (2009) and Master degree (2012) from the same department. Among her research interests are the synthesis of hybrid photosensitive materials, synthesis of quantum dots and the fabrication of three-dimensional photonic devices via the multi-photon polymerization technique. In her PhD thesis she was involved in the synthesis of novel photosensitive materials and in the fabrication of optical switching devices as well as three-dimensional photonic crystal lasers. She is a part of the Polymer Synthesis laboratory at the University of Crete under the supervision of Prof. Maria Vamvakaki and of the Non-Linear lithography (NLL) group which is located at FORTH-IESL under the supervision of Dr. Farsari Maria.    

Education

• Bachelor in Materials Science and Technology (2009)
• Master of Science (2013, Materials Science and Technology Departement, Crete, Greece)
• PhD (2019, Materials Science and Technology Departement, Crete, Greece)

Interests

• Synthesis and processing of organic, inorganic, and hybrid nanosized materials
• Nanocomposites, nanoparticles, nanocrystalline materials, and nanoclusters
• Nanophotonics
• Polymer synthesis
• Direct laser writing via Multi-Photon Polymerization

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• Maria Manassaki fellowship, 2014
• Research Student Price Oral Presentation Award, Symposium J-EMRS Spring Meeting 2013
• Attendance Brusary for Research Student, Symposium J- EMRS Spring Meeting 2013

Education

• 2012, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2008, M.Sc. in Computational Physics, Dept. of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2005, B.Sc. in Physics with major in Computational Physics, Dept. of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.

Career

• 2023 – present, Research Associate. Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece.
• 2021 – present, Member of the Collaborating Educational Staff of the Hellenic Open University, Postgraduate program: Data Science and Machine Learning, Greece.
• 2022 – 2023, Senior Data Scientist - VODA.ai, USA (remotely).
• 2020 – 2021, Temporal teaching personnel in the frame of the National-EU program Gaining Academic Teaching experience, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2019 – 2023, Research Associate. Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics and Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 11/2019 – 02/2020, Visiting researcher. Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University, MA, USA.
• 2018 – 2019, Research Associate. Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece.
• 2017 – 2019, Research Associate. Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2015 – 2016, Research Associate. Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology. Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2012 – 2015, Postdoctoral scholar. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA.

Interests

• Physics Informed Machine Learning
• Machine Learning in Complex Systems and Medicine
• Computational Materials and Condensed Matter Physics
• Inverse Problems
• Development of scientific software

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2011, “Maria Michail Manassaki" award as the top graduate student of the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete, Greece.
• 2010, Individual HPC-Europa2 grant for a visit in Finland and access to one of Europe’s largest computers (150000 cpu hours).

2018-19: ONRG post-doctoral fellow at IESL-FORTH; engaged in research exploring the role of correlated disorder in intercalated iron-chalcogenide superconductors.

Career

• 2017, D.Phil. Chemistry; University of Reading, UK
• 2013, M.Sc. Materials for Sustainable & Renewable Energies; Heriot-Watt University, UK
• 2009, Physics; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Interests

• Chalcogenide materials for thermoelectrics
• Metal-atom ordering and phase transformations
• Neutron scattering