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Ms. Zakaki Evangelia
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Fax: G028
Ms. Boumpoulaki Evangelia
Office Phone: (+30) 2810 39 1765
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Fax: G026
Ms. Kontzedaki Renate
Email: zpapliaka@yahoo.gr
Dr. Papliaka Zoi Eirini

Papliaka Zoi Eirini is a chemist and holds a PhD along with a MSc in Conservation Science of Artworks and Monuments. Her excellence in the field was rewarded by the State Scholarships Foundation.

During her PhD and MSc research activity she collaborated with The State Museum of Contemporary Art and The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (Greece), studying the materials encountered in their collections of pictorial artworks and consulting museum curators to select appropriate environmental conditions during display and storage as well as to apply the most appropriate conservation treatments.

Her first post doc research was held at Elettra Sincrotrone-Trieste, Italy. Her research was mainly focused on improving FTIR imaging speciation of organic compound residues or their degradation products in the stratigraphy of archaeological wall painting samples.

During her second post doc research at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (IESL-FORTH), she gained an in-depth expertise in portable laser spectroscopic instruments for the in-situ characterization of artworks and monuments. The developed methodology has been successfully applied for the physicochemical characterization of Artworks in Museums and Monuments situated in rural locations in the greater Heraklion area.

Since 2019 she works as a chemist at the Laboratory of Wastewater Management and Treatment of the Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Company of Volos (DEYAMV).

Her main activity is the accurate quantitative measurement of wastewater constituents during various stages of treatment, as accurate analyses make it possible to track the effectiveness of the purification process.

Education

  • 2009, PhD in Conservation Science, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece.
  • 2006, MSc in Conservation Science, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece.
  • 2003, BSc Degree of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece.

Career

  • 01/09/2019 to present, Chemist, Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Company of Volos (DEYAMV), Greece.
  • 01/11/2014 -31/10/2015, Postdoc Researcher, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL-FORTH), Greece.
  • 01/09/2012-15/09/2014, Postdoc Researcher, Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy.
  • 1/06/2006 - 15/12/2008, Conservation Scientist, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.) Greece.

Interests

  • Conservation Science of Artworks
  • Development of new methodological approaches in Cultural Heritage research
  • In-situ analysis
  • Heritage science diagnostics

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

  • Scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) for MSc and PhD training (2004-2009)
A multi-technique approach, based on mobile/portable laser instruments, for the in-situ pigment characterization of stone sculptures on the island of Crete dating from Venetian and Ottoman period
Z. E. Papliaka, A. Philippidis, P. Siozos, M. Vakondiou, K. Melessanaki, D. Anglos
Heritage Science, Volume:4, Issue:15, Year:2016, DOI:doi.org/10.1186/s40494-016-0085-2
Surface Enhanced Raman and 2D-Fluorescence for the investigation of aminoacids and egg proteins
A. Philippidis, Z.E. Papliaka, D. Anglos
Microchemical Journal , Volume:126, Page:230-236, Year:2016, DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2015.12.008
FTIR imaging for the investigation of deteriorated organic binders in wall paintings’ stratigraphies of different techniques and periods
S.Sotiropoulou, Z.E. Papliaka, L. Vaccari
Microchemical Journal, Volume:126, Page:559–567, Year:2016, DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2015.10.002
FTIR imaging and HPLC reveal ancient painting and dyeing techniques of molluskan purple
Z.E. Papliaka, A. Konstanta, I.Karapanagiotis, R. Karadag, A. A. Akyol, P. Tsiamyrtzis
Archaeol Anthropol Sci, Volume:9, Page:177-208, Year:2017, DOI:doi.org/10.1007/s12520-015-0270-3
Improving FTIR imaging speciation of organic compound residues or their degradation products in wall painting samples, by introducing a new thin section preparation strategy based on cyclododecane pre-treatment
Papliaka, Z.E., Vaccari, L., Zanini, F., Sotiropoulou, S.
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Volume:407, Page:5393–5403, Year:2015, DOI:doi.org/10.1007/s00216-015-8698-y
"Laser Tools in Archaeology and Conservation. How Far Can We Get? ", Chapter in “Best Practices of Ggeoinformatic Technologies for the Mapping of Archaeolandscapes”
A. Philippidis, P. Siozos, Z.E. Papliaka, K. Melessanaki, K. Hatzigiannakis, M. Vakondiou, G. Manganas, K. Diamanti, A. Giakoumaki, D. Anglos
Year: 2015, ISBN:ISBN 9781784911621
Email: Miguel@bec.gr
Prof. Miguel Iván Alonso

06/2015 – 10/2016 Postdoc on BEC 2

During his postdoc on Crete he worked on the stability of BEC and its phase fluctuations as well as the “Q-factor”.

Before joining us, Ivan did his MsC in Instrumentation in Physics followed by his PhD at the Applied Physics Department of the University of Salamanca and the University of Salamanca. During this period he worked on the Equilibrium Thermodynamic characterization of liquids, liquid mixtures, the microscopic interpretation of the data via well-known statistical models based on the Guggenheim (quasi-Ising) lattice model, Flory equation of state and contribution group methods like DISQUAC and UNIFAC.

After doing a postdoc at the University of Burgos, Ivan is now a  Professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears.

 

Dr. Poulios Konstantinos

11/2014 – 07/2017 : postdoc on BEC 1 and Space Optics

Kostas got his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics at the Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he majored on Solid State Physics and Optics.

He then started his PhD in 2009 at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol, under the supervision of Prof. Jeremy O’Brien, where he did experimental research on integrated quantum photonics for quantum information and quantum computation science. His main focus was on implementation of multi-photon integrated quantum walks, with dissertation titled: Integrated Photonic Continuous-Time Quantum Walks.

He then did a short post-doc in 2014 still with Prof. Jeremy O’Brien at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, working in a collaboration with Prof. Axel Kuhn’s Atom-Photon Connection group at Oxford University. He was also a visiting post-doctoral research assistant (early 2015) at the Atom-Photon Connection group, Oxford University. The scope of the collaboration was to use a deterministic single photon source (single Rb87 atoms in a cavity) to perform quantum logic experiments on integrated photonic devices.

In November 2014 he joined the Cretan Matter-Waves / Bose-Einstein Condensation group, I.E.S.L., FO.R.T.H. in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, where he is since working as a post-doctoral researcher. His main project is the implementation of a fully-guided, ring-shaped, Sagnac-type atom-interferometer using time-averaged adiabatic potentials (TAAPs) and Rb87 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs).

In summer 2017, Kostas joined the cold atoms group of Thomas Fernholz at Nottingham University.

Ms. Botsi Sofia
06/2013–12/2013 undergraduate student 

Sofia is an undergraduate student at the Physics Departement of the University of Crete.

She then went to Klaasjan van Druten’s laboratory at the University of Amsterdam, where she constructed a diode laser system for the generation of Rydberg atoms on a chip.

 

 

Webpage: https://www.bec.gr/panagiotis-christodoulou/
Mr. Christodoulou Panagiotis

(Ex Master Student)

01/2016 – 08/2016 Research Assistant
(01/2015 – 01/2016 Military Service)
01/2014 – 07/2014 Master Thesis

PhD

Panagiotis is now doing his PhD thesis in the group of Professor Zoran Hadzibabic at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University, where he will be studying bosons in a two-dimensional homogeneous traps.

Master

Panagiotis fulfilled his Master at Microsystems and Nanostructures offered by the National Technical University of Athens in conjunction with the National Center for Scientific Research ‘Dimokritos‘ with a Master thesis entitled ‘Quantifying a cold thermal cloud as a resource for quantum degeneracy in a Ioffe-Pritchard trap’ in the Cretan Matter Waves group.

Undergraduate Studies

Panagiotis studied School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. He chose the field of Electronics as a specialization and obtained his degree with a diploma thesis in the field of Many-Body Physics (theory), entitled ‘Quantum states of order at LAO/STO and LTO/STO interfaces’

 

Mr. Karunakaran Anamika Nair
05/2016-08/2016 Intern on an LabView project

Anamika joined us from the Cochin University of Science and Technology South Kalamassery in Kerala, India. She went on to do her master in the Quantum Information with Cold Atoms and Non-classical Light Group of Morgan Mitchel at the ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. She is now working on her PhD at the Technical University of Denmark in collaboration with the laser manufacturer NKT Photonics. She will be part of the EU project  ETN-MEFISTA (Multi-scale fibre-based optical frequency combs: science, technology and applications)

Mr. Vardakis Kostas

10/2019 – 10/2020 Master Student – Working his master thesis on CEMIC

Konstantinos Vardakis is a master student of the Physics Department at the University of Crete. 

He received his bachelor degree in Physics from the University of Crete on March 2016. Currently, studying “Photonics and Nanoelectronics” at the same University. 

 

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