Education

• 1987, Bachelor in Naval engineering, Naval Academy Athens, Greece
• 2018, MSc, Material Science Dep., University of Crete, Greece

Career

• Since 2015 Polymer & Colloid Science Group,FORTH - IESL, Greece

Interests

• Arrested phases of soft matter
• Rheometry and structure of colloidal glasses, hydrogels, polymer melts
• Enhancement of conventional rheometric techniques
• High frequency oscillatory rheometry

2022-present: "Theodore Papazoglou" FORTH synergy grant post-doctoral fellow; aims to develop hybrid iron-oxide nanoclusters as mulitmodal probes for cardiovascular diseases.   

Education

• 2021, Ph.D. Materials Science and Technology; University of Crete, Greece
• 2015, M.Sc. Materials Science and Technology; University of Crete, Greece

Interests

• layered nano-heterostructures
• transition metal dichalcogenides
• photocatalysts
• solar energy conversion
• mesoporous frameworks
• water splitting

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• Scholarship from I.P.T.O. (Α.Δ.Μ.Η.Ε.) (Independent Power Transmission Operator) for research on Energy and Environment related themes during the Doctoral Thesis (academic year 2019-2020).

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)

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

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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.

Education

• 2012 – 2015, PhD, Archaeology, University of York, UK. ‘The shell mounds of the Farasan Islands - An isotopic study on seasonality and coastal exploitation’ Supervisor: Geoff Bailey. Date of Viva: 12.8.15
• 2011 – 2012, MA, Mesolithic Studies, University of York, UK. Pass with Merit. Supervisor: Geoff Bailey
• 2008 – 2011 BSc, Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology and Geosciences. ChristianAlbrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.

Career

• 2021 – present Research Group Leader of the DFG Emmy-Noether Project SEAFRONT at the RGZM (Germany)
• 2020 – 2021 Researcher Facilitator at the Lower Saxony Institute for historical coastal research (NIHK) (Germany)
• 2019 Project Manager of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network ‘SeaChanges’ at the Department of Archaeology - University of York
• 2016 – 2019 Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History (Germany)
• 2016 – 2018 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (Greece)
• 2015 – 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ERC Project DISPERSE at the Department of Archaeology, University of York (United Kingdom)

Interests

• Environmental Archaeology
• Coastal Landscapes
• Molluscs
• Marine ecology
• Palaeoclimate

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2020 DFG Emmy-Noether Fellowship (HA 8590/2-1) 'Klimatische Einflüsse auf die Ausbreitung des Neolithikums im Mediterranen Raum'. PI: Niklas Hausmann.
• 2016 Marie Curie-Skłodowska Individual Fellowship (Ref. 703625) ‘Archaeological and Climatic data from elemental ratios using rapid analysis of shell carbonate’. PI: Niklas Hausmann.
• 2014 Laserlab-Europe-III - Transnational Access Project (ulf-forth002012) “Applying LIBS on modern and archaeological marine shells for multi-elemental analysis” PI: Geoff Bailey, Co-I: Niklas Hausmann