Emmanouil Glynos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Crete.  He received his PhD in Materials Science, in in the core subject of Polymer Physics, at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. From 2008 until 2013 he did his postdoctoral research at the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and in 2013, he was appointed as a Research Investigator at the University of Michigan, at the Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion. From 2015 to 2021 he was a Research Scientist at FORTH/IESL. He has published 48 papers in referred international journals, 1 book chapter and 6 in Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings. His work has received 1659 citations with an h-index = 24 and i10-index = 39 (as given by Scopus on 8 December 2021). His work has been presented in more than 80 times in International Conferences and Colloquia; 14 invited in International Meetings and 18 invited at Universities and Research Centers.

Education

• 2007, PhD, Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering and Electronics & Centre for Materials Science and Engineering - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• 2002, B.Sc., Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece

Career

• 11/2021 - Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece
• 07/2018 - 10/2021, Research Associate at Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
• 07/2017 - 06/2018 Stavros Niarchos Research Fellow at Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
• 01/2015 - 06/2017 Research Associate at Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
• 02/2013 - 11/2014 Research Investigator, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.
• 02/2008 - 01/2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.
• 04/2007 - 11/2007 Research Assistant, Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Interests

• Solid State Polymer Electrolytes
• Structure-property Relationship in Nanostructured Polymer Materials
• Polymer Photovoltaic Devices/Organic Electronics
• Structure and Dynamics of Polymers on Surfaces and Interfaces: Thin Films and Polymer Nanocomposites
• Effect of Macromolecular Architecture of the Physical Properties of Polymer Under Confinement
• Nano/micromechanics of Materials