Personal Data
- Born on April 3rd 1979, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
- Married with two daughters.
Working Experience
- May 2026 - now: Associate Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA, Athens.
- February 2026 - July 2026: Visiting Associate Research Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA.
- July 2025: elected Associate Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA, Athens.
- June 2019 - May 2026: Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA, Athens.
- April 2015 - April 2019: Software Engineer, Scienomics SARL, Paris.
- November 2010 - March 2015: Research Associate at the School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA, Greece. Joined the research team of Dr. Athanasios Papathanasiou for the Hydrofakir program.
- February 2010 - November 2010: Service in the Hellenic Army.
- October 2007 - January 2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, USA. Joined the research team of prof. I.G. Kevrekidis.
- February 2008 - June 2008: Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, for the postgraduate course "Advanced Fluid Mechanics".
Internships
- October – November 2001: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, IAESTE Program Object: “Separation of the quadratic mixture: ethanol-water-ethyl acetate – isopropyl acetate using extracting distillation.” using the Chemcad software Supervisor: Peter Mizsey
- July – August 2001: PLASTIKA KRITIS S.A. Object: Quality Control
Education
- January 2003- September 2007: PhD, School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA. PhD Thesis Title: “Coarse simulation of complicated physichochemical and biological systems with methods of multiscale analysis, bifurcation analysis and self-similarity” Advisor: Andreas G. Boudouvis Co-advisor: Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Princeton University
- September 2002 - March 2004: Inter-Departmental Postgraduate Program “Computational Mechanics”, NTUA. GPA: 9.57/10.00 (1st out of 40) Diploma Thesis: “Computation of self-similar solutions of partial differential equations” Advisor: Andreas G. Boudouvis
- September 1997 - June 2002: Diploma, School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA. GPA: 9.38/10.00 (3rd out of 200) Diploma Thesis: “Computational analysis of nonlinear phenomena on composite catalytic surfaces” Advisor: Andreas G. Boudouvis
Honors & Awards
Postgraduate Level
- Greek State Scholarships Foundation ΙΚΥ: 2003 - 2007
- Eugenides Foundation: 2003
- Inter-Departmental Postgraduate Program “Computational Mechanics”: 2004
Undergraduate Level
- Greek State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ): 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002
- Technical Chamber of Greece: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002.
- G. Zografakis Foundation: 1999, 2001, 2002.
- Ch. Papakiriakopoulos Award (in Mathematics): 1999