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