Research Assistants

Research Assistants

Christos Pavlou

Christos Pavlou, acquired his BSc in Material Science in 2010 from the Department of Material Science, at the University of Patras, his thesis was on ‘investigation of micromachining operations and tool wear’ at the LMS laboratory, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, at the University of Patras. Moreover his was a faculty member at the LMS laboratory, as an external collaborator, from the 2005 to 2010, where he participated in various projects.

George Paterakis

George Paterakis is a Doctoral Student at the Department of Chemical Engineering (Univ. of Patras) working with CVD graphene stress-strain tests, supervised by Professor Costas Galiotis. Furthermore he is a member of the Composites & Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (CNM) and at the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (FORTH/ICE-HT), since 2013. He received his university degree in the Department of Materials Science (Univ. of Patras) in 2012 and his MSc degree from the Interdepartmental of Polymer Science & Technology (Univ. of Patras) on the “Photovoltaic cells and devices using polymeric materials and graphene layers” in 2015. He has authored 3 scientific papers on international journals and has actively participated in 10 conferences.

Nikolaos Delikoukos

Nikolaos Delikoukos, received his university degree in the Department of Materials Science of the University of Patras in 2011 and his master degree in Polymer Science and Technologies in 2015 from Physics Department of University of Patras. His thesis was conducted at ITE/IEXMH and he investigated the behavior of p-doped exfoliated and CVD graphene onto silicon oxide via Raman, Ultraviolet photoelectron and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, supervised by Assistant Professor Konstantinos Papagelis.

Niki Sotiriou

Niki Sotiriou received her BSc in Physics from the University of Patras and is currently a Postgraduate student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, of the University of Patras.Her research interests are in the fields of plasma processing for the deposition of thin-films and surface treatment. Her current research activities are focused on the synthesis of graphene by PECVD (Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition).

Nikolaos Koutroumanis

Nikolaos Koutroumanis, is a Ph.D. student in department of Chemical Engineering at University of Patras. He received his BSc and his MSc from the Department of Materials Science of the University of Patras in 2012 and 2014, respectively. His MSc thesis was about “Characterization of high-strength carbon fiber”.

Antonios Michail

Antonios Michail received his BSc in Physics from the University of Patras in 2013 and he is currently a post graduate student in the Department of Physics of the University of Patras. His research activities are focused on the production of two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS2 via CVD methods as well as their optical characterization by means of Raman and Photoluminescence spectroscopies. He has authored one scientific paper in an international refereed journal and participated in one national and one international conference.

Lambros Seremetis

Lampros Seremetis, is a PhD student at FORTH/ICE-HT and a member of the Composites & Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (CNM) since 2011. He received his BSc from the Department of physics of the University of Patras in 2009 and his MSc from the Interdepartmental Program “Polymer Science and Technology”, University of Patras, Greece, in 2014. His MSc thesis entitled “Study of graphene/polymer substrate interaction via Raman Spectroscopy”.

Marinos Dimitropoulos

Marinos Dimitropoulos is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Laboratory (Department of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Patras). He is also a research assistant at the Composites and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (FORTH/ICE-HT) since 2017. He received his B.Sc. in Physics (2015) and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (2018) from University of Patras. His Ph.D. research is focused on the synthesis of two-dimensional material heterostructures and their characterization at the nanoscale.

Christos Tsakonas

Christos Tsakonas received his diploma in Chemical Engineering from the University of Patras in 2014 and his MSc in Computational Mechanics from National Technical University of Athens in 2017. His MSc work focused on Investigation of Chemical Vapor Deposition Processes using computational Models. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras as PhD student in 2018. His current research focused on Production of graphene sheets with chemical vapour deposition by solid and liquid catalytic routes.