About

I am currently research scientist at JCNS @ MLZ (near Munich, Germany), instrument responsible of the MARIA neutron reflectometer. I received my PhD in 2009 from the Physics Department of the University of Patras (Greece), under the supervision of Prof. Georgios Priftis. The title of my PhD thesis is “Study of interfacial phenomena by the Surface Plasmon Resonance Technique”. During 2009-2011, I worked as a PostDoc at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA Saclay, and also for another two years 2011-2013 at the French national synchrotron facility SOLEIL (beamline SWING).

General Research Interests

• Scattering and Reflectivity (neutrons, x-rays, light)
• Condensed Matter Physics
• Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics
• Computer Simulation (Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo)

Current projects

• Scattering tools for Soft Condensed Matter

Development and testing of algorithms for the extraction of biomolecular structural information, from x-ray and neutron scattering data.

• Polarized Neutrons for structural Investigations

Optimization of the MARIA neutron reflectometer for research in the fields of nano-magnetism and energy-related materials.

• Membrane Biophysics

After initial work at LLB, currently using neutron reflectometry @ MARIA instrument as the main experimental tool several systems are investigated including nanoparticle-membrane and membrane-vesicle interactions.