Computational Materials Science and Engineering Group

National Technical University of Athens
School of Chemical Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Computational Materials Science and Engineering Group (Co.M.S.E.)

News

28 March 2024
The Chemical Engineering department of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is seeking a motivated PhD student who is willing to be part of a world-leading research environment and contribute to the development of thermodynamic models and algorithms for electrolyte solutions. The appointment of this PhD position will be at the Center for Energy Resources Engineering (CERE), Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Click here for more information.

PhD and Postdoctoral opportunities in Applied Knot Theory at ASU. Click here for more information.

6 December 2023
PhD and Postdoctoral opportunities in Applied Knot Theory at ASU. Click here for more information.

20 November 2023
Two PhD positions are available within the framework of the European Network "ReBond". Click here and here for more information.

19 September 2023
PhD position available in Computational Chemistry/Polymers Degradation funded by PlasticUnderground Marie Curie ITN. Click here for more information.

2 September 2023
Masters, PhD, Postdoctoral and Project-Manager positions are available at FORTH-IESL in the field of Synthesis, Experiments and Modelling/Simulations of Soft Matter systems (with emphasis in Polymers and Colloids) for Green and sustainable applications. Click here for more information.

2 September 2023
A PhD position on molecular-dynamics simulations of thermomechanical behaviour of epoxy-copper interfaces is available starting from January 2024 in the Soft Matter and Biological Physics (SMB) group of the Applied Physics department of TU/e. The project will be supervised by prof. dr. Alexey Lyulin. Click here for more information.

12 June 2023
On Friday, the 7th of July, 2023, two distinguished professors from the USA will visit the Computational Materials Science and Engineering (CoMSE) group at NTUA: Professor Bradley Chmelka (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara) and Professor Eleni Panagiotou (School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University). In the context of their visit they will give lectures on their research work, with the following titles:
Prof. Bradley Chmelka; Compositional and structural order at inorganic-organic interfaces.
Prof. Eleni Panagiotou; Novel topological metrics of entanglement in polymers. The lectures will be given in the Koumoutsos room of the School of Chemical Engineering at NTU Athens, starting at 14:00. Click here for more information.

25 April 2023
The 2023 European Conference on Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, co-organized by the Greek Chemists Association and the Division of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry of the European Chemical Society will be held in Thessaloniki, 27-31 August 2023. Click here for more information.

06 April 2023
Doctoral thesis presentation: On Monday, April 24, our PhD student, Mr. Constantinos Revelas, will defend his Doctoral thesis, entitled: "Development of Self-Consistent Field Theory Models for Predicting the Structure and Properties of Inhomogeneous Polymer Systems: Application in Nanocomposite Materials" in front of his seven-member examination committee. The defense will take place at the Koumoutsos room of the Chemical Engineering School at 13:00.
Click here to read an extended summary of the PhD.

04 April 2023
Sincerest congratulations to our group leader, Prof. Doros Theodorou, on publishing his autobiography in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. It is published as a special issue (Festschrift) on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The special issue was edited by Ed Maginn, Ioannis Economou, Randy Snurr, and Arup Chakraborty.
Click here to see the cover page or here to access the complete virtual special issue.

03 April 2023
Sincerest congraluations to our PhD students, Mr. Georgios Mikaelian and Mr. Fotis Venetsanos, on winning a doctoral fellowship from the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation (aka ELIDEK). Very well deserved!

24 March 2023
Multiple postdoc positions available at MIT in the research laboratory of Richard Braatz on the integrated continuous manufacturing of mRNA-based biotherapeutics.
Click here to find more details on the position and submission process.

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Former Group Members and their Current Employment

[1]	Lambert van Breemen Visiting Professor, NTUA	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
[2]	Mark C. Thies Visiting Professor, NTUA	Dow Chemical Professor of Chemical Engineering, Clemson University, USA
[3]	Maria Grazia de Angelis Visiting Researcher, NTUA	Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Bologna, IT
[4]	Kazunori Kamio Visiting Researcher, NTUA	Research Engineer, Mitsui Chemicals, JP
[5]	George Boulougouris Post-Doctoral Researcher, NTUA	Lecturer, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, GR
[6]	Kostas Daoulas Post-Doctoral Researcher, NTUA	Project Leader, Max-Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz, DE
[7]	Adrien Leygue Post-Doctoral Researcher, NTUA	Chargé de Recherches, CNRS Nantes, FR
[8]	Jean-Marc Leyssale Post-Doctoral Researcher, NTUA	Chargé de Recherches, CNRS Bordeaux, FR
[9]	Federico Pazzona Post-Doctoral Researcher, NTUA	Researcher, Universitá di Sassari, IT
[10]	Francisco Xavier Ramos-Díaz Post-Doctoral Researcher, NTUA	Ramón y Cajal Fellow, CSIC, Madrid, ES
[11]	Luigi Sanguigno Post-Doctoral Researcher, NTUA	Post-doctoral researcher, Universitá di Napoli, IT
[12]	Collin D. Wick Post-Doctoral Researcher, NTUA	Associate Professor and Program Chair of Chemistry, Lousiana Tech University, USA
[13]	Costas Chassapis Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Pre-sales engineer, Algosystems S.A., Athens, GR
[14]	Nikolaos Lempesis Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, USA
[15]	Konstantinos Makrodimitris Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Manager, Biotechnology Development Program, Maryland Biotech Center, USA
[16]	Georgia Evangelia Logotheti Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Senior Advisor, Ernst & Young, GR
[17]	Thanasis Morozinis Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Advanced Management Solutions, Athens, GR
[18]	Loukas Peristeras Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Researcher, NCSR "Demokritos", GR
[19]	Vasilios Raptis Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Post-doctoral Researcher, Imperial College London, UK
[20]	Nikolaos Romanos Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Chemistry Teacher, American Community School, Athens, GR
[21]	Marco Sant Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Post-doctoral Associate, University of Sassari, IT
[22]	Dimitris Tsalikis Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Post-doctoral Associate, University of Patras, GR
[23]	Niki Vergadou Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Researcher, NCSR "Demokritos", GR
[24]	Antonia Vyrkou Ph.D. Student, NTUA	Post-doctoral Researcher, NTUA, GR
[25]	Chrisa Charitoglou Master Thesis Student, NTUA
[26]	Christos Kyroudis Master Thesis Student, NTUA	Researcher, InSilico Oncology Group, ICCS, NTUA, GR
[27]	Andreas Morphis Master Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. Student, Physics Department, University of Athens and NCSR "Demokritos", GR
[28]	Harry Pitouras Master Thesis Student, NTUA
[29]	Aristides Troupis Master Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. Student, University of Patras, GR
[30]	Ioulia Tzouvadaki Master Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. Student, EPFL, Lausanne, CH
[31]	Ariadni Boziki Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. Student, EPFL, Lausanne, CH
[32]	Phaedon Brotzakis Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. Student, University of Amsterdam, NL
[33]	Chrysanthos Constantinou Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. Student, Rutgers University, USA
[34]	Vassilis Dendroulakis Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Senior Development Engineer, ImmunoSite Technologies, LLC, USA
[35]	Polydefkis Diamantis Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Post-doctoral Associate, University of Basel, CH
[36]	Christina Anna Gatsiou Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. student, Imperial College London, UK
[37]	Andreas Gavrielides Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. student, University of Toulouse, FR
[38]	Manolis Haldoupis Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Minnesota, USA
[39]	Stylianos Karozis Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. Student, NCSR "Demokritos", GR
[40]	Ioannis Petsagkourakis Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. Student, Université de Bordeaux, FR
[41]	Maria Pikoula Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Ph.D. Student, University of Oxford, UK
[42]	Irene Siougrou Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Post-doctoral Associate, NTUA
[43]	Nick Stefanopoulos Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	M.S. student, Imperial College London, UK
[44]	Despina Tzoulaki Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Research Scientist, Haldor Topsoe, DK
[45]	Manolis Vasileiadis Diploma Thesis Student, NTUA	Post-doctoral Researcher, Imperial College London, UK
[46]	Vassilios Melissas Post-Doctoral Researcher, NCSR "Demokritos"	Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR
[47]	Oscar Ahumada Post-Doctoral Researcher, U. Patras	Head of R&D, Mecwins, Madrid, ES
[48]	Jean-Marc Bomont Post-Doctoral Researcher, U. Patras	Researcher, Université de Lorraine, FR
[49]	Patricia Gestoso-Souto Post-Doctoral Researcher, U. Patras	Senior Manager, Accelrys Ltd, UK
[50]	Rob H.C. Janssen Post-Doctoral Researcher, U. Patras	Research Engineer, DSM Research, NL
[51]	Vlasis G. Mavrantzas Post-Doctoral Researcher, U. Patras	Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, GR
[52]	Erwan Nicol Post-Doctoral Researcher, U. Patras	Maître de Conferences, Université du Maine, FR
[53]	Andreas Terzis Post-Doctoral Researcher, U. Patras	Professor of Physics, University of Patras, GR
[54]	Magnus Ullner Post-Doctoral Researcher, U. Patras	Associate Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Lund, SE
[55]	Stelios Antoniadis Ph.D. Student, U. Patras	HSQE Manager, DS Smith, GR
[56]	Manolis Doxastakis Ph.D. Student, U. Patras	Assistant Materials Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
[57]	Leonidas Gergidis Ph.D. Student, U. Patras	Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, GR
[58]	Vagelis Harmandaris Ph.D. Student, U. Patras	Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, GR
[59]	Nikos Karayiannis Ph.D. Student, U. Patras	Ramón y Cajal Fellow, ETSII, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
[60]	Nikos Kopsias Ph.D. Student, U. Patras	Business Development and Marketing Manager, Oxygen Broadband, GR
[61]	Christina Samara Ph.D. Student, U. Patras	Processing Director, Eurofilm Mantzaris S.A. Corinth, Greece
[62]	Theodora Spyriouni Ph.D. Student, U. Patras	Researcher, Scienomics SARL and NCSR "Demokritos", GR
[63]	Evangelia Zervopoulou Ph.D. Student, U. Patras	Post-doctoral Researcher, FORTH-ICEHT, Patras, GR
[64]	Michael Apostolakis Master Thesis Student, U. Patras
[65]	Dimitra Angelopoulou Master Thesis Student, U. Patras	Intracom Hellas, Patras, GR
[66]	Georgia Schismenou Master Thesis Student, U. Patras
[67]	Georgia Tsolou Master Thesis Student, U. Patras	Post-doctoral Associate, FORTH-ICEHT, Patras, GR
[68]	Lawrence Robert Dodd Post-Doctoral Researcher, Berkeley	Director of Science Studies, John Cooper High school, Houston, TX, USA
[69]	P.V. Krishna Pant Post-Doctoral Researcher, Berkeley	Research Engineer, Perlegen Sciences Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
[70]	Edith Marie Sevick Post-Doctoral Researcher, Berkeley	Professor, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, AU
[71]	Travis David Boone Ph.D. Student, Berkeley	Director, Business Coordination, ACLARA Biosciences, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
[72]	Lawrence Benjamin Fischel Ph.D. Student, Berkeley	Research Scientist, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.
[73]	Michael Lewis Greenfield Eng. Ph.D. Student, Berkeley	Victor J. Baxt Assoc. Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, USA
[74]	Raymond Lawrence June Ph.D. Student, Berkeley	Process Technology Manager, Seraya Chemicals, SG
[75]	Edward Joseph Maginn Ph.D. Student, Berkeley	Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
[76]	Kevin Francis Mansfield Ph.D. Student, Berkeley	Global Quality Manager, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA, USA
[77]	Randall Quentin Snurr Ph.D. Student, Berkeley	Professor of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
[78]	Sandra Maria Nelson Master Thesis Student, Berkeley	Process Engineer, Chevron Corporation, Richmond, CA, USA