Curriculum vitae

Current positions

12/2024-to date Professor, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland

03/2022-to date Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

12/2013-to date     Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, MIMSI Materials AB, Sweden

Former positions

12/2021-11/2024 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland

07/2022  Visiting Professor, University of Poitiers, France

11/2017-10/2021   Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, Linköping University, Sweden

08/2015-10/2017   Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, Linköping University, Sweden

07/2014  Visiting Professor, University of Poitiers, France

08/2011-08/2015   Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, Linköping University, Sweden

04/2010-08/2011   Post-doctoral researcher (personal grant), Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, Linköping University, Sweden (Head: Prof. Ulf Helmersson)

01/2008-03/2010   Post-doctoral researcher, Materials Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (Head: Prof. Jochen M. Schneider)

09/2004-12/2007   Scientific co-worker, Institute of Physics IA; RWTH Aachen University, Germany (Head: Prof. Matthias Wuttig)

Academic education

2012   Docent (Habilitation) in Materials Science, Linköping University, Sweden

2008   Ph.D. in Physics, Institute of Physics IA; RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Thesis title: “Process-property relations in reactively sputtered transition metal compounds”. Advisor: Prof. Matthias Wuttig, Grade: “With highest praise” (summa cum laude)

2004    M.Sc. degree in Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

2002    M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Research interests

The overarching goal of my research is to understand, on a fundamental level, the complex interplay among materials chemistry, atomic arrangement, and physical attributes for creating thin films and nanostructures in an atom-by-atom fahsion.

I seek to achieve this goal by combning novel vapor-based thin-film synthesis routes, in situ/real time diagnostics, ex situ nanoscale chemistry and structure probes, and deterministic/stochastic simulations.

My specific research interests include:

• Non-invasive growth manipulation of ultra-thin metal layers on weakly-interacting surfaces
• Fabrication of and defect engineering in hierachical metal-2D material heterostructures
• Manipulation of atomic short-range order in compositionally complex systems (e.g., high-entropy alloys and compound semiconductors)

The technological relevance of my research includes materials and devices for energy saving and generation, catalytic and sensing platforms, and materials for infomration and communication technologies.