Research Associate

Contact  Info

National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos"
Institute of Physical Chemistry
Terma Patriarchou Grigoriou & Neapoleos
Agia Paraskevi 15310, Attiki, Greece
Tel. +30-210-6503634
Fax +30-210-6511766
Email: vougiouk^chem.demokritos.gr

Georgios C. Vougioukalakis was born on Crete, Greece in 1976 and received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Crete in 1999. In 2004, he completed his Ph.D. at the same university under the direction of Prof. Michael Orfanopoulos. During his graduate studies he spent short periods of time in the group of Prof. Kosmas Prassides at the University of Sussex (3 months), and the group of Dr. Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Bologna (2 months). After carrying out his military service in the Greek Air Force, he moved as a Marie Curie Fellow to the California Institute of Technology where he worked for two years with Prof. Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005). Following another year of postdoctoral studies with Prof. Nikos Hadjichristidis at the University of Athens, he joined the National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos". In 2010 he was elected Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Athens. In 2012 he visited the University of California – Irvine as a Visiting Scholar (3 months).

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