
Dr. Yannis G. Lazarou Institute of Physical Chemistry NCSR “Demokritos” 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece Tel: +30 210 6503644 Fax: +30 210 6511766
e-mail: lazarou"at"chem.demokritos.gr
Yannis G. Lazarou was born in 1961 in Volos, Greece.
He graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, obtaining
the Degree of Chemistry in 1984. His early research interests were in the field
of Inorganic Chemistry. In 1985, he entered the Graduate Programme of the Department
of Chemistry at the University
of Crete, to work in the
field of Physical Chemistry with Prof. Panos Papagiannakopoulos. He studied the
mechanism of dialkyl-nitramine decomposition in the gas phase by using intense
infrared radiation from a CO2 laser as the excitation source. At the same time,
the "dawn" of computer era, he started doing computer programming
(Fortran, Assembly) on a microPDP-11/23 and a VAX-11/750, in order to
facilitate data analysis and retrieval from a Balzers QMG-511 mass
spectrometer. The lab team also succeeded in constructing a very low pressure
reactor (VLPR) system to study chlorine atom reactions. In 1991, he obtained
his PhD, entitled "Study of the Decomposition Mechanism and Chemical
Reactivity of Nitramines in the Gas Phase". He continued to work in Crete, using VLPR to determine the kinetics and mechanism
of Cl atom reactions with several compounds. The list of compounds was growing
up by considering species of environmental importance. In 1993, he started his
19-month military national service in the Greek Air Force. During the years
1995-1998, he was working as a visiting professor in the Chemistry Department, University of Crete, teaching General Chemistry (class
and lab), Computational Chemistry and Physical Chemistry. In 1999, he moved to Athens, to work as a Researcher in the Institute of Physical
Chemistry, NCSR "Demokritos", in the field
of computational Atmospheric Chemistry. His research interests embrace the
experimental and theoretical study of chemical reactions for small molecules,
the theoretical prediction of material properties and the development of
computer code to simplify the interface of the binary computer world with the
real world of chemists.
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