Associate Professor, Engineering Thermodynamics
Department of Process & Energy,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Delft University of Technology.

Before joining TU Delft, I worked as a postdoc on molecular modeling of chemical mixtures relevant to CCUS processes under the supervision of Prof. Ioannis Economou (Chem. Eng. TAMUQ, Qatar) and Prof. Athanassios Panagiotopoulos (Chem. Eng. Princeton, USA). In 2013, I obtained a PhD in Physical Chemistry of Polymers from UOI, Greece (supervisor Prof. Costas Vlahos). In 2008, I graduated with an Engineering Diploma in Materials Engineering from the same university. My academic family tree can be seen here.

My research in a nutshell

My research and teaching activities focus on the application of molecular thermodynamics to Process & Energy Engineering with a vision to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future. I currently focus on two research lines: (i) I investigate hydrogen storage, purification and transportation, and environmentally-friendly solvents for carbon dioxide capture and utilization. (ii) I work towards designing sustainable adsorbents for the removal of contaminants from water. My work requires large-scale high-performance computing and involves a number of powerful molecular simulation methods such as on-the-fly calculations of thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids using molecular dynamics, and phase-, adsorption- and reaction-equilibria using advanced Monte Carlo sampling. My research aims to provide insight at both the fundamental and the application level. To achieve this, I collaborate with partners such as TotalEnergies, Cyclopure, Waternet, Witteveen & Bos, HyET Hydrogen, XiNTC, TNO, DMT Environmental Tech, and various universities and research institutes around the world.