About Me

I grew up in Athens, Greece, where I graduated from the Physics department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2014, having received an Antonios Papadakis scholarship to support my undergraduate studies. Between 2014 and 2016, I studied for an M.Sc. degree in Organic and Molecular Electronics at the TU Dresden in Germany, under a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

In 2016, I moved to the UK to pursue a Ph.D. degree at the University of Cambridge, from where I graduated in 2021, having completed my research at the Cavendish Laboratory. My thesis, entitled ‘On Exciton-Vibration and Exciton-Photon interactions in Organic Semiconductors’, won the Cavendish Ph.D. prize in Computational Physics and the Springer Thesis prize for outstanding Ph.D. research, and was published as a book within the ‘Springer Theses’ series found here.

In 2021, I moved to the USA under a research fellowship from the Winton Programme of the Physics of Sustainability to pursue postdoctoral work at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2023, I started working as a staff scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, where my research attempts to push the frontiers of our understanding of the physics of materials, by employing a combination of quantum and classical computing. In January of 2026 I will be joining the Department of Physics of the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor.

For more details on my research, education, awards and honors, invited and contributed talks, and more, you can refer to my CV found here.