Meet The Team
Prof. Electra Gizeli, FRSC
Group Leader
Electra Gizeli received a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; a M.Sc. from University College London, U.K.; and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Senior Researchers
Dr. Achilleas Tsortos
Staff Research Scientist
Biophysicist with research interests including biointerfaces, biomaterial crystal growth, polymer adsorption, protein folding thermodynamics and molecular bioacoustics.
Dr. Ilya Reviakine
Senior Research Associate
Biophysical chemist interested in interfaces between biological and artificial systems, surface analytics, blood-biomaterial interactions, and biosensing.
Dr. Martha Valiadi
Senior Research Associate
Marine molecular biologist leading the development of nucleic acid sensors as part of the EU project TechOceanS.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Dimitra Chronaki
Post-doctoral Researcher
Biologist, currently developing an acoustic immunoassay to detect antibodies/antigens in patients samples
Dr. Emilia Grypioti
Post-doctoral researcher
Molecular biologist developing point of care molecular assays for human health.
Dr. Anastasia P. Galanopoulou
Postdoctoral researcher
Biologist interested in enzyme and microbial biotechnology.
Dr. Nikoletta Naoumi
Postdoctoral researcher
Molecular biologist developing diagnostics for clinical and point-of-care applications.
PhD students
Katherine Hartle-Mougiou
PhD student
Marine molecular biologist currently working on developing a platform for in situ marine invasive species detection.
Foteini Papagavriil
PhD Student
Master student in Protein Biotechnology, currently working on detection and characterization of conformational changes of proteins using acoustic biosensors.
Anastasios Samarentsis
PhD Student
PhD candidate working on the development of a combined Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) and Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) biosensor.
Research Assistants
Myrsini Froudaki
Research Assistants
Background in biology studies, with a special interest on plant molecular biology.
Stylianos-Nektarios Grammatikos
Research Assistants
Currently working on synthesis, characterization and functionalization of nanoparticles as signal amplifiers in acoustic biosensors.
Maria Megariti
Research Assistants
I am a plant molecular biologist with interests in plant pathogens detection, using isothermal amplification techniques.
Vaia Tsiakalou
Research Assistants
Currently working on developing molecular methodologies for point-of-care testing.
Giannis Svoliantopoulos
Research Assistants
Holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Crete. Currently working on molecular diagnostics for point-of-care testing.
Masters Students
Anna Dimitriadi
Masters Students
MSc candidate in “Molecular Biology and Biomedicine”, designing a molecular assay detecting Sickle Cell Disease point-mutation at the point-of-care.
Angelos Ntimtsas
Masters Student
Biologist developing a Surface Acoustic Wave platform combining 3D printing technology, microfluidics and instrumentation prototyping.