Meet the team
Prof. Electra Gizeli, FRSC
Group Leader
Electra Gizeli is a Professor in the Dept. of Biology at the University of Crete and Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH).
Dr. Achilleas Tsortos
Staff Research Scientist
Biophysicist with research interests including biointerfaces, biomaterial crystal growth, polymer adsorption, protein folding thermodynamics and molecular bioacoustics.
Researchers
Dr. Martha Valiadi
Senior Research Associate
Project leader
Marine molecular biologist leading the development of nucleic acid sensors as part of the EU project TechOceanS.
Dr. Ilya Reviakine
Senior Research Associate
Biophysical chemist interested in interfaces between biological and artificial systems, surface analytics, blood-biomaterial interactions, and biosensing.
Dr. Frédéric Verret
Postdoctoral researcher
Molecular microbiologist involved in the development of nucleic acid sensors as part of the EU project TechOceanS
Dr. Dimitra Chronaki
Postdoctoral researcher
Biologist, currently developing an acoustic immunoassay to detect antibodies/antigens in patients samples
Dr. Anastasia P. Galanopoulou
Postdoctoral researcher
Biologist interested in enzyme and microbial biotechnology.
Stylianos-Nektarios Grammatikos
Research assistant
Currently working on synthesis, characterization and functionalization of nanoparticles as signal amplifiers in acoustic biosensors.
Maria Megariti
Research assistant
Lab manager
I am a plant molecular biologist with interests in plant pathogens detection, using isothermal amplification techniques.
Angelos Ntimtsas
Research assistant
Currently working on a Surface Acoustic Wave platform combining 3D printing technology and instrumentation prototyping.
Dr. Anastasios Samarentsis
Postdoctoral researcher
Mechanical engineer developing a combined Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) and Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) biosensing platform.
Vaia Tsiakalou
Research assistant
Currently working on developing molecular methodologies for point-of-care testing.
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.