Βιογραφικό Σημείωμα

Efstratios I. Kamitsos

Director, TPCI/NHRF

Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute,
National Hellenic Research Foundation,
48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave.,
Athens 11635, Greece

Tel.: +30 210 7273828
FAX: +30 210 7273794
Email: eikam

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Physical-Inorganic Chemistry, Brown University, USA (1983)
Diploma in Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece (1978).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND APPOINTMENTS

• Director, TPCI/NHRF (10/1997-10/02, 01/2004-01/09, 06/2009-)
• Director of Research, TPCI/NHRF (11/1997-)
• Senior Researcher, TPCI/NHRF (03/1990-10/97)
• Assistant Researcher, TPCI/NHRF (03/1984-03/90)
• Research Associate (during military service), National Defence Research Center, Greece (09/1984-04/85)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Materials Research Laboratory, Brown University (01/1983-12/83)
• Teaching & Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Brown University (01/1979-01/83).

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
Materials physical chemistry:

• Structure and dynamics of ionic glasses (infrared, Raman, dielectric spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations)
• Structure-property correlations in materials (oxide and chalcogenide amorphous electrolytes in bulk and thin film forms, ceramics, polymers, charge transfer compounds)
• Nanostructured glassy and organic-inorganic hybrid materials with advanced electrical and optical functionalities.

EXTERNAL FUNDING
Coordinator or participant in more than thirty five national and international research projects in collaboration with academic and industrial organizations (national: STRIDE, Networks, PENED, PAVE, Istos, Bilateral Scientific Schemes; NATO: International Scientific Exchange Programs; EU: Human Potential, Marie Curie, INCO, STREP, TOK).

CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS
Over 60 international conferences. More than 45 invited lectures at conferences, academic and research institutions. Member of organizing or scientific committees of 20 international and 5 national conferences. Co-chairman of the Int'l Symposium on Glass Science and Technology (Athens, 1993); Co-organizer of session Spectroscopic Studies of Glass Structure, 18th International Congress on Glass (San Francisco, California, 1998); Co-chairman of the 7th ESG Conference on Glass Science and Technology (Athens, 2004).

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Part of graduate courses in Applied Molecular Spectroscopy (Chem. Dept., U. of Crete, 1998-2000) and Polymer Science and Applications (Chem. Dept., U. of Athens, 2002-2009). Supervision of eight Ph.D. and five honors students and ten postdoctoral research fellows.

RESEARCH MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION
Member (09/1992-10/97) and chairman (11/1997-) of the Scientific Advisory Council of the TPCI. Director of the TPCI/NHRF (10/1997-10/02, 01/2004-01/09, 06/2009-) and member of the Governing Board of the NHRF (11/1997-). Member of electoral committees of Greek Research Centers. Regular referee for international journals in the fields of physical chemistry and materials science. Reviewer for national and international research projects.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Association of Greek Chemists; Advisory Panel on Physical and Engineering Science & Technology of the ΝΑΤΟ Science Committee (11/2002-6/04); Technical Committee on Basic Glass Science (2001-) and Vibrations and Glass Strusture (2009-) of the Int'l Commission on Glass (2001-); Council of the ICG (09/2004-); International Board of Advisers of the Int'l Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass (2004-2007).

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
National Fellowship Foundation of Greece (1973-77); Brown University Fellowship by Du Pont (1979); Brown University Fellowships (1980-83); Sigma Xi Elected (1981); The Potter Prize in chemistry for the best Ph.D. thesis, Brown University (1984).

PUBLICATIONS
Over 150 papers in refereed journals, 2 int'l patents, 5 invited papers/chapters in books, over 55 articles in proceedings of int'l and national conferences, co-editor of 2 books. More than 3500 citations and h-index=32.

Full list of publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1.   "Correlation between second-order optical response and structure in thermally poled sodium niobium-germanate glass", G. Guimbretiere, M. Dussauze, V. Rodriguez, and E.I. Kamitsos, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 171103 (2010).   
2.   "Pressure-induced structural transformations in glass 0.3Li2O-0.7B2O3: a molecular dynamics study", A. Vegiri and E.I. Kamitsos, Phys. Rev. B 82, 54114 (2010).
3.   "Structure and properties of mixed strontium-manganese metaphosphate glasses", I. Konidakis, C.P.E. Varsamis, E.I. Kamitsos, D. Moncke, and D. Ehrt, J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 9125 (2010).   
4.   "Molecular dynamics investigation of mixed-alkali borate glasses: Short range order structure and alkali ion environments", A. Vegiri, C.-P. E. Varsamis, and E. I. Kamitsos, Phys. Rev. B 80, 184202 (2009).
5.   "Refractive index distribution in the nonlinear optical layer of thermally poled oxide glasses", M. Dussauze, E.I. Kamitsos, E. Fargin, and V. Rodriguez, Chem. Phys. Lett. 470, 63 (2009).
6.   "Lithium ion induced nanophase ordering and ion mobility in ionic block copolymers", E. Ioannou, G. Mountrichas, S. Pispas, E.I. Kamitsos, and G. Floudas, Macromolecules 41, 6183 (2008).
7.   "Nitrogen flow rate as a new key parameter for the nitridation of electrolyte thin films", Y. Hamon, P. Vinatier, E.I. Kamitsos, M. Dussauze, C.P.E. Varsamis, D. Zielniok, C. Roesser, and B. Roling, Solid State Ionics 179, 1223 (2008).
8.   "Structure and optical properties of amorphous lead-germanate films developed by pulsed laser deposition", M. Dussauze, A. Giannoudakos, L. Velli, C.P.E. Varsamis, M. Kompitsas, and E.I. Kamitsos, J. Chem. Phys. 127, 34704 (2007).
9.   "Structural rearrangements and second order optical properties in the space charge layer of thermally poled sodium-niobium borophosphate glasses", M. Dussauze, E.I. Kamitsos, E. Fargin, and V. Rodriguez, J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 14560 (2007).
10.  "Thin film glassy electrolytes: structure and composition by experimental and simulated infrared spectra", E.I. Kamitsos, M. Dussauze, C.P.E. Varsamis P. Vinatier, and Y. Hamon, J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 8111 (2007).