Staff Physics

Physics

Staff

Dr Nikos Giannakis

Physics Lecturer

PhD in Nanotechnology from Kent University and Physics (MPhys) from Cardiff University. He has served as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent and is currently a Lecturer at Uninettuno University. He has been involved in nanophotonics research projects at Queen Mary University (UK), the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL, UK), and Demokritos NCRS (Athens). He is responsible for R&D at the Institute for International Maritime Studies and serves as the Physics Lab Coordinator at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), City Unity College Athens. His research includes theoretical studies on the transport properties of nanowires and focuses on the implementation of the Embedding Method in nano-plasmonics.

Prof. Eleni Chatzichristou

Astrophysics Professor

Doctor of Astrophysics, currently manager of the Laboratory of Excellence UnivEarthS at the Université Paris-Diderot in France. She has been Dean of Academic Affairs for City Unity College of Atnens, Greece and Academic Director of their Campus in Rhodes. She has been Research Fellow of the “Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens” and Research Associate of various Academic and Research Institutions including NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Yale University, USA. She is a visiting Professor to the MBA in Maritime and Shipping Management of Uninettuno University.

Dr Fotis Tsopelas

Marine Pollution – Chemistry Lecturer

Doctor of Analytical Chemistry (National Technical University of Athens) and Member of the American Chemical Society. He has been a visiting professor in the Departments of (i) “Food Technology” and (ii) “Public Health” of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and “Chemistry and Materials Science” of Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus. His current research interest involve the development of analytical techniques for the detection of food adulteration and the development of approaches for the evaluation of ADMET properties of candidate drugs and ecotoxicological profile of xenobiotics. He is a visiting professor to the MBA in Maritime and Shipping Management of Uninettuno University.

Dr Nikos Mazarakis

Meteorology Lecturer

Meteorologist, Country Manager of StormGeo Greece and director of MeteoMarine. He studied Physics at the Physics Dept. of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and received his degree in 1998. Had his M.Sc. at the field of “Environmental Physics” in 2001 at the same department and commenced with his Ph.D. Thesis at the Physics Dept. of the University of Patras in the field of Convective Parameterization Schemes and Lighting obtaining his diploma in 2010. Worked as associated researcher at the National Observatory of Athens since 2004, as a professor of Marine Meteorology at the Center of Further Education for Seafarers (KESEN) during the periods 2003-2006 and 2010-2014.

Dr Pavlos Sklikas

Communication Lecturer

He has completed his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Broadband and Mobile Communication Networks at the University of Kent, UK. He has worked as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Kent for 4 years. In 2014 he started working at a major Telecommunications Network vendor in Athens, Greece as an R&D Network/System Verification Engineer on 2G/3G wireless systems, and since 2017 he is an R&D Engineer on SDN-Enabled Optical Access Network Architectures. He is actively involved in National and European funded research programs, and his research interests focus on the fields of optical/wireless access networks, fronthaul architectures, Radio-over-Fiber, Cloud-Radio Access Networks, Distributed Antenna Systems and Medium Access Control protocols.

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Mrs Alexandra Protopapa

Executive Administrator

Executive admissions officer. She has worked in Shipping in Chartering Department and she has worked as a tutor for more than 10 years in maritime education. She is also an active enterpreneur of the tourism industry. Her studies are in Psychology and she has MBA from University of Athens. She is a Tutor to the MBA in Maritime and Shipping Management of Uninettuno University.

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