Athanasios A. Panagiotopoulos

Athanasios Panagiotopoulos earned his degree in Chemistry in July 2014 with the highest distinction, "Excellent, 9.30/10.0," the highest grade since the establishment of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Crete. He completed an internship at the Biochemistry-Microbiology Laboratory of the General Hospital of Amaliada, Ilia, focusing on clinical chemistry analyses. In 2015, he participated in photo-electrocatalytic H2 production experiments at the nuclear research center (CEA, Grenoble, France) in Professor Vincent Artero's laboratory. He has participated in numerous scientific conferences, both in Greece and abroad, on the topic of renewable energy sources. He has received several awards for his work in photocatalytic H2 production, most notably scholarships for his participation in international conferences and the 1st prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry for the best poster presentation at the international "Organic & Perovskite Solar Cells Conference and MCWG Meetings of Cost Action MP1307" in 2016. In 2017, he was selected among the top five PhD candidates in Greece (ranked 1st) to participate in the global "Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings" in Germany. He is proficient in the use and organization of laboratory conditions, chemical synthesis methods, qualitative and quantitative analysis methods, mass spectrometry (Maldi-TOF), UV-Vis spectrophotometry, cyclic voltammetry systems, NMR spectroscopy, gas and liquid chromatography, and biochemical analyzers.