Education

• 2005, B.S., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
• 2007, M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
• 2014, Ph.D., Physics, Center for Soft Matter Physics, Physics, New York University, NY, USA

Career

• 2014-2018, Post-doctoral scholar, Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB), CA, USA
• 2019-2020, Post-doctoral scholar, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Interests

• soft matter
• biomaterials / bioinspired materials
• polymer networks
• protein condensates

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• Max Planck Partner Group Leader, 2021 - present
• Springer Poster Award, 2019 European Polymer Congress for “Tough polymer networks with covalent and catechol-iron coordination bonds: correlation of binding stoichiometry with mechanical performance” by Filippidi, Palles, Cristiani, Eisenbach, Kamitsos
• Doctoral Thesis Award of the Circle of Hellenic Academics in Boston (2016)
• Alexander S. Onassis Foundation fellowship for four years of graduate studies (2009 - 2012)
• Eleni Gatzoyiannis Scholarship, Boston University (2007)
• Certificate of Recognition, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations (2005)