Brief biographical sketch
Patrina Paraskevopoulou earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in Greece (1998). Her M.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D. (2003), both from NKUA, focused on inorganic chemistry/catalysis. She was a postdoctoral fellow at NKUA (2003-2006 and 2007-2009) and at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T) in USA (2006-2007). In 2009 she joined the Chemistry Department of NKUA as a Lecturer, advancing to Assistant Professor in 2015, to Associate Professor in 2019 and to Full Professor in 2023. In 2017 she received a DAAD scholarship (Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists) and she visited the the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany.
Dr. Paraskevopoulou has over 20 years of experience in the synthesis and characterization of transition metal clusters with metal-metal bonds and their applications in catalysis. More specifically, she has studied dinuclear and trinuclear clusters of molybdenum, tungsten and rhenium with multiple metal-metal bonds with respect to their redox chemistry (using chemical and electrochemical techniques), and to their catalytic activity towards a range of processes from oxidation of olefins and alcohols to atom transfer, radical and metathesis polymerization. Since 2015 she has been working with inorganic and hybrid organic/inorganic nanostructured materials, such as metal-doped synthetic polymer, biopolymer and carbon aerogels, and their applications in environmental remediation, catalysis and biomedicine. In the last 10 years she has been the PI or co-PI in National and European Projects (total funding >1,000,000 ?).
She has served as Guest Editor in Polymers and Frontiers in Chemistry. She serves as a reviewer for more than 30 different journals (including ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ACS Applied Nanomaterials, ACS Omega, Carbohydrate Polymers; Dalton Transactions; European Polymer Journal; Green Chemistry; Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research; Inorganic Chemistry). She has participated in the organizing and scientific committees of several national and international conferences. In 2022 she organized in Athens the 2nd International Conference on Aerogels for Biomedical and Environmental Applications.
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