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CURRICULUM VITAE

Stergios Piligkos

Born: 16^th April 1976, Trikala, Greece. Nationality: Hellenic. Gender: Male.

Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100, Denmark.

[email protected]

FELLOWSHIPS, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TRAINING

Since 12-2007: Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, three year Steno Fellowship (272-07-0147) granted by the Danish Natural Science Research Council.

01-2006/11-2007: Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (MEIF-CT-2005-024897) granted by the Research Directorate General of the European Commission.

10-2004/12-2005: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

10-2001/09-2004: Chemistry PhD Degree at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Doctoral thesis title: "On spin-Hamiltonian parameters of exchange coupled systems".

10-2000/07-2001: Master of Inorganic Chemistry (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies de Chimie Inorganique) at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, PARIS VI, France.

10-1998/07-2000: Fourth and third year of Chemistry studies (Maîtrise, Licence de Chimie) with specialisation in Inorganic Chemistry, at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, PARIS VI, France.

10-1997/07-1998: Second year of the Diploma of General University Studies in Life Sciences, direction Chemistry (DEUG 2 Sciences de la vie, Mention Chimie) at Université René Descartes, PARIS V, France.

10-1996/07-1997: First year of medical studies at Université René Descartes, PARIS V, France.

03-2003/05-2003: Research training, Laboratory for Molecular Magnetism, Chemistry Department, The University of Florence, Italy, Marie Curie Training Sites Fellowship (HPMT-CT-2000-00179).

MAIN INVITED TALKS

• SENTINEL network meeting on Advances and Techniques of HF-EPR, July 2002, St Andrews, UK.
• Molecules as Nanomagnets network meeting , December 2002, Manchester, UK.
• 37^th Annual International Meeting of the Electron Spin Resonance Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry on Advanced Techniques and Applications of EPR, April 2004, Warwick, UK.
• Quantum Effects in Molecular Magnets network meeting, May 2004, Valencia, Spain.
• UK Molecular Magnetism network meeting, January 2005, Manchester, UK.
• UK Molecular Magnetism network meeting, August 2006, Edinburgh, UK.
• Annual meeting of the Danish Chemical Society, June 2007, Odense, Denmark.
• North America-Greece-Cyprus workshop on paramagnetic materials, June 2007, Syros, Greece.
• 41^st Annual International Meeting of the ESR Spectroscopy Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, on Advanced Techniques and Applications of EPR, April 2008, UCL, London, UK.

GRANTS, PRIZES, AND AWARDS

• Marie Curie Training Sites Fellowships (HPMT-CT-2000-00179).
• Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (MEIF-CT-2005-024897)
• Poster prize, International Conference on Molecule-based Magnets, ICMM 2006, Victoria, Canada.
• STENO fellowship from the Danish Natural Science Research Council (272-07-0147).
• Det Frie Forskningsråds Ung Eliteforskerpris 2007: ‘Young Elite Researcher's Award' by the Danish Councils for Independent Research in 2007.

MAIN INTERNATIONAL COLABORATIONS

• Prof. Richard E. P. Winpenny, Prof. Eric J. L. McInnes, Prof. David Collison, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, UK.
• Dr. Euan K. Brechin, School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
• Dr. Eckhard Bill, Max Planck Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
• Prof. Frank Neese, Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany.

Primary fields of research

Magnetic Molecular materials

Single Molecule magnets

Inorganic spectroscopy

Current research

Spin dynamics of polymetalic exchange coupled systems

Synthesis of transition metal and rare-earth containing clusters