11/2015 - 04/2016 Visiting Researcher – Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex, UK – Advisor Dr George E. Kostakis (LLP/ERASMUS+ Placement Fellowship) 2012-2015 PhD in Chemistry – Section of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece Thesis: Coordination Polymers with Ditopic Carboxylic Ligands and their Properties. Supervisor: Prof John C. Plakatouras 03/2012 - 06/2012 Visiting Researcher – Department of Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany – Advisor Prof Annie K. Powell (LLP/ERASMUS Placement Fellowship) 2010-2012 MSc in Bioinorganic Chemistry – Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece 2004-2010 BSc in Material Engineering – Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece

Coordination Chemistry Coordination Polymers Synthesis, characterization and properties of Metal Organic Frameworks Bimetallic Catalysts Crystal Engineering

Highly efficient tetranuclear ZnII2LnIII2 catalysts for the Friedel–Crafts alkylation of indoles and nitrostyrenes - Kumar, Prashant, Lymperopoulou, Smaragda, Griffiths, Kieran, Sampani, Stavroula and Kostakis, George Published:2016Publication:CatalystsVolume:6, (9)Page Range:1-10doi:10.3390/catal6090140 Tetranuclear Zn2Ln2 coordination clusters as catalysts in the Petasis borono-Mannich multicomponent reaction - Kumar, Prashant, Griffiths, Kieran, Lymperopoulou, Smaragda and Kostakis, George E. Published:2016Publication:RSC AdvancesVolume:6, (82)Page Range:79180-79184doi:10.1039/C6RA17209A Influence of the metal salt on the self-assembly of isophthaloylbis-B-alanine and Cu(II) ion - Lymperopoulou, Smaragda, Dokorou, Vassiliki N., Tsipis, Athanassios C., Weidler, Peter G., Plakatouras, John C., Powell, Annie K. and Kostakis, George E. Published:2015Publication:PolyhedronVolume:89Page Range:313-321doi:10.1016/j.poly.2015.01.023 A new benzodiazepine molecule and its interactions with diorganotin(IV)chlorides - Garoufis, Achilleas, Kitos, Alexandros A., Lymperopoulou, Smaragda, Nastopoulos, Vasileios, Plakatouras, John C. and Ypsilantis, Konstantinos Published:2014Publication:Journal of Molecular StructureVolume:1079Page Range:473-479doi:10.1016/j.molstruc.2014.09.055