Education 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Physics/Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2001-2004

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2001 

Diploma, Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, 1994 

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Main Appointments

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July 2022

Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

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June 2017-June 2022

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

 

January 2011-June 2017
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
 

September 2004-December 2010
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY

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Secondary Appointments
2020-present    
Member, JHU Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cancer Invasion & Metastasis Program; Secondary Appointment in the Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

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2019-present    
Patient Advocate, Physical Sciences - Oncology Center (PS-OC), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

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2018-present
Associate Member, Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

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January 2012-June 2017
Member, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

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October 2005- December 2010
Assistant Professor (joint appointment), SUNY/Downstate Medical Center, Department of Biochemistry, Brooklyn, NY

 

Awards and Honors

Dionisopoulou prize, Academy of Athens, Greece (2023); Individual Biomedical Research Award, Hartwell Foundation (2021); Christian B. Evensen Scholar, Department of Urology, JHU, Baltimore MD (2018-2019); Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Award (2018); Chancellor Scholar, Rutgers University (2016-2017); Greek Diaspora Fellow, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2016-2017); The Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, Rutgers University (2013); The Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, Rutgers University (2013); Teaching Excellence Award, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University (2012, 2013); Research Scholar Grant, American Cancer Society (2012-2016); Walter Tyson Associate Professorship Award, Rutgers University (2011); Career Catalyst Research Award, Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (2008) ; Wallace H. Coulter Early Career Award in Translational Research (2006); J.D. Watson Young Investigator Award, New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) (2006); Columbia University, Ph.D. dissertation designated ‘with distinction’ (2001); NATO Science Fellowship (1999-2001)

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