Organic Chemistry: Current Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0401
ISSN: 2161-0401
Georgios C Vougioukalakis
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, Athens 15771, Greece
Georgios C. Vougioukalakis was born on Crete, Greece, in 1976 and received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Crete in 1999. In 2004, he completed his Ph.D. at the same university under the direction of Professor Michael Orfanopoulos. During his graduate studies he spent short periods of time at the University of Sussex (UK) and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Bologna (Italy). After carrying out his military service in the Greek Air Force, he moved as a Marie Curie Fellow to the California Institute of Technology - Caltech (USA) where he worked for two years with Professor Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005). Following another year of postdoctoral studies with Professor Nikos Hadjichristidis at the University of Athens, he joined the National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos". In 2012, he visited the University of California - Irvine (USA), as a Visiting Scholar. Since January 2014, he is Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Athens.
His research interests include homogeneous catalysis, organic and organometallic chemistry, the development of nanostructures mostly related to energy issues and nanotechnology, as well as the synthesis of compounds of biological relevance and potential applications.
Olefin metathesis; Homogeneous catalysis; Organic synthesis