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Curriculum Vitae

Academic Career

• April 2003 – September 2006: Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
• October 2006 – December 2008: Postdoctoral Research, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
• October 2010 – June 2012: Lecturer (PD 407/80), Departments of Chemistry & Materials Science, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
• July 2012 – July 2016: Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
• July 2016 – December 2018: Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
• December 2018 – June 2023: Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
• June 2023 – present: Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.

Supervision

• >60 Undergraduate students (Diploma theses)
• 24 MSc students
• 11 PhD students

Fellowships and Research Funding

• NSERC Research Tools and Instruments, 2014 & 2017 – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
• Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 2016–2018 – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
• Early Researcher Awards, 2015 – Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
• Match of Minds / Inquiring Minds, 2015 & 2016 – Brock University.
• Support of Researchers with Emphasis in New Researchers – Round B, 2019 – ESPA 2014–2020.

Awards and Distinctions

• Young Investigator Award, American Chemical Society, 2007.
• ADocMolMag Award, Best PhD Thesis in Molecular Magnetism and related fields, Florence, Italy, 2008.
• Emerging Investigators, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010.
• Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence, Brock University, 2016.

Bibliometrics – Scopus (September 2025)

• Total citations: 7,232
• Heterocitations: 5,076
• Number of publications: 183
• h-index: 48

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Courses

Undergraduate

• Inorganic Chemistry II (Chemistry of 1st-row transition metals and coordination compounds).

Post-Graduate

• Chemistry of Inorganic and Catalytic Materials.
• Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Inorganic Materials.
• Bioinorganic Chemistry.

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Research Activities

• Synthesis, structural, spectroscopic, and physicochemical characterization of oligo- and polynuclear coordination compounds with applications in molecular magnetism and optics.
• Transformation of magnetically and optically promising molecular compounds into multifunctional materials for applications in molecular electronics.
• Synthesis of single-molecule magnets with potential applications in quantum computing and memory storage devices.
• Hybrid inorganic–polymeric materials as solar energy concentrators.
• Molecular inorganic and modified nanomaterials as fertilizers for sustainable agriculture.
• Coordination compounds as biomimetic models of active sites of various metalloenzymes.
• The role of metal ions in the chemical reactivity of organic molecules in diverse reactions (e.g., cycloaddition).
• Heterometallic inorganic compounds (e.g., Li/Co) as cathode materials for batteries and supercapacitors.

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Representative Publications

• A. S. Armenis, G. P. Bakali, S. Paul, K. N. Pantelis, L. Cunha-Silva, J. Tang, D. I. Alexandropoulos, W. Wernsdorfer, E. Moreno-Pineda, Th. C. Stamatatos, “Deciphering the Magnetostructural Criteria in Dy^III and Ho^III Macrocycle-Based Single-Molecule Magnets with Pseudo-D_5h Symmetry: A Combined Single-Crystal Hysteresis and Theoretical Study”, Inorganic Chemistry, 64, 11476–11489, 2025.
•  A. S. Armenis, A. Mondal, S. R. Giblin, D. I. Alexandropoulos, J. Tang, R. A. Layfield, Th. C. Stamatatos, “‘Kick-in the head’: High-performance and air-stable mononuclear Dy^III single-molecule magnets with pseudo-D_6h symmetry from an [1+1] Schiff-base macrocycle approach”, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 12, 1214-1224, 2025.
•  K. H. Baka, S. Paul, D. Liu, W. Wernsdorfer, J. Tang, L. F. Chibotaru, Th. C. Stamatatos, “Unveiling the Werner-type cluster chemistry of heterometallic 4f/post-transition metals: A unique {Dy₃Bi₈} complex exhibiting quantum tunneling steps in the hysteresis loops, and its 1-D congener”, Inorganic Chemistry, 4, 1962–1974, 2025.
•  A. A. Athanasopoulou, P. Abbasi, D. I. Alexandropoulos, J. J. Hayward, C. M. Beavers, S. J. Teat, W. Wernsdorfer, J. Mayans, A. Escuer, M. Pilkington, Th. C. Stamatatos, “A nanosized {Ni^II₁₈} cluster with a ‘flying saucer’ topology exhibiting slow relaxation of magnetisation phenomena at both 15 K and 1.3 K”, Chemistry – A European Journal, e2024034622024, 2024.
•  A. S. Armenis, A. Mondal, S. R. Giblin, C. P. Raptopoulou, V. Psycharis, D. I. Alexandropoulos, J. Tang, R. A. Layfield, Th. C. Stamatatos, “Unveiling new [1+1] Schiff-base macrocycles towards high energy-barrier hexagonal bipyramidal Dy(III) single-molecule magnets”, Chemical Communications, 60, 12730-12733, 2024.
• A. S. Armenis, V. Vipanchi, K. N. Pantelis, L. Cunha-Silva, K. R. Vignesh, D. I. Alexandropoulos, Th. C. Stamatatos, “Slow magnetization relaxation in a rare family of triangular {Co^III₂Ln^III} clusters: the effect of diamagnetic Co^III ions on the Ln^III magnetic dynamics”, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2023, e202302337.
• D. I. Alexandropoulos, K. R. Vignesh, Th. C. Stamatatos, K. R. Dunbar,
  “Rare “Janus”-Faced {FeII7} Single-Molecule Magnet Exhibiting Intramolecular Ferromagnetic Interactions”,
  Chemical Science, 2019, in press.
• Th. C. Stamatatos, E. Rentschler,
  “Organic Chelate-free and Azido-rich Metal Clusters and Coordination Polymers from the Use of Me3SiN3: A New Synthetic Route to Complexes with Beautiful Structures and Diverse Magnetic Properties”,
  Chemical Communications, 55, 11, 2019.
• J. Krause, D. I. Alexandropoulos, L. M. Carrella, E. Rentschler, Th. C. Stamatatos,
  “Increasing the Nuclearity and Spin Ground State in a New Family of Ferromagnetically-coupled {Ni10} Disk-like Complexes Bearing Exclusively End-on Bridging Azido Ligands”,
  Chemical Communications, 54, 12499, 2018.
• A. A. Alaimo, A. Worrell, S. Das Gupta, C. Lampropoulos, G. Christou, Th. C. Stamatatos,
  “Structural and Magnetic Variations in a Family of Isoskeletal, Oximate-bridged {MnIV2MIII} Complexes (MIII = Mn, Gd, Dy)”,
  Chemistry – A European Journal, 24, 2588, 2018.