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Profile:
Experimental researcher with experience in microfluidics for cell manipulation and chemical analysis.
Interested in microsystems for rapid
screening, with applications in chemical detection and
diagnostics.
Education:
2008-2013 Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, emphasis in Bioengineering
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. Advisor: Carl Meinhart.
2006-2008 M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. Advisor: George Georghiou.
2004-2006 B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics, emphasis in Electronics
B.Sc. in Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Publications:
B. Piorek, C. Andreou, M. Moskovits, and C. D. Meinhart: Discrete Free- Surface Millifluidics for Rapid Capture and Analysis of Airborne Molecules Using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Analytical Chemistry 2014 86 (2), 1061–1066.
C. Andreou, M. R. Hoonejani, M. R. Barmi, M. Moskovits, and C. D. Meinhart, Rapid Detection of Drugs of Abuse in Saliva Using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Microfluidics, ACS Nano 2013 7 (8), 7157-7164.
M. R. Barmi, C. Andreou, M. R. Hoonejani, M. Moskovits, and C. D. Meinhart: Aggregation Kinetics of SERS-Active Nanoparticles in Thermally Stirred Sessile Droplets, Langmuir 2013 29 (44), 13614-13623.
Ph.D. Thesis: Interfacial transport processes in microfluidic systems for precision surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, 2013.
M.Sc. Thesis: Design and fabrication of dielectrophoresis-based devices for cell manipulation and separation, 2008.
B.Sc. Honors Thesis: Tunnelling and phase-sensitive studies of odd-parity superconductor Sr2RuO4. Advisor: Ying Liu, 2006.
Seminars and Conference Presentations:
University of Cyprus, Electrical Engineering seminar series, Multiphase Microfluidics and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Chemical Detection, 19-Jun-2013.
UCSB, Systems Biology seminar series, Multiphase Microfluidics and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Chemical Detection, 07-Jun-2013.
M. R. Barmi, C. Andreou, M. R. Hoonejani, B. Piorek, M. Moskovits, C. D. Meinhart, Thermally-Induced Mixing of Microscale Droplets for Detection of Gas-Phase Analytes, 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Nov. 20-22, 2011.
C. Andreou, M.R. Hoonejani, M.R. Barmi, B. Piorek, M. Moskovits, and C.D. Meinhart, Microfluidic Device for Detection of Chemicals in Aqueous Mixtures using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, The 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2011), Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2-6, 2011.
M. R. Barmi, T. J. Reed, C. Andreou, M. R. Hoonejani, B. D. Piorek, C. D. Meinhart, Introducing the Hybrid Free Surface Microfluidics for Gas Sensing, APS March Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA, March 21-25, 2011.
C. Andreou, SJ. Lee, B. Piorek, M. Moskovits, C. Meinhart, Multiphase microfluidics and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, California, USA, Nov. 21-23, 2010.
B. Piorek, C. Andreou, SJ. Lee, M. Moskovits, C. Meinhart, Free-surface digital microfluidic systems for optimized SERS analysis in gas chromatography, 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, California, USA, Nov. 21-23, 2010.
M. R. Barmi, B. Piorek, C. Andreou, C. D. Meinhart, Temperature-Controlled Free-Surface Microfluidic Devices, 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, California, USA, Nov. 21-23, 2010.
C. Andreou, SJ. Lee, B. Piorek, M. Moskovits, C. Meinhart, Mapping concentration dependencies of SERS in a microfluidic device, Gordon Research Conference, Microfluidics (Physics and Chemistry of), Lucca, Italy, June 28- July 3, 2009.
C. Andreou, E. Demosthenous, C. Odiatis, N. Loucaides, P. Georgiades, A. Ramos, G. Georghiou, Dielectrophoretic capture and separation of Trophoblast Stem Cells and their differentiated progeny, 34th Micro- and Nano-Engineering Conference, Athens, Greece, 15-19 September 2008.
Honors and Awards:
2013 Best fifth-year graduate student Friday noon seminar
2011 Best third-year graduate student Friday noon seminar
2008-2009 Dean’s Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division
2006 ‘Standard Bearer’ of Penn State Physics graduating class
2004-2006 Penn State Schreyer Honors College Scholar
2002-2006 Penn State Eberly College of Science Dean’s list for 8/8 semesters
2002-2006
Full
scholarship from the AMIDEAST Cyprus-America Scholarship
Program (CASP) for undergraduate studies
1998-2000
National Scholarship from the Cyprus Scholarship
Committee and the
Italian Government to attend the United World College of
the Adriatic
Teaching/Mentoring Experience:
Winter 2014 Volunteer lecturer: “Graphics rendering using Blender for scientific illustrations”.
Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant/Replacement Lecturer, UCSB: “Thermodynamics for Engineers” (100+ students).
Summer 2013 Research Mentor: UCSB Jack Kent Cooke Bridges for Engineering and Science Transfers and UCSB Condor Techs program.
Summer 2012 Research Mentor: UCSB SABRE program.
Science Journalism:
July 25, 2013 Nanowerk News “Microfluidic device detects drugs in saliva fast”
· Chemometrics/multivariate statistics: “EigenVector University”, Seattle, WA, April 2013.
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Multiphysics
simulations:
Comsol v4.x, focusing on
microfluidic applications,
including two-phase flow (level-set/moving boundary) and
electroosmotic
flow.
· CAD: AutoCAD 2012 for photolithography mask design, 3D modelling for MEMS;
Google SketchUp, Adobe Illustrator CS2, and Inkscape.
· Data analysis: MATLAB, R, perl, ImageJ.
· Presentation tools: LaTeX (beamer), Prezi, Keynote, PowerPoint.
· Graphics creation: GIMP, blender 3D, POV-ray
· Web development: DreamWeaver, Rapidweaver, basic HTML and javascript
Contact Information:
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Email: chrysafis@engineering.ucsb.edu URL: http://www.chrysafis.com/
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Permanent address: 34 Vasileos Pavlou str Kaimakli Nicosia 1021, Cyprus |
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