Assistant Researcher
ORCID: 0009-0001-4159-0022
Maria is currently an Assistant Researcher A at the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence, working within the Agriculture Cluster of the Environment and Climate Department. She brings a strong combination of academic and industrial experience to her role. She holds a Chemistry degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), earned with an MChem research study on Advanced Oxidation Processes in aquatic systems. She also holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Manchester, where she investigated non-thermal plasma technologies for the degradation of gaseous and liquid waste. Her doctoral work was further supported by the award of a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japan. Maria brings over five years of industrial experience in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors, with experience in product development, technology transfer, regulatory affairs, and quality systems (GLP, GMP, SOPs, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 19011:2011, ISO 22716). She also has several years of teaching experience with higher education students and adults through undergraduate courses and seminars, and she is an HRDA-certified vocational training educator (Level 3 CyQF/EQF). Prior to joining Eratosthenes, Maria worked on the Horizon Europe project “ENVRINNOV,” where she contributed to the development of innovation strategies and tools toward the creation of the Innovation Roadmap for the European Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures (ENVRI) community.
