Principal Research Fellow, University of Southampton
Bio
Dimitra is a Principal Research Fellow in the Electronic Devices and Materials group at the Zepler Institute, University of Southampton. Previously she held a position as Post-Doctoral Industrial Fellow at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London (ICL), working on a Knowledge Transfer project with PragmatIC, a UK-SME developing flexible radiofrequency electronic devices enabling the Internet of Things. Before that she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, hosted within the Experimental Solid State Physics group at the Department of Physics (ICL).
Dimitra earned her PhD in Photochemistry/Organic Electronics from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. Before that she obtained a Master’s Degree (Honours) in Advanced Materials Science jointly from the Technical University of Munich, Ludvig-Maximilians University of Munich and University of Augsburg in Germany. She also holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering (majoring Materials Science) from NTUA. As a post-graduate, she gained industrial experience through internships in Procter & Gamble, Italy, and Schreiner Group, Germany.
Research
Dimitra’s main research interest, in a nutshell, is the fabrication and optimisation of nanoscale opto/electronic devices by applying novel materials concepts and alternative patterning techniques. Stemming from an organic electronics background, she has developed organic and inorganic materials-based thin films to act as interfacial layers in high performance Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) and Organic Photovoltaic Cells (OPVs). In the last 5 years, her work focuses mostly on the fabrication and characterisation of coplanar nanogap separated metal electrodes on rigid or flexible substrates. These are combined with functional organic, inorganic and hybrid materials to develop advanced opto/electronic devices targeting high speed applications, such as high– and ultra-high frequency (HF & UHF) radio frequency diodes, high response speed photodetectors, fast switching light-emitting diodes and novel optoelectronic memristors.