Prof. Pantelis N. Trikalitis

University of Crete, Greece

Prof. Pantelis N. Trikalitis is a Professor and vice chair of the Department of Chemistry in the University of Crete. He received his Bachelor (1992) and PhD degree (1997) from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ioannina, Greece. He did a 4-year postdoctoral research (1999-2003), working in the field of open framework semiconductors, in Michigan State University (MSU) under the supervision of Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis. He started his independent carrier in 2004 as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry at University of Crete (UoC) where he promoted to full Professor in 2015. He has served as a vice chair of the Research Committee of UoC (2014-2017) and since 2018, represents UoC in the general assembly of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I).

Prof. Pantelis N. Trikalitis works in the field of metal organic frameworks with emphasis in gas storage and separation as well as in water sorption-based applications and his research has attracted considerable funding from major National and European funding agencies, including an Excellence grant from GSRT in Greece, Industry-Academia cooperation grants and Marie Curie European Grants. He has more than 80 publications in top quality peer reviewed international journals including Nature, Science, JACS, ACIE and ChemComm, from which he has received more than 3,600 citations with an h-index of 33.