Loukas Kollias

Loukas Kollias has a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from NTU Athens, Greece. His diploma thesis was: Biodiesel Production from Microalgae. Also, he has been awarded the MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Biotechnology, Imperial College London, UK. His MSc research project was: Mathematical Modelling of Oxygen Transport in the Retina. His work experience includes an internship at the Sikyonion Public Sewerage and Water Supply Company, Greece and his military service at the Hellenic Army Laboratory as a Chemical Engineer.

He joined the department of Chemical Engineering at UCL in September 2016 in order to start his PhD.

Research project

Title: Molecular Modelling of the Templated Growth of Hierarchical Materials.

Hierarchical materials (HM), such as MOFs are crystalline materials that have attracted increasing attention in the recent past. Due to their tunable porosity, surface area and topology, HMs are front runners in the race for a material-driven revolution in a variety of applications including separation processes, heterogeneous catalysis and drug delivery. Despite the steadily increasing variety of HMs structures discovered every year the scale up of their production to industrial volumes is still an issue. In this project we will investigate through molecular modelling techinques the self-assembly process of HMs architectures both in solution and on heterogenous templates. The aim of this project is the identification of the HMs nucelation and growth mechanisms aimed at rationally developing efficient scale-up strategies.

Education

MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Biotechnology, Imperial College London, UK, 2015.
Dipl. in Chemical Engineering, NTUA, Greece, 2013.