2005, B.S., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2007, M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
2014, Ph.D., Physics, Center for Soft Matter Physics, Physics, New York University, NY, USA
Career
2014-2018, Post-doctoral scholar, Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB), CA, USA
2019-2020, Post-doctoral scholar, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Interests
soft matter
biomaterials / bioinspired materials
polymer networks
protein condensates
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
Max Planck Partner Group Leader, 2021 - present
Springer Poster Award, 2019 European Polymer Congress for “Tough polymer networks with covalent and catechol-iron coordination bonds: correlation of binding stoichiometry with mechanical performance” by Filippidi, Palles, Cristiani, Eisenbach, Kamitsos
Doctoral Thesis Award of the Circle of Hellenic Academics in Boston (2016)
Alexander S. Onassis Foundation fellowship for four years of graduate studies (2009 - 2012)
Eleni Gatzoyiannis Scholarship, Boston University (2007)
Certificate of Recognition, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations (2005)
Toughening elastomers using mussel-inspired iron-catechol complexes.
Filippidi E. , Cristiani T.R. , Eisenbach C.D., Waite J.H., Israelachvili J.N., Ahn B.K. and Valentine M.T.