Meropi Mari is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL). She has got a B.Sc. degree in Physics (2005) and a M.Sc. degree in Optoelectronics (2008) from the Physics Department of the University of Crete. She received her PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh (2014). She has published 9 refereed scientific articles in international journals, 4 papers in conference proceedings. She has recently got her own funding by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation in order to set up a Two-Photon Microscope for in vivo applications on mice. 

Education

• 2014, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, University of Edinburgh
• 2008, M.Sc. in Optoelectronics - Microelectronics, University of Crete
• 2005, B.Sc. in Physics, University of Crete

Interests

• non-linear imaging (Second and Third Harmonic Generation, Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering and Two Photon Excitation Fluorescence) at microscopic level applied on biologic specimens
• Thickness identification as well as in depth degradation assessment through THG and MPEF for Cultural Heritage studies
• Raman Spectroscopy on lipids & proteins
• Atomic Force Microscopy; lipid bilayers, interactions with proteins, changes of protein structure (annular & globular shape, fibril formation
• Tip-Enhanced Optical Microscopy optimization