George Vassilikogiannakis, PhD
Georgios Vassilikogiannakis is Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry at the University of Crete. He obtained his Ph.D. (1998) in Organic Chemistry with Prof. M. Orfanopoulos from the University of Crete (Greece). From 1999-2002, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute (California, U.S.A.) in the group of Prof. K. C. Nicolaou. In 2002 he started his academic career at the University of Crete initially as an Assistant Professor. In 2008, he was promoted to Associate Professor, and, in 2013, to Full Professor.
Personal experience
Among other European funding programs, he is the recipient of an ERC starting (consolidating) grant and an ERC Proof of Concept (PoC) grant. He is member of the Editorial Board of ChemPhotoChem (Wiley), member of the Advisory Board of OBC (RSC).
His research interests are in the field of Sustainable Synthetic Organic Chemistry with a particular focus on the development and application of new green synthetic methodologies and their applications in the synthesis of natural products. He has considerable expertise in developing technologies that use Singlet Oxygen as a green oxidant and cascade reaction facilitator as well as the development of continuous flow photoreactors.
