Dr Sarantos Marinakis
Senior Lecturer in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
Dr Sarantos Marinakis holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry. He studies the dynamics in collisions in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry using theoretical and experimental techniques.
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Arthur Edwards Building
Room AE 4.40, School of Health, Sport & Bioscience
University of East London
Water Lane
London
E15 4LZ - s.marinakis@uel.ac.uk +44208236473
I studied Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry (University of Athens, Greece), then an MSc in Physical Chemistry at the same University and then completed a DPhil in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (UK).
I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK) and Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris, France), and University of Oxford. I joined as a lecturer the Queen Mary University of London in 2013, and the University of East London in 2018. I became a Senior Lecturer in July 2019.
My research investigates the dynamics in van der Waals' system of open-shell (radicals) complexes using high-resolution spectroscopy and quantum scattering calculations and the properties of supercritical gases. This work has direct applications in astrophysical chemistry, combustion and materials science. More recently, I started to work in inorganic systems that are related with arts and archaeology, and with calculations on biologically relevant compounds.
EPSRC-UK, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, RSC Foundation undergraduate summer research bursaries, Proposals for GRNET High Performance Computing Services, for Books (OUP, Pearson), for many scientific journals.
Overview
I Ab initio quantum mechanical calculations of van der Waals complexes
Astrophysical chemistry
Cold molecules
Experimental and theoretical studies of gas phase collisions
Experimental and theoretical studies of nitric oxide complexes
Neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulation of supercritical fluids
Studies of indocyanine green, and antibiotics
Terahertz spectroscopy
Inorganic pigments in paintings & archaeological chemistry
Collaborators
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Research
Publications
2019 UEL Internal Internship; 'Monitoring the air-pollution in the most affected areas in Tower Hamlets, London'; Awarded £3545
2018 Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); 'Microscopic structure of nitric oxide (NO): A comparison between experiments and theory'; Notional value £38.16k
2017 Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); 'Microscopic structure as an evidence for a new thermodynamic boundary in supercritical CO2: A comparison between experiments and theory'; Notional value £114.48k
2016 Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); 'Local intermolecular structure and dynamics in binary supercritical mixtures'; Notional value £127.7k
2016 European Cooperation in Science and Technology - COST, Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies (CMST) CM1401; Awarded 750 €
2015 Centre for Public Engagement, QMUL; Awarded 200 GBP to prepare a podcast
2015 Science without Borders; Awarded 1200 GBP to train Brazilian undergraduate student in chemistry research methods
2014 UK National Service for Computational Chemistry Software; Awarded 95000 CPU hours
2013 Lockey Committee travel bursary to attend a Conference
2012 Lockey Committee travel bursary to attend a Conference
2012 Oxford Supercomputing Centre; Awarded 25000 CPU hours
2011 University of Athens, Greece (computational time and software for studies of biological molecules)
2011 UK National Service for Computational Chemistry Software; Awarded 71000 CPU hours
2011 Oxford Supercomputing Centre; Awarded 3500 CPU hours
2010 British Council-Platform Beta Techniek Programme in Science to collaborate with Prof. Parker’s group (Nijmegen, NL)
2008 Collaborative Computational Project on Molecular Quantum Dynamics (CCP6) travel bursary to collaborate with Dr Althorpe's group (Cambridge, UK)
2008 British Council support to develop a collaboration with Dr Bassi's group (Milan, Italy)
2007 British Council-NWO Partnership Programme in Science (PPS 883) to collaborate with Prof. Stolte's group (Amsterdam, NL)
2001-2005 D. Phil. scholarship for studies abroad (awarded after competitive written examinations) from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY)
1998 Award based on performance from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY)
Funding
Interests
Portfolio
BS4110 Fundamentals of Physical Chemistry
BS5116 (formerly PP5016)
BS5108
PP6009 Research Project
PP6019