Research Interests

Theory and modeling of materials. Current activities include atomistic simulations with quantum and classical models for the structural, vibrational, mechanical, electronic, optical properties of amorphous and nanostructured materials, fundamentals and applications of localization and transfer of nonlinear excitations.

Short Curriculum Vitae

George Kopidakis received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Crete and a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Iowa State University in 1995. After his graduate work at Ames Laboratory-Iowa State University, USA, he worked as a research assistant professor at the Center for Atomic-Scale Materials Physics (CAMP), Dept. of Physics, Technical University of Denmark. He then moved to Laboratoire Leon Brillouin (CEA-CNRS), Saclay, France, initially with an individual Marie Curie EC post-doctoral fellowship and later as a CNRS research associate. He was a research associate at the Physics Dept. and a visiting associate professor at the Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, where he was appointed assistant professor in 2003. He is also affiliated researcher at FORTH since 2005.

Recent Publications

• Georgia Velegraki, Ioannis Vamvasakis, Ioannis Papadas, Sotiris Tsatsos, Anastasia Pournara, Manolis Manos, Stelios Choulis, Stella Kennou, Georgios Kopidakis, Gerasimos S. Armatas, “Boosting Photochemical Activity by Ni Doping of Mesoporous CoO Nanoparticle Assemblies, Inorg. Chem. Front., 6, 765 (2019).
• Dimitrios Stefanakis, Vagelis Harmandaris, Georgios Kopidakis, Ioannis N. Remediakis, “From Order to Disorder of Alkanethiol SAMs on Complex Au (211), (221) and (311) Surfaces: Impact of the Substrate”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125, 3495 (2021).
• Eirini D. Koutsouroubi, Ioannis Vamvasakis, Maria G. Minotaki, Ioannis T. Papadas, Charalampos Drivas, Stelios A. Choulis, Georgios Kopidakis, Stella Kennou, Gerasimos S. Armatas, “Ni-doped MoS₂ Modified Graphitic Carbon Nitride Layered Hetero-Nanostructures as Highly Efficient Photocatalysts for Environmental Remediation”, Appl. Catal. B: Environ., 297, 120419 (2021).
• Daphne Davelou, Christos Mathioudakis, Ioannis N. Remediakis, Georgios Kopidakis, “Adsorption on Metallic Edges of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides”, Phys. Status Solidi RRL, 16, 2100588 (2022).
• Alexandros Deltsidis, Laura Simonelli, Georgios Vailakis, Izar Capel Berdiell, Georgios Kopidakis, Anna Krzton-Maziopa, Emil S. Bozin, Alexandros Lappas, “Li_x(C₅H₅N)_yFe_2−zSe₂: A Defect-Resilient Expanded-Lattice High-Temperature Superconductor”, Inorg. Chem., 61, 12797 (2022).
• Andreas Douloumis, Nikolaos R.E. Vrithias, Nikos Katsarakis, Ioannis N. Remediakis, Georgios Kopidakis, “Tuning the workfunction of ZnO through surface doping with Mn from first-principles simulations”, Surf. Sci., 276, 122175 (2022).
• Georgios Vailakis, Georgios Kopidakis, “Unfolding the band structure of van der Waals heterostructures”, Phys. Rev. Materials, 7, 024004 (2023).
• Sofia Bra, Ioannis Vamvasakis, Evangelos K. Andreou, Georgios Vailakis, Georgios Kopidakis, Gerasimos S. Armatas, “Modulating interfacial charge redistribution of Ni₂P/CuCo₂S₄ p-n nano-heterojunctions for efficient electrocatalytic overall water splitting”, Int. J. Hydrog. Energy, 48, 25300 (2023).
• E. Katsipoulaki, G. Vailakis, I. Demeridou, D. Karfaridis, P. Patsalas, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, I. Paradisanos, G. Kopidakis, G. Kioseoglou, E. Stratakis, “Electron density control in WSe₂ monolayers via photochlorination”, 2D Materials, 10, 045008 (2023).
• Evangelos K. Andreou, Ioannis Vamvasakis, Andreas Douloumis, Georgios Kopidakis, Gerasimos S. Armatas, “Size Dependent Photocatalytic Activity of Mesoporous ZnIn₂S₄ Nanocrystal Networks”, ACS Catal., 14, 14251 (2024).
• Rafaela Maria Giappa, Nikita I. Selivanov, Anna Yu. Samsonova, Apostolos Pantousas, Ioannis N. Remediakis, Yury V. Kapitonov, Alexei V. Emeline, Georgios Kopidakis, Constantinos C. Stoumpos, “(3-CF₃pyH)₂(3-CF₃py)Pb₃I₈: A three-dimensional metal halide inorganic framework with distinctive Kagomé bands”, Chem. Mater., 36, 11804 (2024).