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Eugenia Vasileiadou’s research is focused on Inorganic Materials Chemistry. Her research provides novel (nano)materials for energy-conversion and energy-storage by tailoring the syntheses, crystal structures and device fabrication to extract the fundamental structure-property relationships governing the studied materials. Additionally, her work studies how to harness the stability, optoelectronic and electrochemical properties for targeted design synthesis-application. The Vasileiadou lab will use structural synthetic chemistry for the discovery of new materials to realize a sustainable energy and environmental landscape. Students will learn how to rationally design new functional inorganic materials, combining synthetic inorganic chemistry, solid-state chemistry and physical chemistry. Furthermore, students will be adept in the spectroscopic characterization of the solution-processable semiconductors and the energy-storage materials they create to develop efficient solar cells, LEDs, batteries and bioimaging contrast agents.

Vasileiadou’s teaching interests are centered in the sub-areas of General, Inorganic, Materials and Environmental Chemistry that involve the topics of crystallography, renewable energy chemistry, environmental sustainability, archaeological materials chemistry and art conservation science. Vasileiadou has received formal pedagogical training over the course of three years at Northwestern’s Searle Center for Advanced Learning and Teaching in parallel to her Ph.D. training. She completed the year-long teaching certificate program, conducted an IRB-approved pedagogical research study as a graduate teaching fellow, and served as a teaching consultant for the Searle Center. Vasileiadou is passionate about pedagogically-based and data-driven DEI programming to increase the representation of women and other minorities in STEM fields, where she continues to publish and develop curricula in these areas.