Eleni Dovrou
 Technical University of Crete/climate.tuc

I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Crete and I also hold an Hononary Visiting Researcher position at the HEAL Global Institute of the University of Canberra. My reserach work follows three main dirrections:

1. Chemical mechanisms of exterme events and their impact in the environment and human health.

2.   Evaluation of conditions that affect human health and the reactions occuring within the human organism.

3. Investigation of molecular level reactions that contribute in the mechanisms of organosulfate formation.

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Prior to my appointment as an Assistant Professor, I was a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Crete and the Atmospheric Environment & Climate Change Lab in the Voulgarakis Group. My research interests included oxidative in-cloud processes that lead to sulfate formation, chemical mechanisms affecting particulate matter composition, emissions from everyday used rubber surfaces, the effect of atmospheric pollution on human health and future effects of extreme events. At the last three months of this appointment I collaborated and traveled to the HEAL Center of the University of Canberra in Australia, where I installed the WRF-Chem model and assisted in research regarding the impacts of fire events in Australia and the indoor air quality in public spaces.

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After receiving my PhD, I became a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany, in the Multiphase Chemistry Department at the Pöschl Group in the Berkemeier Research Group. On 2022 I moved back to Greece and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) Hellas and the Center for the Study of Air Quality and Climate Change in the Pandis Group.

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On 2020, I received my PhD in Engineering Sciences at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA. I conducted my Phd in the Group of Professor Frank N. Keutsch on Atmospheric Chemistry (Keutsch Group).

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On 2018, I received my MSc in Engineering Sciences at Harvard University, USA, in the first 1.5 years of my PhD program studies.

 

Prior to Harvard I received my BS/Diploma on 2016 in Environmental Engineering at Technical University of Crete, Greece.

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In addition to my scientific interests I am an active volleyball and beach volleyball athlete, I enjoy running, playing the piano and traveling.

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I was born in the European paradise, as I like calling it, in Thessaloniki and raised in Chania, Crete, Greece.