Dr. Vasilios Bellas

Vasilios, born in 1976 in Athens, Greece, received degrees in chemistry and polymer science from the Universities of Ioannina and Athens, respectively. He completed a PhD thesis at the NCSR "Demokritos" working on silsesquioxane-based resist materials suitable for high-resolution lithography. After a short stay in the Hellenic Air Force, he joined the group of Prof. M. Rehahn at Darmstadt University of Technology and Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut as a postdoctoral researcher. In Darmstadt he focused on polyferrocenylsilane chemistry and, in addition, he developed a universal methodology for the synthesis of well-defined block copolymers. Later on, he moved from academia to industry, working in new products' research and development as well as in quality assurance issues. Now he is pursuing his career as a Marie Curie Fellow in Prof. Ian Manners' group. His research interests lie in living polymerization methods, the synthesis of well-defined block copolymers with complex architectures, functional macromolecular materials for nanoapplications and block copolymer self-assembly..