Theofano Kollatou

1. PERSONAL DETAILS

Theofano Kollatou

Date of birth: 21/09/1982

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2. ACADEMIC INFORMATION

STUDIES

PhD: 2014: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering/ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE. Thesis title: “Use of Metamaterials in electromagnetic compatibility applications”. Supervisor: Dr Christos Antonopoulos

MRes: 2006: Master of Research, «MRes in the analysis and design of Communication and High-speed systems», University of Nottingham,UK. Supervisor: Dr Christos Christopoulos

Univerisity degree: 2005: Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering/ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE.

3. CURRENT POSITION

       TEIWM “Grant holder” fellow in Τelecommunications Systems. Technological Institute of Western Macedonia, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Greece.

4. PREVIOUS POSITIONS -TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Oct. 2016- Feb. 2017: Research Fellow teaching Electromagnetics in the Electrical engineering department of TEI of Western Macedonia.
• Oct. 2016 - Feb.2017: Laboratory Associate, “Power Electronics”, Electrical Engineering Department, TEI of Western Macedonia.
• Oct. 2016 - Feb.2017: Scientific Associate, “Electromagnetics”, Electrical Engineering Department, TEI of Western Macedonia.
• Feb. 2016 – June 2016: Laboratory Associate, “Internal Electrical Installations”,Electrical Engineering Department, TEI of Western Macedonia.
• Sep. 2012 - Feb. 2013: Laboratory Associate, “Internal Electrical Installations”,Electrical Engineering Department, TEI of Western Macedonia.
• Apr. 2009 - July. 2009: Laboratory Associate, “Electromagnetic Field I, II”, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUTH.

5. PUBLICATIONS

1. Theofano M. Kollatou, Christos Christopoulos, “Use of High-Impedance surfaces in EMC Applications”, IEEE transactions οn Μagnetics,Volume.45, Issue.3,2009.
2. Theofano M. Kollatou, Alexandros I. Dimitriadis, Stylianos D. Assimonis, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis,and Christos S. Antonopoulos, “A family of ultra-thin , polarization-insensitive, multi-band, highly absorbing metamaterial structures” , Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 136, 579-594, 2013.
3. S.D. Assimonis, T.M. Kollatou, T.V. Yioultsis, C.S. Antonopoulos, “Absorbing Surfaces Using EBG Structures”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics ,01/2014; 50(2).197-200.
4. Theofano M. Kollatou, Alexandros I. Dimitriadis, Stylianos D. Assimonis, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, Christos S. Antonopoulos, “Multi-band, highly absorbing, microwave metamaterial structures”, Applied Physics A, 01/2014, DOI:10.1007.
5. Theofano M. Kollatou, Stylianos D. Assimonis, and Christos S. Antonopoulos, “A Family of Ultra-Thin, Octagonal Shaped Microwave Absorbers for EMC Applications”, accepted for publication in Journal of Materials science forum.
6. Stylianos D. Assimonis, Theofano Kollatou, Christos Antonopoulos, “Multi- and Extended- Band Highly Absorbing Metamaterial Surfaces via Non-Orthogonal Periodic Lattices”, submitted for publication to IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.
7. M. A. Zehir, A. Batman, Stimoniaris, T.Kollatou, M. A. Sonmez, M. Bagriyanik, A. Font, A. Ozdemir, D. Tsiamitros, E. Dialynas , «Impact of renewable based microgrid supply/demand profiles on low voltage distribution networks», Applied Energy Symposium and Forum, REM2016, Energy Procedia 00 (2016) 000–000.
8. Dimitrios Stimoniaris, T. Kollatou, Dimitrios Tsiamitros, M. A. Zehir, A. Batman, M. Bagriyanik, A. Ozdemir and E. Dialynas, “Demand-Side Management by Integrating Bus Communication Technologies into Smart Grids”, Electric Power Systems Research (EPRS), vol. 136, pp: 251-261, 2016.
9. Mustafa Alparslan Zehir, Alp Batman, Mehmet Ali Sonmez, Aytug Font, Dimitrios Tsiamitros, Dimitris Stimoniaris, Theofano Kollatou, Mustafa Bagriyanik, Aydogan Ozdemir, E.N. Dialynas, “Impacts of microgrids with renewables on secondary distribution networks”, Applied Energy, January 2017.

6. PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES

1. Poster presentation: «Use of High-Impedance surfaces in EMC Applications», Theofano M. Kollatou, Christos Christopoulos, in IEEE, CEFC 2008, Athens, Greece.
2. Oral presentation: «A Bandwidth-Enhanced, Ultra-Thin, Wide-Angle Metamaterial Absorber for EMC Applications», Theofano M. Kollatou, Alexandros I. Dimitriadis, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, and Christos S. Antonopoulos, in EMC Europe 2011, 26-30 September, York, UK.
3. Poster presentation: «Ultra-Thin, Polarization-Insensitive, Microwave Metamaterial Absorbers for EMC Applications », Theofano M. Kollatou, Alexandros I. Dimitriadis, and Christos S. Antonopoulos, in PACET 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece.
4. Oral presentation: «A Class of Multi-band, Polarization-Insensitive, Microwave Metamaterial Absorbers in EMC Analysis», Theofano M. Kollatou, Alexandros I.
Dimitriadis, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, and Christos S. Antonopoulos, in EMC Europe 2012, 17-21 September, Rome, Italy.
5. Oral presentation: «Multi-Band, Highly Absorbing, Microwave Metamaterial Structures», T. M. Kollatou, A. I. Dimitriadis, S. D. Assimonis, N. V. Kantartzis, and C. S. Antonopoulos, in META 2013, 18-22 March, United Arab Emirates.
6. Poster presentation: «Absorbing Surfaces using EBG Structures», Stylianos D. Assimonis, Theofano M. Kollatou, Traianos V. Yioultsis, and Christos S. Antonopoulos, COMPUMAG 2013, 30 June – 4 July 2013, Hungary.
7. Oral presentation: «A Family of Ultra-Thin, Octagonal Shaped Microwave Absorbers for EMC Applications», Theofano M. Kollatou, Stylianos D. Assimonis, and Christos S. Antonopoulos, in Japmed’8 2013, Athens, Greece.
8. Poster presentation: «Multi- and Extended- Band Highly Absorbing Metamaterial Surfaces via Non-Orthogonal Periodic Lattices», Stylianos D. Assimonis, Theofano Kollatou, Christos Antonopoulos, CEFC 2014, France.
9. Oral presentation: «Advanced Demand-Side Management in Microgrids using KNX Technologies», Theofano Kollatou, Dimitrios Tsiamitros, Dimitrios Stimoniaris, V. Kikis, M. A. Zehir, A. Batman, M. Bagriyanik, A. Ozdemir, E. Dialynas, Conference: 2014 KNX Scientific Conference, At Wiesbaden, Germany.
10. Poster presentation: «An Array of Robust Multi-Band Metamaterial Absorbers Using Octagonal Split Rings », Theofano M. Kollatou, Christos S. Antonopoulos, COMPUMAG 2015, Canada.
11. Oral presentation: «High Efficiency and Triple-Band Metamaterial Electromagnetic Energy Harvester», S. D. Assimonis, T. Kollatou, D. Tsiamitros, D. Stimoniaris, T. Samaras, and J. N. Sahalos, ELECO 2015, Bursa, Turkey.
12. Oral presentation: «Development of a field data-based virtual test bed for microgrid integration of building automation technologies», Zehir, M.A.; Batman, A.; Sonmez, M.A.; Font, A.; Tsiamitros, D.; Stimoniaris, D.; Kollatou, T.; Bagriyanik, M.; Ozdemir, A.; Dialynas, E., ELECO 2015, Bursa, Turkey.
13. Oral presentation: «Cooperation scheme between KNX and a microgrid control system for enhanced demand-side management», Stimoniaris, D.; Kollatou, T.; Tsiamitros, D.; Gavros, K.; Kikis, V.; Asimonis, S.; Zehir, M.A.; Batman, A.; Bagriyanik, M.; Ozdemir, A.; Dialynas, E., ELECO 2015, Bursa, Turkey.

7. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

April 2007-currently: Electrical and Electronic Engineer, member of Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).
June. 2006 - Dec. 2006: Graduate Trainee-Internship for IMI Norgren Ltd., UK
Jan. 2007 - Sep. 2007: Support Staff-Lab technician, Upton-by-Chester High School, UK
July. 2008 – Aug.2008: Contract work: "Reshaping the existing undergraduate curriculum of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUTH.
Dec. 2008: Contract work: "Measurements of electromagnetic radiation power density and intensity of acoustic wave," AUTH.

8. PARTICIPATION IN FUNDED PROJECTS

May 2009 – Aug. 2009: Contract project: "Development of wireless sensor network protocols processor ARM CORTEX-M3», CERTH / ITI.
Dec. 2014-Dec. 2015: Principal Investigator, Bilateral Research & Technology Cooperation Greece-Turkey 2013-2014 – “Smart Electrical Energy Management and Buildings Energy Efficiency Technologies project-SEEMBEET”, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of West Macedonia, GREECE.
09.11.2016 - 31.10.2017: Participation in the project "Support operation in research laboratories: “Energy saving and Intelligent Networks - Solar Air Conditioning”, implemented under funding of research proposals by the Education and Research Committee of TEI and financed from own resources, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Western Macedonia, Kozani.

9. SUPERVISION OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Currently supervising the following undergraduate students’ theses.
1. “Study on Biomass energy utilization for electricity production”. -Aris Alaseirlis.
2. “Study on energy management systems and environmental policy”. -Georgios Sfendonis.
3. “Study and Analysis of European Union objectives on Energy policy.”-Konstantinos Delizisis.
4. “Energy harvesting using metamaterials to power small, autonomous sensors”. Dimitrios Sirgiannis.

10. KNOWLEDGE FOREIGN LANGUAGES

• Greek language (mother tongue)
• English language (fluently)
        Certificate of Proficiency in English from the University of Cambridge in 1998
        TOEFL in 2005 (grade:283/300)
• French language (fluently)
         Delf A1, Delf A2, Delf A3, Delf A4 (completed the first degree of Delfs)
• Italian language (Basic)
• Russian language (A2)