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RESEARCH INTERESTS

microfluidics, surface engineering, plasma texturing, lab-on-chip, bioapplications, chromatography, SERS substrates

ABOUT/BIOGRAPHY

2013-2018: PhD on “Microfluidic devices for chromatography and bio-applications in lab-on-chips”,

Athina S. Kastania is a post-doctoral researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSRD). She received her Diploma in Chemical Engineering (2005) and her M.Sc. in “Microsystems and Nanodevices” (2007) from the National Technical University of Athens. She obtained her Ph.D. in Bioanalytical Chemistry and Microfluidics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Chemistry) in collaboration with NCSRD (Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) in 2018. Ph.D. thesis title: “Microfluidic devices for lab-on-a-chip chromatography and bioapplications”. Supervisors: E. Gogolides & A. Economou.

Number of publications: 12 (8 Peer-reviewed journal publications + 1 indexed conference proceeding + 1 international conference proceeding + 2 Greek conference proceedings) / Number of Conference presentations (oral/poster): 33 / Number of citations: 121 (google scholar) / Patent families: 2 (plus one in progress)

PUBLICATIONS

Kastania, Athina S., Mouchtouris, Sotiris, Stai, Eleni, Zeniou, Angelos, Kokkoris, George, Constantoudis, Vassilios, Tsavalas, Pavlos, Mergia, Konstantina, Gogolides, Evangelos and Tserepi, Angeliki, Plasma-Induced Maskless Formation of Quasi-Periodic Nanoripples on Polymeric Substrates Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume 27, Pages: 2402729, 2025 [doi]

Tsougeni, Katerina, Kanioura, Anastasia, Kastania, Athina S., Ellinas, Kosmas, Stellas, Antonios, Constantoudis, Vassilios, Moschonas, Galatios, Andritsos, Nikolaos D., Velonakis, Manolis, Petrou, Panagiota S., Kakabakos, Sotirios E., Gogolides, Evangelos and Tserepi, Angeliki, A Diagnostic Chip for the Colorimetric Detection of Legionella pneumophila in Less than 3 h at the Point of Need Biosensors, Volume 14, 2024 [doi]

Tsougeni, Katerina, Kanioura, Anastasia, Kastania, Athina S., Ellinas, Kosmas, Stellas, Antonios, Constantoudis, Vassilios, Moschonas, Galatios, Andritsos, Nikolaos D., Velonakis, Manolis, Petrou, Panagiota S., Kakabakos, Sotirios E., Gogolides, Evangelos and Tserepi, Angeliki, A Diagnostic Chip for the Colorimetric Detection of Legionella pneumophila in Less than 3 h at the Point of Need Biosensors, Volume 14, 2024 [doi]

K. Tsougeni, A.S. Kastania, G.D. Kaprou, Michael Eck, Gerhard Jobst, P.S. Petrou, S.E. Kakabakos, D. Mastellos, E. Gogolides and A. Tserepi, A modular integrated lab-on-a-chip platform for fast and highly efficient sample preparation for foodborne pathogen screening Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 288, Pages: 171-179, 2019 [doi]

Athina S. Kastania, Katerina Tsougeni, George Papadakis, Electra Gizeli, George Kokkoris, Angeliki Tserepi and Evangelos Gogolides, Plasma micro-nanotextured polymeric micromixer for DNA purification with high efficiency and dynamic range Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 942, Pages: 58-67, 2016 [doi]

Tsougeni, K., Kastania, A.S., Kaprou, G., Tserepi, A. and Gogolides, E., Microfluidic sample preparation components for DNA-based food pathogen detection Pages: 681 – 682, 2016 [doi]

Athina S. Kastania, Katerina Tsougeni, Vassilios Constantoudis and Evangelos Gogolides, Binding kinetics of bacteria cells on immobilized antibodies in microfluidic channels: Modeling and experiments Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 253, Pages: 247-257, 2017 [doi]

Ioannis Kourmpetis, Athina S. Kastania, Kosmas Ellinas, Katerina Tsougeni, Martyna Baca, Wim De Malsche and Evangelos Gogolides, Gradient-temperature hot-embossing for dense micropillar array fabrication on thick cyclo-olefin polymeric plates: An example of a microfluidic chromatography column fabrication Micro and Nano Engineering, Volume 5, Pages: 100042, 2019 [doi]

Kastania, Athina S. and Petrou, Panagiota S. and Loukas, Christos-Moritz and Gogolides, Evangelos, Poly-L-histidine coated microfluidic devices for bacterial DNA purification without chaotropic solutions Biomedical Microdevices, Volume 22, Pages: 44, 2020 [doi]

Anastasios Dimitriou, Athina S. Kastania, Panagiotis Sarkiris, Vasyl Shvalya, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Uros Cvelbar and Evangelos Gogolides, Ag-deposited nanostructured Boehmite substrates for the detection of explosives with surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy Micro and Nano Engineering, Volume 24, Pages: 100279, 2024 [doi]

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