Lydia Gkoura received her B.Sc. in Physics (2012) and M.Sc. in Electronics & Radioelectrology (2014) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (2019) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), conducting her doctoral research in the solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Group at the Institute of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (INN), NCSR “Demokritos”. Her work involved participation in international projects and the development and application of advanced solid-state Nuclear magnetic Resonance (ssNMR) methodologies to multiphase processes in 1D/2D porous systems, including relaxation and diffusion studies of nanofluidity in porous systems with empasis in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and silica-based materials.

Lydia is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA, having previously served as Senior Engineer – Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at the Technology Innovation Institute, a government research center in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and as a Postdoctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Her research focuses on NMR crystallography and a broad range of multinuclear ssNMR and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) enhanced ssNMR techniques combined with computational calculations with the aim to characterize polymorphism in complex crystalline materials, with applications to pharmaceuticals and porous materials (e.g., COFs), as well as diffusion/flow phenomena in meso/nanoporous systems.

She is currently leading and carrying out an EU Recovery and Resilience Facility funded research program on sustainable cement materials “Investigation of the Hydration Kinetics of Portland-Limestone Cement Pastes with Organic Admixtures using Advanced ssNMR Techniques” , hosted at INN, NCSR “Demokritos”, in collaboration with NTUA’s School of Chemical Engineering.