Anastasia Terzopoulou

Anastasia Terzopoulou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in March 1994. In 2012, she graduated highschool with excellence, receiving a distinction price from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY) for entering the Physics Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). During her Bachelor, she worked as a teaching assistant for courses including Calculus and General Physics, Electricity-Magnetism. Motivated by her participation at Educational Trip 2014, visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she devoted time on the improvement of the student academic environment by establishing the student association PATħ (Physicist Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). In 2015, she was awarded an Erasmus scholarship and joined Prof. Farle’s research team at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, where she was trained at ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. In 2016, she completed her Bachelor thesis at Prof. Angelakeris’s group (AUTH), focusing on magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia, and graduated top in her class with a distinction award.

Having been admitted to the Biomedical Engineering Master Degree Program, ETH Zurich, she received a master’s degree scholarship from Bodossaki Foundation, Athens, Greece, and joined our university in autumn 2016. Following the specialization in Molecular Bioengineering, she focused on the biological methods governing biomaterials design and applications. In 2017, she fulfilled her Master thesis working on an advanced class of porous materials, namely Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) for biomedical applications, showing as proof of concept magnetically driven gene delivery to an in vitro cell culture setup. After obtaining her master degree, she joined the MSRL as PhD student, with her scientific interests concentrated on stimuli responsive materials with future implementation in biomedicine.