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Dr. Alexandros Petropoulos

Research Fellow

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Brief Curriculum Vitae
since 04/2026 Postdoctoral Researcher supervised by Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
11/2022 – 12/2025 PhD in Sequence Defined Polymers supervised by Prof. Jacques Lalevée and Dr. Jean-François Lutz at Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France. Thesis Title: Photochemistry as a tool for the acceleration of sequence defined polymers synthesis
12/2021 – 05/2022 Erasmus+ Internship on photoinitiating systems, IS2M, Mulhouse, France. Supervisor: Jacques Lalevée
10/2019 – 09/2022 Master Studies at the University of Ioannina, Greece. Thesis Title: Synthesis of 4-nitrobenzyl thioethers and use as Type I photoinitiators in the photopolymerization of MMA: Photophysical, photochemical and theoretical study
04/2019 – 09/2019 Bachelor Thesis: Synthesis of Thioethers and use as Type I photoinitiators in the photopolymerization of MMA: Photophysical, photochemical and theoretical study
10/2014 – 10/2019 Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at the University of Ioannina, Greece

Research Interests
  • Sequence Defined Polymers
  • Step-Growth Polymerizations
  • Wavelength-Resolved Photochemistry and Action Plots
  • Photocatalysis
  • Density Functional Theory (DFT) Studies and Theoretical Calculations

2019 Erasmus+ Scholarship, sponsored by the European Union to undertake research in Université de Haute Alsace.
[01] Photo-accelerated Digital Polymer Syntheses, Journées du PEPR MoleculArXiv, May 2024, Nice, France. [Poster Presentation]
[02] Photo-accelerated Synthesis of Oligo(triazole amide)s, Journées d’Etudes des Polymères, October 2024, Autrans, France. [Oral Presentation]
[03] Photo-accelerated Synthesis of Oligo(triazole amide)s, Learn-Lunch-Alsace, October 2024, Mulhouse, France. [Oral Presentation]
[04] Photo-accelerated Synthesis of Oligo(triazole amide)s, Groupe Français d’Études et d’Applications des Polymères, November 2024, Paris, France. [Poster Presentation]
[05] Photo-accelerated Synthesis of Oligo(triazole amide)s, Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering, May 2025, Catania, Italy. [Poster Presentation]

2025
[02] Photo-Accelerated Synthesis of Oligo(triazole amide)s

Petropoulos, A.; Charles, L.; Becht, J.M. ; Schmitt, M.; Lalevée, J.; Lutz, J.-F. Macromol. Rapid. Commun. 2025, 46, 2400759

2022
[01] Naphthoquinone-based imidazolyl esters as blue-light-sensitive Type I photoinitiators

Hammoud, F.; Pavlou, A.; Petropoulos, A.; Graff, B.; Siskos, M.-G ; Hijazi, A.; Morlet-Savary, F.; Dumur, F.; Lalevée, J. Polym. Chem. 2022, 13, 4817-4831

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