Evangelos Miliordos

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Curriculum Vitae
Evangelos Miliordos
Personal information
Date of Birth:
7 December 1981
Place of Birth:
Athens, Greece
Home address:
1900 Stevens Drive, Apt 525
Richland, WA 99354, USA
Tel. +1-517-488-2099
e-mail: [email protected]
Work address:
Physical Sciences Division
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P.O. Box 999, MS K1-83, Richland, WA 99352, USA
Tel. +1-509-375-3893
e-mail: [email protected]
Personal webpage:
http://users.uoa.gr/~emiliord/index.htm
Marital status:
Single
Citizenship:
Greek citizen
Residence status in USA:
Resident alien (H1B status)
Education
April 2006 - March 2010
National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece
Advisor: Prof. Aristides Mavridis
Ph.D. granted May 2010
Major : Physical Chemistry
Minor : Theoretical Chemistry
September 2003 - March 2006
National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece
Advisor: Prof. Aristides Mavridis
M.Sc. granted March 2006
Major : Physical Chemistry
Minor : Theoretical Chemistry
September 1999 - September 2003
National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece
Diploma in Chemistry granted December 2003
Major: Chemistry
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Professional Employment
September 2012 – today
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular Science Research Center
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, Washington USA
Research advisor: S. S. Xantheas
May 2010 – June 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chemistry Department
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan USA
Research advisor: K. L. C. Hunt
May 2008 – May 2009
Military Service
Greek army
September 2006 – June 2007
Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry
National and Kapodistrian University
Athens, Greece
Fellowships
Graduate fellowship, three year fellowship from Hellenic National Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) for
postgraduate studies (academic years 2006-2008, 2009-2010).
Marie Curie fellowship, Professor Petr Čársky’s laboratory, Heyrovský Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
(July – October 2004).
Awards and Distinctions – Professional Recognition
Undergraduate awards, three times awarded by the Hellenic National Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) for
my undergraduate studies performance (1999, 2001, 2002).
Outstanding performance award, Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory (December 2013).
Other Knowledge and skills
English, acquisition of the Basic Communication Certificate in English (BCCE) of the University of
Michigan.
German, Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache (ZDaF-Grundstufe) of the Goethe Institute.
Ability of handling computer systems with both windows and linux operating systems.
Programming skills, especially using FORTRAN and Pascal (Delphi development studio). The latter
enables the construction of visual windows-based applications.
Digital electronics, electronic circuits design and construction.
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Membership in Professional Societies
American Chemical Society (ACS), 2013 – present
Association of Greek Chemists, 2003 – 2008
Citation Index
Web of Knowledge:
Google Scholar:
Total of 107 citations (as of March 23th, 2014)
Total of 133 citations (as of March 23st, 2014)
Hirsch index: 6
Hirsch index: 6
Invited Talks at Scientific Institutions
2012 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; Physical Chemistry Seminar (April 24).
2012 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA (May 7).
2012 National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece (July 3).
2013 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; Physical Chemistry Seminar (May 6).
2014 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA (April 16).
Invited Talks in Scientific Conferences/Meetings
2013 Telluride Science Research Center, “Intermolecular Interactions: New challenges for ab initio
Theory”, Telluride, Colorado, USA (July 15 – 19).
2014 Collaborative Workshop in Chemistry at the Interfaces, University of California at Irvine, Laguna
Beach, California, USA (January 22 – 23).
Participation and Contributed Talks in Scientific Conferences/Meetings
2003 Participant, 8th European Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Spetses,
Greece (August 30 – September 4).
2004 Poster presentation, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, The No Nonsense Path to Progress, St.
John’s College, Cambridge University, England, UK (July 24 – 29).
2004 Poster presentation, 3rd Central European Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Tihany, Balaton,
Hungary (September 30 – October 3).
2005 Contributed Talk, 10th European Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics,
Carthage, Tunisia (September 1 – 7).
2006 Poster presentation, 7th International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and
Engineering, Chania, Crete, Greece (October 30 – November 1).
2009 Oral presentation, 1st Conference of the Graduate Students of the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, Athens, Greece (March 27 – 28).
2009 Participant, 18th Symposium of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society, Athens, Greece (May 29 –
30).
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2011 Poster presentation, DFT 2011, Athens, Greece (August 29 – September 2).
2012 Oral presentation, 2012 Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
(June 7 – 9).
2013 Oral presentation, 246th American Chemical Society meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
(September 8 – 12).
2014 Contributed Talk, Collaborative Workshop in Chemistry at the Interfaces, University of California
Irvine, Laguna Beach, California, USA (January 22 – 23).
2014 Contributed Talk, 247th American Chemical Society meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA (March 16 – 20).
2014 Poster presentation, 2014 Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference, Evanston, Illinois, USA
(June 15 – 17).
2014 Poster presentation, Telluride Science Research Center, American Conference on Theoretical
Chemistry, Telluride, Colorado, USA (July 20 – 24).
2014 Oral presentation, PNNL Post-doc Symposium, Richland, Washington, USA (July 30).
2014 Contributed Talk, 248th American Chemical Society meeting, San Francisco, California, USA
(August 10 – 14).
Publications in Peer-reviewed Scientific Journals
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A. Papakondylis, E. Miliordos, and A. Mavridis, “Carbonyl boron and related systems: An ab initio
study of B-X and YBBY (1Σg+), where X = He, Ne, Ar, Kr, CO, CS, N2 and Y = Ar, Kr, CO, CS, N2”,
Journal Physical Chemistry A. 108, 4335 (2004), DOI: 10.1021/jp031308q.
__________________________________________ 2007 ____________________________________
2.
E. Miliordos, and A. Mavridis, “The electronic structure of vanadium oxide. Neutral and charged
species, VO0,±”, Journal Physical Chemistry A. 111, 1953 (2007), DOI: 10.1021/jp067451b.
3.
E. Miliordos, A. Papakondylis, A. A. Tsekouras, and A. Mavridis, “All-electron first principles
calculations of the ground and some low-lying excited states of BaI”, Journal Physical Chemistry A.
111, 10002 (2007), DOI: 10.1021/jp0745788.
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4.
E. Miliordos, and A. Mavridis, “Ab initio investigation of the electronic structure and bonding of BH,
BH⎯, and HBBH molecules”, Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 144308 (2008), DOI:
10.1063/1.2902284.
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5.
E. Miliordos, and A. Mavridis, “Theoretical study of the early 3d-transition metal diatomic oxides
and their ions: ScO0,±, TiO0,±, CrO0,±, MnO0,± ”, Klaus Ruedenberg Special Issue (invited), Journal
Physical Chemistry A 114, 8536 (2010), DOI: 10.1021/jp910218u.
6.
E. Miliordos, and A. Mavridis, “An accurate first principles study of the geometric and electronic
structure of B2, B2¯, B3, B3¯, and B3H. Ground and excited states”, Journal of Chemical Physics
132, 164307 (2010), DOI: 10.1063/1.3389133.
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E. Miliordos, “Hückel versus Möbius aromaticity: The particle in a cylinder versus a Möbius strip”,
Physical Review A 82, 062118 (2010), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.062118.
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8.
E. Miliordos, and K. L. C. Hunt, “First principles calculations of the electronic and geometrical
structures of neutral [Sc,O,H] molecules and the monocations, ScOH0,+ and HScO0,+”, J. Phys.
Chem. A 115, 4436 (2011), DOI: 10.1021/jp110378d.
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E. Miliordos, “The particle in a Möbius wire and half-integer orbital angular momentum”, Physical
Review A 83, 062107 (2011), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.062107.
10.
C. N. Sakellaris, E. Miliordos, and A. Mavridis, “First principles study of the ground and excited
states of FeO, FeO+, and FeO⎯ ”, Journal of Chemical Physics 134, 234308 (2011), DOI:
10.1063/1.3598529.
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E. Miliordos, J. F. Harrison, and K. L. C. Hunt, “Ab initio investigation of titanium hydroxide isomers
and their cations, TiOH0,+ and HTiO0,+ ”, Journal of Chemical Physics 135, 144111 (2011), DOI:
10.1063/1.3644963.
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12.
X. Li, A. Mandal, E. Miliordos, and K. L. C. Hunt, “Interaction-induced dipoles of hydrogen
molecules colliding with helium atoms: A new ab initio dipole surface for high-temperature
applications”, Journal of Chemical Physics 136, 044320 (2012), DOI: 10.1063/1.3676406.
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13.
E. Miliordos, J. F. Harrison, and K. L. C. Hunt, “Ground and excited states of vanadium hydroxide
isomers and their cations, VOH0,+ and HVO0,+ ”, Journal of Chemical Physics 138, 114305 (2013),
DOI: 10.1063/1.4793744.
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E. Miliordos and J. F. Harrison, “Hirshfeld density partitioning technique: a first application on
transition metal compounds, TiO, VO, ScOH”, Journal of Chemical Physics 138, 184305 (2013),
DOI: 10.1063/1.4803478.
15.
E. Miliordos, K. Ruedenberg and S. S. Xantheas, “Unusual inorganic biradicals: A Theoretical
Analysis”, Communication to the Editor, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 52, 5736 (2013),
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201300654.
16.
E. Miliordos and S. S. Xantheas, “Efficient procedure for the numerical calculation of harmonic
vibrational frequencies based on internal coordinates” Joel M. Bowman Special Issue (invited),
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 117, 7019 (2013), DOI: 10.1021/jp3127576.
17.
E. Miliordos, E. Aprà and S. S. Xantheas, “Optimal geometries and harmonic vibrational
frequencies of the global minima of water clusters (H2O)n, n=2-6, and several hexamer local minima
at the CCSD(T) level of theory” Journal of Chemical Physics 139, 114302 (2013), DOI:
10.1063/1.4820448.
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18.
E. Miliordos and S. S. Xantheas, “Elucidating the mechanism behind the stabilization of multicharged metal cations in water: A case study of the electronic states of microhydrated Mg2+, Ca2+
and Al3+”, Hot article for the week Oct 22, 2013 (http://blogs.rsc.org/cp/2013/10/22/this-weeks-hotarticles-11/), Highlighted in NERSC’s web page, June 2014, http://www.nersc.gov/news-
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publications/news/science-news/2014/thirsty-metals-key-to-longer-battery-lifetimes/. Highlighted in
DOE’s Pulse (Science and Technology Highlights from the DOE National Laboratories, #417, 7
July 2014 http://web.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/no417/story1.shtml. Reported in Science Springs,
July 7 2014 http://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/from-doe-pulse-satisfying-metalsthirst-vital-for-high-capacity-batteries/, Communication to the Editor, Physical Chemistry Chemical
Physics 16, 6886 (2014), DOI: 10.1039/c3cp53636j. Journal cover.
19.
E. Miliordos and S. S. Xantheas, “Unimolecular and hydrolysis channels for the detachment of
water from microsolvated alkaline earth dication (Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+) clusters”, Thom H.
Dunning Jr. Special Issue (invited), Theoretical Chemistry Accounts 133, 1450 (2014), DOI:
10.1007/s00214-014-1450-4.
20.
E. Miliordos and S. S. Xantheas, “On the bonding nature of ozone (O3) and its sulfur-substituted
analogues, SO2, OS2, and S3: Correlation between their biradical character and molecular
properties” Journal of the American Chemical Society 136, 2808 (2014), DOI: 10.1021/ja410726u.
E. Miliordos, E. Aprà and S. S. Xantheas, “Benchmark Theoretical Study of the π−π Binding
Energy in the Benzene Dimer” Journal of Physical Chemistry A XX, XXXX (2014), DOI:
10.1021/jp5024235.
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Other Publications
1.
E. Miliordos, "Ab initio calculations on the ethane molecule and its cation", Diploma Thesis,
Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece (2003).
2.
E. Miliordos, "Theoretical investigation of the vanadium oxides, VO0,±", Master Thesis, Department
of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece (2006).
3.
E. Miliordos, "Electronic structure of the MO0,± oxides, M = Sc, Ti, Cr, Mn, through ab initio
calculations", Ph. D. Thesis, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens, Athens, Greece (2010).
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