Ioannis Iliopoulos Email & Phone Number

Dr Ioannis Iliopoulos is a Professor at the Department of Geology, University of Patras, Greece and the Director of the Museum of Science and Technology of the University of Patras. He conducted his PhD Thesis in the field of Metamorphic Petrology. He was awarded the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute research award (Colgate University, USA) and was appointed as Researcher at the Dipartimento di Chimica e Fisica della Terra (CFTA), University of Palermo, Italy, under the auspices of the interdisciplinary European Geo-archaeological Research Project “GEOPRO”. He is an external collaborator of the Institut d’Arqueologia de la Universitat de Barcelona (IAUB) Spain and a scientific consultant of the Academy of Institutions and Cultures, Greece. His research focuses on the systematic application of analytical techniques for the study of archaeomaterias and earth raw materials from the wider Mediterranean area (Italy, Spain, Greece) and Latin America (Ecuador, Peru). He has published in peer reviewed international journals and edited volumes (h-index: 13). Since 2019 he has been elected as ther Director of the Science and Technology Museum at the University of Patras and has supervised several thematic exhibitions and educational programs for students of primary, secondary and higher education under a participatory framework including subjects such as: “The solar system”; “Sun's family”; “Discovering the family of Sun”; “Geology in everyday life” and participated in nationwide contest of creative construction “Inspiring, creating, innovating” which have been attracted more than 40,000 visitors annually.

Listed skills include Petrology, Petrography, Ceramic Petrography, Mineralogy, and 26 others.