• B.S., University of Crete, Greece, 1998
• M.S., University of Crete, Greece, 2001
• Ph.D., University of Crete, Greece, 2003
• Visiting Lecturer, University of Crete, Greece, 2003Ð2005
• Postdoc, CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2005-present

Research Interests:

• Thermal and mechanical denaturation of DNA
• DNA sequencing
• Energy Localization and Transfer in Nonlinear systems

Selected Recent Publications:

1. N. K. Voulgarakis, A. Redondo, A. R. Bishop, and K. ¯. Rasmussen, Sequencing DNA by dynamic force spectroscopy: limitations and prospects, (submitted to Nano Lett.) (2006)
2. N. K. Voulgarakis, A. Redondo, A. R. Bishop, and K. ¯. Rasmussen, Probing the mechanical unzipping of DNA, cond-mat/0512487 (2006)
3. S. Ares, N. K. Voulgarakis, K. O. Rasmussen, R. A. Bishop, Bubble nucleation and Cooperativity in DNA melting, Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 035504 (2005)
4. N. K. Voulgarakis, G. Kalosakas, K. O. Rasmussen, A. R. Bishop, Temperature-dependent signatures of coherent vibrational openings in DNA, Nano Lett.; 4(4) 629 (2004)
5. N. K. Voulgarakis, G. Kalosakas, A. R. Bishop, G. P. Tsironis, Multiquanta breather model for PtCl, Phys. Rev. B, 64, 020301 (2004)