Rate My Professor Dimitrios Sakellariou

Dimitrios Sakellariou is a professor in the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at KU Leuven, affiliated with the Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems (M²S) and leading a research group in the Centre for Membrane Separations, Adsorption, Catalysis, and Spectroscopy for Sustainable Solutions (cMACS). His expertise encompasses magnetic resonance techniques, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and related methodologies. Sakellariou's career includes serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2001 to 2004 under Prof. Alexander Pines. From 2004 to 2017, he was a tenured principal investigator at the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA) in Saclay, France. Since 2017, he has held a tenured professorship at KU Leuven, contributing to advancements in bioscience engineering through innovative NMR instrumentation and applications.

Sakellariou earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry and Physics from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 1997, M.S. in nuclear and particle physics from Université Claude Bernard Lyon-1 in 1998, and Ph.D. in nuclear magnetic resonance from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2001 under Prof. Lyndon Emsley. His research group develops novel NMR methods for high-resolution and sensitivity in high-field NMR, portable NMR and MRI sensors, and relaxometry/diffusion studies in porous solids, targeting sustainable materials and processes. Notable achievements include securing a Starting European Research Council (ERC) Grant in 2008 for the R-EvolutioN-M-R project. Key publications feature 'Observation of 1H-1H J-couplings in fast magic-angle-spinning NMR spectra of powdered samples' (2024, Nature Communications), 'Determination of the Redox Ratio of Iron in a Diamagnetic Silicate Glass Using Paramagnetic Shifts' (2024, Analytical Chemistry), 'In situ measurement of full adsorption isotherms by NMR' (2021, Nature Communications), and 'Carboxymethyl Cellulose Beads: A Low-Field NMR Relaxometry and Diffusometry Investigation' (2021). He supervises projects such as 'Gamma-MRI: the future of molecular imaging,' 'NMR-Relaxoration: Measuring and understanding NMR relaxation during sorption in porous materials,' and 'Bespoke solid-state NMR probe-heads for novel in-situ characterization of optoelectronic metal halide perovskites.' Sakellariou is a member of LIMNI - KU Leuven Institute for Micro- and Nanoscale Integration and SIM² - KU Leuven Institute for Sustainable Metals and Minerals, enhancing interdisciplinary research impact.