Rate My Professor Konstantinos Vogiatzis

Konstantinos Vogiatzis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He specializes in theoretical and computational chemistry. Vogiatzis earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, in 2006. He then obtained his Master of Science in Applied Molecular Spectroscopy from the University of Crete, Greece, in 2008, and his Ph.D. from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, in 2012, under the supervision of Professor Wim Klopper. Following his doctorate, he completed an eight-month postdoctoral appointment at the Institute of Nanotechnology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from October 2012 to October 2013. Subsequently, he conducted postdoctoral research as a Research Associate at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in the group of Professor Laura Gagliardi from January 2014 to July 2016.

In August 2016, Dr. Vogiatzis joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as an Assistant Professor of theoretical and computational chemistry. He was promoted to Associate Professor with early tenure in August 2021. Additionally, he has served as Faculty at the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education since December 2019 and is an affiliate of the Tennessee Quantum Center. His research group develops new computational methods based on electronic structure theory and machine learning to examine reactivity, catalysis, and separation processes. Research interests encompass quantum theory and simulations, including artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, topology, algorithmic development, and correlated systems. Dr. Vogiatzis has received the Ffrancon Williams Endowed Faculty Award in Chemistry (2020), ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2021), U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2022), Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Award in Sciences (2023), and Pariser Poster Faculty Award of the American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry (2024). He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and mentored 15 graduate students.