Kyriaki Kalaitzidou Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 Office:  MaRC Building Room 438 Phone: 404.385.3446 | Fax: 404.894.9342 email: kyriaki.kalaitzidou@me.gatech.edu   Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2006 M.S., Michigan Technological University, 2002 Diploma in Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1998 Research Interests Manufacturing and Mechanics of Materials: Multifunctional polymer nanocomposites, adaptive polymer particles, residual stress at polymer interfaces and bilayer structures, and polymer-polymer and polymer-inorganic interfacial interactions. Dr. Kalaitzidou began at Georgia Tech in November 2007 as an Assistant Professor with the School of Mechanical Engineering and holds a courtesy appointment with the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty, she was a postdoctoral research associate in the Polymer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There she studied the friction between polymers and focused on the design and fabrication of adaptive polymer scrolls, which can alter their geometry, adsorption characteristics and flow properties upon demand. Her interest in responsive and functional particles developed during her Ph.D. work on multifunctional polymer nanocomposites at Michigan State University. The common theme in her research is the development and characterization of advanced polymer based particles or composites that have superior properties and can be used in a wide range of applications. Click here for additional information.