Dr.
Haralampos Miras
Senior Lecturer
Senior Group Member
Haralampos N. Miras was born in Athens, Greece. He gained his BSc degree in chemistry from Ioannina University and obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. T. A. Kabanos at Ioannina University in 2004. In 2005 he moved to the University of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, USA to take up a post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. R. G. Raptis in pyrazolate based coordination materials. In 2006 he was offered a research associate position by Prof. Cronin at the University of Glasgow in the area of discovery, synthesis and mechanistic studies using ESI/CSI-MS of large polyoxometalate and coordination clusters. In 2010 was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) research fellow co-funded by Marie Curie actions. He is currently leader of the complex chemical systems sub-group, within the Cronin group. His research interests are focusing in polyoxometalate, chalcogenide and coordination chemistry.
Research interests: My research interests are primarily focused on the investigation and development of metal oxide/chalcogenide based surfaces for energy applications (H2 production, water oxidation, catalytic processes etc.). The current research is dedicated to the discovery of simple preparation routes to mesoporous polyoxometalate-based composite materials for oxidative catalysis and understanding of fundamental processes in the self-assembly of supramolecular coordination compounds with modular magnetic properties as well as the investigation of their electronic structure, electrochemical behaviour and electrocatalytic activity. A synergistic research strand which is being developed in parallel in collaboration with Prof. Leroy Cronin, involves the fundamental understanding, control and design of self-assembled complex chemical systems. I am interested in exploiting novel methodologies (continuous flow processing and microfluidics) for the discovery and design of functional molecular devices. Other recent research projects have investigated the discovery of intermediate reaction structures in an effort to understand the underlying chemistry in the self-assembly of polyoxometalate systems and extraction of crucial mechanistic information utilizing high resolution ESI-MS techniques.