Vassiliki Kantarelou

Vasiliki Kantarelou, studied physics at the University of Patra, Greece (BSc) and in 2003 she was granted a PhD scholarship from the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP) at NCSR “Demokritos”. Vasiliki Kantarelou received her PhD in 2016 from the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens. During her PhD thesis she has accomplished the optimization and improvement of the Micro-XRF analytical performance towards compositional studies of ancient metal collections including gold, silver and copper artifacts, utilizing newly developed quantification methods based on the so-called, X rays fundamental parameters approach. Through her overall research work, she has acquired broad experience by utilizing and evaluating different variants of XRF spectrometers in the field of Cultural heritage, including benchtop, portable and handheld XRF analyzers, but also MA-XRF mobile spectrometers, for the analysis of a remarkable number of museum collections in Syria, Malta, Jordan, Ancient Messene, Olympia, National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Benaki museum and at the Chora Museum in Pylos. During the period 2013-2019 Vasilike Kantarelou worked as research associate of the XRF laboratory of INPP supporting the development of XRF analytical procedures for elemental analysis of Air Particulate Matter, the standardization of quantification procedures for portable XRF spectrometers conducting several in-situ micro-XRF campaigns for analyzing unique collections of archaeological artefacts.

Vasilike Kantarelou has worked as a sessional lecturer in the post-graduate MSc course in Cultural Heritage materials and technologies at the Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management, University of Peloponnese (2015-2018) and in the Inter-departmental Program of Postgraduate Studies, “Protection Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Monuments”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Architecture, Thessaloniki (2010, 2012, 2014). She has 24 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 7 in peer reviewed conference proceedings and contribution in one book chapter. She is currently working as post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences funded by the ELI-Beamlines project.