Professor Nikolaos (Nicholas) Dimakis graduated with a BS degree from the National University of Athens in Mathematics in 1990. He obtained his MS in Applied Optics with Distinctions from the University of Salford, UK on 1992 and his PhD. in Physics on 1997 from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago. His Ph.D. thesis with Prof. Grant Bunker was on calculating the thermal multiple-scattering XAFS Debye-Waller factors. He was employed as Senior Research Associate at Argonne National Laboratory and Associate Director of Science of the Academic Research Center at IIT. In 1999 he became Assistant Research Professor at IIT. He joined the University of Texas Pan American during the fall of 2004 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Geology.

Professional Interests

Biophysics, X-ray absorption spectroscopy of metalloproteins and hemoproteins, data analysis and molecular modeling, computational physics, Density Functional Theory, CO chemisorption (Computational Methanol Fuel Cells), Enzymes, Nonlinear Equations (Bose-Einstein Condensation).

Representative Publications