Nikos Kourkoumelis

"Physics as we know it today is, almost entirely, the science of mechanism, and mechanisms, as I argue, are very special as material systems. Biology involves a class of systems more general than mechanism. In fact the relative positions of physics and biology become interchanged; rather than physics being general and biology special, it becomes more the other way around..." Robert Rosen "Life Itself"

Scientific advances and technological achievements nowadays are almost exclusively being made at the junction of Physics, Chemistry and Medical Science. My research interests lie at the intersection of the above disciplines. Through a variety of spectroscopic methods my intention is to exploit the multidisciplinary field of biological physics and bioinorganic chemistry. Furthermore, via computational modeling I am trying to establish solid theoretical models to illuminate the experimental results concerning molecules with wide biological interest.

I beleive in no scientific boundaries. In his Lectures on Physics Richard Feynman stated: "We make no apologies for making these excursions into other fields, because the separation of fields, as we have emphasized, is merely a human convenience, and an unnatural thing. Nature is not interested in our separations, and many of the interesting phenomena bridge the gaps between fields".

 

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