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Varvara Sygouni holds a Diploma and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (University of Patras) and is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory of Transport Phenomena & Chemical Hydrodynamics (Chemical Eng. Dept. University of Patras) & FORTH/ICE-HT. She is P.I. of "WetμFluid- Effect of Pore Surface Wettability on Mineral Scaling, a μFluidic approach" (Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation). She is collaborating educational staff at Hellenic Open University (Waste management) and at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras.

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• A. Tzachristas, Panagiota D. Natsi, D. G. Kanellopoulou, J. Parthenios, P. G. Koutsoukos, C. Α. Paraskeva, V. Sygouni* Mineral scaling in the presence of oil/water interfaces combined with substrate’s wettability effect: from batch to microfluidic experiments Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 60, 8244−8254 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.1c00804
• Jaho, S., Sygouni, V., Rokidi, S., Parthenios, J., Koutsoukos, P.G., Paraskeva, C.A. “Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate in Porous Media in the Presence of n-Dodecane”, Crystal Growth and Design, 16(12), pp. 6874-6884 (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01048
• Pavlakou E. I., Sygouni V., Lioliou M.G., Koutsoukos P.G. and C.A. Paraskeva, “Precipitation of sparingly soluble salts in packed sandbeds in the presence of miscible and immiscible organic substances”, Crystal Research and Technology, 51 (2), pp. 167-177, (2016) Image of the paper was selected for Journal cover http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/crat.201500267
• Sygouni, V., C.D. Tsakiroglou, and A.C. Payatakes, “Using wavelets to characterize the wettability of porous materials”, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 76 (5), 056304 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.76.056304
• Sygouni, V., C.D. Tsakiroglou, and A.C. Payatakes, “Capillary pressure spectrometry: toward a new method for the measurement of the fractional wettability of porous media”, Phys. Fluids, 18, 053302 (2006) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2203667.
• Tsakiroglou, C.D., M. Theodoropoulou, V. Karoutsos, D. Papanicolaou, V. Sygouni “Experimental study of the immiscible displecement of shear-thinning fluids in pore networks”, J. Colloid Interface Science, 267, 217-232 (2003) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9797(03)00635-0