Athanassios K. Boudalis is a Director of Research of the CNRS.
He obtained his Diploma in Chemistry from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Patras (Greece). His PhD work involved an extended stay at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS in Toulouse (France). Subsequently, he carried out post-doctoral studies at the Institute of Materials Chemistry at the NCSR “Demokritos” in Greece. After working in the private sector, he continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow at Florida International University (USA). He returned to Europe under a Marie Curie fellowship at the Institute of Chemistry in Strasbourg. He then worked at the IPCMS (Strasbourg) and at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (Germany), before joining the CNRS. His research revolves around EPR spectroscopy and its application in the study of magnetic molecules. Among other things, he is interested in different experimental setups involving combinations of magnetic and electric fields in the study of magnetoelectricity in various types of materials. Such an example is half-integer-spin triangles, a family of molecules that can combine magnetoelectricity with spin chirality.