Summary
- Short Bio
Theoni obtained a B.Sc. in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cyprus in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Following her PhD studies she joined Professor Antonios (Tony) Mikos’ group at Rice University in USA. In October 2007 she moved to UK when she was awarded a five year RCUK Fellowship in Colloidal Nanotechnology at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hull that lead to a Lectureship in November 2012. In January 2014 she joined Imperial College as a Lecturer where she is now a Professor since 2022.
In 2017 she was awarded the 2016 Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal for “contributions to polymer science which show outstanding promise for the future. She also served as the Macrogroup UK chair from 2019 to 2022. At the moment she is an Associate Editor of the European Polymer Journal.
Her research interests involve synthesis and characterisation of polymers and their evaluation in a variety of applications like drug delivery, gene delivery, tissue engineering etc. She is also interested in the self-assembly of block based copolymers, gels and in stabilising dispersions or particles by using polymeric macrosurfactants. Finally, she has a special interest on thermoresponsive polymers and in particular thermogels.
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Constantinou AP, Wang L, Wang S, et al., 2022, Thermoresponsive block copolymers of increasing architecture complexity: a review on structure-property relationships, Polymer Chemistry, Vol:14, ISSN:1759-9954, Pages:223-247
Constantinou AP, Nele V, Doutch JJ, et al., 2022, Investigation of the thermogelation of a promising biocompatible ABC triblock terpolymer and its comparison with pluronic F127, Macromolecules, Vol:55, ISSN:0024-9297, Pages:1783-1799
Constantinou AP, Zhang K, Somuncuoğlu B, et al., 2021, PEG-based methacrylate tetrablock terpolymers: how does the architecture control the gelation?, Macromolecules, Vol:54, ISSN:0024-9297, Pages:6511-6524
Constantinou A, Patias G, Somuncuoğlu B, et al., 2021, Homo- and co-polymerisation of di(propylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate – a new monomer, Polymer Chemistry, Vol:12, ISSN:1759-9954, Pages:3522-3532
Constantinou AP, Zhan B, Georgiou TK, 2021, Tuning the gelation of thermoresponsive gels based on triblock terpolymers, Macromolecules, Vol:54, ISSN:0024-9297, Pages:1943-1960
Constantinou A, Sam-Soon N, Carroll D, et al., 2018, Thermoresponsive tetrablock terpolymers: effect of architecture and composition on Gelling behavior, Macromolecules, Vol:51, ISSN:0024-9297, Pages:7019-7031
Carroll D, Constantinou A, Stingelin N, et al., 2018, Scalable syntheses of well-defined pentadecablock bipolymer and quintopolymer, Polymer Chemistry, Vol:9, ISSN:1759-9954, Pages:3450-3454
Constantinou A, Zhao H, McGilvery C, et al., 2017, A comprehensive systematic study on thermoresponsive gels: beyond the common architectures of linear terpolymers, Polymers, Vol:9, ISSN:2073-4360
Ghasdian N, Buzza DMA, Fletcher PDI, et al., 2015, ABC Triblock Copolymer Micelles: Spherical Versus Worm-Like Micelles Depending on the Preparation Method, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol:36, ISSN:1022-1336, Pages:528-532
Lu B, Tarn MD, Pamme N, et al., 2015, Tailoring pH-responsive acrylic acid microgels with hydrophobic crosslinks for drug release, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Vol:3, ISSN:2050-750X, Pages:4524-4529
Georgiou TK, 2014, Star polymers for gene delivery, Polymer International, Vol:63, ISSN:0959-8103, Pages:1130-1133
Ghasdian N, Ward MA, Georgiou TK, 2014, Well-defined "clickable'' copolymers prepared via one-pot synthesis, Chemical Communications, Vol:50, ISSN:1359-7345, Pages:7114-7116
Ward MA, Georgiou TK, 2013, Multicompartment thermoresponsive gels: does the length of the hydrophobic side group matter?, Polymer Chemistry, Vol:4, ISSN:1759-9954, Pages:1893-1902