Skills

​Experimental

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1. Animal procedures licensed by Cyprus veterinary services (CY/EXP/P.L10/2014).

   • Animal handling and anesthetization

   • Drug preparation and administration (intraperitoneal, intravascular, retro orbital)

   • Measurements of tumor fluid pressure

   • Measurements of solid stress

   • Intracardiac administration of fluorescence molecules for imaging

2. Imaging modalities

   • Sonopermeation​

   • B-mode imaging

   • Shear wave elastography

   • Dynamic contrast enhanced ultrasound

   • Bioluminescence and fluorescence imaging

   • Confocal microscopy

3. Ex-vivo procedures

   • Flow cytometry analysis

   • Immunofluorescence staining​

   • Real time PCR

4. Expert user of a high precision mechanical testing (Instron 5944, Norwood, MA, USA).

   • Design experimental set-up and test protocol (Tension, Compression and Stress Relaxation)

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Computational

1. COMSOL Multiphysics (COMSOL, Inc., Burlington, MA)

   • Design and simulation tumor growth (description in publications)

   • Design and simulation experiment for mechanical characteristics of materials (Tension, confined, unconfined and Stress Relaxation compression, Fluid Dynamics)

2. Computer programming​​

   • MATLAB

     • Numerical Methods​

     • Statistical analysis experimental data

   • Fortran

     •  Numerical Methods

     •  Finite element methods

     •  Finite volume methods

     •  Computational Fluid Mechanics

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Degrees in Languages:

• English (IGCSE);

• Italian (Medium Level);       

• French (Medium Level).