Dr Chrysoula Litina

Chrysoula completed her undergraduate Civil Engineering degree at Democritus University of Thrace in Greece in November 2010 and has been a registered Professional Engineer since February 2011. She continued her academic education at the same university for the degree of MSc in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering. During both her undergraduate and graduate studies she was a Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) scholar and she obtained both degrees with High Honours. In October 2011 she joined the Geotechnical Research Group at the University of Cambridge as a PhD student with a research focus on sustainable development in construction material. Her research was funded jointly by the EPSRC and the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). In 2015 she was awarded a PhD on the development of microcapsule based self-healing cementitious materials. Based upon the preliminary findings of her doctoral work, a characterization and optimisation study of the performance of microencapsulated mineral agents was undertaken, allowing further steps towards full scale applications and commercialization leading to a EPSRC IAA Follow-on Fund project in Microcapsule- Based Self-Healing Cementitious Repair Materials. Currently, Chrysoula's work as a Research Associate focuses on macro-and microencapsulation for self-healing cementitious materials. Based on this, she is exploring membrane emulsification for the microencapsultion of different healing agents mainly targeting physically triggered damages. Her work is within the Resilient Materials 4 Life (RM4L), a project aiming at creating materials that will adapt to their environment, develop immunity to harmful actions, self-diagnose the on-set of deterioration and self-heal when damaged. Chrysoula is affiliated to Clare College.