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RESEARCH CAREER OVERVIEW
Prof. Ioannis Michaloudis is a researcher internationally acknowledged as one of the leaders in Art&NanoScience and the first ever creator and investigator on the application of the NASA’s nanomaterial silica aerogel in Fine Arts and Design. Prof. Michaloudis has 28 years of Research experience, since his doctorate research at Sorbonne University. . After receiving the Fulbright “Award for Greek Artists”, he had been invited as a Research Fellow by MIT to undertake Postdoctoral research on Art & Nanotechnology. Since June 2018, Research Associate, NCSR Demokritos, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Athens Greece (Honorary Position). Between 2018-2020 he collaborated with Maison Boucheron for the creation of the high jewellery “Skydrop” made of silica aerogel.
LINKS
https://inn.demokritos.gr/prosopiko/i.michaloudis/
http://act.mit.edu/cavs/person/ffed1221-4f28-4568-be83-ab21a3e7becf
http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010606https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-018-4721-z
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-7589-8_35
https://www.amazon.com/Disaster-Resilience-Integrated-Douglas-Paton/dp/0398091692
RESEARCH CAREER HISTORY
| 01/ 2008 – 01/ 2010 | Individual Researcher-Subcontractor @ European Space Agency (E.S.A) & National Hellenic Research Foundation (N.H.R.F), Athens, Greece, EU, contract number: 21157/NL/PA |
| 04/2007 | Artist in Residence @ Penn State University & Lehigh Uni, PA, USA |
| 10/2005 – now | Founder and Director of the Art&Nanotechnology SME “Ioannis Michaloudis Co”, Athens, Greece, EU |
| 03/2004 | Artist in Residence @ Department of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India |
| 09/2001 – 12/2003 | Research Affiliate, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, USA |
| 10/1993-7/1998 | Doctorat, Arts and Sciences of Art, Sorbonne University, Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, Europe, topic: “Androgynous’ Garment: Elastic Relationships between Design and Fine Arts” |
PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS
2023 ) Michaloudis I., (art)science art to the power of nanoscience: the silica aerogel sculptures, Springer/Nature, (monograph, in progress, for 2023)
2022 ) Michaloudis I., «Aer( )sculpture: A Free-Dimensional Space Art», in Aegerter M.A, Leventis N., Koebel M., Steiner, S., Springer Handbook of Aerogels, Springer, in progress for 2022 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030273217
2021 ) Michaloudis I., Tanaka Y., A (C)osmosisart in-between Disciplines (edited book), Cambridge Scholars, in progress for September 2021
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7163-1
2017 ) Paton D., Michaloudis I., et al. “Art and Disaster Resilience: Perspectives from the Visual and Performing Arts, in Paton D. and Johnston D.M. (Eds), Disaster Resilience: An integrated approach, (2nd Ed) chapter 12, pp. 212-235, Springfield Ill., USA, Charles C. Thomas Publ., ISBN:978-0-398-09169-9, (edition I and II), https://www.amazon.com/Disaster-Resilience-Integrated-Douglas-Paton/dp/0398091692
2011 ) Michaloudis I., «Aer( )sculpture: A Free-Dimensional Space Art», in Aegerter M.A, Leventis N., Koebel M., Aerogels Handbook, Springer 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-7477-8, chapter 35, p.p 791-810, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-7589-8_35 (edition II is in progress)
1999 ) Michaloudis, I., 1999. L’habit d’androgyne (Doctoral dissertation, Atelier national de Reproduction des Thèses), France, http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010606
PUBLICATIONS - JOURNAL PAPERS Refereed
2018 ) Michalou(di)s I, Carroll MK, Kupiec S, Cook K, Anderson AM. Facile method for surface etching of silica aerogel monoliths. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol (2018), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-018-4721-z
2017 ) Michaloudis I., Skouloudi M., Bök C., Jingyan Q.,“Spirited Skies project: silica aerogel domes for the habitat of the future”, Advances in Automobile Engineering, 6:3, https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/spirited-skies-project-silica-aerogel-domes-for-the-habitat-of-the-future-2167-7670-1000166.pdf
) Michaloudis I., Van Roden, M., “Spirited Skies project: Silica Aerogel in Art and Design Applications”, MRS Advances, Cambridge Core Edit., 1-7
https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2017.349
) Michaloudis I, Dann B., “Aer( )sculpture: Inventing skies and microclouds into diaphanous sculptures made of the space technology nanomaterial silica aerogel”, Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, Vol. 77, no2, Springer Edit. 17/04/2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10971-017-4370-7
2015 ) Michaloudis I., Green M., “Dialogue with the Brown Cloud: a virtual conversation” International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies (IJACDT Journal), ISSN: 2155-4196, July-December 2014, Vol.4, No 2.
2014 ) Michaloudis I., Seats M., “Etherospermia: Conceptual Art, Science and Allegory in the Sky-Seeding project”, Acta Astronautica Journal, 104 (2014), p.p 61-70, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576514002525
2013 ) Michalou(di)s, Ioannis (2013) “Bottled Sky,” The STEAM Journal: Vol. 1: Issue 1, Article 17. DOI: 10.5642/steam.201301.17, cf. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss1/17
2004 ) Michaloudis I., “Aer( )sculpture: the enigmatic beauty of aerogel’s non-entity in a pilot art & science project”, in Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Volume 350, Elsevier ed., 2004, ISSN 0022-3093, pp. 61-66, http://www.olats.org/space/13avril/2005/te_iMichaloudis.html
2002 ) Michaloudis I., Droege M., «Sculpting…air» http://www.solgel.com/articles/dec02/aeroart.asp
PUBLICATIONS - JOURNAL PAPERS Refereed
2017 ) Michaloudis I., Kisseleva O., Gluth S., Hance I., Mothering Grotesque and the White Cube: Dialectics of Art Space and Space Art, in Proceedings of 68th International Astronautical Congress, paper IAC17.E5.3.2, p.117.
2016 ) Michaloudis I., “Nanosky on the Moon” in Proceedings of ICPAM-11, 11th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials”, paper ID T12-12, 8-14/09, pp.264-265
) Michaloudis I., “Aer()sculpture, an ethereal Art&Science research”, in Proceedings of 3rd International Seminar on Aerogels, ISBN: 978-2-905267-93-1, pp.108-109
) Michaloudis I., Dann B., Tosa N., “Climaxchange: creating moving clouds into diaphanous sculptures made of the space technology nanomaterial silica aerogel, in Proceedings of 67th International Astronautical Congress, paper ID Nr. E5.3×33750, p.16
) Michaloudis I., Hance I., Tarbett-Buckley C., Koskina K., “COSMuseum project: Memories and Souvenirs from planet Earth”, in Proceedings of 67th IAC, paper ID Nr. E1.9X34688, p. 18, Michaloudis I., Skouloudi , Bök C., “Spirited Skies project: silica aerogel domes for the habitat of the future”, in Proceedings of 67th IAC, paper ID Nr. E5.IPX33747, p. 170
) Michaloudis I., Costantoudis V., Tanaka Y., “Invisible nanoatractions: silica aerogel versus rare-earth magnets”, in Proceedings of 67th IAC, paper ID Nr. E5.IPX33762, p. 170
) Michaloudis I., Shaw P., Mack I., “Uranocatharsis project, space debris as cloud-sculptures shading our planet”, 5th Earth Science and Climate Change, Bangkok, Thailand, 25-27/7/
2014 ) Michaloudis I., Alexiou P., “Skypoietic: Art and Science in the Climatic Sculptureality project”, in 65th IAC, paper: E5,4.2×26774, ISSN 1995-6258, DOI 10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.07.009
2013 ) Michaloudis I., Green M., “Dialogue with the Brown Cloud: a virtual conversation” in Proceedings Cyberwords 2013, Yokohama Japan, ISBN 978-1-4799-2245-1,
) Michaloudis I., Alexandrov L., “Etherospermia: The sky-seeding project”, in 64th International Astronautical Congress, paper IAC-13,E5.4,7×16936, ISSN 1995-6258, rapporteur of E5.4
2012 ) Michaloudis I., Green M., «Aerogelic Light: Art&Science Research on the ethereal nanomateral silica aerogel, for sustainable urban design», in Seminar on Aerogels, Univ. of Lorraine/ENSIC, Nancy France, 6-7/Dec. ISBN 978-2905267-86-3, pp.63-77
) Michaloudis I., Green M., «Sky Cloning Project: Working with the Ethereal Beauty of the Space Nanomaterial Silica Aerogel», in Thesis Collection of the 3rd Art and Science International Symposium, China, ISBN 978-7-112-14828-8, pp. 73-84
2007 ) Michaloudis I., «Aer( )sculpture, Art made out off threatened sky» in Proceedings: 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, DIMEA 2008, ACM 2008, ISBN: 978-160558-248-1, keynote speaker, p. XVII
2004 ) Michaloudis I., ‘(Nephele)3 Sculpting of clouds’, Sky Art Conference 2002 Proceedings, MIT Press, 2004, ISBN 0-9766549-0-3, pp. 96-99
GUEST LECTURES (selection)
2019 ) 1st Conference on Aerogel Inspired materials, Newcastle University, 15-18 Sept, ( link )
2018 ) 53rd Summer School Demokritos, ( link )
) Aer( )sculpture, an SOS distress signal, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA, 16/02
) Aer( )sculpture, MIT Museum Studio, MIT, MA, USA, 14/02
) Aer( )sculpture, International Space University, Strasbourg, France, 30/1, ( link )
2017 ) Sky Catastrophe, Graduate School of Science (Chemistry) and Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Nov-Dec., Artist In Residence
) Spirited Skies project, Material Research Society’s Spring Meetings, Convention Center Phoenix, Arizona USA, 17-21-/4/2017
) Aer( )sculpture, International Space University, Strasbourg, France, 10/2
2016 ) Scale Matters, discussion with Lanfranco Aceti, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol Cyprus, Pefkios Georgiadis Auditorium, [ link ], 25/11
) Ciel à la Lune, Sorbonne, Centre Saint Charles, Art&Science Doctorate Program, Paris, 19/9
) Aer( )sculpture, International Space University, Strasbourg, France, 4/1
2015 ) Modeling the lightest solid, Research Center Demokritos, Invited speaker, Athens-Greece, 16/7/15, ( link )
) Climatic Sculptureality, University of Sorbonne, Centre Saint Charles, Art&Science Doctorate Program, Invited speaker, Paris, France, 30/3/2015, ( link )
) Aer( )sculpture, International Space University, Strasbourg, France, 31/3
) Cyberwords 2013, session Arts&Design Virtual Worlds, 21-23 Oct, Yokohama, Japan
) The Aesthetics of Sustainability, 3-4 Oct, Curtin University & Fremantle, Western Australia, chair of session in room 213.104
) GlassBoston, MIT, Lecture Hall 10-250, Cambridge, MA, USA, 13/6 ( link )
2008 ) 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA), September 10-12, Athens Information Technology, Athens, Greece, EU
) ArtTalk1, July 23-24, 2008, Syros Island, Greece
) Science & Art: commune path to Beauty and Truth, January15-19, Technopolis Gazi, Athens, Greece, EU
2003 ) Ioannis Michalou(di)s, Aerogel Sculptor, April 23, Stuckeman Family Building, Penn State University, PA, USA
) Ioannis Michalou(di)s, Aerogel Sculptor, April 16, Lehigh University & Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA, USA
) 1st International Workshop on Scientific Challenges of New Functionalities in Glass , April 15-17, Washington DC, USA
2005 ) 8th Leonardo/Olats, Space and the Arts Workshop, Mars 16, Millenaris, Budapest, Hungary, EU, ( link )
) First International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) International Conference, “Impact of Space on Society”, Mars, 17-19, Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary
) Workshop on Space Artists’ Residencies and Collaboration, February 10-12, Carnegie Mellon University @ NASA Ames’ Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
) 1st International Conference Science & Art, Hellenic Union of Physicists, June 16-19, Evgenidio Planetarium, Greece, EU
) 7th ESG Conference on Glass Science &Technology, April 25-28, Athens Greece, EU
) Aer( )sculpture, April 6, Dept. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
2003 ) 7th International Symposium on Aerogels, November 2-5, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
2002 ) Sky Art Conference, October 15-20, Delphi & Ikaria island, Greece, EU.
R&D ATTRACTED FUNDING (total of ±US$ 2,5M)
) Material Research Society, USA (since 2017)
) International Exchange Alumni, USA (since 2011)
) Chamber of Fine Arts, Greece, EU (since 2004)
) MIT Alumni Association, MA, USA (since 2003)
) Fulbright Association, WA, USA (since 2001)
) Alliance Internationale, Paris, France, EU (since 1997)
) Onassis Scholars’ Association, Greece, EU (since 1994)
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS
) Book Chapter: Michaloudis I., «Aer( )sculpture: A Free-Dimensional Space Art», in Aegerter M.A, Leventis N., Koebel M., Aerogels Handbook, Springer 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-7477-8, chapter 35, p.p 791-810, [ link ]
(translated in Chinese and now in progress is the 2nd edition in English)
) Individual Researcher at European Space Agency (ESA) and National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), Athens, Greece, EU, contract number: 21157/NL/PA, 2008-2010
) Fundraising (€66K) from the European Union & Organization SME and Handicraft S.A (EOMMEX), Greece, EU for the Nanomaterials SME “Ioannis Michaloudis”, Greece, EU 2006