Xanthippi Zianni received her First Degree in Physics from the Physics Department of the University of Athens (Greece) and her PhD in Theoretical Solid State Physics from the Physics Department of the University of Warwick (UK). She is currently Professor of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and before at the Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Sterea Ellada and TEI of Chalkida. Her previous teaching activity includes: Physics undergraduate courses (University of Warwick, TEI of Chalkida, TEI of Athens, Hellenic Airforce Academy ‘IKARON’), Technical Thermodynamics at the Hellenic Airforce Technical Academy ‘STYA’, Device Physics (MSc course, University of Athens and IMEL/ NCSR ‘Demokritos’), Transport Properties of Solids (2nd cycle SGM, INSA de Lyon), Lectures on Thermoelectric effects and Transport properties at international summer schools. Since 2020, she is a member of the academic staff of the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (AEST) of NKUA where she has developed the educational laboratories of Physics I (Mechanics) and Physics II (Heat Transfer- Thermodynamics). Her teaching at AEST includes the undergraduate courses: Mechanics; Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics; Electromagnetism, Waves and Optics.
Her research is in theoretical condensed matter physics and computational modelling. She has worked on electron and phonon properties in low-dimensional, amorphous, composite, and nano- materials and devices focusing on electric, magnetic, optical, thermal, and thermoelectric properties at the nanoscale. She has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Athens and at NCSR ‘Demokritos’ at the Institutes of Materials Science (IMS) and Microelectronics (IMEL). In her academic research, she has collaborated with the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INN), NCSR ‘Demokritos’, the Dept. of Materials Science of the University of Milano Biccoca (Italy), MATEIS and CETHIL of the INSA de Lyon (France), LEMTA of the University of Lorraine (France), the Physics Department (Nanometer Structure Consortium) of the University of Lund (Sweden). She is member of the International and European Thermoelectric Societies and of the European Network on Thermal Nanosciences and Nanoengineering. She is academician of the International Thermoelectric Academy (ITA). She has participated to organizing and scientific committees of national and international scientific conferences.