Dr Malvina Constantinou
Research Associate
Biography
Malvina is originally from Larnaca, Cyprus. After graduating from the American Academy Larnaca, where she completed her GCSEs and A-levels, she moved to the UK for her undergraduate studies. She read Natural Sciences at Murray Edwards College in Cambridge. She joined the group as a part III student, completing a research project on time-temperature superposition in polymers at ultrasonic strain rates. She went on to do a PhD with the group, during which she experimentally developed and validated a Group Interaction Modelling (GIM) approach to a single-source thermoplastic polymer, over a range of timescales spanning 13 orders of magnitude. Having stayed in the PCS group as a postdoctoral researcher, she continues exploring GIM for predicting properties of more complex polymer systems.
Research Interests
- Polymers
- Experimental techniques for bulk property measurements
- Structure-property relations
- Group Interaction Modelling
Key Publications
An experimental approach to the development and validation of group interaction modelling
PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge (2024)
Constantinou, M.
Split Hopkinson pressure bar measurements of polymer energy dissipation and identification of the glass transition
AIP Conf. Proc. 2844 (2023) doi: 10.1063/12.0020359
Constantinou, M. & Williamson, D.
Group Interaction Modelling as a tool for predicting polymer properties.
Constantinou M, Cranfield Online Research Data (CORD). (2022)
