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Contact Information
| Name | Michail Mitsakis |
| mitsakismichail@gmail.com | |
| Website | https://michailmitsakis.github.io |
Experience
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2024 - present Greece
Energy Consultant
WMG Sustainable Innovation
- Client-facing delivery on deep-tech and EU-funded programmes in hydrogen technologies, manufacturing data spaces, and shipyard digitalisation.
- Proposal development, technical scoping, and meeting preparation with industrial and research partners.
Education
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2021 - 2023 MSc
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Engineering – Physics & Nanotechnology
- Thesis: optimisation of electrodeposition parameters for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts.
- Specialisation: electrochemistry and green hydrogen.
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2015 - 2020 BSc
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
Physics
Projects
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2026 catalyst-kg-agent
Knowledge-graph-grounded, cost-aware multi-agent system for materials-discovery campaigns.
- Decides between a knowledge-graph lookup, an MLIP surrogate query (MACE), and an expensive simulated experiment under an explicit budget, as in a self-driving-lab workflow.
- Materials Project knowledge graph of 189 HER/OER-relevant materials; zero-shot MACE reaches 0.114 eV/atom MAE on non-oxides.
- CGCNN baseline evaluated with composition-disjoint cross-validation to control polymorph leakage.
- Stack: PyTorch Geometric, MACE, BoTorch/Ax, pydantic-ai, Ollama, NetworkX, MLflow.
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2026 notion-second-brain
Fully local retrieval-augmented agent over a personal Notion workspace.
- Hybrid dense + BM25 retrieval with reciprocal-rank fusion and cross-encoder reranking.
- Persistent memory, OCR ingestion of PDFs and images, and an anchored-rubric evaluation harness.
- Stack: pydantic-ai, Ollama, Qdrant, Streamlit, Docker.
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2025 CaMEL-RAG — LLM Hackathon for Materials Science & Chemistry
Retrieval-augmented LLM for natural-language queries over Open Catalyst adsorption-energy data (team Code4Catalysis-KFUPM).
- FAISS vector store over sentence-transformer embeddings; answers cite the retrieved records they are grounded in.
- Returned stored DFT adsorption energies exactly on 500 in-index test queries (R² = 1.00), validating retrieval and grounding.
- Stack: Python, FAISS, sentence-transformers, OpenAI API.
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2024 BayBE one more time — Bayesian Optimization Hackathon for Chemistry and Materials
Bayesian optimisation with BayBE to screen small-molecule corrosion inhibitors for aluminium alloys (team Surface Science Syndicate).
- Compared one-hot, Mordred, RDKit and Morgan-fingerprint encodings against random search in simulated 50-experiment campaigns (10 Monte Carlo repeats).
- Transfer learning from AA1000 data reached ~96% inhibition efficiency on AA2024 by the 12th experiment, versus ~89% after 25 without it.
- Stack: BayBE, RDKit, Mordred, pandas.
Publications
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2026 From Knowledge to Action: Outcomes of the 2025 Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry
arXiv
Community paper; contributed CaMEL-RAG (team Code4Catalysis-KFUPM).
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2025 Bayesian Optimization Hackathon for Chemistry and Materials
ChemRxiv
Community paper; contributed BayBE corrosion-inhibitor study (team Surface Science Syndicate).
Skills
Electrochemistry: Electrocatalysis, hydrogen evolution reaction, electrodeposition, cyclic voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy, ECSA analysis
Machine learning for materials: Bayesian and multi-objective optimisation (BayBE, BoTorch/Ax, Dragonfly), graph neural networks, machine-learned interatomic potentials (MACE), molecular featurisation (RDKit, Mordred), Materials Project, Open Catalyst
LLMs and agents: RAG (FAISS, Qdrant, hybrid retrieval, reranking), multi-agent systems (pydantic-ai), local inference (Ollama), evaluation harnesses
Software: Python, PyTorch Geometric, pandas, MLflow, Docker, GitHub Actions, Streamlit
Project delivery: EU-funded project proposals, technical scoping, consortium work