Athina Markaki is a University Reader in Materials & Biomedical Engineering at the Engineering Department, University of Cambridge. She leads the Materials Engineering and Material-Tissue Interaction Group. Athina received her diploma in Materials Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and her PhD from Cambridge University. Following post-doctoral positions at Cambridge and MIT, she was appointed to a Lectureship at the Engineering Department. She is the recipient of the 2017 Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Award, Acta Materialia 2016 (outstanding reviewer), an European Research Council Starting Grant (2010), an Advanced EPSRC Fellowship (2005), the 2004 De Montford Award at "SET for Britain”, the Young Scientist Prize 2003 at the 5th Euromech Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC-5), and awards from the State Scholarships Foundation, the Evgenidio Foundation and the Technical Chamber of Greece.
