Curriculum Vitae/Publications

EDUCATION

  • The University of Texas at Austin, August 2022

    • Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences

Dissertation: Petrochronological and Structural Reconstruction of the Life Cycle of Mediterranean-style Subduction zones(Dr. Daniel Stockli)

  • The University of Texas at Austin, August 2018

  • Master’s in Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences

Thesis: Zircon U-Pb Chronostratigraphy and Provenance of the Cycladic Basement and CBU on Sikinos and Ios Islands, Greece (Dr. Daniel Stockli) GPA:3.78/4.0

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, May 2015

    • Bachelor in Geology and Geoenviroment

Bachelor Thesis: Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Makrotantalon unit at the NW Andros northern Cyclades, Greece (Dr. Konstantinos Soukis) Cumulative GPA: 8.6/10-Top of Geology class

Professional Appointments

Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University August 2024-present

Assistant Professor, University of Miami | RSMAES 2024

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California San Diego | SIO 2023

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington | Earth and Space Sciences 2022- 2023

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin 2016- 2022

PUBLICATIONS (* equal contributions)

[10] Sanfilippo A., Pandey A., Akizawa N., Poulaki E. and Expedition 402 Participants (2025) Heterogeneous Earth’s mantle drilled at an embryonic continent-ocean transition. Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57121-0

[9] Easthouse, G., Hoover, W., Teng, F. Z., Condit, C., Pike, C., Wang, Z. Z., ... & Poulaki, E. (2025). Formation of talc in the subduction interface: Mg isotopes demonstrate Mg loss over Si gain. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G52538.1

[8] Poulaki E., Stockli D., Shuck B., (2023) Pre-subduction architecture controls coherent underplating during subduction and exhumation (Nevado-Filábride Complex, Southern Spain), Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010802

[7] Flansburg M. E*., Poulaki E. M.*, Stockli D. F., Soukis K. (2022) Coeval Miocene exhumation of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit and the Cycladic Basement in the lower-plate of the Ios-Sikinos metamorphic core complex, southern Cyclades, Greece Terra Nova, https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12636

[6] Anfinson O., Odlum M., Piepjohn K., Poulaki E., Shephard G., Stockli D., Levang D., Jensen M. (2022) Provenance Analysis of the Devonian Andrée Land Basin, Svalbard, Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC007103

[5] Poulaki E. and Stockli D., (2022) Paleotectonic evolution of the Western Mediterranean: Provenance insights from the Internal Betics, Southern Spain, Frontiers in Earth Sciences https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.929502

[4] Laskari S., Soukis K., Lozios S., Stockli D., Poulaki E., Christina Stouraiti (2022) Provenance analysis and structural study of the Iraklia island from Paleozoic basement unroofing to Cenozoic exhumation. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12010083

[3] Poulaki E. M., Stockli D. F., Flansburg M. E., Gevedon M. L., Stockli L., Barnes J., Soukis K., Kitijima K., and Valley J.W. (2021) Zircon U-Pb and geochemical signatures in high-pressure metamorphic rocks as recorders of subduction zone processes, Sikinos and Ios islands, Greece, Chemical Geology, 582, 120447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120447

[2] Poulaki, E. M., Stockli, D. F., Flansburg, M. E., & Soukis, K. (2019). Zircon U-Pb Chronostratigraphy and Provenance of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit and the Nature of the Contact with the Cycladic Basement on Sikinos and Ios Islands, Greece https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005403

[1] Flansburg, M. E., Stockli, D. F., Poulaki, E. M., & Soukis, K. (2019). Tectono-Magmatic and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Cycladic Basement, Ios Island, Greece. Tectonics.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005436

Under review

-Poulaki E., Cailey Condit, Margo Odlum, Jason Ott, Meg Ferrell, “Apatite records mechanical and chemical processes over the lifetime of a subduction interface, Andros Island, Greece” in EPSL

- Flansburg, M. E., Stockli, D. F., Poulaki, E. M., Soukis, K., Stockli, “Permian mylonites in the footwall of a Miocene Cycladic core complex (Ios, Greece): Insights from (micro)structurally integrated apatite U-Pb petrochronology” in EPSL

Science Communication Articles and Interviews

  • Article in IODP art dispatch about my artistic diary during my time on Joides resolution