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 Communications 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

Submitted

-Poulaki E., Bickert M., Vannucchi P., Shuck B., Akizawa N., Pandey A., Morishita T., Sanfilippo A., Cunningham E., Barnes J., Garber J., Nistor C., Bernard R., Tribuzio R., Loocke M., Abe N., Stefano A., Filina I., Fu Q., Gontharet S., Lorna E. Kearns, Ravi Kiran Koorapati, Lei C., Maria Filomena Loreto, Magri L., Walter Menapace, Pavlovics V., Pezard P., Rodriguez-Pilco M., Zhao X., Pérez-Gussinyé M., Garrido C., Ranero C., Estes E., Malinverno A. & Zitellini N. “Granitic intrusions facilitate rapid mantle exhumation along an oceanic detachment fault” in Nature Communications

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

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