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Vasileios Balos, Ph.D.


Department of Engineering
Physical Chemistry and Physics

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Amsterdam

Practice Areas

  • Ultrafast Spectroscopy
  • Interfacial Spectroscopy
  • Molecular Dynamics 
  • Photonics
  • Photo-, Electro-catalysis

Publications and Media Placements

Álvaro Diaz-Duque; Vasileios Balos; Alexander P. Fellows; Martin Wolf; Martin Thämer. 2025. Depth-Resolved Vibrational SFG/DFG Spectroscopy of the Anisotropic Water Structure at Charged Interfaces. arXiv:2508.06912 [physics.chem-ph] https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.06912

Eleni C. Mazarakioti; Carla Boix-Constant; Iván Gómez-Muñoz; Diego López-Alcalá; Sergio Revuelta; Marco Ballabio; Vasileios Balos; José J. Baldoví; Enrique Cánovas; Josep Canet-Ferrer; Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas; Samuel Mañas-Valero; Eugenio Coronado. 2025. Highly anisotropic 1D materials supported in exfoliable 2D coordination polymers with optical anisotropy switching via twist-engineering. arXiv:2508.18005 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.18005

Alexander P. Fellows; Álvaro Díaz Duque; Vasileios Balos; Louis Lehmann; Roland R. Netz; Martin Wolf; Martin Thämer. 2024. Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Aqueous Interfaces: The Role of Depth and its Impact on Spectral Interpretation. J. Phys. Chem. C. (Special Issue - Festschrift in honour of Alec Wodtke) (Editor's Choice) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c06650

Ramiro Quirós-Ovies; Pablo Bastante; Simon Hettler; Víctor Vega-Mayoral; Sergio Aina; Vasileios Balos at al. 2024. Chemically-linked heterostructures of palladium nanosheets and 2H-MoS2. Small https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202406030

Alexander P. Fellows; Álvaro Díaz Duque; Vasileios Balos; Louis Lehmann; Roland Netz; Martin Wolf; Martin Thämer. 2024. How Thick is the Air–Water Interface?–A Direct Experimental Measurement of the Decay Length of the Interfacial Structural Anisotropy. Langmuir 4, 35, 18760-18772 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c02571

Alexander P. Fellows; Vasileios Balos; Ben John; Álvaro Díaz Duque; Martin Wolf; Martin Thämer. 2023. Obtaining extended insight into molecular systems by probing multiple pathways in second-order nonlinear spectroscopy. J. Chem. Phys. 159, 164201 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0169534

Lukas Sporrer; Guojun Zhou; Mingchao Wang; Vasileios Balos et al. 2023. Near IR Bandgap Semiconducting 2D Conjugated Metal-Organic Framework with Rhombic Lattice and High Mobility. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 62, e202300186 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202300186

Vasileios Balos, Martin Wolf, Sergey Kovalev, Mohsen Sajadi. 2023. Optical rectification and electro-optic sampling in quartz. Opt. Express 31, 13317-13327. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.480339

Vasileios Balos; Naveen Kumar Kaliannan; Hossam Elgabarty; Martin Wolf; Thomas Kühne; Mohsen Sajadi Hezaveh. 2022. Time-resolved terahertz–Raman spectroscopy reveals that cations and anions distinctly modify intermolecular interactions of water. Nature Chemistry.14, pp.1031-1037. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-00977-2

Vasileios Balos; Tobias Garling; Alvaro Diaz Duque; Ben John; Martin Wolf; Martin Thämer. 2022. Phase-Sensitive Vibrational Sum and Difference Frequency-Generation Spectroscopy Enabling Nanometer-Depth Profiling at Interfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 16-26, pp.10818-10832. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c01324

Vasileios Balos; Patrick Muller; Gerhard Jakob; Mathias Klaui; Mohsen Sajadi. 2021. Imprinting the complex dielectric permittivity of liquids into the spintronic terahertz emission. Applied Physics Letters. 119, pp.091104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0056909

J.F. Heitz, L. Nádvorník, V. Balos, Y. Behovits, A.L. Chekhov, T.S. Seifert, K. Olejník, Z. Kašpar, K. Geishendorf, V. Novák, R.P. Campion, M. Wolf, T. Jungwirth, and T. Kampfrath. Optically Gated Terahertz-Field-Driven Switching of Antiferromagnetic CuMnAs. Phys. Rev. Applied. 16, 064047. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.064047

Sergey Zhukov; Vasileios Balos; Gabriela Hoffman; Mohsen Sajadi et al;. 2020. Rotational coherence of encapsulated ortho and para water in fullerene-C60 revealed by time-domain terahertz spectroscopy. Scientific Reports. 10-1, pp.1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74972-3

Hossam Elgabarty; Tobias Kampfrath; Douwe J. Bonthuis; Vasileios Balos; Mohsen Sajadi (CA) et al;. 2020. Energy transfer within the hydrogen bonding network of water following resonant Terahertz excitation. Science Advances. 6-17, eaay7074, pp.1-8. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay7074

Vasileios Balos; Sho Imoto; Roland Netz; Mischa Bonn; Douwe J. Bontjuis; Yuki Nagata; Johannes Hunger. 2020. Macroscopic conductivity of aqueous electrolyte solutions scales with ultrafast microscopic ion fluctuations. Nature Communications. 11-1611, pp.1-8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15450-2

Vasileios Balos; Genaro Bierhance; Martin Wolf; Mohsen Sajadi Hezaveh. 2020. Terahertz-Magnetic-Field induced ultrafast Faraday rotation of molecular liquids. Physical Review Letters. 124- 093201, pp.1-6. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.093201

Vasileios Balos; Bogdan Marekha; Christian Malm; Manfred Wagner; Yuki Nagata; Mischa Bonn; Johannes Hunger. 2019. Specific ion effects on an oligopeptide: bidentate binding matters for the Guanidinium cation. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 58-1, pp.332-337. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201811029

Vasileios Balos, Mischa Bonn, Johannes Hunger, 2017, Anionic and cationic Hofmeister effects are non-additive for guanidinium salts, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, 9724-9728. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CP00790F

Vasileios Balos; Heejae Kim; Mischa Bonn; Johannes Hunger. 2016. Dissecting Hofmeister effects: direct anion-amide interactions are weaker than cation-amide binding. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 55-28, pp.8125-8128. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201602769

Vasileios Balos, Mischa Bonn, Johannes Hunger, 2015. Quantifying transient interactions between amide groups and the guanidinium cation. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.,17, 28539-28543. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CP04619J

Professional Organizations and Associations

Max Planck Partner Group (2025)
MaxWater Initiative