Advent Technologies Holdings has announced Dr Panoraia ‘Nora’ Gourdoupi to join its board of directors.

Dr Gourdoupi is Advent’s Senior Vice-President of Corporate Business Developments and has been with Advent since its beginning, joining the Company in 2006 as a Senior Scientist.

She is involved in both developing the polymers which form the heart of the Company’s MEA and fuel cell products, as well as acting as a vital liaison to both government and industry partners.

Dr Gourdoupi holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Chemistry and a PhD from the University of Patras, specialising in the synthesis and characterization of polymers for fuel cell applications. She is co-inventor of eighteen patents in the field.