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Aikaterini Vriza is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of autonomous experimentation, artificial intelligence, and polymer electronics. Her work centers on developing self-driving laboratories (SDLs) that leverage robotic automation, machine learning, and high-performance computing to accelerate the discovery and optimization of functional materials. Her most influential contribution, "Self-Driving Laboratory for Polymer Electronics" (2023, 83 citations), demonstrated how autonomous platforms can dramatically compress the traditionally lengthy development cycles of electronic polymers, opening new frontiers in skin-like electronics, printed energy devices, and neuromorphic computing. Vriza has also been instrumental in conceptualizing large-scale "science factories" — modular, AI-enabled infrastructures designed to support thousands of researchers tackling complex discovery challenges simultaneously, work that has garnered 26 citations and shaped thinking around next-generation research infrastructure. Her more recent publications extend this vision into inverse design, where autonomous systems are trained to synthesize electrochromic and semiconducting polymers with targeted properties, navigating the notoriously nonlinear structure-property relationships that have long frustrated materials scientists. Through automated fabrication and characterization pipelines, Vriza is redefining how polymer electronics are discovered and optimized, positioning closed-loop autonomous research as the future of materials science.