Yianni L. Goulandris Herrera
CV

Curriculum vitae

A student at Wellington College who loves to build things, and to build them with other people. Everything here is on the rest of the site in more detail.

Education

  • Sep 2025 – Jun 2027

    A-levels in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Wellington College

  • Sep 2023 – Jun 2025

    Colegio Estudio, Spain

Research

  • 25 Jun – 17 Aug 2026

    Research intern, Prof. Yi Cui's group, Stanford

    Worked alongside Qi Zheng on lithium fluoride nanoparticle synthesis, making three of the four figures in the resulting paper, and on cement clinker characterisation. Wrote the micro-CT analysis pipeline in Python and analysed most of the micro-CT data.

Projects and ventures

  • May 2026 – present

    Founder, Riza

    A network where schools share their sustainability projects and show what actually worked.

    43 member schools in 12 countries, 40,000+ pupils represented, partly estimated from school size (20 Oct 2026)

  • May 2026 – present

    BudgetBuddy

    An app I co-built that teaches teenagers to manage money through games.

  • Feb 2026 – present

    Elizabeth House Alumni Atlas

    A private, invite-only world map I built for the house's alumni.

  • Sep 2025 – paused

    Founder, KAIVRO Education

    A personalised study and time-management platform with an AI tutor and teacher reports. Advisory relationship with the University of Luxembourg on the research behind it. Closed for now.

Leadership

  • College Life Chair and founding member, Welly Speaks

  • Co-founder, Sustainability House Representatives (now the Student Sustainability Council)

  • Lead, Global Citizenship Group

  • Deputy Head of House, Elizabeth House

  • Sep 2025 – Jun 2026

    Founding member, Wellington College Business Society

Other activities

  • Sep 2026 – present

    Wharton Global High School Investment Competition

  • Sep 2026 – present

    Semesters at Goldman Sachs

Publications

  • A paper on lithium fluoride nanoparticle synthesis, lead author Qi Zheng; second author. Being prepared for submission to JACS.

  • A paper on the cement clinker work; one of the authors. In preparation.

Languages

  • Native: Spanish, English, Greek, Mandarin

  • Upper-intermediate: Italian

  • Conversational: French

  • Beginner: German, Japanese

Sport

  • Golf: English SSWL golf league national finals, 4th in 2025–26; currently ranked 3rd in the country

  • Tennis: played competitively at a high level from age 10 to 14

  • Skiing

Skills

Python, which I used to write the micro-CT analysis pipeline in my research. Languages as above.