M. Papageorgiou is an undergraduate student at the Department of Materials Science & Technology of University of Crete. She is currently working on her bachelor thesis on the interactions between HeLa cells and Synthetic Biomaterials at the Biophotonics group, in collaboration with Dr. Velonia’s Lab (Supramolecular Chemistry & Synthetic Biomaterials Lab, Univ. of Crete).

Education

• 2015-Today BSc in Materials Science & Technology - Department of Materials Science & Technology, University of Crete, Greece 

Career

• 06/2017-08/2017: Internship, ‘Drug delivery in mammalian cells via responsive protein-polymeric nanocarriers’ Ultrafast Laser Micro and Nano Processing Lab/Tissue engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Immunoengineering Lab Group, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece

Interests

• Tissue engineering and Regenerative Medicine
• Cell-Biomaterials Interface
• Supramolecular Chemistry
• Biomaterials’ Synthesis
• Cell sensing and response to chemical and topographical clues
• Drug Delivery 

A. Kordas is a PhD candidate at the Materials Science and Technology Department of the University of Crete, Greece and at IESL, FORTH. He received his MSc in Protein Biotechnology in 2014 and his BSc in Biology in 2012 from the Biology Department of the University of Crete, Greece. 

Education

• 2014 Msc in Protein Biotechnology -  Biology Department, University of Crete, Greece
• 2012, BSc in Biology- Biology Department, University of Crete, Greece

Interests

• Tissue engineering and regeneration
• Biomaterial Scaffolds for cell growth and culture
• Neuronal cell regenaration
• Acoustic biosensors
• Molecular diagnostics
• Food safety
• Structural biology
• Microbiology
• Entomology

G. Flamourakis is a PhD candidate at the Materials Science and Technology Department of the University of Crete, Greece and at IESL, FORTH. He received his MSc in Molecular Medicine in 2016 from the Department of Medicine, University of Athens, and his BSc in Biochemistry and Biotechnology in 2014 from the Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department of the University of Thessaly, Greece. 

Education

• 2016, MSc in Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Kapodistrian and National University of Athens, Greece
• 2014, BSc in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Greece

Interests

• Two Photon Lithography
• Ultra-fast Lasers
• Tissue engineering and regeneration
• Biomaterial Scaffolds for cell growth and culture
• Mechanical Metamaterials
• Novel Auxetic structures
• Molecular Biology
• Structural Biology
• Stem Cell differentiation