A biochemist by training, I have been working for years on the folding, assembly and structure of natural fibrous proteins. I subsequently got interested in using these proteins as models for the design of new fibrous materials, and I continued on this direction since my appointment at the Materials Science and Technology Department at the University of Crete.
I am particularly focusing on how to translate fundamental structural knowledge from natural fibrous proteins into concrete integration strategies and applications in the area of fibrous bio-nano-materials.
These efforts rely not only on biochemical and structural methodologies, but also on the fostering of interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues from other disciplines (eg laser science) that develop techniques to manipulate, assemble and position these materials in a controlled manner.
Education
- Habilitation, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, 2003
- Post-Doctoral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A, 1987-1991
- PhD Biochemistry- Enzymology, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 1986
- B.S. Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1981
Career
- Professor of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece
- Associate Professor of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece
- Research Scientist, CNRS (French National Research Center), Ιnstitut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France
- Research Scientist, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Interests
- the proteins as biomaterials
- engineering and design of fibrous biomaterials
- self-assembling peptides
- protein folding and assembly
- protein engineering and production
Other
Co-author of a textbook “Plenty of Room for Biology at the Bottom: An Introduction to Bionanotechnology”, 2nd Edition (2013), by Ehud Gazit and Anna Mitraki, ISBN: 978-1-84816-930-2, Imperial College Press (World Scientific Publishing).
Jonathan King’s 80th birthday Festschrift
“Protein Folding and Aggregation, Mentoring, and a Molecular Food Recipe”
https://fnl.mit.edu/protein-folding-and-aggregation-mentoring-and-a-molecular-food-recipe/
(with permission from the MIT Faculty Newsletter)
Education
- 1965: Ph.D. Nuclear Science, University of Michigan, USA
- 1963: M. Sc. Physics, University of Michigan, USA
- 1962: M.S.E. Nuclear Engineering University of Michigan, U.S.A
- 1958: Diploma E.E. and M.E., National Technical University, Greece
Career
- 2003-today: Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser-FORTH, Greece
- 2003-today: Professor Emeritus, Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
- 1993-2000: Director, Theory Division, Max-Planck Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Germany
- 1988 - 1991: Department Chairman, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
- 1983-1997: Director, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser-FORTH, Greece
- 1982-2003: Professor, Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
- 1980 - 1982: Department Co-Chair, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
- 1979 - 1981: Professor, University of Patras, Greece
- 1978-1993: Professor, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
- 1975 - 1978: Associate Professor, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
- 1975 - 1978: Assistant to Associate Professor, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
- 1972 - 1973: Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, U.S.A.
- 1967 - 1972: Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory Illinois, U.S.A.
- 1965 - 1967: Senior Physicist, Bendix Research Laboratory Southfield, Michigan, U.S.A.
- 1964 - 1965: Research Associate, Radiation Laboratory, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
- 1961 - 1964: Research Assistant, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
Interests
- Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, Quantum Technologies
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- Fellow of the American Physical Society and European Physical Society
- Xanthopoulos-Pneumatikos Prize for Excellence in University Teaching, 2003
- Distinguished Fellow of FORTH, 2003
- Chair of Gordon Research Conference on Multiphoton Processes, 1990
- Raubenheimer Prize of Excellence in Research, Teaching and Administration, University of Southern California, 1989
- Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1986
- Co-Chairman of ICOMP (Intrenational Conference on Multiphoton Processes), 1977, 1984, 1996, 2002
Other
- Member of the NATO Science Council, 1984-86
- Member of the Editorial Board of Zeitschrift fuer Physik D, 1984-91
- Member of the Round Table on Synchrotrons of the Large Installations Program of the EEC, 1991 - 93
- Member of the Board of Associate Editors of The European Physical Journal D, 1991-97
- Chairman of the Greek National Research Council, 1994 - 97
- Chairman of the European Group on Atomic Systems (EGAS) of EPS, 1999 - 2005
- Series Co-Editor of Springer Verlag Series of Books on Atoms and Plasmas
- Member and/or Co-Chairman of Organizing Committees of International Conferences such as International Conferences on Multiphoton Processes, European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics, NATO Advanced Study Workshop, etc
- Member at various times (since 1984) of Ad Hoc Committees on Scientific Policy and Funding of the EEC
- Recipient continuously since 1974 of National Science Foundation (USA) Grants
- Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Physical Review A, 1978-80
- Member of the Panel on Atomic and Molecular Theory of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 1985-88
- Member of special NSF panel for the evaluation of proposals for Science Centers in AMO Physics, 1987-88.
- Member of the Program Committee of the Division of Atomic-Molecular-Optical Physics of the American Physical Society, 1990-1993.
- Recipient continuously since 1986 of Department of Energy (USA) Grants
- Reviewer for Physical Review & Physical Review Letters, J. of Physics (U.K.) Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, Journal of Optical Society (U.S.A.), National Science Foundation, Research Corporation (U.S.A.), National Research Council (Canada)
- Reviewer of Proposals for NSF, DOE, Research Corporations, NATO, EEC
- Ph.D. thesis advisor or postdoctoral research advisor to about 50 students at the University of Southern California, the University of Crete and the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantum Optics, Garching
I studied Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and graduated with Highest Honors in 1986. I then studied under Prof. Dan Neumark at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1991 with a PhD in Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry. Following two years of postdoctoral research at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore California with Dr. David Chandler, I returned to Greece to join the Faculty at the University of Crete and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas. From 2013 I have also an Adjunct Professorship at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University and the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, in Göttingen Germany.
My main research interests are in the field of chemical dynamics. I have made well-recognized important contributions to the understanding of the state to state Photodissociation dynamics of molecules and clusters that helped shape the field. My laboratory was amongst the first photofragment ion imaging machines in Europe and part of the EU- funded Imaging Research Networks, continuously since 1997. In 2001 we pioneered a new variant of ion imaging and velocity mapping that called Slice Imaging. My team has also extended the use of charged particle imaging to the fields of (i) Molecular Electronics, by studying the electron transmission through organized thin films, (ii) Dye Sensitized Photovoltaics, and (iii) in Medical Spectroscopy / Ophthalmology, where we pioneered laser-based methods to the cross linking treatment of keratoconus, (iv)
Since 2013 I am also group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinery Sciences, in Göttingen Germany, where I have built a new experimental operation looking at fundamental processes on surfaces. My new team has demonstrated for the first time that the novel imaging techniques, developed on Crete, can be implemented towards studying the underlying chemical dynamics and kinetics for elementary processes in heterogeneous catalysis (Velocity Resolved Kinetics).
Education
- 1986, BSc with Highest Honors in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- 1991, PhD in Physical Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Career
- 1994-1999, Assistant Professor University of Crete and Research associate IESL-FORTH, Greece
- 1999-2007, Associate Professor University of Crete and Research associate IESL-FORTH, Greece
- 2007- present, Professor University of Crete and Research associate IESL-FORTH, Greece
- 2012-present, Affiliated Professor University and Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
Interests
- Chemical Dynamics and Kinetics, Ion and Electron Imaging, Heterogeneous Catalysis
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- Humboldt Foundation Research Award 2012
- Friedrich von Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation 2004
- Bodossaki Science Award in Chemistry 2003
- University of California Regents Fellow, Berkeley 1988-89
- IBM Predoctoral Fellow, Berkeley 1987-88
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1986
- B.J. Freud Award, Outstanding Junior in Chemistry, University of Illinois 1985
George Kioseoglou is a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete and an affiliated member of IESL/FORTH. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1999 in the area of spectroscopic studies of electronic states in semiconductor heterostructures. After a postdoctoral position at Brookhaven National Laboratory, he joined the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC where he continued his work on efficient electrical spin injection and detection in semiconductors. From 2004 to 2007 he was a National Research Council (NRC) Fellow with the materials physics branch at NRL. In 2007 he joined the Department of Materials Science and served as its Director of Graduate Studies in the period of 2010-2015. His main research interests are in the physics and applications of semiconductor nanostructures, Spintronics and Valleytronics, and in the electronic and optical properties of 2D materials. Prof. Kioseoglou has shared 3 times the NRL Alan Berman research publication award for his work on spin injection in GaAs and Si spin-LEDs. He has co-authored over 90 scientific publications in refereed journals with 4 very-highly cited papers in Spintronics, more than 6500 total citations and an h-index of 37, and more than 270 contributed conference presentations. He gave more than 40 invited talks in international conferences and written one book chapter in Handbook of Spintronics.
Education
- 1999, Ph.D. in Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
- 1991, M.Sc. in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- 1987, B.Sc. in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Career
- 2021-present, Professor, Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
- 2015-present Affiliated member IESL-FORTH
- 2010-2015 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
- 2007-2012, Researcher at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
- 2007-2020 Associate Professor, Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
- 2004-2007 National Research Council Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
- 2002-2004 Postdoctoral Associate, GeoWashington University and Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
- 1999-2001 Postdoctoral Associate, State University of New York at Buffalo and Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton Ny, USA
Interests
- 2D Materials: optical and electronic properties
- Valley polarization and scattering mechanisms in 2D Materials
- Semiconductor Spintronics and Valleytronics
- Physics and applications of semiconductor nanostructures
- Spin-LEDs: Spin injection and detection in Fe/GaAs and Fe/Si
- Magneto-optical studies on magnetic semiconductors and ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures for spintronic applications
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2007: Alan Berman Research Publication and NRL Edison Awards for the paper "Electrical Spin-Injection into Silicon from a Ferromagnetic Metal/Tunnel Barrier Contact" Nature Physics 3, 542 (2007)
- 2004-2007: National Research Council (NRC) Fellowship
- 2002: Alan Berman Research Publication and NRL Edison Awards for the paper "Reduction of Spin Injection Efficiency by Interface Defect Spin Scattering in ZnMnSe/AlGaAs-GaAs Spin-Polarized Light-Emitting Diodes " PRL 89, 166602 (2002)
- 2000: Alan Berman Research Publication and NRL Edison Awards for the paper"Robust Electrical Spin Injection into a Semiconductor Heterostructure" PRB 62, 8180 (2000)
- 1997: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award - The American Association of Physics Teachers
Maria Kafesaki is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete and Adjunct Researcher at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH). She obtained her Ph.D. in 1997, at the Physics Department of the University of Crete, Greece. She has worked as post-doctoral researcher in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Madrid, Spain, and in IESL of FORTH (1997-2001). Her current research is on the area of electromagnetic wave propagation in periodic and random media, with emphasis on photonic crystals and metamaterials. She has more than 100 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings (with more than 5000 citations), she has participated in various European projects as well as in the organization of many international conferences and schools. Also she is Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Education
- PhD in 1997, from Physics Department, Univ. of Crete, Greece
- MSc in 1992, Physics Department, Univ. of Crete, Greece
- BSc in 1990, at Physics Department, of the Univ. of Crete, Greece
Interests
- Electromagnetic waves in complex media (metamaterials, photonic crystals, plasmonic materials, ...)
- Elastic waves in random and periodic composite media
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 2014
- Member of the team which achieved the EU Descartes prize for collaborative research in metamaterials, in 2005
Other
- Associate editor at EPJ: Applied Metamaterials Journal (http://epjam.edp-open.org/)
- Section editor at JEOS:RP (Journal of European Optical Society: Rapid Publications) (https://www.jeos.org/index.php/jeos_rp)
- Governing Board Member of Metamorphose VI (the Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials), http://www.metamorphose-vi.org/
Dr. Iliopoulos is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Physics, University of Crete and an Associated Researcher of IESL-FORTH. He holds a Ph.D. (2002) from Boston University, Center for Photonics Research, USA. He has collaborated with a number of international companies (Lokheed-Martin Inc., EADS N.V., Aixtron SE, III-V Lab, EG&G Inc., BAE Inc., Astex Inc., Epion Inc.) and organizations (ARPA, ESA) in epitaxial growth of III-Nitride semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures, in development of (opto)electronic devices based on them and in novel, QDs based, device concepts. He was a national representative and workgroup vice-chair in the European program COST-MP0805 “Novel gain materials and devices based on III-V-N compounds” and an elected member of the board of directors of the Hellenic “Micro&Nano” organization. He is a permanent member of the biannual EXMATEC workshop international steering committee and a management committee member of the “Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology (CCQCN)”. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 publications in recognized international peer-reviewed journals with more than 1800 citations and an h-index of 25. He has been awarded as principal investigator/coordinator two international and one national research projects and has participated as co-investigator in numerous European ones.
Education
- 2001, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Boston University, Boston MA, U.S.A.
- 1996, M.Sc. in Physics, Northeastern University, Boston MA, U.S.A.
- 1994, B.Sc. in Physics, Physics Dpt, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Career
- 11/2017 - today, Associate Professor Physics Dpt., University of Crete
- 01/2009 - 10/2017, Assistant Professor Physics Dpt., University of Crete
- 01/2009 - today, Collaborating faculty member, FORTH - IESL, Greece
- 09/2007 - 12/2008, Visiting Assistant Professor (PD407) Physics Dept., University of Crete
- 01/2007 - 12/2008, Microelectornics research gorup, FORTH - IESL, Greece
- 01/2004 - 12/2006, Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics Dept., University of Crete
Education
- 1979, PhD in Physics, University of Wales, U.K.
- 1975, M.Sc in electronics, University of Wales, U.K.
- 1974, B.Sc in Physics, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Career
- 2008 – today, Associate Professor, Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
- 1984 – today, Collaborating Researcher, FORTH - IESL, Greece
- 1992 – 2008, Assistant Professor with tenure, Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
- 1988 – 1992, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
- 1985 – 1988, Lecturer, Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
- 1981 – 1985, Lecturer - Researcher, Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
Interests
- ΜΒΕ grown III-V compound semiconductors (arsenides)
Education
- 1990, Ph.D in Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- 1989, M.Sc in Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- 1984, B.Sc in Physics, University of Patra, Patra, Greece
Career
- 05/2010 - today, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 10/2002 - 05/2010, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 09/1999 - 09/2002, Assistant Professor with tenure, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 09/1995 - 09/1999, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 10/1994 - 08/1995, Research Associate, MRG/IESL/FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 10/1991 0 12/1992, Visiting Research Scientist, CALCE Electronic Packaging Research Center, Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Maryland, USA
- 2/1989 - 2/1993, Research Associate, Microelectronics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Interests
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) of novel III-V nanostructure-heterostructure materials for advanced electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices
- Development of technologies integrating III-V semiconductor devices on other substrates, such as Si
- Understanding the structural properties and their interrelation with the electronic properties of III-V semiconductor interfaces and thin films
- Understanding the material effects on the performance of III-V semiconductor devices
