Eleni Grantzioti is a Research Assistant at the Photonic Materials and Devices Laboratory (PMDL). She received her B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Crete, Greece in 2023. As an undergraduate student, she joined the PMDL for her bachelor's research project on the development and study of optical fiber sensors. After her studies, she completed her internship at the Department of Applied Physics and Photonics at the Vrije Universiteit  Brussel, Belgium.

Vasilis Sarakatsianos has graduated from the Department of Physics of University of Athens in 2020, with a major in Solid State Physics. His undergraduate dissertation involved the study of the Flexoelectric effect in Nematic Liquid crystals, while in another project he studied the 2-d Ising Model using Monte Carlo Methods. In September 2020, he enrolled in the Photonics and Nanoelectronics master's programme at University of Crete. His thesis involved the fabrication of an optical fiber sensor for the detection of perfluorinated vapors. He received his master’s degree in September 2023 and since he has been employed by IESL FORTH as a laboratory technician in PMDL. His current work revolves around the implementation of FBG-based strain sensors on ophthalmic sutures.

Dimitris Dolapsakis is a MSc Student at the Physics Department at University of Crete. He received his BSc degree in Physics from the University of Crete. As an undergraduate student, he joined the Quantum Physics & Quantum Biology Laboratory for his thesis on electrophysiology of single rod cells. His is now working in novel Bragg grating devices in microstructured optical fibers.

Melanthia Kafantari is currently a Master of Science candidate in Biomedical Engineering at the Laboratory of Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering at the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete and a member of the Hybrid Nanostructures Group of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas.

She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2015.

Education

• 2017, Master of Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Chemical Engineering
• 2015, Bachelor of Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Chemical Engineering

Interests

• Effect of anticoagulants on in vitro bone metabolism
• Cell-drug interactions including cell viability, morphology, differentiation