Education

• 2024 - MSc in Polymer and composite materials science and technology, Department of Chemical engineering, University of Patras, Greece
• 2021 - BSc in Material Science, Department of Material Science, University of Patras, Greece

Interests

• Ferroelectric Polymers
• Piezoelectric Polymers
• Bioelectronics

Costas P. Grigoropoulos received his Diploma Degrees in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (1978), and in Mechanical Engineering (1980) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He holds a M.Sc. degree (1983), and a Ph.D. (1986), both in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University. He joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in 1990, after serving as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington from 1986-1990. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July 1993 and to Professor in Mechanical Engineering in July 1997. He has conducted research at the Xerox Mechanical Engineering Sciences Laboratory, the IBM Almaden Research Center and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, FORTH, Greece. He is Faculty Staff Scientist with the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Education

• 2019, Bachelor's Degree Chemical Engineering, Università Federico II Napoli, Italy
• 2023, Master degree in Chemical Engineering, Università Federico II Napoli, Italy

Education

• 2023 - MSc in Polymer and composite materials science and technology, Department of Chemical engineering, University of Patras, Greece
• 2021 - BSc in Material Science, Department of Material Science, University of Patras, Greece

Career

• 2023 - Research and Development Intern, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico Di Torino, Italy
• 2022 - Lab/Teaching Assistant, Department of Material Science, University of Patras, Greece

Interests

• Conducting and Semiconducting Polymers
• Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors
• Polymer Electronics
• Bioelectronics

Panagiotis Kleitsiotis is an undergraduate student at the Physics Department of the University of Crete. He is currently working on his undergraduate thesis on the development of optical fiber sensors using copper oxide overlayer. 

Polyxeni Giouni has graduated from the Physics Department of University of Ioannina in 2022. She is currently a MSc student at “Photonics and Nanoelectronics” program of University of Crete. Her thesis as an undergraduate student referred to the study of metallic and ceramic materials, using LIBS method with femtosecond laser pulses. She is now aspired to work on device development using soft matter photonics. ​Polyxeni Giouni has graduated from the Physics Department of University of Ioannina in 2022. She is currently a MSc student at “Photonics and Nanoelectronics” program of University of Crete. Her thesis as an undergraduate student referred to the study of metallic and ceramic materials, using LIBS method with femtosecond laser pulses. She is now aspired to work on device development using soft matter photonics.

Dr. Ivan Chapalo received the Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2011 and 2017 correspondingly. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Radiophysics Department, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in 2017-2020 and at the Department of Electromagnetism and Telecommunication, University of Mons in 2020-2023. Dr. Ivan Chapalo joined IESL-FORTH as a postdoctoral researcher in July 2023. He is a co-author of 30+ publications, and he is a winner of a number grants and scholarships. His professional and research interests are fiber optic sensors, multimode optical fibers and sensors, fiber Bragg gratings, polymer optical fibers, LabVIEW programming.

Education

• 2007 PhD degree in experimental Physics, Atomic & Molecular Physics Laboratory, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
• 2001 Postgraduate courses at Physics Department, University of Ioannina, (Greece):
• 1999 B. Sc. in Physics, Physics Department, University of Ioannina (Greece)

Career

• 09/2018 – 12/2021 Postdoctoral research associate, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
• 09/2016 – 08/2018 Assistant Professor, Attosecond Science Laboratory (ASL), King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia (www.attoworld.sa)
• 03/2013 – 10/2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Plasma Physics & Lasers (CPPL), sub-10fs CEP-stabilized Laser Laboratory, Rethymno (Crete), Greece Research subject: ‘Ultrafast non-linear optical processes on metallic surfaces’ (http://www.cppl.
• 04/2015 – 08/2015 Research Fellow, University of Ioannina and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• 03/2008 – 02/2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, VUV/XUV Spectroscopy and Frontier Coherent Sources Laboratory, LENS Institute, University of Florence, Italy
• 11/2007 - 02/2008 Visiting Researcher, LENS, Florence, Italy, via an accepted research proposal submitted in LASERLAB Europe with code