Georgios Violakis received his B.Eng. degree in Metallurgy from National Technical University of Athens in 2005, receiving an award from the Technical Chamber of Greece for his diploma work. In 2008 he received his MSc degree in Micro- and Opto-electronics from the University of Crete and in 2013 he received his PhD degree in Photonics from École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His PhD thesis has been awarded the Professor René Wasserman Award (Switzerland). From 2013-2014 he has worked at EPFL as a post doctoral researcher, investigating novel lasing materials in optical fibers, and fabricating and embedding optical fiber sensors for aviation structural monitoring. From 2014-2017 he has worked as scientific collaborator at Empa, Thun (Switzerland), working in the field of large scale laser microfabrication and in the field of acoustic sensing using optical fiber probes. In July 2017 he joined the Photonic Materials and Devices Laboratory at Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers in FORTH, Greece. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed international journals and conference publications and is co-inventor of 3 international patents in the field of acoustic sensing. His current research interests are focused in novel non-linear optical materials for use in optical sensors and devices.
Education
- 2013, Ph.D. in Photonics, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne), Switzerland
- 2008, M.Sc. in Micro- and Opto-electronics, University of Crete, Greece
- 2005, B.Eng. in Metallurgy, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Interests
- Optical fiber sensors
- Non-linear optical materials
- Non-linear optical devices
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2013, Professor René Wasserman Award (Switzerland)
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Education
- 2023, PhD in Nano Photonics, Materials Science & Technology Department, University of Crete, Greece
- 2017, M.Sc. in Photonics and Nanoelectronics, Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
- 2015, B.Sc. in Physics, Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
Education
- 1989, Ph.D., Applied Physics Dpt, Hull University, Hull England, U.K.
- 1984, M.Sc, Physics Dpt, Dundee University, Dundee Scotland, U.K.
- 1983, B.Sc, Physics Dpt, University of Patra, Patra, Greece
Career
- 2024 - today, Senior Scientist, Microelectronics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
- 2019 – today, Member of Health & Safety Committee of employees at FORTH-Heraklion, Crete
- 2017 - today, Safety manager, Microelectronics Rersearch Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
- 2004 - 2024, Principal application acientist, Microelectronics Rersearch Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
- 2000 – 2005 Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Information & Multimedia, School for Technological Applications, Tecnological Educational Institute, Crete, Greece
- 1992 - 2000, Adjunct Professor, Physics Department, Crete University, Crete, Greece.
- 1991 - 2004, Application acientist, Microelectronics Rersearch Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
Interests
- Oxide-based thin film materials & devices for transparent optoelectronic applications
- Photovoltaics (transparent and non-transparent)
- Materials and devices for smart windows and energy efficient buildings
- Nanostructured materials based on strongly correlated oxides for energy saving and storage.
Efthymis Serpetzoglou is a PhD Candidate of “Ultrafast Laser Micro and Nano Processing” Group in “Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser” on “Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH)”. He obtained his 5 years Diploma in Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2012 and his M.Sc. in Micro-systems and Nano-devices in Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences from NTUA (Athens) in 2014. He has experience in Laser Laboratory, as well as fabrication and characterization of Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs) and Biosensors. His current research interests involve Spectroscopy Techniques, such as Transient Absorption, Photo-induced Absorption and Laser Induced Fluorescence, in OPVs and Perovskite Solar Cells (PSCs).
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Education
- 2015-Present, PhD Candidate, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas, University of Crete, Physics Department
- 2014, Master of Science, Applied Mathematics and Physical Science, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
- 2012, Diploma, Diploma “Integrated Master” Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Career
- 02/2015 - Present, PhD Candidate
- 02/2015 - Present, Assistant Researcher, Physics Department, University of Crete
- 09/2006 - 02/2015, Personal Tutor
- 0/2011 – 12/2011, Trainee, Air Traffic Safety Electronic Engineer at Civil Aviation Authority of Greece, Athens, Athens (Greece)
Interests
- Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
- Perovskite Solar Cells and Organic Photovoltaics
- Optics and Quantum Optics
- Applications of Laser
- Nanoelectronics
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2018 Best Oral Presentation, 7th International Symposium on Transparent Conductive Materials & 4th EMRS & MRS-J Bilateral Symposium on Advanced Oxides and Wide Bandgap Semiconductors (2018)
- 2018 Best Poster Award, 2nd NFFA-Europe Summer School, Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis (NFFA), available instruments and techniques
Dr. Abdus Salam Sarkar is a Post Doctoral Research fellow in the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH). He received his B.Sc degree in Physics (Honors) from University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He obtained his M.Sc in Physics from Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He received his Ph.D degree in Emerging two dimensional (2D) materials and their van der Waals heterostructures for electronic applications from School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India. He joined in Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- Processing Laboratory of IESL in September 2018 as a member of the 2D materials research. His research focus on the preparation/synthesis of structural anisotropic 2D Group IVA-VI transitional metal monchalcogenides and other emerging novel 2D materials using exfoliation and laser-based techniques for fundamental sciences (Valley polarization and Polarized Second Harmonic Generation) and electronic device applications (Solar cells, FET and sensors).
Career
- Sep 2018 –present Post-Doctoral Researcher (Physicist), Institute of Electronic Structures and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Crete, Greece 70013
- Nov 2017 – July 2018 Researcher, School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India.
- 2012 – 2017 PhD student, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India.
- 2014 – 2017 Senior Research Fellowship from Ministry of Human Research Development, Govt. of India.
- 2012 – 2014 Junior Research Fellowship from Ministry of Human Research Development, Govt. of India.
Dr. Ioanna Sakellari is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology (IESL-FORTH). She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Crete in 2011 and, soon after, moved as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley in USA. Later on, in 2013, she joined the 4th Physics Institute at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, where in 2015 she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship funded under the European program Horizon2020. In 2017, she moved at IESL-FORTH as a Stavros Niarchos Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Ioanna Sakellari joined the Ultrafast Laser Micro and Nano Processing Laboratory at IESL since December 2018.
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Education
- 2011, Ph. D. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
- 2007, Master in “Optics and Vision”, Department of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
- 2005, Bachelor, Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Career
- 12/2018 - Today, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ultrafast Laser Micro and Nano Processing Laboratory, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 07/2018 - 08/2018, Postdoctoral Researcher, Nonlinear Lithography group, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 07/2017 - 06/2018, Stavros Niarchos Postdoctoral Fellow, Nonlinear Lithography group, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 04/2017 - 06/2017, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ultrafast Laser Micro and Nano Processing Laboratory, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 03/2015 - 02/2017, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 4th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
- 08/2013 - 02/2015, Postdoctoral Researcher, 4th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
- 07/2011 - 06/2013, Postdoctoral Researcher, Laser Thermal Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Interests
- Nanotechnology
- Linear and Nonlinear 3D Photonic Crystals
- Metamaterials, Metasurfaces
- Plasmonics
- Nonlinear Optics
- Materials Science including hybrid inorganic/organic sol gel composites, quantum dots, graphene materials
- Lasing in quantum dots
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2017, Stavros Niarchos Postdoctoral Fellowship: “Development of novel 3D nanomaterial-based devices for their implementation as anodes in photo-electrochemical cells for hydrogen generation based on water splitting”, ARCHERS Project, SNF-FORTH
- 2015, Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship: “Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Chiral Plasmonic Metamaterials”, Horizon2020-MSCA-IF, G.A. 655249
Dr Sotiris Psilodimitrakopoulos is a post-doctoral researcher with specialty in polarization non-linear microscopy (P-NLM) in the ULMNP. He received his BSc in Physics from the University of Crete and his MSc in Microsystems and Nanodevices from the National Technical University of Athens. He then received his PhD in Photonics from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) at the Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya in Barcelona Spain, while studying nonlinear optics. He then continued as a research engineer at the Super-resolution Light Microscopy & Nanoscopy Facility of ICFO and as a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Optics & Biosciences, at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. His main scientific interest is the design and development of advanced non-linear microscopy techniques based on raster-scanning of fs laser beams. His latest implementation (October 2018) is the upgrade of a Zeiss Axio Observer, simple one-photon excited fluorescence microscope, into a fully-motorized, polarization-resolved, SHG, THG, 2PEF and 3PEF, dual-beam, dual-scanner, 6-detection channels, multi-photon microscope [1-4].
Education
- 2012, PhD in Photonics – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.
- 2005, MSc in Microsystems and Nanodevices – Faculty of Applied Mathematics & Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
- 2003, BSc in Physics – School of Sciences & engineering, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
Career
- 2014 - Today, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
- 2013 - 2014, Postdoctoral Researcher, CNRS, Laboratoire d' Optique et Biosciences, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France.
- 2011 - 2013, Research Engineer, Super-resolution Light Microscopy & Nanoscopy Facility, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.
- 2005 - 2006, Research Associate, Institute of Computer Systems, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Interests
- Non-linear Optics.
- Development of novel measurements and instrumentation for linear and non-linear microscopy.
- Polarization-Resolved Second Harmonic Generation imaging.
- Third Harmonic Generation and Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence imaging.
- Electrical Dynamics and Synchronization in living neural networks
- Two-Dimensional Graphene Related Materials
- Structure and function of Collagen, Muscle, and Neurons in-vitro and in-vivo.
- Dual Scanners Microscopy and Nano-surgery.
- Super-Resolution Microscopy.
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2017–2018, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Fellowship, “Advancing Young Researchers’ Human Capital in Cutting Edge Technologies in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and the Tackling of Societal Challenges – ARCHERS”.
- 2007–2011, FPI Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture.
- 2005–2006, Research Fellowship, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
- 2005, “Thomaidio Award” for the Best Interdisciplinary MSc Research Project of National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Dr. Maria Pervolaraki is a Research Associate in the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser at FORTH since November 2018. She received her Master in Physics with Honours (MPhys) in Applied Physics with Laser Technology (2001), her Postgraduate Diploma in Research Training (2004) and her Ph.D. in Physics (2006) from the University of Hull, UK. She has worked as post-doctoral and research associate in several national and international projects in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cyprus and as a Senior Research Consultant in ALTER ECO SOLUTIONS. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications in the field of laser material interactions. Her main interests are laser ablation, laser micromachining, short pulse laser-matter interactions at high repetition rates, laser assisted growth of complex, functional thin films and nanostructures using Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation (MAPLE) technique, and Picosecond Ultrafast Pulsed Laser Deposition (UFPLD) for various applications in microelectronics, photonics, energy harvesting and medicine.
Education
- 2006, Ph.D. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Hull, UK
- 2004, PGDip, Postgraduate Diploma in Research Training, University of Hull, UK
- 2001, MPhys, Master of Physics with Honours (4 years degree), Applied Physics with Laser Technology, First Class, University of Hull, UK
Career
- 11/2018 – Today, Research Associate, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) at Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
- 12/2017 – 10/2018, Senior Research Consultant, ALTER ECO SOLUTIONS LTD, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Fall semester 2016, Special Scientist: Teaching Laser Fundamentals, Laser Safety, Optics and Beam Alignment, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 01/2015 – 12/2017, Organizer and Instructor: Interactive STEM actions for Preschool and Primary School kids, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 05/2007 – 12/2014, Postdoctoral Research Associate: Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 04/2005 – 03/2007, Instructor in secondary schools, First Class Education, Hull, UK
- 10/2001 - 03/2005, Assistant Tutor, Department of Physics, University of Hull, UK
Interests
- Laser ablation
- Laser micromachining of polymers, semiconductors and metals
- Short pulse laser-matter interactions at high repetition rates
- Growth of complex, functional Oxides, Thermoelectric and Diamond-like thin films with nano-inclusion contents using pulsed laser deposition (PLD), and their characterisation
- Picosecond ultrafast pulsed laser deposition (UFPLD) of Si and C nanostructures
- Matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) of fragile molecules
- Laser-matter interactions using high repetition rate nanosecond and high power picosecond DPSS Nd:YVO4 lasers, F2, KrF and CO2 lasers
- Laser sintering of metals and dielectrics
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2012- BEST POSTER AWARD, “Ultra-fast pulsed laser deposition of Carbon nanostructures: Structural and Optical characterization”, Symposium V: Laser materials processing for micro and nano applications, E-MRS, Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France
- 2009- BEST POSTER AWARD, “Mn12 benzoate thin films on Si substrates fabricated by Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation”, Symposium Q: Laser and Plasma Processing for Advanced Materials, E-MRS, Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France
- 09/2001-12/2004, Awarded a full Scholarship for Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, University of Hull, , Hull, UK
- 04/2001- Intensive course on Lasers and their applications on Telecommunication, Medicine and Industry. Fachhochschule Ostfriesland, Emden, Germany
- 09/1999 – 06/2000, 3rd year of the MPhys: Socrates-Erasmus exchange program, Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering at the Czech Technical University of Prague, Czech Republic
E. N. Petrakakis is a PhD Candidate in Applied Theoretical Laser – Matter Interaction Physics at the Dept. Material Science & Technology of Univ. of Crete under the supervision of Dr. Tsibidis George. He received his M.Sc. in Advanced Theoretical Physics from University of Crete in 2016. He has been a Temporary Associate Researcher in the A&M Texas University of Qatar in 2017. He has been a scientific collaborator and short temporary visitor to the Lasers, Plasmas and Photonic Processes (LP3) laboratory in Aix – Marseille University at France.
Education
- 2016 Master of Science, Advanced Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
- 2014, Bachelor of Science, Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
Career
- 12/2018 - Today, PhD Candidate, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 10/2018 – Scientific Collaboration and short visit at LP3, Aix – Marseille University, France
- 10/2017 - Temporary Associate Researcher at A&M Texas University of Qatar
- 02/2014 - 10/2016, Master of Science, Advanced Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
- 1/2009 – 7/2014, Bachelor of Science, Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
Interests
- Multi-Scale Ultrafast Laser – Matter Interaction Modelling
- Thermal, Reaction – Diffusion and Fluid Dynamical Kinetic Equations
- Laser Induced Plasma Generation
- Periodic Structure Formation via Surface Plasmon Excitation
- Out of Equilibrium Excitation & Relaxation Dynamics in Laser Excited Metals
- Non – Linear Effects in Laser – Semiconductor Dynamics in the Mid –IR Regime
- Laser Surface Melting Front Movement in Sub – Ablation Conditions
- Near Field Electromagnetic Scattering by Plasmonic Nanostructures
- Non-Linear Schrödinger Equation – Paraxial Wave Equation
- Monte Carlo – Quantum Trajectory Dynamics, Parallel Cluster Computing
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2012 , First chosen candidate for the “Thales” Scholarship to participate in the construction of the first and only existing heavy ion accelerator in Greece, the 5.5MV TANDEM at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP), of the National Centre for Scientif
