My research training aims to advance my field of expertise in energy materials. The program rests on the growth, fundamental science and physical - chemical characterisation of low-dimensional intercalation compounds of metal-chalcogenides. The work is designed around the role of non-trivial topology of electronic/ magentic interactions, when structural rearrangements at the atomic scale accompany the different flow of electrons in superconductors and the motion of charges in structurally related energy storage materials.  

Ph.D. dissertation carried out at IESL-FORTH, entitled "Electron Correlations in Layered Metal Chalcogenides: Structure and Physical Properties" (2024); degree awarding Institution, University of Crete (Dept. of Materials Science and Technology).

Education

• 2019, M.Sc. Photonics and Nanoelectronics; University of Crete, Greece
• 2017, B.Sc. Materials Science and Technology; University of Crete, Greece

Interests

• enhanced electron-electron interactions in low-dimensional materials
• emergent quantum phenomena in chalcogenide superconductors
• energy materials for power transmission

Ph.D. dissertation carried out at IESL-FORTH, entitled "Growth and Organization of Hybrid Nanocrystals: Structural, Electronic and Magnetic Properties" (2017); degree awarded by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Dept. of Physics).

Education

• 2010, M.Sc. Physics and Technology of Materials; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2006, B.Sc. Physics; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Interests

• nanocrystals with controlled geometry and composition
• directed-assembly of nanocrystals
• magnetic and optical properties of mesoscale nanoparticle networks

Ph.D. dissertation carried out at IESL-FORTH, entitled "Synthesis and Characterisation of Hybrid Nanocrystal Structures with Tailored Properties" (2012); degree awarded by the University of Crete (Dept. of Chemistry).

Education

• 2006, M.Sc. Physics and Technology of Materials; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2004, B.Sc. Physics; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Interests

• synthesis and understanding of high quality magnetic nanocrystals
• nanoparticle assembly - nanoclusters
• secondary colloidal nanostructures for bio-imaging (cf. MRI)

2020 - present: ONRG post-doctoral fellow at IESL-FORTH; aims to develop solvo-thermal growth approaches and the understading of the global structure modifications, pertaining to the T_c evolution in intercalated, expaned-lattice FeSe-based supercoductors.

Education

• 2019, Ph.D. Chemistry; University of Leeds, UK
• 2015, M.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry and Introduction to Chemical Research; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Interests

• spin-crossover molecular materials
• light-induced switching in metal-organic frameworks
• magnetic materials and magnetism
• organometallic chemistry
• X-ray crystallography
• perovksites & energy conversion

Dr. Lukas F. Buchmann received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Crete in 2010, having spent 3 years in our Group.
He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona (USA) and at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). 
Between 2015 and 2017 Lukas was a joint research associate at Aarhus University (Denmark) and in our group. After staying 
two more years at Aarhus University, Lukas went to Switzerland in 2019, where he is now a Senior Expert in Software and Optical 
Measurements at FISBA AG.

Education

• 2010: PhD in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
• 2007: M.Sc. in Elementary Particle Theory, University of Durham, Durham, England
• 2006: B.Sc. in Physics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Career

• 2015-2019 Research Associate, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2013-2015 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Post-Doctoral Researcher
• 2010-2013 Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Interests

• Quantum Technology & Metrology
• Quantum Optics
• Quantum/Classical Transition
• Nonlinear Phenomena

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2013-2015: SNSF Fellow

Education

• 2007, M.Sc. Finance; University of Liverpool, UK
• 2004, Ph.D. Physics; Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• 2001, M.Sc. Enngineering Physics; Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Interests

• Magnetic oxides and noble metal nanocomposites
• Electronic structure modulations at interfaces
• Tunneling spectroscopy simulations
• Ab initio theoretical studies of hybvrid nanomaterials

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2006, University of Liverpool Alumni Scholarship, UK
• 2004, EU Descartes Research Prize finalist with the research group at CMS, Vienna, Austria
• 2001, Joint scholarship of Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Vienna University of Technology

Education

• 2006, Ph.D. Physics; Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
• 2003, M.Sc. Materials Science; Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
• 1999, B.Sc. Materials Science; Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, China.

Interests

• Transport from single functional organic molecules or nanocrystals
• Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured semiconductor materials
• Micro/nano fabrication technologies
• Colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) materials

Education

• 2004, Ph.D. Chemistry; University of Brest, France.
• 1999, M.Sc. Chemistry; University of Brest, France.
• 1998, B.Sc. Chemistry; University of Brest, France.

Interests

• New molecular materials with magnetic and/or conducting properties
• Wet chemistry pathways for shape controlled nanoparticles
• Lattice mis-matched hybrid nanocrystals
• Nanomaterials for biological labelling or magneto-optical recording