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.
George Karchilakis is currently a master student in 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.
Education
- 2020, Bachelor of Science, University of Crete, Department of Materials Science and Technology
Interests
- Polymer Synthesis
- Responsive colloids
- Anisotropic patchy colloids
- Polymer coatings and films
Georgios Dimitrios Fergadis is currently a postgraduate student in the Biomedical Engineering program of the Medical School 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. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, in 2020.
Education
- 2020, Bachelor of Science, University of Crete, Department of Materials Science and Technology
Interests
- Polymer synthesis and characterization
- Polymers for biomedical applications
- Self-assembly of polymers
- Drug delivery systems
Konstantinos Loukelis is currently a PhD candidate 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.
He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2016.
Education
- 2019, Master of Science, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens
- 2016, Bachelor of Science, Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National Kapodistrian University of Athens
Career
- bio
Interests
- Biomaterials for bone and vascular tissue engineering
- 3D printing, Bioprinting; Electrospinning
- Cell-biomaterial interactions including cell viability, morphology, differentiation
