VANGELIS TZARDIS

 

 

Demetrios Intzes is a BSc student at the Physics Department, University of Crete. He joined IESL-FORTH to pursue his undergraduate thesis entitled “On-line monitoring of laser assisted removal of aged varnishes from paintings using photo-acoustics spectroscopy”.
 

Interests

• Laser cleaning of painted arworks
• Photo-acoustics spectroscopy

Dimitrios Chatzigiannis graduated from the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, TEI of Athens, Greece in 2007. He also fulfilled the MA Principles of Conservation at UCL, London, UK in 2010. Through these years he has been engaged in various conservation projects, including wall paintings, panel paintings and wooden artifacts conservation. His professional interests cover a wide range of topics, including: philosophical and political aspects of the conservation of cultural heritage, interdisciplinary collaboration between conservation and other fields, wall paintings conservation.

Since 2019, he is a PhD candidate at the Chemistry Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece and a member of the ‘’Photonics for Heritage Science’’ group of the IESL-FORTH. The topic of his research is related to the removal of salt encrustations from wall paintings’ surfaces, using innovative applications and to the broader scientific study of wall paintings. In this framework, he has the chance to explore the broader interactions between science and heritage conservation.

Education

• 2019 – today : PhD candidate, Chemistry Department, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2009 – 2010 : MA in Principles of Conservation, Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL), UK
• 2001 – 2007 : Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art,Technological Educational Institute of Athens (now University of West Attica), Greece.

Career

• 2019 – today: Photonics for Heritage Science group, IESL-FORTH.
• 2007 – today: Filed conservation projects in the public and private sector.

Interests

• Cultural Heritage conservation
• Wall paintings conservation
• Salts identification and removal
• Wall paintings & mortals analysis
• Wall paintings materials and techniques

Other

Member of the Board of the Association of Conservator of Antiquities and Works of Art – Greece (ACAWA – Greece)

Lampros is a recent graduate M.Sc. student from the Department of Chemistry, at the University of Crete. He successfully finished his B.Sc. at the same department, completing his thesis at Prof. K. Velonia Lab at the Department of Material Science and Technology of the same University. He joined IESL-FORTH for his M.Sc. thesis, concentrating on LIBS and Machine Learning Algorithms. Between the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. he went in UK for a four months Erasmus+ Internship at Prof. G. Mantovani Group, at the University of Nottingham, and after the end of his M.Sc. studies he went in Denmark for a second Erasmus+ Internship at Prof. N. Hatzakis Lab, at the University of Copenhagen.

Education

• 2021, M.Sc. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Greece
• 2018, B.Sc. in Chemistry (7.36/10), Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Greece

Interests

• Analytical Chemistry
• Spectroscopy
• Machine Learning

Education

• 2014-2019: Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Career

• 2020-2022: Master of Science - Photonics and Nanoelectronics, University of Crete

Interests

• Telecommunications, Photonics and Electromagnetic Fields, Quantum Optics

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2020-2022: Scholarship from the Bodossaki Foundation

Education

• 2021- PhD Student, IESL, FORTH and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• 2019-2021: M.Sc. Photonics-Nanoelectronics, University of Crete
• 2015-2019: B.Sc. Physics, University of Crete

Interests

• Ultracold atoms
• Disordered systems
• Quantum and classical open systems

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2021: Manasaki Award for excellent perfomance as a master’s student
• 2019: 1st in class (of 174), B.Sc. Physics degree UOC
• 2015: One of the five members of the Greek team for the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO)
• 2015: 3rd place in the National Chemistry Olympiad
• 2015: Entered 1st in the Physics Department of the UOC (highest grade in National University Entrance Examinations)
• 2015: Karidis award for excellent performance in National University Entrance Examinations
• 2011-2013: Hellenic Mathematical Society: awards for succeeding in the competitions Thales and Euclid

Stamatakis Alexandros is an MSc student at the Inter-institutional Program “Nanotechnology for Energy Applications”. He received his Bachelor in Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Patras, Greece, in 2019. During his MSc program, he joined the Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- Processing Group of IESL-FORTH for his MSc thesis, working on Advanced Nanomaterials for Water Treatment Applications.

Education

• 2020-Today, MSc student, “Nanotechnology for Energy Applications”, Inter-institutional Postgraduate Program
• 2019- BEng in Environmental Engineering, University of Patras

Career

• 1/9/2020 - Today, MSc Thesis “Advanced Nanomaterials for Water Treatment Applications”, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
• 1/5/2018 – 1/12/2018, BEng Thesis “Hybrid Reactor Systems for Landfill Leachate Treatment”, Laboratory of Environmental Systems, University of Patras
• 1/7/2018 – 31/8/2018, Bachelor Internship as an Environmental Engineer, Technical Office “Tzoganis Dimitrios”

Interests

• Water Treatment Applications
• Pulsed Laser Deposition
• Laser Ablation in Liquids
• Characterization Techniques (Raman, SEM, TEM, XRD, UV-VIS)

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 1st Graduate of the Department of Environmental Engineering at year 2019.
• Participant of 5th workshop of Chemical Engineering at Patras in 2019 with conference speech “Study of NH4+ removal efficiency on sanitary landfill leachates in lab- and pilot- scale adsorption.
• Distinction in English for achieving over 90% in every section.

 

Nikolaos Diakos is a MSc candidate at the “Nanotechnology      for Energy Applications” of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (Heraklion, Crete, Greece). He received his in 2017. In 2016, he joined Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- Processing Laboratory of IESL-FORTH, for his Bachelor Thesis entitled “Consecration of periodic structures on Titanium Alley surfaces using an ultra-fast femtosecond laser for biological applicants”. In 2020, he joined the Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- Processing Laboratory of IESL-FORTH group as a master student and his current research interests concern the development of laser based methods for the fabrication of Graphene Related Materials for application in different layers of Perovskite Solar Cells to enhance the efficiency and long term stability of the devices.

Education

• 2019-Today, MSc candidate at the “Nanotechnology for Energy Applications” of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (Heraklion, Crete, Greece).
• 2010-2017, Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Materials Science and Technology, Department of Materials Science and Technology, UoC. (Heraklion, Crete, Greece)

Interests

• Nanotechnology and Nanosciences
• Nanomaterials for energy applications
• Laser – Mater interaction