Evi Aspropotamiti joined our group as a diploma student, and she worked on quantum state discrimination, and some applications in a twin-field quantum key distribution protocol. In March 2020, she moved to the group of Prof. D. Psaltis, at EPFL in Lausanne, for post-graduate research.
Education
- 2020: B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
Career
- 2020: Post-graduate research, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests
- Quantum Cryptography
Postgraduate student in the division of Advanced Materials - Physical Chemistry at Department of Chemistry, University of Crete and member of the Hybrid Nanostructures Group of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas.
Education
- 2021, Bachelor of Science, University of Crete, Department of Chemistry
Interests
- Organic-Inorganic Nanohybrid Materials
- Thermal Properties of Nanocomposites Materials
- Polymer Crystallinity Under Inorganic Nanocomposite Confinement
- pH Responsive Polymers
Education
- 2021, M.Sc, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 2019, Bachelor, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece
Interests
- Characterization of Metals and Alloys
- Wetting of microstructured rough surfaces
- Polymer nanocomposite coatings
- Polymer surfaces and interfaces
Fereniki Moschogiannaki is an M.Sc. student in the master program
“Biomedical Engineering’’ at the Department of Medicine at the
University of Crete in Greece. She graduated from the Physics Department
of the University of Crete in 2020. In 2018, she joined the “Ultrafast
Laser Micro and Nano Processing” Group of the IESL, FORTH for her
Internship. She did her bachelor thesis, titled “Laser Microfabrication
of Porous Collagen Scaffolds for Biological Applications”, in
co-operation with the Neural Tissue Engineering Laboratory. Her current
research interests include bioengineering, biofabrication, biomaterials
and regenerative medicine.
Education
- 2020 – Today, M.Sc. Student - Department of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece.
- 2020 – Bachelor degree in Physics from University of Crete, Greece.
Career
- 03/2019 – 02/2020, Bachelor thesis, at FORTH, IESL, IMBB, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 06/2018 – 09/2018, Internship, IESL, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Interests
- Bioengineering
- Biofabrication with ultrashort pulsed laser
- Biomaterials
- Regenerative medicine
Matina Vlachou is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Materials Science & Technology at the University of Crete, Greece. She received her Master’s Degree from the same Department, Materials Science & Technology in 2019 and her Bachelor’s Degree in Physics in 2016. In 2019, she joined the Ultrafast Laser Micro and Nano Processing Group of the IESL, FORTH.
Education
- 2019-Today: PhD, Materials Science and Technology Department, University of Crete, Greece & IESL, FORTH
- 2019: Master’s Degree, Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete & IESL, FORTH
- 2016: Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Physics Department, University of Crete
Interests
- Material Science
- Light-matter interactions
- Laser Processing
- Ultrafast laser Pulses
- Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structures
- Biomimetic Surfaces
Serpil Kiokekli is a MSc candidate at the Materials Science and Technology Department at University of Crete, Greece. She received her BS degree in Chemistry Department from the same University in 2019. Her BS thesis included the use of bioinformatic tools for studying the mechanism of enzymatic hydrolysis in silico. During her undergraduate internship at the Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- Processing Group (IESL-FORTH), she trained on the ultrafast laser setup for designing various shapes on hard and soft materials, on the “Perforation of intraocular medical lenses with ultrafast laser pulses” project. Her current interests include research on the parameters that affect the colloidal nanocrystal shapes and, specifically, the morphology of perovskites in the form of clusters.
Education
- 2019-2021 MS in Materials Science and Technology, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
- 2015-2019 BS in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete
Career
- 15/4/20-Today MS Student at Nanomaterials subgroup, Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- Processing Group (IESL-FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 1/6-1/10/19 Undergraduate trainee at Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- Processing Group (IESL-FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Interests
- Chemical synthesis
- Perovskite nanocrystals
- In silico study of chemical mechanisms
- Laser processing
- Nanostructuring via laser ablation
- Biomimetics
