Dr. Minas M. Stylianakis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Nursing of the Hellenic Mediterranean University. Since July 2020, he has joined the Hybrid Nanostructures group at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) – Hellas as a Research Scientist. He received his PhD degree in Chemistry, in 2015 from the University of Crete. His expertise lies in the synthesis, solution processing and characterization of novel universal carbon- and graphene-based materials, 2D materials, metal oxides and organic compounds (small molecules and polymers). His fields of interest include the development of biomedical and environmental applications, regenerative nanomedicine (drug-delivery systems, implants design/development and tissue engineering), self-healing and antimicrobial coatings, additive manufacturing and energy production and storage. He has published 56 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, 3 book chapters, one edited book, 3 peer-reviewed articles in conference proceedings and 2 laboratory manuals. To date, he has received 2235 citations (2118 non-self), with an h-index of 28 (Scopus 01/2022), (h-index 30, 2800 citations, Google Scholar 01/2022). He has presented his work in 4 invited talks in international meetings and in more than 50 times in international conferences. He also serves as Referee, Guest Editor and Editorial Board Member in high impact international scientific journals. Finally, he is a certified evaluator for the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece, since 2017.
Interests
- Biomedical and Environmental applications
- Regenerative nanomedicine and tissue engineering
- Self-healing polymers and composites
- Drug delivery systems incorporating 2D materials
- Biomimetic scaffold materials
- Self-healing polymers and composites
- Additive manufacturing – 3D printing
- Water treatment technologies (desalination, wastewater treatment)
- 2D materials treatment with polymers, small molecules, biomolecules, metal atoms and heteroatoms
- Inks preparation for printed applications
- Optoelectronics, energy generation and storage applications
- Organic and perovskite solar cells
- Lubricants incorporating nanomaterials as additives
Prof Makris works on Methods and analogies related to condensed matter physics and photonics, with emphasis in four different areas: nonlinear optics in lattices, non-hermitian photonics and parity-time (PT)-symmetry, nanophotonics, and semiclassical laser physics for complex structures.
Education
- 2008, PhD in Theoretical Photonics, School of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando (USA)
- 2002, B.Sc. National tecnhical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Career
- 2015 - , Assistant Professor, Physics Dpt, Univ of Crete, Greece
- 2012 - 2015, Marie Curie International Outgoing fellow (MC-IOF) between Princeton University, USA and TU-Wien, Austria.
- 2011, Lecturer, Institute for Theoretical Physics of Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien), Austria
- 2008 - 2010, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
George Kopidakis received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Crete and a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Iowa State University in 1995. After his graduate work at Ames Laboratory-Iowa State University, USA, he worked as a research assistant professor at the Center for Atomic-Scale Materials Physics (CAMP), Dept. of Physics, Technical University of Denmark. He then moved to Laboratoire Leon Brillouin (CEA-CNRS), Saclay, France, initially with an individual Marie Curie EC post-doctoral fellowship and later as a CNRS research associate. He was a research associate at the Physics Dept. and a visiting associate professor at the Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, where he was appointed assistant professor in 2003. He is also affiliated researcher at FORTH since 2005.
Interests
- Theory and modeling of materials
- Current activities include atomistic simulations with quantum and classical models for the structural, vibrational, mechanical, electronic, optical properties of amorphous and nanostructured materials, fundamentals and applications of localization and tra
Associate Professor Ioannis N. Remediakis, got his bachelor (1997), masters (1998) PhD (2002) degrees from the Department of Physics, University of Crete. His PhD research (simulations for alloyed semiconductor surfaces) was performed at Harvard University. Between 2002 and 2008, he held teaching and research appointments at the University of Ioannina, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Crete. In 2008, he joined Department of Materials Science and Technology, and shortly after he joined IESL as affiliated University Faculty Member.
Interests
- First-principles computer simulations for low-dimensional systems with applications to nano-chemistry (shape and properties of metal nanoparticles, heterogeneous catalysis) and nano-physics (two-dimensional semiconductors, nanostructured solids).
- Electronic structure theory.
Emmanouil Glynos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Crete. He received his PhD in Materials Science, in in the core subject of Polymer Physics, at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. From 2008 until 2013 he did his postdoctoral research at the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and in 2013, he was appointed as a Research Investigator at the University of Michigan, at the Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion. From 2015 to 2021 he was a Research Scientist at FORTH/IESL. He has published 48 papers in referred international journals, 1 book chapter and 6 in Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings. His work has received 1659 citations with an h-index = 24 and i10-index = 39 (as given by Scopus on 8 December 2021). His work has been presented in more than 80 times in International Conferences and Colloquia; 14 invited in International Meetings and 18 invited at Universities and Research Centers.
Education
- 2007, PhD, Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering and Electronics & Centre for Materials Science and Engineering - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- 2002, B.Sc., Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece
Career
- 11/2021 - Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece
- 07/2018 - 10/2021, Research Associate at Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
- 07/2017 - 06/2018 Stavros Niarchos Research Fellow at Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
- 01/2015 - 06/2017 Research Associate at Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
- 02/2013 - 11/2014 Research Investigator, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.
- 02/2008 - 01/2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.
- 04/2007 - 11/2007 Research Assistant, Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Interests
- Solid State Polymer Electrolytes
- Structure-property Relationship in Nanostructured Polymer Materials
- Polymer Photovoltaic Devices/Organic Electronics
- Structure and Dynamics of Polymers on Surfaces and Interfaces: Thin Films and Polymer Nanocomposites
- Effect of Macromolecular Architecture of the Physical Properties of Polymer Under Confinement
- Nano/micromechanics of Materials
Sophia Sotiropoulou is physicist, University of Athens (1991), post graduated in Physical methods in Archaeology and Museography, Univ. of Bordeaux (1993) and PhD in Chemical Engineering at the NTUA (2000). She is devoted to heritage science, conducting research in the development of analytical strategies and optimization of methodologies for the study of a wide range of archaeological materials, artworks and heritage objects or structures. She has been specialized in applying imaging techniques, optical, photometric and spectroscopic methods for the analysis of materials, the study of mechanisms of natural aging and the characterization of paint surfaces (including optical, chemical and visually perceptible properties) of heritage objects.
Education
- 2000, Phd, National Technical University of Athens, Department of Chemical Engineering, Section of Materials Science, Greece
- 1993, D.E.S.S.- “Méthodes Physiques en Archéologie et Muséographie”, BORDEAUX I (Department of Science and Technology), France
- 1993, D.E.A. - “Histoire, Civilisation: Archéologie des mondes antiques”, University of BORDEAUX III (Department of Social and Human Sciences), France
- 1992, D.E.U.G. History of Art, PARIS X NANTERRE (Paris Nanterre University). France
- 1991, Diploma of Physics, Physics Department, School of Sciences, University of Athens, Greece
Career
- 2018 to present, Senior Research Associate, FORTH – Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser(IESL), Greece
- 2010 to present, Assistant Module Coordinator (AMC) at "General Principles of Light, Hellenic Open University (HOU) - School of Applied Arts”- Master course "Lighting Design, Greece
- 1996 to 2017, Senior researcher, “Ormylia” Foundation - Art Diagnosis Centre (OfADC) , GREECE
- 1993 to 1996, Research Associate, N. C. S. R. “Demokritos”, Institute of Materials Science, Laboratory of Archaeometry , Greece
Interests
- Heritage Science
- Colour Science
- Technology of Wall paintings
- Pigments Analysis
- Technical imaging
- Molecular Spectroscopies (microRaman, FTIR)
- XRF elemental analysis
- Ancient Polychromy
- Aegean Prehistory
- Museum Lighting
