PAST SEMINARS

The Institute fosters a wide variety of regular Seminars, Courses, conferences and other events to communicate ongoing research to the research community and the wider public.
Clicking on a specific event, details and associated files and information may be viewed.

Current events
It’s raining MEMS – Hallelujah!
Prof. Loukas Michalas
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, & FORTH / IESL, Greece
24/07/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Data-Driven Innovation in Broadband Emitting Layered Perovskites
Dr. Milena Arciniegas
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (ITT), Genova, Italy
10/07/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
AI accelerated materials discovery of van der Waals magnets
Prof. Trevor David Rhone
Dept. of Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
09/07/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Cell membrane biosensors as drivers for precision diagnostics
Dr. Anna-Maria Pappa
Department of Physics and Healthcare Innovation Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
28/06/2024 - 15:00 to 17:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Colloidal quantum dots for near-infrared optoelectronics
Dr. Francesco Di Stasio
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
26/06/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
New Pathways for Next-Generation Bioelectronic Devices and Energy-Harvesting Electronics
Dr. Charalampos Pitsalidis
Department of Physics and Healthcare Innovation Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
25/06/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Semiconductor nanocrystals for imaging and internal radiotherapy
Prof. Teresa Pellegrino
Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
19/06/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Time-Crystals
Prof. Mordechai (Moti) Segev
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
10/06/2024 - 15:00 to 17:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A. Payatakes
Plasmonic metamaterials for ultrasensitive label-fee optical biosensing
Prof. Alexander Grigorenko
Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester, U.K.
19/04/2024 - 12:30 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A Payatakes
Interfacial rheology of complex fluid-fluid layers and its role on the stability of protein-based emulsions
Prof. Antonio Guerrero
Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
27/03/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Electromagnetic meta-structures: Laser-based fabrication and exploitation in vacuum ultraviolet polarization control
Prof. Kuniaki Konishi
Institute for Photon Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
13/03/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
WAVESIM – world’s fastest full Maxwell & Helmholtz solver
Prof. Ivo Vellekoop
Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands
06/03/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86566243560?pwd=Sk4reTJ5ZU9ZL0NPQnNGd29XRXFuZz09
Advanced Materials and Devices for applications in gas sensing and photocatalysis
Prof. Vassilios Binas Prof. Binas Vassilios
Dept. of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & FORTH / IESL, Greece
28/02/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Adaptive membrane quantum well lasers for photonic applications
Prof. Vasilis Apostolopoulos
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete, Greece
21/02/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Designing All-Polymer Nanostructured Single-ion Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries
Prof. Emmanouil Glynos
Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, Univ. of Crete, & FORTH / IESL, Greece
14/02/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Advancing Hemodynamics Predictions through Thixo-Elastoviscoplastic Modeling of Human Blood
Prof. Yannis Dimakopoulos
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Patras, Greece
07/02/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Rheological determination of molecular weight distribution and architecture of polyolefins
Dr. Salvatore Costanzo
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
24/01/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Exploring the utility of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride as substrates in transmission electron microscopy for advanced materials characterization
Dr. Jenthe Verstraelen
University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
17/01/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Precision measurements at the quantum interface between light and atomic spin ensembles
Dr. Vasilakis Giorgos
FORTH / IESL
10/01/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Oxide semiconductors: from transparent materials to devices & applications - The case of NiO
Dr. Aperathitis Elias
FORTH / IESL
13/12/2023 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room 1