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
From Functional Materials to Smart Gas Sensors for Air Quality, Health and Safety
Dr. Emmanouil Gagaoudakis
FORTH / IESL, & Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete, Heraklion Crete, Greece
04/03/2026 - 12:00 to 13:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83896013212?pwd=0mHATFLSY8enGdd4q50et9MtI8wxWf.1
Terahertz Photonics: From High-Field Interaction to Nanoscale Sensing
Dr. Anastasios Koulouklidis
Dept. of Physics and Regensburg Center for Ultrafast Nanoscopy (RUN), Regensburg & Marvel Fusion GmbH, Munich, Germany
04/03/2026 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83750726230?pwd=7g0RLcDq5EaOM8kNlz2j2q2XCgxZ91.1
Scalable Metasurface Microwave Sensing: Bridging Laboratory Innovation and Real-World Deployment
Dr. Zacharias Viskadourakis
FORTH / IESL, Heraklion Crete, Greece
25/02/2026 - 12:00 to 13:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89892761024?pwd=rZpSBRmNJIi30KRPbRb5R2oiiOAix3.1
Multimodal Photonic Sensing for Environmental and Bio-Geochemical Diagnostics
Dr. Panagiotis Siozos
FORTH / IESL, Heraklion Crete, Greece
25/02/2026 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81349578664?pwd=RNZIF2ot3cP0vFFKoEyXH5ad77tItC.1
Integrated Plasmo-Photonic Sensors for Biochemical Applications
Dr. Dimitris Bellas
Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation & Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
18/02/2026 - 12:00 to 13:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81288018854?pwd=DSWFQDsw9mWOClMAtRwtWSmasPuEN8.1
Tunnel junctions as a multifunctional platform for optoelectronics and photonics
Dr. Sotirios Papadopoulos
Institute of Material Physics and Chemistry of Strasbourg, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
18/02/2026 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87367740225?pwd=Mz5p3R9xZ4pTDJyKUbzb9qSmSh55ou.1
From Charge Transport to Light Emission: Engineering High-Performance Organic Transistors
Dr. Caterina Soldano
Dept. of Electronics & Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
11/02/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Quantum optics in cold atomic gases
Prof. Georgios A. Siviloglou
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete, Heraklion Crete, Greece & International Quantum Academy & Southern Univ. of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
09/02/2026 - 15:00 to 16:30
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Deep Raman spectroscopy for biomedical applications
Dr. Martha Vardaki
Institute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic, Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
04/02/2026 - 12:00 to 13:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86272894255?pwd=iqrYuKayJTKoJQa3e2lRUfFzjnpwi1.1
Tailoring light-matter interactions in layered van der Waals materials
Prof. Ioannis Paradisanos
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Crete, Heraklion Crete, Greece
08/01/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Engineering Photonic Materials for Next-Generation Sensing
Dr. Athanasia Kostopoulou
FORTH / IESL, Heraklion Crete, Greece
15/12/2025 - 12:00 to 13:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86758442090?pwd=1rhhQS62wAFgtYURVA71A8hFrG1deE.1
Seeing Beyond: Towards the evolution of a new generation of surgical imaging systems
Dr. Nikolaos Deliolanis
Dept. of Medicine, Goethe University & Dept. of General, Visceral, Transplant, and Thoracic Surgery University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany
15/12/2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85302645307?pwd=yLM6d5Yqx7Yx8mRLLnwHcYnuttgLTp.1
Photonic Sensing Across Regimes: From Spectroscopy to Multifunctional Bio-Interfaces
Prof. Christos Markos
Department of Electrical & Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
11/12/2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81998122233?pwd=bnwH4D7h5tsf04cnWKHmdKF4bFH7ZS.1
The blackening of Chinese porcelain enamel glazes in anaerobic burial conditions: The Geldermalsen shipwreck
Dr. Kate van Lookeren Campagne
Dept of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
31/10/2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A. Payatakes
Quantum Optics and Quantum Technologies
Dr. Georgios Nikolopoulos
FORTH / IESL, Heraklion Crete, Greece
30/10/2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A. Payatakes
Νon-Carbon Backbone Polytelluroxane
Prof. Huaping Xu
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
16/10/2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
RoomA2, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Crete
Self-organization, Memory and Learning: From Driven Disordered Systems to Living Matter
Prof. Muhittin Mungan
Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
07/10/2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Laser based fabrication of micro/nanostructured materials for opto-sensing applications
Dr. Klini Argyro
FORTH / IESL
06/10/2025 - 13:00 to 15:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
CAN SOMETHING THAT IS CALLED “SUB” BE SUPERB? THE CASE OF SUBPHTHALOCYANINES
Prof. Tomas Torres
Departamento de Química Orgánica and Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
25/09/2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
Department of Chemistry Seminar Room
Computational Characterization of Metallic and Semiconducting Materials via Many-Body Perturbation Theory
Prof. Cem Sevik
COMMIT, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
27/08/2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis