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
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
Core-Shell Semiconductor Nanowires: Unique Possibilities, Unique Challenges
Dr. Emmanouil Dimakis
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
16/07/2025 - 12:00 to 13:30
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Guiding Trojan Beams via Lagrange Points
Prof. Mercedeh Khajavikhan
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
01/07/2025 - 11:00 to 12:30
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Polymers for Electronics and Bioelectronics
Dr. Eleni Pavlopoulou
FORTH / IESL, Heraklion Crete, Greece
17/06/2025 - 11:00 to 12:30
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Biofabrication Technologies to Instruct Regeneration
Prof. Lorenzo Moroni
Maastricht University, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht, The Netherlands
29/05/2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Deep and Fast Imaging: SWIM and SLIDE for Nonlinear Microscopy with New Laser Sources
Dr. Alexandra Latshaw
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
21/05/2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Turning electricity into chemical bonds: industrially relevant electrocatalysis from lab-scale to electrolyzer stacks
Dr. Michele Ferri
Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy
11/04/2025 - 11:00 to 13:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Embedding Pd into Tin Oxide Drastically Enhances Gas Sensing
Prof. Sotiris E. Pratsinis
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
11/12/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A. Payatakes
Particle Redistribution in Complex Flow of Complex Fluids
Dr. Andrew Clark
Schlumberger Cambridge Research, Cambridge, U.K.
04/11/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Looking and listening to complex biological systems
Dr. Giannis Zacharakis
FORTH / IESL, Heraklion Crete, Greece
02/10/2024 - 11:00 to 12:30
FORTH Seminar Room: A. Payatakes
Femtosecond Laser spectroscopy in Solid State
Dr. Panagiotis Loukakos
FORTH / IESL, Heraklion Crete, Greece
25/09/2024 - 11:00 to 12:30
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Processing and characterization of 2D materials for energy applications
Ilias-Panagiotis Oikonomou
School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin The University of Dublin, Ireland
23/09/2024 - 16:00 to 18:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Fine-Tuning the Surface and Interfacial Properties of Nanoparticles to Modulate and Control Assembly at Interfaces
Prof. Emmanuel P. Giannelis
Materials Science and Engineering Department, Cornell University, USA
23/09/2024 - 14:00 to 16:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Automatic design of optical nanostructures using machine learning
Prof. Philippe Tassin
Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology
16/09/2024 - 14:00 to 16:00
FORTH Seminar Room: S. Orphanoudakis
Mechanism of Micro and Nanoplastics Formation
Prof. Sanat K. Kumar
Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, USA
06/09/2024 - 17:00 to 18:30
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Emission and vibrational properties of two-dimensional layered metal-halide perovskites
Dr. Roman Krahne
Italian Institute of Technology (ΙΤΤ), Genoa, Italy
04/09/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: V. Dougalis
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