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
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
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