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 [1]

From Functional Materials to Smart Gas Sensors for Air Quality, Health and Safety [2]

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 [3]

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 [4]

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 [5]

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 [6]

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 [7]

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 [8]

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 [9]

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 [10]

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 [11]

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 [12]

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 [13]

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 [14]

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 [15]

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 [16]

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 [17]

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 [18]

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 [19]

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 [20]

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 [21]

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