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]

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: From Chemistry to Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics [2]

Prof. Angeliki Giannouli
Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion Crete, Greece
15/07/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

Growing functionality: inorganic thin films on carbon nanoarchitectures [3]

Dr. Brigitte Vigolo
Institut Jean Lamour, Université de Lorraine - CNRS, Nancy, France
14/07/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

Engineering Electromagnetic Waves with Metamaterials and Metasurfaces: From Fundamental Concepts to Advanced Electromagnetic Devices [4]

Prof. Anna Tasolamprou
Department of Physics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
08/07/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

How wide is too wide? Exploring the extreme limits of semiconductor band gaps with first-principles calculations [5]

Prof. Emmanouil Kioupakis
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
24/06/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

Modern Approaches in the Development of Nanotechnology-Based Medicines and Vaccines: Scientific Evidence and Regulatory Framework [6]

Prof. Costas Demetzos
Faculty of Pharmacy National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
15/06/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

Soft matter studied by neutron scattering and complementary methods [7]

Dr. Margarita Kruteva
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
04/06/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A. Payatakes

Structure and Dynamics of Large Ring Polymers in their own melt and in ring/linear blends [8]

Prof. Dieter Richter
Jülich Center for Neutron Science, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
03/06/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A. Payatakes

Entanglement Engineering in Spin Defects: From Photonic Graph States to Nuclear Spin Memories [9]

Prof. Edwin Barnes
Dept. of Physics, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, USA
29/05/2026 - 11:00 to 12:30
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

Materials IMAGEnation & REALization. Application of image recognition techniques in materials discovery* [10]

Prof. George E. Froudakis
Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion Crete, Greece
27/05/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

Optical Wireless Communications and Sensing for 6G: Enabling Intelligent Environments with Light [11]

Dr Hanaa Abumarshoud
James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
20/05/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

From Lab to Life: Application-Driven Optical Fiber Sensors [12]

Dr. Maria Konstantaki
FORTH / IESL
13/05/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

Laser Technology: Where Research Meets Industry Cross-Fertilization Between Medical, Industrial and Cultural Heritage Applications [13]

Dr. Laura Bartoli
El.En. S.p.A.
10/03/2026 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis

From Functional Materials to Smart Gas Sensors for Air Quality, Health and Safety [14]

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 [15]

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 [16]

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 [17]

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 [18]

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 [19]

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 [20]

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 [21]

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