1. Stratis Maroudas,
2. Fotini Pliagou,
3. Pelopidas Papageorgiou,
4. Maria Karanikola,
5. Irene Patera

Georgia Paraskevi Tsouvaltzi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras. She has received a master’s degree from the Interdepartmental Program entitled "Science and Technology of Polymer and Composite Materials” at the University of Patras. Her master thesis with the title “Study of Damping Behavior of Graphene based Nano-Composite Materials” was conducted at the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas / Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (FORTH/ICE-HT) and the department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Patras. She completed her undergraduate studies in the department of Material Science of the University of Patras with a thesis titled “Development characterization and functionalization of epoxy resin/copper oxide particle composites”.

Francesco Millucci is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics and Geology, University of Perugia (Italy), specializing in the recycling and upcycling of polymeric and composite materials. He holds an MSc in Physics from the University of Perugia, with a thesis focused on spectroscopic investigations of the volume phase transition in poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) microgels. He earned his PhD in 2025 from the same institution, developing sustainable protocols for the chemical recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste and composite materials. In 2024, he was a visiting PhD researcher at the Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Laboratory (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras). In 2025, he was formally appointed as an external collaborator with the same laboratory.

Dr. Elli Bellou has completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras, investigating the fracture behavior of graphene and graphene-based nanolaminates. Her doctoral thesis has been focused on understanding the mechanical failure mechanisms of graphene and graphene-based nanolaminates, under tensile loading conditions, elaborating innovative strategies  for the creation of a nano and sub-mm scale defect, and the study of stress distribution at their vicinity along with the crack propagation, using Raman spectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy combined with micro-mechanical testing. Beyond her Ph.D., she holds an M.Sc. in Photonics-Lasers and a B.Sc. in Physics, with earlier research experience in laser-based spectroscopy. Dr. Bellou has presented her findings at international conferences, published in leading journals, and contributed to graduate-level teaching, while actively promoting scientific outreach. Currently based at FORTH/ICE-HT, her work focuses on the production of 3D porous graphene using laser-assisted methods and their integration in energy storage devices.