Dr. Maria Giovanna Pastore Carbone is a Postdoc Fellow at FORTH/ICEHT since February 2015. She received her university degree in Materials Engineering in 2008 and her PhD degree in Materials and Structure Engineering in 2011, both from the Dept. of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II (Italy). During her PhD, she actively collaborated with Bridgestone Technical Center Europe (Roma, Italy) and visited the laboratories headed by Prof. Costas Galiotis at FORTH/ICEHT.

Dr Ioannis Polyzos is a Postdoctoral fellow at FORTH/ICE-HT since 2011. He received the B.Sc. in Physics and the M.Sc. in Physics with emphasis in Lasers from the University of Patras, Greece in 1997 and 2000 respectively. He obtained his PhD from the same University in 2006. His PhD thesis entitled «Study of multi-photon properties of Pyrylium salts and applications to three dimensional optical memories». In 2007, a postdoctoral fellowship from IKY was awarded him.

Dr. George Kalosakas is a Lecturer at the Department of Materials Science, Univ. of Patras, and visiting faculty member at FORTH/ICE-HT. He has BSc in Physics from the Department of Physics, Univ. of Athens, and MSc in Condensed Matter Physics and a PhD in Physics both from the Department of Physics, Univ. of Crete. He carried out post-doctoral research for more than three years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, working with Dr. Alan R. Bishop, and for more than two years at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden Germany. He has also visited for collaboration CEA-CNRS (Saclay, France), UC Berkeley (USA), Univ. of New Mexico (USA), Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby,Denmark), and NCSR Demokritos (Athens, Greece).

Dr. K. Papagelis is an Assistant Professor (since 2010) at the Department of Materials Science (Univ. of Patras) and visiting faculty member at FORTH/ICE-HT. He has MSc in Physics of Materials and a PhD in Physics both from the Department of Physics (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki). He carried out post- doctoral research for more than two years supported by the Marie Curie program of EU at the Univ. of Sussex (UK) in the lab of Prof. K. Prassides. After a short period as a contract Lecturer he held a Lecturer position (2005) at the Department of Materials Science (Univ. of Patras).