Costas Galiotis
Costas Galiotis is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the ERC Advanced – Tailoring Graphene project. He is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering (Univ. of Patras) and former Director of the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT) which is one of the 7 academic research institutions of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH).
Emmanuel N. Koukaras
Dr. Emmanuel N. Koukaras is a Senior Research Fellow of the Composite and Nanomaterials Laboratory of FORTH/ICE-HT. He has a BSc in Physics, MSc in Theoretical and Computational Physics, and a PhD in Computational Condensed Matter Physics, all from the Department of Physics of the Univerisity of Patras. His PhD thesis is entitled «Theoretical study of silicon based nanoparticles and nanosystems». During his MSc studies he received the "K. Karatheodori" research scholarship.
Panagiotis Pappas
Post-Doctoral Researcher
• Diploma in Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece, 2001
• PhD in Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece, 2010
Research activities:
• Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) wires as activators in polymers & composites
• Fracture behaviour and mechanical properties of composites
Labrini Sygellou
Education:
• Bachelor, Dept. of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece, 1999
• MSc, Materials Science and Technology, University of Patras, Department of Chemical Engineering, Greece, 2005
• PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Department of Chemical Engineering, Greece, 2005
George Trakakis
Dr. Georgios Trakakis is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at FORTH/ICE-HT and a member of the Composites & Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, CNM, since 2006. He received his BSc from the Department of Materials Science of the University of Patras in 2007 and his MSc and PhD from Interdepartmental Program “Polymer Science and Technology”, University of Patras, Greece, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. His PhD thesis was about “Fabrication and characterization of polymer nanocomposites”.
John Parthenios
Dr. J. Parthenios (FORTH/ ICE-HT): He is an Associate Application scientist at FORTH/ICEHT since February 2009. He received his university degree in the Dept of Physics of the University of Patras in 1988 and his PhD degree from the same department in 1996. He carried out post- doctoral research for 9 years in FORTH/ICE-HT working mainly in the filed of smart materials and structures. During 2008 he was a visiting scientist at University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College. His current research activities lie around the study of mechanical properties of polymers and nanocomposites materials.
Konstantinos Papagelis
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).
George Kalosakas
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).
Ioannis Polyzos
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.
Maria Giovanna Pastore Carbone
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.
Charalampos Androulidakis
Dr Charalampos Androulidakis is a post-doc fellow in the FORTH/ICEHT institute and holds a diploma and a Masters Degree in civil engineering from Universities of Patras and Thessaly. His Ph.D. studies were in material science and specifically in nanomechanics of graphene. He is a licensed Civil Engineer and a registered member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is a member of the Composites & Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, CNM, since 2011.
Christos Pavlou
Christos Pavlou, acquired his BSc in Material Science in 2010 from the Department of Material Science, at the University of Patras, his thesis was on ‘investigation of micromachining operations and tool wear’ at the LMS laboratory, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, at the University of Patras. Moreover his was a faculty member at the LMS laboratory, as an external collaborator, from the 2005 to 2010, where he participated in various projects.
George Paterakis
George Paterakis is a Doctoral Student at the Department of Chemical Engineering (Univ. of Patras) working with CVD graphene stress-strain tests, supervised by Professor Costas Galiotis. Furthermore he is a member of the Composites & Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (CNM) and at the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (FORTH/ICE-HT), since 2013. He received his university degree in the Department of Materials Science (Univ. of Patras) in 2012 and his MSc degree from the Interdepartmental of Polymer Science & Technology (Univ. of Patras) on the “Photovoltaic cells and devices using polymeric materials and graphene layers” in 2015. He has authored 3 scientific papers on international journals and has actively participated in 10 conferences.
Nikolaos Delikoukos
Nikolaos Delikoukos, received his university degree in the Department of Materials Science of the University of Patras in 2011 and his master degree in Polymer Science and Technologies in 2015 from Physics Department of University of Patras. His thesis was conducted at ITE/IEXMH and he investigated the behavior of p-doped exfoliated and CVD graphene onto silicon oxide via Raman, Ultraviolet photoelectron and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, supervised by Assistant Professor Konstantinos Papagelis.
Konstantinos Dassios
Lecturer, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina
Education:
• Diploma in Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 1996
• MSc in Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, 1998
• PhD in Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece, 2003
carried out at the Institute for Energy of the European Commission, Petten, The Netherlands
Dimitrios Sfyris
Education:
• BSc, Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece, 2002
• MSc, Mathematics/Mechanics, NTUA, Greece, 2003
• PhD, Mathematics/Mechanics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007
Georgia Tsoukleri
Dr. Georgia Tsoukleri is a Post Doctoral Researcher at FORTH/ICE-HT and a member of the Composites & Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, CNM, since 2004. She received her university degree in the Dept. of Materials Science of the University of Patras in 2005 and her PhD degree from Physics Department of University of Patras on the “Mechanical and spectroscopic study of reinforced materials based on graphene and model polymeric composites” in 2013.
Theodosis Theodosiou
Dr. Theodosis C. Theodosiou – University of Patras (Patras, Greece) holds a Diploma (2004) in Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics and a Ph.D. (2010) in Mechanical Engineering in the area of materials science and nanotechnology from the University of Patras. He has more than ten years’ experience in material modeling, composite structures, nanocomposites and structural health monitoring (SHM).
Niki Sotiriou
Niki Sotiriou received her BSc in Physics from the University of Patras and is currently a Postgraduate student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, of the University of Patras.Her research interests are in the fields of plasma processing for the deposition of thin-films and surface treatment. Her current research activities are focused on the synthesis of graphene by PECVD (Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition).
George Anagnostopoulos
Dr. George Anagnostopoulos is a Senior Research Fellow of the Composite and Nanomaterials Laboratory of FORTH/ICE-HT. He has a BSc in Chemical Engineering of NTUA, a MSc in Polymer Science and Technology of University of Patras and a PhD in Chemical Engineering of NTUA. His PhD thesis is entitled: “Study of stress transfer mechanisms and the development and propagation of failure in fiber reinforced composites”. During his BSc and MSc studies he received scholarships by the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece and University of Patras, respectively, for his performance. As a PhD student, he was responsible for planning and scientific completion of a project with a title: “Study and Development of Smart Polymer Matrix Composites Incorporating Shape Memory Alloy Wires”, funded by General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education of Greece
Anastasios Manikas
Dr. Anastasios Manikas received her BSc. in Physics from the Department of Physics of the University of Patras, Greece in 2003, a M.Sc. and a PhD in Polymer Science and Technology from University of Patras in 2006 and 2011 respectively. He did 3 years post doctoral research in Italian Institute of Technology at Naples (Italy) focused on the development and the characterization of biosensors and biomaterials for ultra high molecular detection and then he joined the group of Professor Galiotis working for the European project (Newspec) that deals with the New cost-effective and sustainable polyethylene based carbon fibres for volume market applications.
Konstantinia Papadimitriou
Dr. Papadimitriou D. Konstantinia is a Postdoc Fellow at FORTH/ICEHT since 2012. She has a BSc in Chemistry, a M.Sc. and a PhD in Polymer Science and Technology both from the Dept. of Chemisty, Advanced Polymers Hybrid Nanomaterials Research Laboratory, University of Patras. Her research was based on the synthesis and characterization of novel linear and cross-linked polymer electrolytes for use in High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (HT-PEMFCs) under the supervision of Prof. J. K. Kallitsis.
Asemina Toliza
Asemina Toliza obtained her diploma in Chemical Engineering in 1996 (Polytechnic School of University of Patras) with her Thesis entitled: "Polymer Fractionation in conjunction with the use of chromatographic methods".
During the Summer period before obtaining her degree, she was trained in industrial environment. She has worked both in University and Institutional research laboratories and in Industry. For almost five years, she worked as a research assistant at the Laboratory of “Transport Phenomena and Physicochemical Hydrodynamics” Chemical Eng. Department, University of Patras.
Nikolaos Koutroumanis
Nikolaos Koutroumanis, is a Ph.D. student in department of Chemical Engineering at University of Patras. He received his BSc and his MSc from the Department of Materials Science of the University of Patras in 2012 and 2014, respectively. His MSc thesis was about “Characterization of high-strength carbon fiber”.
Antonios Michail
Antonios Michail received his BSc in Physics from the University of Patras in 2013 and he is currently a post graduate student in the Department of Physics of the University of Patras. His research activities are focused on the production of two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS2 via CVD methods as well as their optical characterization by means of Raman and Photoluminescence spectroscopies. He has authored one scientific paper in an international refereed journal and participated in one national and one international conference.
Lambros Seremetis
Lampros Seremetis, is a PhD student at FORTH/ICE-HT and a member of the Composites & Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (CNM) since 2011. He received his BSc from the Department of physics of the University of Patras in 2009 and his MSc from the Interdepartmental Program “Polymer Science and Technology”, University of Patras, Greece, in 2014. His MSc thesis entitled “Study of graphene/polymer substrate interaction via Raman Spectroscopy”.
Marinos Dimitropoulos
Marinos Dimitropoulos is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Laboratory (Department of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Patras). He is also a research assistant at the Composites and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (FORTH/ICE-HT) since 2017. He received his B.Sc. in Physics (2015) and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (2018) from University of Patras. His Ph.D. research is focused on the synthesis of two-dimensional material heterostructures and their characterization at the nanoscale.
Christos Tsakonas
Christos Tsakonas received his diploma in Chemical Engineering from the University of Patras in 2014 and his MSc in Computational Mechanics from National Technical University of Athens in 2017. His MSc work focused on Investigation of Chemical Vapor Deposition Processes using computational Models. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras as PhD student in 2018. His current research focused on Production of graphene sheets with chemical vapour deposition by solid and liquid catalytic routes.
George Gorgolis
Dr. George Gorgolis is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at FORTH/ICE-HT and a member of the
Composites & Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, CNM, since 2016. He received his BSc and his MSc
from the Department of Materials Science of the University of Patras in 2009 and in 2012, respectively.
His PhD thesis was about “Synthesis and environmental aging of novel nanocomposite materials”. He has
coauthored 5 scientific papers in international journals and participated to more than 10 conferences. His
current research activity is focused on the application of graphene and 2D materials for the protection of
artworks.