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]

Entanglement Engineering in Spin Defects: From Photonic Graph States to Nuclear Spin Memories [2]

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* [3]

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 [4]

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 [5]

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 [6]

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 [7]

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 [8]

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 [9]

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 [10]

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 [11]

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 [12]

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 [13]

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 [14]

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 [15]

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 [16]

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 [17]

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 [18]

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 [19]

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 [20]

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 [21]

Dr. Georgios Nikolopoulos
FORTH / IESL, Heraklion Crete, Greece
30/10/2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A. Payatakes