Invited Speakers

Plenary speakers (Confirmed)

Professor Federico Boscherini, Department of Physics, University of Bologna, Italy

"New opportunities to study dopants and defects in semiconductors with X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy"

Dr. Eric Dooryhee, CNRS, Institut Neel, Grenoble, France

"Looking into Art and Cultural Heritage with Synchrotron X-rays"

Professor Dr. Michael Farle, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

"Magnetism at the nanoscale"

Professor Karl Syassen, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany

"High-pressure studies of transition metal compounds located near the insulator-metal borderline"

Invited speakers (Confirmed)

Professor Dr. Alexei Erko, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Elektronenspeicherring BESSY II, Berlin, Germany

"Ultra-high time resolved XAS"

Dr. Dimitris Christofilos, School of Mathematics, Physics & Computational Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

"Optical Spectroscopy of Nanoobjects: Carbon nanotubes and metallic nanoparticles"

Dr. Eleftherios Iliopoulos, Department of Physics, University of Crete & Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers, FO.R.T.H., Greece

"Advancing III-Nitrides Epitaxy: From Kinetics to New Device Applications"

Dr. Eva Monroy, CEA  - INAC/SP2M/PSC, Grenoble, France

"Polar and semipolar GaN/AlN nanostructures for optoelectronic applications"

Dr. Irene Margiolaki, ESRF, Grenoble, France

"Complementary techniques for the study of biomaterials"

Dr. Maria Kafesaki, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece

"Manipulating light with optical metamaterials"

Dr. Nicolas Papageorgiou, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS, Université de la Méditerranée and Université de Provence, Marseille, France

"Transmission Electron Microscopy of Proteins and Single Particle 3D Reconstruction"

Dr. Leonidas Palilis, Institute of Microelectronics, N.C.S.R. ''Demokritos'', Greece & Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece

"Molecular & polymeric organic semiconductors and their applications in plastic optoelectronic & photonic devices."

Dr. Panagiotis Patsalas, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece

"Complex conducting nitrides: Synthesis, structure, properties and applications"

Dr. Panagiotis Poulopoulos, Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Greece

"Magnetic domains microscopy of thin and nanostructured magnetic films"

Dr. Theodoros Samaras, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

"The use of iron oxide nanoparticles in hyperthermia"

A. G. Konstandopoulos, CPERI/CERTH & Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

"Solar Thermochemical Water-Splitting for Hydrogen Production: The Hydrosol Process"

E. Varkaraki, Center for renewable energy sources & hydrogen technologies-Pikermi, Greece

"Perspectives and challenges of hydrogen storage in metal hydrides. The case of the CRES wind-hydrogen plant"