Speakers

• 

  Panos Patsalas Professor of Advanced Materials in the Department of Applied and Environmental Physics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
  

  Panos Patsalas

  Professor of Advanced Materials in the Department of Applied and Environmental Physics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

  Panos Patsalas is Professor of Advanced Materials in the Department of Applied and Environmental Physics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and Director of Studies of the Post-graduate (MSc) course on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology provided jointly by the Faculties of Physics, Chemistry and Medicine. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Ioannina and holds a PhD in Physics from AUTH. He has served as the Director of the Department of Applied and Environmental Physics at AUTH and the Graduate Program on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. For more than fifteen years he has been a member of the Board of Delegates of the European Materials Research Society for which he periodically organizes international symposia and tutorials in Strasbourg.

  His research focuses on the synthesis of advanced materials for applications in photonics and biomedical technology in collaboration with an extensive network of universities and research institutions in Greece, UK, USA, France, and Israel. He has participated and/or coordinated several research projects, supervised 11 PhD theses and has been advisor (secondary supervisor) of dozens of other PhDs in the Faculties of Physics and Chemistry of AUTH and Materials, Physics and Medicine of the University of Ioannina. He has organized 14 international conferences, given >50 invited talks abroad, published >180 publications in
  international peer-reviewed journals.

• 

  Efstratios Stylianidis Professor at the School of Spatial Planning and Development of the Aristotle University
  

  Efstratios Stylianidis

  Professor at the School of Spatial Planning and Development of the Aristotle University

  Dr. Efstratios Stylianidis is a Professor at the School of Spatial Planning and Development of the Aristotle University, Greece, where he leads the Laboratory of Geoinformatics (LabGeo). His research focuses on the intersection of Geospatial Sciences and ICT for the benefit of natural and built environment. He is the author of 2 theses, 3 book, 100 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences proceedings, 10 invited chapters in books as well as the editor of 5 books. He has participated in more than 60 national and mainly international research projects (H2020, FP7, Erasmus+, etc.), 10 of which as the scientific and project coordinator. He has participated in 60 national and international conferences, while in 26 he has a member of the organizing and/or scientific committee. He is a reviewer in 16 scientific journals, while he participates in the editorial board of 3 scientific journals. He holds 2 patents. In 2017, he received the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2017 award (Madrid Challenge) for the H2020 EU co-funded LARA project. He was a visiting Professor at Columbia University (2018), while as an invited speaker he gave lectures at Columbia University, Princeton University, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Tsinghua University and Peking University.