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  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.