Speakers

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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.

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  George Malliaras Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge
  

  George Malliaras

  Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge

  George Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. He received a BS in Physics from the Aristotle University (Greece) in 1991, and a PhD in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, cum laude, from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in 1995. After postdocs at the University of Groningen and at the IBM Almaden Research Center (California), he joined the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University (New York) in 1999. From 2006 to 2009 he served as the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility. He moved to the Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne (France) in 2009, where he started the Department of Bioelectronics and served as Department Head. He joined the University of Cambridge in 2017.

  Prof. Malliaras leads the Bioelectronics Laboratory, an interdisciplinary group of scientists, engineers and clinicians who harness the power of electronics to develop and translate innovative medical devices. His research on organic electronics and bioelectronics has been recognised with awards from the European Academy of Sciences (Blaise Pascal Medal), the Materials Research Society (Mid-Career Researcher Award), the New York Academy of Sciences (Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists), the US National Science Foundation (Faculty Early Career Development Award), and DuPont (Young Professor Award). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linköping (Sweden), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Materials Research Society, Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences.

  Prof. Malliaras is a co-author of 300+ publications in peer-reviewed journals that have received over 63,000 citations. His h-index is 130