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Prof. Konstantinos Petridis

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Dr Konstantinos Petridis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and the director of the HMU International Relations Office. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of St. Andrews (UK) in 2002. His research focuses on applications of lasers on materials processing and their applications in third generation solar cells and gas sensing. He demonstrates a high expertise and extended laboratory experience in laser technology and physics, in the ultrafast laser processing techniques of graphene and graphene-based optoelectronic devices and laser induced decoration of 2D materials with nanomaterials. He has coordinated 8 Erasmus and Erasmus Plus projects and he actively participated as a teacher, manager, sub-coordinator in another 6 Erasmus projects. He has participated as a researcher in 12 national & international research programs.

Website: https://www.teicrete.gr/ee/en/%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%BA%CF%89%CE%BD%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82

e-mail: cpetridis@hmu.gr

Dr George Kakavelakis

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Dr George Kakavelakis obtained his PhD degree as IKY/Siemens Scholar of Excellence from the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete, Greece, in July 2018. His experimental work was conducted at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Hellenic Mediterranean University and focused on the improvement of performance and stability of solution-processed solar photovoltaics through novel interfacial engineering designs. In September 2018, he took a postdoctoral research associate appointment at the Cambridge Graphene Centre and the Engineering Department (Electrical Engineering Division) of Cambridge University, where he developed novel fully printed optoelectronic devices. In April 2020 he has been elected Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College of Cambridge University and was a tutor and mentor for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the engineering department. In February 2021, he has been awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship (MSCA-IF) with a total score of 98% (project ID: GNPs4PVs), which was among the top 1% of the Engineering (ST-ENG) panel of the European Commission's MSCA-IF-2020 call. In September 2021 he joined the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellow, where he is currently developing emerging ultra-low-cost energy generating and energy storage devices.

Website: https://people.epfl.ch/georgios.kakavelakis?lang=en

e-mail: georgios.kakavelakis@epfl.ch