Konstantinos C. Andrikopoulos graduated from the Department of Chemistry, University of Patras with a BSc in Chemistry in 2017 and an MSc in 2018. He completed his PhD studies in 2023 at the Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, supervised by Professor J. K. Kallitsis. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Patras. His research focuses on the development of polymeric materials with applications in organic light-emitting diodes and polymer solar cells and in polymer electrolytes for PEM fuel cells.
Dr. Charalampos Anastasopoulos studied Chemistry at the University of Patras and obtained his MSc. and Ph.D. in 2006 and 2010, respectively, in Organic and Peptide Synthesis from the University of Patras. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in material science at the Department of Chemistry, University of Patras. His research interests cover the area of polymeric chemistry, and in particular, polymeric ionic liquids (PILs) and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Furthermore, he is interested in copolymers that are used as dyes in solid-state sensitized solar cells based on TiO2 electrodes and a hole-transporting semiconducting polymer. Finally, he pursues the synthesis of new polymeric chromophore groups in order to attach them in semiconductors, and specifically, low-bandgap polymeric donors which are functionalized with appropriate end groups for their connection to a semiconductor-type titania.
Stergios Logothetidis is an Emeritus Professor of Physics with the Physics Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received his degree in Physics (1977), MSc in Electronics (1980), and PhD (1983) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute—MPI in Stuttgart (1983-1985), Research Associate at MPI (1985) and at the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at BESSY, Berlin (1988-1989). In 1985, he became a Lecturer and later was elected Full Professor (1999) at the Physics Department in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while during 2005-2009, he served as Chairman in the same department. His longtime educational activity includes forming and teaching a multitude of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level and authoring seven books and notes. He has been the director and founder of the Interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program "Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies" of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 2003. He was the supervisor of 18 PhD theses and 130 MSc theses, while he coordinated the research of 30 postdoctoral researchers. He won the Award of Honour and Offer in the ceremony for the Pioneers of Spirit, Art, Science and Social Value of the “Association of the Greek Literary Men”.
Dr. Joannis K. Kallitsis is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Patras and an affiliated faculty member of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas/Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (FORTH/ICE-HT). He spent postdoctoral years at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the Kunstoff Laboratorium BASF. He has been invited to be a Professor at ECPM, Strasbourg; ESCPI, Paris; and ETH, Zurich. His research activities focus on the development of new polymeric and hybrid materials of various architectures and functionalities. One main research activity is devoted to the preparation of new aromatic polyelectrolytes presenting ionic conductivity and their application in HT PEMFCs. He is a co-author of more than 230 papers in international refereed journals. He has participated in several national and international research projects.
Dr. Maria Gioti is an Associate Professor at the Department of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, School of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a specialist in thin film processes, in situ and real-time monitoring with optical techniques and in optical properties using Ellipsometric techniques from IR to UV range. She is experienced in the modelling of the optical properties of metallic/semi-conducting/insulating bulk materials and the optics in thin films, displays, and PV devices. She has authored/co-authored more than 70 publications in international peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Aikaterini K. Andreopoulou has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of Patras since 2022. She has been a Post-Doctoral researcher at Greek Universities as well as foreign University laboratories (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany and Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA). Her research activities focus on the development of functional polymeric materials. More specifically, she specializes in dendronized polymers and metallopolymers, in hybrid materials for optoelectronics and in polymer electrolytes for PEM fuel cells.
