Presenter information: Dr Konstantinos P. Giannakopoulos CPhys
Dr Konstantinos P. Giannakopoulos CPhys is a Researcher, expert in nanostructural materials characterisation; he is a Physicist (1995, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) with a PhD (1998, University of Liverpool) on the study of heteroepitaxial growth of III-V semiconductors on vicinal substrates. He has worked in ST Microelectronics (Advanced R&D, Crolles, France) on the characterisation of selectively grown heteroeptiaxial thin films and on the evaluation of industrial equipment for this task. Since 2002 he works in the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” in Athens on the growth and structural characterization (esp. with Electron Microscopy) of a large variety of nanomaterials and nanostructures. He has worked on a variety of materials, such as oxides, semiconductors, metallic nanoparticles for applications in nanoelectronics (for sensors, advanced non-volatile memories etc), optoelectronics, magnetic recording media, hard coatings, and targeted drug delivery.
He has taught at many universities, including University of Liverpool, National Technical University of Athens, and University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Honorary Professor). He has also worked at Mantis Deposition Ltd (UK), the University of Cyprus and he has been an Expert Evaluator of funding proposals for the EU and other funding bodies. Currently, he coordinates the Solar ERANET project Nano4CSP “Nanomaterials for reduced maintenance costs in Concentrated Solar Power plants” and he sub-coordinated an EU project for the promotion of the field of Advanced Materials to the European public (see www.materialsfuture.eu). He has co-organized 14 National and International Conferences (incl EUROMAT 2017), and he is the co-author of 106 peer-reviewed scientific publications in scientific journals (79), books and conference proceedings; he has received about 1520 references for his work (h-index 22).
