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He was born in 1959 in Athens. He is an economist. Member of Parliament for New Democracy (2022-2023). Minister of Environment and Energy from June 2023. Alternate Minister of Finance, responsible for Fiscal Policy and responsible for preparing and coordinating the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” (2020-2023). Deputy Minister of Fiscal Policy (2019-2020), Member of the European Parliament (2009-2014), Secretary General for International Economic Relations and Development Cooperation (2006-2009), Municipal Councilor, Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Athens (2003-2006), responsible for preparing for the 2004 Olympic Games. From 1990 to 1993 he served as Advisor to Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Head of the Prime Minister’s Planning and Communication Office.
He also served as President and Director General of the E21 Research Centre (1994-2001). He was the last President of Drasi (2014-2019), which suspended its activity to support New Democracy.
He has worked in advertising and communication since 1985 and he has founded four companies in the fields of communication (1994-1999), crisis management (2000-2006) and agricultural production & processing (2014-2019).
He studied economics in Greece (University of Athens) and business administration (MBA) in England (City University, London) and received a master’s degree from the British Market Research Society in Market Research. He has received a PhD from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens, entitled: "Social tolerance to corruption".
He is married to Eleni Papapanou, has two daughters, Marianna and Irene and four granddaughters.

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Dionysis Stamenitis was born in Giannitsa in 1968. He studied civil engineering in the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with postgraduate studies in “Environmental Policy, Education and Communication” in the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources of Democritus University of Thrace, specializing in the Energy Policy and Development.
Since 1995 he is a regular member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and since 1999 a civil engineer as a freelancer, specializing in Administration building Works and in Structural and Functional Rehabilitation of listed buildings. He was also a scientific committee member of the Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering and a member of the permanent committee of private works and building activity of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
On the 6th of May in 2012 he was elected for the first time member of Parliament in the constituency of Pella in the general elections on behalf of Nea Demokratia and he was reelected in the elections on the 17th of June in 2012, on July 7th 2019, on May 21st 2023 and June 25th 2023. On the 27th of June in 2023 he assumed duties as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Rural Development and Food upon the decision of the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

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Dr. Miltos Zamparas (39) is a Greek researcher and author in the field of Environment and Chemical engineering. He was born in the Western region of Greece. He has completed his studies at doctoral level and was awarded a Doctorate (PhD) of the Technical School of the University of Patras. He holds two Master’s in Sciences Degrees (MSc) one in "Sustainable Management Technologies" and one in "Health Institutions and Policies". He is the holder of a patent with an invention on Adsorbent material for the removal of phosphorus and ammonia. He has served as a Lecturer at the University of Patras, Thessaly, and Ionian University. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences of the Foundation for Research and Technology. He is an Associating Educational Staff at the Hellenic Open University, at the Faculty of Science and Technology. In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, he was elected with the left party “SYRIZA-PA” (Coalition of the Radical Left - Progressive Alliance) and he also is Head of the Environment and Energy Department of the party.

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Professor Vardas had been the Head of the Cardiology Department at Heraklion University Hospital, Crete, Greece from 1990 until his retirement June 2017. Currently, Professor Vardas holds the position of the Chief Strategy Officer at the European Heart Agency, European Society of Cardiology in Brussels.
Additionally, Professor Vardas holds a position as a research scientist at the Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens. In Greece, Prof. Vardas held major academic positions, such as Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Crete (2003-2007) and President of the Hellenic Cardiological Society (1999-2001).
Furthermore, he has been founder and editor of the Hellenic Journal of Cardiology (English version) since 2002 and President of the Hellenic Cardiovascular Research Society since 2007.
In Europe, Prof. Vardas was elected to significant scientific positions.
He was President of the European Society of Cardiology (2012-2014) and President of the European Heart Rhythm Association (2009-2011).
Professor Vardas is the founder of the ESC Office in Brussels (2013) where he serves currently as Chief Strategy Officer of the European Heart Agency / ESC.
Prof. Vardas had been awarded the Gold Medal of the ESC in 2014 and also the Silver medal of the International League of Humanists in 2008.
He has been further honored as Invited Professor in several Universities and Honorary Member of a significant number of National Cardiac Societies.
Among many universities Professor Vardas is serving as visiting Professor, are the following: Imperial College (London, UK), London School of Economics (London, UK), Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), and University Hospital (Zurich, Switzerland).
Prof. Vardas has participated as an author in 752 publications included in the MedLine (Vardas P.) as well as in a considerable number of chapters of well-known medical books, the Text Book of the ESC being one of them.
His h-Factor is 112 as it is presented at Google Scholar.
Apart from the wide range of Cardiovascular Medicine, Prof. Vardas’ main interests today is Digital Health, Health Economics, Health Technology Assessment, and Business Administration.
Very recently, in the new editorial scheme of the European heart Journal under the leadership of Philippo Crea, Prof. Vardas was appointed as deputy editor responsible for Digital Health and Cardiovascular Medicine Innovations.
In general Prof. Vardas has been a fervent contributor to the activities of the European Society of Cardiology during the last twenty five years.

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S. Logothetidis is Professor of Physics, Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Thin Films Technologies, Organic Electronics, Optics and Nanomedicine in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has extensive R&D experience and leadership as a Coordinator in more than 130 EU and Nationally Funded R&D&I Projects. His research activity and excellence has generated over 1000 papers and review articles in International Journals & Conferences and 400 keynote and invited talks. He is the author of over 395 peer-reviewed papers, 6 books and 9 patents, and has received over 14000 citations holding an h-index=58. He is the Founder and Director of Nanotechnology Lab LTFN (www.ltfn.gr), of the Post-Graduate Program “Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies” (nn.physics.auth.gr) and of the Center of Organic & Printed Electronics Hellas (COPE-H). He is the organizer of the annually NANOTEXNOLOGY multi-event (www.nanotexnology.com) since 2004, and the Founder and Coordinator of the NANONET Research and Innovation Network (www.nano-net.gr) since 2003, with 700 Universities, Research Centers and Companies as members all over the world. Prof. S. Logothetidis is the Founder and President of the Hellenic Organic and Printed Electronics Association (HOPE-A) (www.hope-a.com) with 40 Companies and Organizations and has signed collaboration agreement with 6 other Associations all over the world, and he is the Founder of 2 Start-up Companies 1) Organic Electronic Technologies (OET www.oe-technologies.com) and 2) BL Nanobiomed (www.bl-nanobiomed.com). Prof. Logothetidis coordinated more than 80 european and National projects with more than 150M€, and in 2023 became the Coordinator of 2 new Flagship scientific and industrial Horizon Europe projects of great significance in the field of Energy, Flexible Printed Electronics and Nanotechnologies A) Project Cope-Nano (www.cope-nano.eu), with a total budget of 30 million Euros , will expand the internationally recognized Nanotechnology Lab LTFN into an Autonomous and Sustainable Center of Excellence for Organic, Printed Electronics & Nano-Technologies in Thessaloniki B) Project Flex2Energy (www.flex2energy.eu) with a total budget of 21 million Euros, aim to revolutionize the way we generate and utilize energy developing in Thessaloniki building the 1st sustainable production line for Organic Photovoltaics– Flexible printed organic photovoltaics for integration in Buildings, Greenhouses and even in Automotive.

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Since 2009 Georges Hadziioannou is Professor at the University of Bordeaux, Holder of the Chair “Advanced Functional Materials for the emerging Information, Communication and Energy Technologies”. He is heading the group “Polymers Electronic Materials & Devices” at LCPO. Simultaneously he is the Coordinator of the EquipEx ELORPrintTec and Scientific Director of the LabEx AMADEus.
Georges Hadziioannou received his Doctorate in Physical Sciences from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg in 1980. Between 1980 and 1982, he was associate researcher at the Polymer Science and Engineering Department of University of Massachusetts. In 1982 he became research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Laboratory where he directed the group “Surface and Interface Dynamics” from 1986 to 1989. Between 1985 and 1989 he was simultaneously Industrial Research Fellow of the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST), and consulting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University.
In 1989 he became Professor at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), where he directed the Materials Science Center (today named Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials) from 1997 to 2000. In 2001 he moved to the Louis-Pasteur University in Strasbourg where he took the direction of the European Engineering School of Chemistry, Polymers and Materials between 2004 and 2009.
His career is characterized by a strong commitment to fundamental research at different universities and research institutes worldwide and an important industrial tenure at IBM Almaden Research Laboratory. He has pioneered works on nanostructured polymers materials with innovations in flexible and printable organic electronic materials. He directed 60 PhD’s and hosted in his research group more than 100 post-docs and invited professors. He was co-founder of 2 startups: “Polymer Service Center”, for scientific consulting of small and medium size companies, and “Papyron”, for the development of innovative technologies for electronic paper.

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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' research on organic electronics and bioelectronics has been recognized 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), elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and is a member of the Academia Europaea and of the European Academy of Sciences. He serves as a Deputy Editor of Science Advances and is the Director of the EPSRC IRC in Targeted Delivery for Hard-to-Treat Cancers.
Prof. Malliaras is a co-author of 300+ publications in peer-reviewed journals that have received over 45,000 citations. His h-index is 115 (google scholar, 08/23).

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Prof. S. Ravi P. Silva CBE FREng is a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Advanced Technology Institute at University of Surrey. He joined Surrey in 1995 after completing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Cambridge University. His research interests include nanotechnology, large-area electronics and renewables, and has resulted in over 680 presentations at conferences, and over 650 journal papers. He has over 28,000 citations with an H-index of 85, and won research funding in excess of £45M. He is the inventor of 50 patents, including key patents on low temperature growth of carbon nanotubes, fabrication of high-performance large area X-ray detectors and fabrication of large area nanotube-organic solar cells. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK and a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences Sri Lanka. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Queen’s New Year Honors’ list.

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Thomas Kolbusch is Vice President of Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH, an equipment manufacturing company for coating, printing and laminating solutions located in Dormagen, Germany.
He is member of the board of the OE-A (Organic Electronic Association) in Germany, a global association for printed electronics.
He serves in the advisory board of Fraunhofer ITA institute.
He served as member of the board of COPT.NRW, a local association in Germany, as well as exhibition chair of the LOPEC in Munich for five years.
Thomas is active in the field of fuel cells, batteries, printed electronics, photovoltaics and medical applications. He organizes the international Coatema Coating Symposium for over 19 years and represents Coatema in a number of public funded German and European projects.
Thomas Kolbusch studied Business Economics at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and got his degree as business economist in 1997. He started his career at 3M, Germany. Since 1999 he is working for Coatema Coating Machinery in different positions.

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Dr. Lidorikis is Professor of Computational Materials Science in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Ioannina Greece. He received his BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece (1993) and his PhD in computational physics from Iowa State University in USA (1999). He held postdoctoral positions in Louisiana State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as an industry position in the MIT spin-off Luminus Devices Inc. His research interests are in Computational Material Science focusing on nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics, organic- and graphene-based optoelectronics, integrated optics for ICT, multiscale modeling of materials, optical spectroscopy and modeling of nanostructured materials and thin films. He has extensive R&D experience in both academia and industry and co-coordinated several European and National projects (FET, NMP, NMBP, ICT, etc). He is author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers and received over > 5700 citations holding an h-index=33. He is the holder of 19 US patents and given more than 50 invited talks in international conferences.

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Mr. Evangelos Mekeridis is the CTO of Organic Electronic Technologies P.C. He joined OET in 2013 as a Researcher. Current research interests as OET’s CTO are the development and optimization of large-scale production of Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs) by printing processes, manufacturing of prototype OPV, PPV, OLED devices and Sensors with Roll-to-Roll and Sheet-to-Sheet processes, materials optimization & testing, encapsulation, development of laser processes for OE nano-materials patterning, characterization & Quality Control. Holding 7 patents and 14 publications in international journals and more than 40 conferences related to OPVs, PPVs, Laser Patterning, Coatings, Nanomaterials, Electrochemistry and Corrosion protection. Mr Mekeridis has participated in more than 20 EU (FP6, FP7, H2020, HE) and National (NSRF) funded R&D projects related to the development of materials, techniques for printing and optimization of organic electronics processes.

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Eisuke Tsuyuzaki is the founder and GM of Bayflex Solutions, developing reliability testing systems dedicated to flexible electronics research, product design and manufacturing in North America, Europe and Middle East. Currently serving as Executive committee member, SEMI/FLEXtech. Additionally, Tsuyuzaki, through his Nikkei Ventures, is also an early-stage investor in flexible electronics enterprises and bridges corporate ventures groups in Asia with emerging technologies. He is also a mentor at nex3, a leader in early-stage innovation and start-up acceleration. Previously he has won an Emmy, was Chief Technology Officer at Panasonic; worked at Sony Corporation in Tokyo in Corporate Planning and Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles running Digital Operations and Business Development. Graduate of Sophia University, Tokyo, UCLA and Stanford.

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Prof. A. Laskarakis is the Head of the Organic Electronics Group of Nanotechnology Lab LTFN & Center of Organic and Printed Electronics. His research interests include the fabrication, characterization and optimization of nanomaterials and device architectures for flexible Organic & Printed Electronics (such as Organic Photovoltaics, Perovskite-based PVs, and Organic Thin Film Transistors) by vacuum and printing methods, investigation of structure-property relationships for OE nanomaterials, ex-situ/in-line metrology (optical, electronic, and structural) of inorganic, organic and hybrid nanostructured materials. He has extensive R&D experience in both academia and industry and participated as a Senior scientist in more than 17 European and National projects. His work includes more than 90 publications in International Scientific Journals, 4 book chapters, more than 140 presentations in International Scientific Conferences. Finally, he is responsible for the organization of the International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics (ISFOE) since 2008 as part of the NANOTEXNOLOGY multievent.

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Over 30 years of engineering and management experience. Dr. Kanopoulos has created and managed large teams focused on the development, mass production, and marketing of semiconductor products for the global market. Before founding Brite Solar Technologies, he was the Managing Director for Channel Development in Europe / Africa / Middle East for the Solar Business Unit of Applied Materials. Previously, Dr. Kanopoulos was the Director of the Multimedia & Communications (MMC) business division of Atmel Corp, where he was responsible for managing product development groups based in the United States, Greece, Sweden, and China. Dr. Kanopoulos was also the founder and CEO of Data Communications Technologies, which was acquired by Atmel. In addition, he was the Director of the Integrated Electronics Group at RTI International, one of the largest independent research centers in the U.S. For over 10 years, he served as an adjunct professor at Duke University in North Carolina. He was the Manager of the Integrated Electronics Department at Research Triangle Institute, and has been a special advisor to the Minister of Macedonia & Thrace in Greece for matters of technology. Dr. Kanopoulos graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patra in Greece, and holds Master’s and Doctorate Degrees both from Duke University.

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Dr. Michel Popovic holds a Ph.D. in Electronics and has graduated as electronic engineer. He earned both degrees from the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France.
Co-Founder & general manager of IN-CORE Systèmes company, Michel started his professional career as R&D Engineer at Centralp Automatismes (Venissieux, France), from 1988 to 1998, where he developed several system architectures integrating the automatic inspection dedicated to industrial real-time applications.
He moved to sales and management responsibilities following the foundation of IN-CORE Systèmes in 1998. In his current position, Michel is in charge of new and innovative inspection solutions for several industries.

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Thomas Bartzanas is Vice Rector for Research, Finance and Development, Professor and Director of the Lab of Farm Structures at the Agricultural University of Athens. He is Chairman of the Board of Smart Agro Hub A.E, an AUA’s spin-off with focus on smart farming and sustainability. He is an agricultural engineer, with a PhD in agricultural constructions at the University of Thessaly and the Bioclimatology station of INRA in France and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Aarhus in Denmark (Department of Engineering). His research interests focus on the development, evaluation and application of new techniques and technologies in controlled environment production systems (greenhouses, vertical farming systems, hydroponic systems, livestock buildings), the sustainable and smart use of natural resources in the agrofood sector and the assessment of the environmental impact (environmental footprint) in the agrifood sector using the life cycle analysis. He has participated as a Coordinator and / or Researcher in 50 national and European research programs and has more than 350 publications in international journals and conference proceedings (h-index 33 / 4980 citations). Thomas is member of the EurAgEng vice-chair in the Structures & Environment Committee of CIGR, member of the Scientific Council of the European Union, in the Directorate for Research and Innovation for open access to research results in the field of "Agricultural Sciences" and chair of the Hellenic Union of Agricultural Engineers of Greece (EGME).

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Emmanuel Kymakis is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and Vice-President of the HMU Research Center. He received his B.Eng. (First Class Honors) degree in Electrical Engineering & Electronics from Liverpool University in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University in 2003. He and Prof. Gehan Amaratunga are the inventors of the polymer-nanotube solar cell. Before joining HMU, he was a technical consultant offering engineering and consultancy services in the realization of photovoltaic and solar thermal power plants. His multidisciplinary research lies at the interface between nanotechnology and electrical engineering and is centred on the development of printed optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. He has published more than 120 research articles, which have attracted over 11.000 citations and an h-index of 56, while he has an extensive experience in the management of research and industrial projects (6 M€ research funding, design & implementation of 67 MWp of PV parks). Ηe is also included in the list of the top 2% of scientists in their respective fields by citation impact (PLoS Biol 17(8), e3000384). He serves also as scientific evaluator and member of panels of experts of various international governmental and nongovernmental agencies, member of scientific committee of various international congresses, and have been invited to give invited talks in more than 50 occasions. He has been an honorary lecturer at UConn and a recipient of an Isaac Newton and an EPSRC studentship. He was named as a 2014 ChemComm Emerging Investigator and has received two National Excellence Awards. He has served as a member of the founding General Assembly of the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (HFRI), a member of the Engineering sectoral scientific council of the National Council for Research & Innovation of Greece (NCRI) and a member of the Engineering thematic advisory council of HFRI. He is currently the Director of the interinstitutional Post-Graduate Program “Nanotechnology for Energy Applications” and serves as the work package leader of Energy Generation of the EU FET-Flagship Initiative Graphene.

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Dr. Asterios Chatziparadeisis is a Mathematician with PhD in Statistics. He has worked in policy making positions at the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of Greece and in Managing Authorities. He was responsible for the design of major Greek structural programmes (billions of euros) for Research, Innovation and Competitiveness from the 1990s onwards. He also worked at the European Commission. Since 2021 he is the General Director of Hellenic Organic & Printed Electronics Association (www.hope-a.com). He wrote articles and studies for the Research and Innovation Policies and was evaluator of the European Commission for RTD projects.

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Aitor Apraiz Arenaza. Industrial Technical Engineer from the University of Mondragon (M.U.), and Engineer from l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal. He taught at the University of Mondragon (M.U.) for 2 years in the department of mechanics. He worked in the combustion department of TURBOMECA on the numerical simulation of helicopter turbines for 1 year. He is currently working in the MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY work group as a researcher in new industrial processes in the field of energy (photovoltaics and electrochemical storage in batteries) with the aim of generating knowledge for the MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY Energy business unit. He has extensive experience in high-speed assembly facilities, having worked both in the energy sector of MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY and in the components sector (household appliances, electrical, medical). He is co-author of an article on the metallization of photovoltaic cells using ink-jet technologies.

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Dr. Polycarpos Falaras (>280 papers in international refereed journals, >16.000 citations/scopus), h-index 64/scopus, 7 patents) was born in Karditsa, Greece (1960). Following his basic studies in Physics (grade excellent, 8.86/10) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Dr. Falaras joined the Physique des Liquides et Electrochimie Laboratory/CNRS/University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI-France), where he received his DEA in Electrochemistry (1983, Bien) and Ph.D. in Chemistry (1986, Tres Honorable). In 1989 he entered the National Center for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’ in Athens (Greece), where he is still working as a Research Director, leading a group of 16 people. He has been the Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at NCSR Demokritos (2007-2012) and has participated (including coordination) in several EU and National projects. Dr Falaras is Editor of Applied Catalysis B Environmental (Elsevier, I.F. 19.905), member of the Editorial board in seven (7) international journals as well as reviewer in more than 100 international refereed journals. He is teaching Physical Chemistry at the Hellenic Open University, he has supervised the work of 15 post-doctoral and 13 PhD students. For his innovative work in photoinduces processes, Dr Falaras has been awarded by international (Prince Sultan International Prize for Water – PSIPW -Alternative Water Resources Prize), and national (Theodoros Aretaios Award, Academy of Athens) organizations.

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Mr. Tamas Brigancz earned his master's degree in Physics in University of Szeged, specialized in lasers, optics, and material science. He started working at Semilab in 2017 as Application Scientist. His main responsibility was optimizing existing tools and developing new solutions for the Si PV industry. Later he became Team Leader and Product Manager of these technologies. His group started to expend the product portfolio for organic thin-film PV materials for the RealNano EU founded project.

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Vytautas Sabonis holds a master's degree in Physics from Vilnius University in Lithuania. Since 2018, he has been the head of the research department at Workshop of Photonics, one of the leading providers of femtosecond laser micromachining services for industry and science customers worldwide. WoP offers fully integrated services, ranging from feasibility and prototyping to actual solutions, including micromachining services and tailor-made laser workstations.

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Dr. Arthur D Hendsbee is an organic materials scientist who graduated from the University of Calgary with a PhD in Chemistry in 2017, obtained under the supervision of Dr. Greg Welch. During his time at the University of Calgary, he developed a new class of non-fullerene acceptors with utility in optoelectronic devices and was awarded a United States Patent (9865819) for this work. Following his PhD, in 2019 Arthur completed an NSERC funded postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Yuning Li at the University of Waterloo where he studied organic optoelectronic device fabrication techniques. In September of 2019, Arthur was impressed by the vision of Brilliant Matters to provide industry with a reliable and scalable source of organic optoelectronic materials and joined as a Senior Scientist. Near the end of the 2020 year, he transitioned to his current role as Business Development Manager at Brilliant Matters.

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Dr. S. Kassavetis is the Head of the Nanofabrication Group in the Nanotechnology Lab LTFN. His research interests cover a wide range of nanomaterials (thin films & nanoparticles, polymers) and fabrication processes (Vacuum and Lasers) for applications in Plasmonics / Photonics and Green Energy. He is expert in nanoscale characterization techniques such as Scanning Probe Microscopies, Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Nanoindentation. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in International Scientific Journals, 2 book chapters, more than 50 presentations in International Scientific Conferences, and he has participated as Senior Researcher in 10 EU funded R&D projects.

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Dr Esther Magadley is a researcher in the Triangle Research and Development Center (TRDC) solar energy group. She has experience in building integrated renewable energy systems both in industry and academia. Over the last 6 years her research focus has been on greenhouse agrivoltaics. She has carried out 6 research projects in greenhouse agrivoltaics. Four projects studied different aspects to assess the feasibility of using organic photovoltaics (OPV) on Mediterranean type polytunnel greenhouse roofs. Two other projects developed and tested an innovative crop responsive solar tracking system for inside greenhouses. Dr Magadley also is co-inventer on the patent for this technology and co-founder of the start-up company TriSolar – InnoWadi Group Ltd.

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Dr. Gravalidis received his bachelor degree in Physics from the University of Crete (1999) , and his MSc. in Material Science and PhD in Nanotechnology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2006). His current occupation is Senior Researcher of the Nanotechnology Lab LTFN. Dr. Gravalidis is a specialist in inorganic and organic thin film deposition with various vacuum and wet techniques, and in plasma surface treatment of bulk materials and thin films. Also, he has extensive experience in the structural characterization of thin films and surfaces by X-Ray techniques. He has 32 publications holding h-index=14. He has successfully participated various National and European Research Projects. Finally, he is member of NANOTEXNOLOGY organizing committee and responsible for International Summer Schools on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies, Organic Electronics and Nanomedicine and International Conference on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies.

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Victor THENOT was born in Paris, France, in 1989. He graduated from PAGORA, the International School of Paper, Print Media and Biomaterials (Grenoble-INP) in 2013. He joined the Arjowiggins group (leading producer of specialty papers in Europe) in 2011 as an engineering apprentice during which time he worked on the development of PowerCoat® paper, a specially designed substrate for the printed electronics market. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2017, for his work on printed RFID NFC tags on papers carried out in partnership with two laboratories: the French Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts (LGP2) based in Grenoble, and the Microelectronics Center of Provence (CMP), part of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne. After 11 years working for Arjowiggins, he joined Fedrigoni group in February 2023 as Innovation Manager.
His current research is in the area of printed electronics on flexible substrates with a particular focus on recyclable RFID tags, sensors, electrochromic displays and batteries design and manufacturing on paper substrate.

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Mr. Kyriazopoulos holds a MEng in Materials Science and Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Ioannina, a MSc in Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MBA from University of Macedonia. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Physics, also in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Mr. Kyriazopoulos joined OET in 2018 and is responsible for the acquisition, implementation and management of several large-scale European funded projects, having effectively coordinated key activities in numerous joint ventures over the past years. He is also responsible for the Quality Control activities/functions of the R2R process and the development of in-line metrology tools and methodologies for the real-time monitoring of the OPV manufacturing process. In addition, he is responsible for the Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) production department, having expertise in various Sheet to Sheet and R2R printing techniques and methods, as well as in the characterization of organic and inorganic materials using in-line non-destructive characterization tools and methods. Finally, Mr. Kyriazopoulos has participated in more than 15 EU (FP6, FP7, H2020, HE) and National (NSRF) R&D&I projects and holds 8 publications in international journals and more than 30 presentations at conferences related to Organic Electronic materials.

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Fabio Scaffidi Muta (M), Dr. Physics of Advanced Technologies, University of Turin, 2016. He obtained a PhD thesis in Materials Science at University of Turin in 2022. He currently collaborates with the Sustainable Raw Materials group at Centro Ricerche FIAT in the E-Optics&Glazing Team, EEs & E-PWT Department. He is charge as Stellantis global responsible of materials for display and HMI. He is experienced in the optical, electrical, and morphological assessment of materials.

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Mr. Athanasiadis is the R&D custom engineering manager of Alumil. He has studied mechanical engineering at the University of Western Macedonia and he is currently attending the executive MBA at the University of Macedonia. With a decade of experience in developing aluminium windows, doors and façades, overseeing the entire process from design to performance testing and certifications. Currently, he is coordinating the tailor made solutions for Aumil’s building projects on a global scale. Finally, he has contributed to Alumil, being one of the leading companies in Greece with products certified to meet the highest industry Benchmarks, such as hurricanes.

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Evangelos Bakalis holds a MBA degree from International Hellenic University. He has more than ten years experience in Business Innovation in mining industry through his participation in European funded projects. Evangelos has organized and participated in several dissemination events to inform communities about exciting and innovative ideas.

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Mr. Gklavakis Dimitris is the co-founder and Head of Technical Department of Depia Atuomations P.C. He has more than 20 years of experience in numerous projects in Industrial, Energy and Building automation solutions, software engineering and software development, robotics, customization and vertical motion solutions, research, modeling, digital twins, animatronics, exergames and development of industrial devices.

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Mr. Orfanos is Production Manager of BL Nanobiomed. He holds BSc in Physics and MSc in Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has 2 years’ experience in biomaterials, in printing techniques and in nano characterization tools through his collaboration with Lab for Thin Films - Nanobiomaterials - Nanosystems & Nanometrology (LTFN). He is highly experienced in 3D Design and in 3D Printing with application on medical Equipment. Currently he is focusing on the field of fabrication of nano-filters for medical needs. Mr. Orfanos holds more than 10 presentations and posters in international conferences and participates in more than 4 European and National R&D projects.

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Rafail Kasapis is a Consultant and Entrepreneur known for his expertise within Lifesciences and Healthcare, as well as Energy. His holistic and integrated approach with innovative thinking connects technology, people, and data to sustainable solutions. His work exemplifies a passion for creating a greener, technologically advanced future, offering valuable insights to industry professionals. As Insolight Representative in Greece he offers turnkey dynamic Agri-PV solutions taking local requirements into consideration.

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Anastasios Gourgiotopoulos holds a degree in Marketing and a B.A from Sarasota. He has over 30 years of experience in the float glass industry, having worked at Guardian Glass Industries in Luxembourg, where float glass is produced in plants across the globe. For the last 15 years, he has been with Kiriakidis Vasilios SA, located in Thessaloniki, serving the entire Greek and Balkan regions. By focusing on innovation, we are addressing the evolving needs of low emissivity in tomorrow's float glass.

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Evgenia Athanasiadou has studied Agriculture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and she is currently attending MSc in Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies. During her studies she is focusing on Agrivoltaics and specifically on the effect of Organic Photovoltaics in the Greenhouse cultivation, the remote control of environmental conditions inside and outside of the Greenhouse and on the coverage of the energy needs of the Greenhouse from the OPVs.
Mrs. Athanasiadou joined OET (Organic Electronic Technologies) in 2021 as an agriculturalist and participates in National R&D projects related to the implementation of OPVs in Greenhouses and to their effect on the cultivation.