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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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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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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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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. 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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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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Aikaterini K. Andreopoulou is 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.

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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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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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Mr. Tsimenidis is the CTO of BL Nanobiomed. He joined BL Nanobiomed in 2021. He holds a BSc in chemistry and MSc in synthetic chemistry from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR) with 3 years’ experience in polymer and biomaterials chemistry from the University of Massachusetts in Boston (USA). He is highly experienced in the development of new production procedures/protocols and quality control of small and large complex macromolecules for biomedical applications. Currently, the BL Nanobiomed team is focusing on the development of Point of Care systems as medical diagnostics, and more specifically in the detection of biomolecules in the human body via flexible printable biosensors. Mr. Tsimenidis holds 5 publications in international scientific journals, more than 15 presentations in international conferences and participated in more than 5 European and National R&D projects.

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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. 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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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.