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Alexandra Sdoukou is a policy professional, who serves since 2004 as special advisor to the Greek government in the areas of energy, business development and economic regulation. From 2012 to 2015 she was heading the Minister's Cabinet at the Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change. In this context she has been heavily involved in energy affairs and geopolitics with extensive knowledge in country specific commodity dynamics and trends in oil and gas, LNG and renewables. She has been active in the fields of exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons in Greece. She became also knowledgeable about asset privatization projects.
Previously, Alexandra worked as a special advisor to Minister of Development and her main responsibility was to review industry legislation and launch market development programs, with the aim to enhance competition and investment opportunities in Greece.
Prior to that, she served as legal counsel to the Deputy Minister of Economics & Finance from 2004 to 2007. As part of her responsibility she focused on structural reforms to restore growth and competitiveness as well as moving legislative initiatives through Parliament.
Alexandra is expert in developing government policy planning and corporate strategies.
Alexandra holds a Bachelor in Law, an LLM in European Commercial Law and an MSc in International & Economic studies.

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Christiana Kalogirou was born in Athens. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business (former HIEBS) and a Master of Science degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Disaster and Crisis Management Strategies in Administrative and Development sectors.
She has worked in the private sector for 20 years. She has carried out studies and scientific work in the fields of economic and regional development. At the same time, she was actively involved in initiatives relating to sustainable development, maritime economy, entrepreneurship, culture, environmental protection, as well as women’s issues.
In 2004, she was elected Member of Parliament with the New Democracy party representing Lesvos Prefecture. In 2012, she assumed the position of Secretary General of the Decentralized Aegean Administration of the Ministry of Interior. In 2014, she was elected Regional Governor of Northern Aegean. From August 2019 to April 2021 she served as Secretary General of the Aegean and Island Policy of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy. In April 2021 she took over the position of Secretary General of Rural Development and Food.

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Mr Famellos was born in Athens in 1966 and raised in Thessaloniki. He holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MSc in Environmental Planning from the Hellenic Open University. He has been member of the Board of the Technical Chamber of Greece from 1997 till 2015, and member of the National Delegation of the Technical Chamber of Greece from 2003 till 2015. He was first elected as Member of the Parliament with SYRIZA in January 2015, and re-elected in September 2015 and July 2019. He was appointed as Parliamentary Representative of SYRIZA in October 2015, and as Chairman of the Inquiry Commission of the Parliament in April 2016, which was aimed at investigating the legality of the bank loans given to Political Parties and Mass Media owners. From November 2016 to July 2019 he served as Alternate Minister for Environment and Energy of Greece. Today he is responsible for coordinating Energy and Environmental Policies within the SYRIZA party.

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Haris Doukas is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering of NTUA. His scientific and research expertise includes the development of models and decision support systems for energy and climate policy, placing the human factor at the core of the modelling processes. He has almost 2 decades of working experience in the design of energy and climate policies and programs for the promotion of renewables, energy efficiency and management at a national and European level as well as in Africa and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. He has more than 150 scientific publications in international scientific journals with reviewers, he co-authored the Greek Book “Multiple Criteria Decision Models for Energy and Environmental Systems”, the English Book “Multicriteria Portfolio Construction with Python” and is the co-Editor of the open access Book “Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy: Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society”. Dr. Doukas is an Associate Editor of the Operational Research International Journal. For his work, Dr. Doukas has received numerous awards, e.g. by the State Scholarship Foundation, the NTUA, the AUTH, the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Hellenic Operational Research Society and the World Renewable Energy Congress.

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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 390 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 650 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.

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Professor Ravi Silva FREng is the Director of the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) and heads the interdisciplinary Nano-Electronics Centre. His research interests encompass a wide range of activities with a focus in nanotechnology and renewables. A strong electronics background combined with materials science has enabled him and his team to produce bespoke nano-scale designer materials for specific applications. He is an expert in solar cells, carbon electronics and nanotechnology and is spearheading the Carbon Neutral challenge by 2030 for the University.
His research has resulted in over 580 journal papers, with circa 21,000 citations and won grants of over £30m over the last two decades.
Professor Silva has won many international awards including: the Albert Einstein Silver Medal and Javed Husain Prize by UNESCO (2003), Royal Society Clifford Patterson Award (2011), Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) JJ Thomson Medal (2014), the Platinum medal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (2015), and the Institute of Physics James Joule Medal and Prize (2018) for contributions to sustainable energy research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and is currently conducting a study on the deployment of solar PV in the UK and India. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences Sri Lanka and in 2015 received a President’s Award from The Government of Sri Lanka, for contributions to Sri Lanka Science and Society.

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Frederik C. Krebs is the CEO of infinityPV, a previously a professor at the Technical University of Denmark, and a world-renowned scientist, recognized as one of the world’s most influential scientific minds. Frederik has been spearheading the development of polymer solar cells and has been awarded with the EliteForsk award, the DFF Advanced Grant for excellent researchers, and the Grundfos prize. When Thomson Reuters highlighted roll-to-roll processed polymer solar cells as one of 100 key research fronts, they wrote: "Frederik Krebs is the author of a remarkable 31 of 35 core papers in this highlighted research front. These data clearly demonstrate the central position of Krebs in research on roll-to-roll processing of polymer solar cells."

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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. J.K. Kallitsis is Professor of Polymer Science and Technology in the Department of Chemistry, University of Patras and Collaborating Faculty Member in the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences of the Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH/ICE-HT) and co-founder of “Advent Technologies SA”. He has been invited Professor in the University of Strasbourg, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESCPI-Paris), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) and University of Bordeaux. His research interests are focused in the field of advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, as well as polymer based nanomaterials. Materials for Energy related applications, like polymer electrolyte fuel cells and organic photovoltaics, is a key research activity. Additionally, emphasis was given to development of various type of membranes for gas separation and water purification and coating of different substrates with specialty polymers in order to control their final properties like antimicrobial activity, flame retardancy and stab resistance. He has been National Representative in IUPAC, Polymer Division IV and Board Member in European Polymer Federation (EPF). His research activity has led to the publication of more than 220 papers in refereed international journals, 250 contributions to international and national conferences. He has contributed to the writing of 10 book chapters and has 15 international and Greek patents. He has more than 9300 citations (h-index 41, in Google Scholar).

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Martin Krebs studied Physics at TU Clausthal with eth focus on Metal Physics. After finishing with a diploma, he continued with a p.h.d study about Electrochemistry there. He was assistant to Prof. Heusler and educated the students in Thermodynamics and Kinetics. He concluded his work in a p.h.d thesis about “Photoelectrochemistry at thin CdS layers” in 1989.
Then he started in industry at VARTA setting up a basic electrochemistry laboratory to investigate problems at Alkaline and Zinc-Air cells. In 2002 he took over the patent department and got manager for funded research projects. In total he started 74 projects during the VARTA time.
Since 2005 he was member of the OE-A and led the Demonstrator Group. He also contributed to the Sustainability Group. At VARTA he developed the technology of Printed Batteries in different systems. The focus is on Zinc Carbon.
In 2022 he retired from VARTA and continued as a Independent Consultant for Printed Electronics under the name PrintaBattery^™.

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Dr Nikolaos Katsoulas is Professor at the University of Thessaly (BSc-MSc in Agronomy- 1997, Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering-2002), Director of the Lab of Agricultural Constructions and Environmental Control and of the Institute of Rural Development of the IASON University Center for Innovation Research and Development, of the University of Thessaly.
He has 18 years Academic, Research and Teaching experience. He is specialized in microclimate control in agricultural buildings with emphasis in greenhouses. His research interests include technologies, automations, design, modeling and control in greenhouses, irrigation scheduling, hydroponic and aquaponic systems, energy management, renewable energy sources, microalgae production and other. He has long-term stays for research cooperation and teaching in several organizations around the world (e.g. UPCT, Spain; INRAE, Avignon, France; KUL, Belgium; SNU, Korea; UA, Tucson, USA; WUR, Wageningen, The Netherlands; HGU, Geisenheim, Germany).
He has participated in more than 50 EU and National (Greek) funded research projects and has published more than 200 publications (more than 75 in Peer-Review journals). During March 2021 he joined, as Editor, the Editorial Board of Biosystems Engineering Elsevier Journal.

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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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Christiana Kalogirou was born in Athens. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business (former HIEBS) and a Master of Science degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Disaster and Crisis Management Strategies in Administrative and Development sectors.
She has worked in the private sector for 20 years. She has carried out studies and scientific work in the fields of economic and regional development. At the same time, she was actively involved in initiatives relating to sustainable development, maritime economy, entrepreneurship, culture, environmental protection, as well as women’s issues.
In 2004, she was elected Member of Parliament with the New Democracy party representing Lesvos Prefecture. In 2012, she assumed the position of Secretary General of the Decentralized Aegean Administration of the Ministry of Interior. In 2014, she was elected Regional Governor of Northern Aegean. From August 2019 to April 2021 she served as Secretary General of the Aegean and Island Policy of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy. In April 2021 she took over the position of Secretary General of Rural Development and Food.

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Head of Managing Authority of the Greek Rural Development Program at the Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Nikolaos Manetas is a graduate of the Agricultural University of Athens and holds a postgraduate degree in Business Administration (MBA) specializing in agricultural economics.
Since 2002 he has been serving in the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, in services with responsibilities of EU co-financed rural development programs, while previously he held important positions in various plant nutrition, food production and marketing companies. Since 2014 he is the Head of Managing Authority of the Greek Rural Development Program (RDP).
He has significant experience in the implementation and management of operational programs for rural areas development and many participations in committees, councils and conferences at national and international level.

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Isabel obtained a Master Degree in Physics (Semiconductor Physics) from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and subsequently, earned a Doctoral Degree in Science (Microelectronics-Materials for Sensors) from the University of Navarra (Spain).
She started her career at AT&T Microelectronics transferred to AT&T-Bell Laboratories (USA) in the field of modelling and simulation of electronic components. Back in Spain, she joined one of the leading manufacturers of Power Discrete components, as an R&D Engineer and later, became Manager of Engineering and Production of the Wafer Fab, what gave her a wide picture of the microelectronics industry. At that position, she started her links with the European Commission as the representative of the group in Eurimus (Eureka Initiative for promotion of microsystem uses) Technical Committee.
Several years later, Isabel transitioned to Project Management in the field of Materials and Microtechnologies for Electronics in the largest technology center in Spain, Tecnalia, where she has initiated, managed and coordinated several new initiatives like the Nanotechnologies Program or the Printed Electronics Platform. She has also been Director of several Business Areas leading their market-technology and IP strategy. During all those years, she has been managing a large portfolio of European and private projects in the field of Micro-Nanofabrication, Functional Surfaces, Sensors and Printed Electronics.
All along her career, she has combined her job with activities as expert in innovation by performing Technology Due Diligences, evaluating new business opportunities for Venture capitals and Family offices or as Innovation Radar Expert for EU projects. She holds a title in Expert in Management of Innovation and Technology from Deusto Business School.

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Dr. Christian May is acting as Manager Sustainable Technologies for Energy and Electronics at Fraunhofer FEP – the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology.
He studied Physical Metallurgy at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology and received his PhD there in 1999. From 1997 he was with a vacuum coating system supplier as project manager dealing with large area thin film deposition. Since 2003 he is with Fraunhofer. Beside several management positions his development work was and is focused on technologies, processes and applications for large area devices with organic semiconductors, especially flexible OLED lighting, organic and perovskite solar cells as well as biodegradable electronics in sheet-to-sheet and roll-to-roll technology.
Currently he acts as consortium coordinator of the Horizon 2020 funded Open Innovation Test Bed project FlexFunction2Sustain.

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Özal Emre Özdemir holds BSc. in Manufacturing Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and a MSc. in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management from University of Freiburg. He is working in Agrivoltaics Group of Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE as a research associate and project manager. He leads PV greenhouse research in the group for more than 2 years. In this context, he takes part in many international agrivoltaics projects. He is an expert in International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme Task 13- Reliability and Performance of Photovoltaic Systems group.
He carries out international networking activities as a steering group member of the Agrivoltaic International Discussion Group (AiDO), the discussion group is established to enable agrivoltaics to develop on a global scale and to enable researchers working in this field to share information among one another.

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Dr. John Fahlteich (male) was born 1981 and graduated from the University of Leipzig with a diploma in physics in 2005. In 2010, he earned a PhD from the Technical University of Chemnitz with a thesis about vacuum deposited permeation barrier layers. In total, he has now 16 years of experience in Roll-to-Roll Thin Film Coating on Plastic Web. Until September 2022, John was Research Group Leader in the Business Unit "Plasma Technology" at the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP in Dresden, Germany. In 2022, he started his own business - KETMarket - with the aim to create a digital technology marketplace and to digitalize and radically simplify the interactions between companies, research institutes and investors. As of today, he published over 40 papers, conference contributions and patents as well as three book chapters in the field. During his work at Fraunhofer FEP, John coordinated of three Horizon 2020 funded EU Projects (Switch2Save, NanoQI, and the Open Innovation Test Bed FlexFunction2Sustain).

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Panagiotis Chatzinikolaou, Managing Director (CEO) of ELGO DEMETER.
Former senior executive of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT) of the Ministry of Development and Investment.
A graduate of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), also holding a master's degree in Computer Science and Technology of Telecommunications and Networks of the University of Thessaly. A member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
As a permanent civil servant, he has served in a plethora of positions, such as Head of Department, Department Manager and as an Executive, acquiring skills in policy development and funding of Research and Technological Development and Innovation Research programmes and activities.
In the past he has been responsible for the development of policies on Research and Innovation at the national level but also in various thematic areas such as the sectors of Agri-Food, energy, etc., all while implementing a number of research and innovation actions with the academic community and the production sectors.
He has been a representative in committees of EU framework programs and in various thematic committees, in the design of the great Mediterranean program PRIMA, while also having participated in the Administrations of many Greek public organizations such as the Centre for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES), Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) and, the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF).
In the past and in the years from 1986 to 1995, he was active in marine research working at HCMR, where he participated in a number of research projects, publishing many research results.
In the past, as an engineer working in private practice, he designed, implemented and supervised a number of studies and constructions of electromechanical installations in the private and public sector.

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Dr. Donna Dykeman is the Collaborative R&D Programme Manager at Ansys Granta, maintaining a strategic view on the company’s involvement in all CR&D projects and working groups. Donna has been working on CR&D projects for Ansys Granta since 2012, notably in the areas of digital transformation for characterisation and modelling (e.g. ICME).
Prior to joining Ansys Granta, Donna spent 14 years in the field of polymer composites manufacturing, process modelling and in-service characterization and modelling, and holds a PhD in Materials Engineering (University of British Columbia).

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Meir Teitel is a Senior Scientist and head of the Department of Sensing, Information and Mechanization Engineering in the Institute of Agricultural Engineering. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of Tel Aviv University and obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering. He has been involved in various aspects of Agricultural Engineering research for more than 25 years in work related to greenhouse / screenhouse microclimate using experimental and numerical techniques. His research interests includes greenhouse management and control (ventilation, heating, CO2 enrichment, shading, structure); Energy in agriculture; Computer controlled data acquisition and instrumentation; Fluid mechanics and heat transfer in agriculture. He has published over 100 papers and presented his studies in many international conferences. He is often invited as speaker in professional meetings. He has actively participated in international and national research projects; he is member of scientific organizations and relevant societies and reviewer of international journals in the field of agriculture engineering. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on greenhouse technologies in the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Elena Turco is EU Project Manager at JOANNEUM RESEARCH – MATERIALS since May 2020. Her background is in Industrial Chemistry (M.Sc. at Bologna University). She had 6 years of job experience in high-tech materials and their integration in textile applications, in product innovation and technology transfer. Since 2006, Elena Turco developed expertise in EU funded projects. She had participated as R&D partner in more than 20 EU projects under the 6th and 7th Framework Programme and the H2020 Funding Programme. She was Dissemination & Exploitation manager in 6 of those projects. She has contributed as consultant in the preparation of more than 15 H2020 and Horizon Europe proposals (6 of them were successful). She was EU Project Manager in 1 7FP project, 3 H2020 projects and 1 Horizon Europe project. As EU Project Manager at JOANNEUM RESEARCH – MATERIALS institute, Elena Turco is supporting the researchers in the participation to EU funded research projects, providing tools, methodologies, and best practices for the project management.

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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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Dieter Nees studied chemistry at the University of Siegen in Germany and gained a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1996 with research on photochemistry in colloidal systems.
Then he spent two years as post-doctoral fellow in the Surfactant Science Group at the University of Hull in Yorkshire where he developed an interferometric method for measuring the contact angles of oil lenses floating on water surfaces.
After this he joined the Central Laser Facility of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxfordshire where he built up an optical tweezers device for direct measurement of the interaction between individual colloid particles.
From 2000 on he worked for ten years as senior engineer in the semiconductor industry at Infineon/Qimonda in Dresden developing lithography processes from the quarter micron down to the 45 nm DRAM technology knot.
In 2010 he joined JR MATERIALS, where he is developing UV-nanoimprint lithography materials and processes for large area high resolution structuring of surfaces particularly for micro-optic, micro-fluidic and biomimetic applications.

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Dr. Peter Baumann has most recently been working as Project Manager for R&D Projects at AIXTRON SE. His experience includes gas phase deposited semiconductors, electrodes, barriers and encapsulation materials for future generation device technology. He has been managing numerous R&D projects including various EU funded projects and a number of national funded projects in the area of organic vapor phase deposition (OVPD®), metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), atomic layer deposition (ALD) and polymer vapor phase deposition (PVPD). He has authored or co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed international scientific journal publications, 3 book chapters, 12 patents and has given numerous presentations at international scientific conferences in the field of organic electronic materials, wide-bandgap semiconductors, perovskites, polymers, high-k dielectrics, diamond and CNT for advanced device applications.

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Dr. Asterios Chatziparadeisis (mathematician of AUTH, DEA and PhD in Statistics of University Pierre et Mari Curie – PARIS VI) was Head of Department and Director for Policy Planning and Indicators in General Secretariat of Research and Innovation (GSRI) in Greece. He was also Head of Unit and Director in the Managing Authorities of the Operational Programmes “Competitiveness” and “Environment”. For the period 1995 – 1998 he used to work for the European Commission in Eurostat and the Programme ESPRIT (European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology). He was responsible for the design of several Operational Programmes financed by the European Structural Funds, the Programme EPET II (Research and Technology for the programming period 1994 – 1999), the Programme EPAN I (Research, Energy, Industry and Tourism for the programming period 2000 – 2006), EPAN II (Research, Energy, Industry, Tourism, Commerce, Culture for the programming period 2007 - 2013) and the Smart Specialisation Strategy (2014 – 2020). He was retired the 2020. 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 Indicators and was evaluator of the European Commission for RTD projects.

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Jorg Ackermann is research director of the CNRS at the Interdisciplinary Center of Nanoscience of Marseille (CINaM) in France. He received his Physics Diploma from the Saarland University, Germany, in 1998. After working as engineer at the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry in 2002 from the University of Aix-Marseille 2 in France. After two years as postdoc fellow, he started his academic career at the CNRS in 2004. His research focuses on the development of inorganic, organic and hybrid semi-conducting nanomaterials for applications in opto-electronic devices such solar cells.

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Dr Georgios Ntinas holds a PhD degree from the School of Agriculture (Dept. of Hydraulics, Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering) of Aristotle University Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece (2012). His PhD research focused on experimental and numerical study of a hybrid solar energy-saving system acting as a hydroponic grow gutter in a greenhouse with tomato cultivation and included greenhouse experiments and the development and validation of a dynamic mathematical model to simulate the thermal behaviour of the solar system. He has worked as a postdoc researcher at the University of Aarhus (AU, Denmark) where he studied airflows around agricultural structures, at National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA, France) where he parameterized heat and mass transfer coefficients for experiments in flux chambers, at AUTh for the production of energy from organic wastes, at Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter (HAO, Greece), where he carried out the research project AgroETAK “Optimized Management of Tomato Crop Nutrition-Fertilizers: Investigating Energy-Agrochemicals Input and Determining Carbon and Water Footprint for the Production of High Added Value Products” and at Technical University of Munich (TUM, Germany), where he received funding to determine the carbon footprint in a semi-closed greenhouse. From 2014 until 2019, he has worked as a lecturer with teaching assignments of the courses “Systems Analysis as a Research Method” (6 academic semesters) and “Ecophysiology: Technical Procedures and Principles of Protected Cultivation” (2 academic semesters) at TUM. He has published 22 papers in international scientific journals, he is a reviewer in 15 international journals, and he has presented his work in many scientific conferences, seminars and workshops. He has participated as a coordinator, work package leader and research associate in 3 European and 8 national programs, while he is a member of scientific associations, societies and unions.

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Christophe Defranoux has graduated from Paris University of Science in Optics and Materials, worked in SOPRA in the Spectroscopic Ellipsometry group from 1992 to 2008, leads the Application group during 10 years and joined Semilab in 2008 as SE Support manager. He is involved since 10 years in the Printed and Organ-ics electronics applications in SEMILAB Group.

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Václav SMÍTKA, Ph.D. (male) is Programme Manager for Energy & Energy Efficiency and member of the AMIRES Institute´s Supervisory Board. He graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering in 2009. At the same faculty he finished his Ph.D. in 2013. Václav has more than 10 years´ experience in the research, development and innovation programmes and projects (European and national) as a consultant, coordinator as well as a member of a research team. Currently, he is managing all the activities connected with preparation of new project proposals in AMIRES with the special focus on projects with large share of business-related activities (e.g. pilot lines, OITB, DIH).

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Mr. Chrysostomos Varlamis is the CEO of Organic Electronic Technologies. He holds a BSc in Materials Science from the University of Patras, an MSc in Nanotechnology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and an MBA from the University of Bolton. Having worked in various business roles, including Product and Business Management, he has successfully led multiple European and National R&I projects including technology development and innovation. He brings strong planning skills, strategic thinking, technical know-how, and a passion for his work to achieve company growth by identifying and commercializing innovative technologies with high demand in the renewable energy market.

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Dr Lionel Tenchine received his master’s degree in micro and nanoelectronics from the Aix-Marseille University (France) in 2007 and graduated from Centrale Marseille (France) the same year. He obtained his Ph.D degree in 2011 from Grenoble INP and CEA-LETI for his work on the vacuum packaging of MEMS using thin films getters. Since 2011, he is working at IPC, first as an R&D project manager in the Plastronics Business Unit, and then as R&D Program Manager. His research activities mainly focus on adding new functionalities to polymer parts, either by integrating electronic functions (e.g. 3D-MID, In-Mould Electronics, Smart Composites, etc.) or by surface micro / nanostructuration.

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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. He is a specialist in Flexible Organic & Printed Electronics nanomaterials (organic semiconductors, transparent electrodes, barriers for encapsulation) and devices (e.g. organic photovoltaics, organic thin film transistors) by vacuum and printing methods. Also, he is expert in metrology of inorganic, organic and hybrid nanostructured materials by Optical Spectroscopy methods as well as on the computational modelling of optical properties of nanomaterials and thin films. His work includes more than 89 peer-reviewed publications in International Scientific Journals, 4 book chapters, more than 130 presentations in International Scientific Conferences, and he has participated as Senior Researcher in more than 16 EU funded R&D projects. 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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Mr Spiros Tsiolakis received his MSc in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002). Worked as a designer and as project manager in the construction of various industrial and commercial buildings. Co-founder of Techlumen LED lighting on 2011 and head of the R&D department of the lighting sector.

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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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Mr. Kyriazopoulos holds a MEng in Materials Science and Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Ioannina and a MSc in Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 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 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. He is also responsible for the Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) production department, having expertise in various Sheet to Sheet and R2R printing techniques and methods, like slot-die coating, inkjet printing and spin-coating. Mr. Kyriazopoulos has also expertise in characterization of organic and inorganic materials using in-line non-destructive characterization tools and methods, such as Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (SE) and Raman Spectroscopy (RS) and ex-situ methods of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Mr. Kyriazopoulos has participated in several European and national R&I projects and holds more than 10 presentations in conferences related to Organic Electronic materials.

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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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Salim Fachouri is OET's project manager, a Physcist with MSc in Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies. He has a strong background related to stents and biosensors and characterization techniques, his current field of interest lies in the development of printable sensors. He has participated in National and European R&D projects related to the development and the optical characterization of organic electronics with novel materials and processes, their innovative applications and their integration within IoT platforms.

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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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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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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.