BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Nikolaos Balis holds a four-year degree in Physics from the University of Patras (Greece) as well as a PhD diploma in Applied Natural Sciences from the Engineering Science Department of the Polytechnic School of the same University. He supported his doctoral thesis in July 2013 and then he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center of Materials Technology & Photonics (CEMATEP) in the Hellenic Mediterranean University (Crete, Greece). Since 2017 he has been working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Nanotechnology Processes for Solar Energy Conversion & Environmental Protection Laboratory (NPSECEPL), of NCSR Demokritos (Athens, Greece). Currently he is also employed as an adjunct professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering in the University of Patras where he teaches Physics and Materials for Energy Applications. He has worked in seminal international research programs (e.g. MAESTRO - Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement No 764787, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, 1st call to support Research Projects for Postdoctoral Researchers, 7th Framework Program on Research (FP7) Graphene), he has received a post-doctoral scholarship from State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), while he has published 18 papers in high impact factor international peer-reviewed journals (Materials Today, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Advanced Functional Materials etc.).
RESEARCH INTEREST
The main goal of his research is towards introducing novel nano structured and molecular materials in light-induced applications, including emerging solar cells and photo catalytic applications
