Other scientific activities



  1. Workshop for the presentation of the Project "Improving Human Research Potential and the Socio-Economic knowledge Base (IHP)", 5th framework of Research, Technology and Development and presentation of European Community 1998-2002, Official Presentation of the Greek Branch of MCFA, National Foundation of Research, Athens, Greece, 15 April, 1999.



  2. Conference "Investing in Europe's Human Research Potential", Organized by European Commission (DG-Research)/GSRT(GGET)/MCFA/FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, 4-7 October 2000.
  3. Conference, "Competitive European Research - The vision of young scientists", organized by ESF/MCFA/MPG, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, 3-4 November, 2000.
  4. Organisation of the 4th National Meeting of the MCFA-PT, Ceramics & Glass Engineering Department, University of Aveiro, 7 December, 2000.



  5. Donation of an original copy a red-figured lekithos vase, of the 5th century b.C. with a figure of diskovolos, which is exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens with the number 1305, by the Greek Government to the Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering of University of Aveiro in Portugal.
  6. Design and built of vacuum furnace, which reaches vacuum of 2x10-6 mbar and temperature of 1800ΊC, and has facilities of direct side- and top-view, movement of the sample and quenching.



  7. Invitation of Prof. Ik Jin Kim, of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Hanseo of South Korea, to visit the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Ioannina and give a lecture entitled "Advanced host-guest materials based on zeolites for semiconductor nano-cluster", 18 February 2008.
  8. Invitation of Dr. Valerio Patricia, of the Department of Biophysics, Physiology and Immunology of the Federal University of Minas Gerais of the State of Belo Horizonte of Brazil, to visit the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Ioannina and give a lecture entitled "Road-map in bone physiology & bone tissue engineering", 31 March 2008.
  9. Invitation of the Associate Professor Faik N. Oktar, of the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Polytechnic School of Marmara University of Constantinople, to visit the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Ioannina and give a lecture entitled "Naturally Derived Biomaterials", 31 March 2008.
  10. Development of the new web-page of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Ioannina (2008).



  11. Invitation of Professor Qiang Zheng, of the Research Centre of Nano-Science and Nano-Technology, Advance Material Composite and Dispersion Technology of the Engineering Centre of Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai University, 5-9 December 2009.
  12. Invitation of Professor KeXin Chen, of Tsinghua University of Beijing and the Foundation of Research of Technology of China, 5-9 December 2009.



  13. Design and built of new hot-press equipment, with graphite furnace, vacuum 2x10-3 mbars, maximum temperature 2000oC, optical observation of the sample.