Herausgegeben von: Athanassia Athanassiou

Athanassia Athanassiou is Tenured Senior Researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa. Italy. After her PhD, obtained from the University of Salford, UK, she got a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, where she was associated researcher. From 2006 to 2010 she was a Senior Researcher at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of the CNR-Istituto di Nanoscienze in Lecce, Italy, and founded the group of Smart Materials at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa in 2012. She has a broad range of experimental experience in fields such as development, processing & characterization of composite nanomaterials, smart materials responsive to external stimuli, laser-matter interactions, steady state/transient spectroscopy, surface science, and nanofabrication. She has published about 250 articles in refereed journals, she is the author or co-author several book chapters, she is the inventor of 20 patents, 12 of them already filed, and she has several oral and invited contributions to international conferences.