Dr. Carolina Casadio, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH, has been awarded a highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to study the nature of Dark Matter.

With great sadness, FORTH announces the loss of Vassilis Dougalis, Distinguished Member, former President and Vice President of FORTH, and former Director of the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, who passed away on January 1st, 2022, after a heroic battle with cancer.

Dr. Emmanuel Stratakis, Research Director at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser
of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, was elected as a Fellow of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America, OSA) at the Society’s November 2021 Board of Directors meeting.

Τhe Institute of Petroleum Research (IPR) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), founded in 2019 in Chania, is hereinafter renamed to Institute of Geoenergy (IG/FORTH) according to article 76 of Law 4864 /2021, published on 2-12-2021.

FORTH’s 9^th Institute, the Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) based in Ioannina, was re-established, following an amendment by the Ministry of Development and Investments and the adoption of a relevant provision of law, on November 30, 2021.