The 2017 recipient of the FORTH/ICE-HT "Stratis Sotirchos Lectureship Award" is Dr. Hal Alper, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Charalambos Makridakis’s research is focused on Computational Mathematics, mainly in the areas of Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and of Multi-Scale Modelling and Simulation. He is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sussex and Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Crete.

Ms Gelina Harlaftis, Professor of Maritime History in the Department of History of the Ionian University and Affiliated Researcher with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of FORTH, was elected Director of the Institute on February 10, 2017. Her official appointment is expected in the next few weeks.

Dr. Dimitris Plexousakis, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete and Head of the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of the Institute of Computer Science was elected Director of the Institute on December 22, 2016. His official appointment is expected in the next few weeks.

The Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) organizes the 11th ETPN 2016 (Nanomedicine European Technology Platform General Assembly and Annual Event 2016, http://www.etpn2016.eu/) in collaboration with the Nanomedicine European Technology Platform (http://www.etp-nanomedicine.eu/public).

FORTH is participating in the 81st Thessaloniki International Fair, from 10 to 18 September, under the umbrella of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, with exhibits by the Institutes of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Computer Science and Chemical Engineering Sciences, at the Pavilion P15GF.

KALEAO Ltd., a high-tech start-up company based in Cambridge, UK, and the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of FORTH, the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas in Heraklion Crete, Greece, in cooperation with STEP-C, the Science & Technology Park of Crete, invite you to the Inauguration of the KALEAO-Crete Development Centre, to be held on Thursday 30 June 2016, starting at 16:00, in FORTH’s Amphitheatre.

The call has now opened for the 26th Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching in memory of Vassilis Xanthopoulos and Stephanos Pnevmatikos, both professors at the University of Crete and members of the Foundation for Research & Technology (FORTH).

A two-day scientific workshop on Quantum Technologies is organized within the framework of the “Greek-Russia Year 2016” and will be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2016 at the NCSR “Demokritos”.

At Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada for University of Crete and FORTH students and Staff