Stergios Logothetidis

Stergios Logothetidis received his degree in Physics (1977), MSc in Electronics (1980) and PhD (1983) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Max Planck Institute – MPI in Stuttgart (1983-1985), Research Associate at MPI (1985) and at the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at BESSY, Berlin (1988-1989).
In 1985 he became a Lecturer and later was elected Full Professor (1999) at the Physics Department in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while during 2005-2009 he served as Chairman in the same department. His longtime educational activity includes forming and teaching a multitude of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level and authoring seven books and notes. He is the director and founder of the Interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program "Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies" of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 2003. He was the supervisor of 18 PhD theses and 130 MSc theses, while he coordinates the research of 30 Post-doctoral researchers.

Stergios Logothetidis's research activity is complemented by over 880 papers and review articles in International Journals and Conferences and over 5000 citations, whereas he has an h-index of 35.[1] He has given more than 130 Invited talks and is a referee in more than 30 International Scientific Journals.
He has published 5 International scientific books and 16 chapters in other books. Finally he owns 2 patents and has other 2 currently under review.

Since 1997, he has organized, managed, realized and coordinated several international clusters and consortia from academic, research and industrial entities from Europe and national (European and National R&D projects, Director of the Thematic Research Network NANONET, CEO of Thessaloniki Innovation Zone, Founder and Director of Hellenic Organic and Printed Electronic Association (HOPE-A), member of committees, etc.). He is member of EU ETP in Nanomedicine (ETPN), European Foundation for Clinical Nanomedicine and the American Academy of Nanomedicine. He has organized several International Conferences, Workshops, International Schools, Exhibitions (in Nanotechnologies, Organic Electronics, Materials Science, Nanomedicine, Thin film technology, Technology transfer, etc.). Since 2003, he organizes the International Conference on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies (ΝΝ), while since 2005 he organizes the International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics (ISFOE) and the International Summer School on N&N (ISSON). At 2011, the NN, ISFOE and ISSON were merged to the multi-event NANOTEXNOLOGY which is one of the biggest nanotechnology events in Europe, that gathers every year more than 1200 internationally acknowledged scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and students from 55 countries.

On 19/02/2018 the owner of the building where Lab for Thin Films – Nanosystems and Nanometrology (LTFN) housed, Dimitris Farazas as well as the head of the Laboratory Professor Stergios Logothetidis, were led to the Police Department of Thermi and from there the next day to the court, after lawsuits one against the other. Both men were handcuffed during this whole process. This episode was the culmination of lasting friction between the two sides that have been taking place for many months. On 19 January, the Labor expedition was leased from the leased space, pursuant to a court decision reached by the owner of the building.

LTFN was installed in this area in July 2014. The rental contract, for unquestionable reasons for such an investment in equipment of approximately 30 million, was only 2.5 years and ended in December 2016. Since then the Laboratory remained in the space without a lease contract. However, in 2017, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki through the special ELKE account, which is a tenant, paid the rent of 3,480 euros per month in the form of compensation for use as there was no rental contract.

Damages amounting to 100,000-150,000 euros are estimated to have been caused by the Research Center for Organic and Printed Electronics in Thermi after the disaster caused by the owner of the building as a result of an unprecedented controversy that has exploded with the Nanotechnology Lab of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

As reported by Professor Stergios Logothetidis at a press conference, the damage was caused after January 2018 after the Labor expulsion from the leased space, pursuant to a court decision reached by the owner of the property.

Following the administrative expulsion action, the tenant put a locker on the premises, prohibiting the entry of researchers and staff. According to Mr. Loglethatides, the owner, accompanied by six or ten people, invaded the building that housed the laboratory and proceeded to destroy the security entrances of the laboratory, the control center and the sensors of dangerous gases with an electric wheel, posing the security risk of researchers.[2]

The owner of the building report to a press conference that "The constant complaints, the lies and the insulting of our name do not cover the slowness with which the laboratory designed it without time and infrastructure, and in the pre-impasse it lost the measure of behavior and dignity, considering itself as the sovereign of everything," he says others - Mr Farazas in his letter and adds:

"We really regret the way in which Mr. Rogeriotis barks on the institution that has been serving for so many years, and asks what example he gives to his students and students with his illegal deeds."

• S. Logothetidis, V. Karagkiozaki (2014). Horizons in Clinical Nanomedicine. Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd ISBN 9789814411561
• S. Logothetidis (2014). Nanostructured Materials and Their Applications. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG ISBN 9783642448218
• S. Logothetidis (2014). Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG ISBN 9783642432668
• S. Logothetidis (2012). Nanostructured Materials and Their Applications. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG ISBN 9783642222269
• S. Logothetidis (2012). Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG ISBN 9783642241802

• Stergios Logothetidis’s personal webpage
• Lab for Thin Films - Nanosystems and Nanometrology (LTFN) webpage
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• School of physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki