Chairperson of candidacy
Simeon Agathopoulos
www.agathopoulos.org

• Associate Professor of Ceramics Technology
  Laboratory of Ceramic Materials and Composites (CCL)
  Department of Materials Science & Engineering (DMSE), University of Ioannina (UoI)

• ex-President (currently Secretary) of the Greek (Hellenic) Society of Biomechanics
• President of the International Scientific Committee of High Temperature Capillarity

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Organizer

• University of Ioannina (UoI), Laboratory of Ceramics and Composites (CCL), Dept. Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE)

University of Ioannina (UoI)

Dept. Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE)

Laboratory of Ceramics and Composites (CCL)

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The Conference is endorsed by the Greek (Hellenic) Scientific Societies
(represented in the Organizing Committee)

Greek (Hellenic)
Society of Biomechanics
ex-President (currently Secretary): Assoc.Prof. S.Agathopoulos

Greek (Hellenic)
Society of Ceramics
President: Assoc.Prof. A.Tsetsekou

Greek (Hellenic)
Society of Biomaterials
President: Assoc.Prof. T.Papadopoulos

Greek (Hellenic)
Society of Metals
President: Dr. Anna Zervaki

co-organizer of the

organizer of the

organizer of the

EUROMAT 2017

Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee, presented in section I, gathers all the experts (professors, scientific societies and research laboratories) in (a) Ceramics and (b) Biomaterials in Greece, as shown in the analysis presented in section II.

I. Suggested List of the Members of the Organizing Committee (OC)

President of the Organizing Committee

Simeon Agathopoulos
Associate Professor
Laboratory of Ceramics & Composites (CCL), Dept. Materials Science & Engineering (DMSE), University of Ioannina (UoI)

• ex-President (and currently Secretary) of the Greek Society of Biomechanics
• President of the International Scientific Committee of High Temperature Capillarity

Mentoring

Yannis Missilris
Professor

• Founder & ex-Director of the Laboratory of Bioengineering, University of Patras, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Vice Presidents
(alphabetically)

Michael Karakassidis
Professor
University of Ioannina

• Director of the Laboratory of Ceramics and Composites, University of Ioannina
• President of the Dept. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina

Triantafillos Papadopoulos
Associate Professor
University of Athens, Dental School, Laboratory of Biomaterials

• President of the Greek Society of Biomaterials
  
  

Athena Tsetsekou
Associate Professor
National Technical University of Athens, Dept. of Metallurgy Engineers

• President of the Greek Society of Ceramics

Map of the Greek Human Capital & Potential on Bioceramics
(and suggested members of the Organizing Committee)

II. Analysis of the completeness of the proposing Organizing Committee (OC):

1. (a) The OC has representatives from all the Greek Universities:
2. (b) The OC has representatives from all the Departments of Materials Science:
3. (c) The OC has all the Professors of Ceramics and Glasses in Greece whose research focuses on bioceramics
4. (d) The OC has representatives from all the Laboratories whose research deals with bioceramic materials
5. (e) The OC has representatives from all the Laboratories whose research systematically deals with ceramic materials:
6. (f) The OC has representatives from all the scientifically related Scientific Greek Societies:
7. (g) The OC has representatives from all the fields of Bioceramics:
• Production, characterization (bulk, porous, coatings)
• Mechanical properties (spine bones) and porous (foams) ceramics
• Chemical properties and biological bioceramics
• Drug delivery systems and nano-ceramics (including functionalization)
• Magnetic materials (hyperthermia)
• Biomechanics
• Bioengineering-bioinformatics
• Orthopedics (clinical application and in vivo tests)
• Dentistry (characterization and clinical performance)
• Cardiology (in vivo tests, tissue engineering)
• Biological (in vitro) testing and tissue engineering
• Application (industrial production and protocols of in vivo testing)