Dr Maria Vasilopoulou

Dr Maria Vasilopoulou received her degree in physics from the University of Athens and her PhD in functional materials for nanolithography from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. She subsequently served as an adjunct professor at the University of West Attica and as a research collaborator at the Institute of Microelectronics, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" (NCSRD), where she established a new laboratory for organic optoelectronics. She currently holds the position of director of research at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSRD, where she leads the Organic and Perovskite Optoelectronics Laboratory. Her research focuses on optoelectronic devices based on emerging semiconductors, as well as on quantum physics and related device applications. Dr Vasilopoulou has authored more than 150 scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings and holds five patents. She was a visiting academic in the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy group at the Cambridge Graphene Centre in July 2026.