Stergios Logothetidis


Stergios Logothetidis is a Greek physicist and a full time professor at the solid-state physics department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the founder and director of the . The scientific and research activities of LTFN are focused on the areas of: nanotechnology, organic electronics, nanomedicine, nano-bioelectronics and thin films.

Education and academic career

Stergios Logothetidis received his degree in Physics, MSc in Electronics and PhD at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Max Planck Institute – MPI in Stuttgart, Research Associate at MPI and at the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at BESSY, Berlin.

In 1985 he became a Lecturer and later was elected Full Professor 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.

Research activities

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. 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.

Coordination, administration and management activities

Since 1997, he has organized, managed, realized and coordinated several international clusters and consortia from academic, research and industrial entities from Europe and national. He is member of EU ETP in Nanomedicine, and the .
He has organized several International Conferences, Workshops, International Schools, Exhibitions.
Since 2003, he organizes the International Conference on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies, while since 2005 he organizes the International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics and the International Summer School on N&N. 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.

Legal Issues

On 19/02/2018 the owner of the building where 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 , 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 Nanotechnolog
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.
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 ille

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