Students
Ioannis (John) Madesis was born in Athens in 1986. He studied physics at the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He graduated in 2012 after presenting his Diploma thesis titled "Optical study of the ferroelastic Sb5O7I with the use of Raman spectroscopy (in Greek)". In October 2012 he was accepted in the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program "Microsystems and Nanodevices" of the Physics Department of NTUA. His M.Sc. thesis is titled "First-Principles computational study of the High-Temperature SuperConductor YBa2Cu3O7-x (in Greek) and focuses on computational Solid State physics. In October 2013 he enrolled in the School of Sciences and Engineering of the University of Crete as a Ph.D. student in Atomic Physics. One of the primary objectives for his Ph.D. thesis, was the construction of the L45 Atomic Physics beamline in the Tandem Laboratory, along with measuments regarding the statistical population of 1s2s2p states in electron capture to accelerated projectile He-like ions. He is currently completing his thesis.
Nelly Kladouri has studied Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (BSc).
In 2018 Nelly Kladouri successfully defended her MSc thesis, conducted in the XFR laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics at the NCSR Demokritos, entitled: “A technological study of a bronze pins collection of the geometric period from the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea” (MSc in Cultural Heritage Materials and Technologies-University of the Peloponnese). During her postgraduate studies, Nelly Kladouri was the recipient of the scholarship awarded to the top-scoring student, by the University of the Peloponnese (CultTech Scholarship Program).
Currently, Nelly Kladouri is a doctoral candidate of the University of Peloponnese, conducting metal analysis on votive finds from various sanctuaries of Arcadia, Greece dating between the 9th -7thc. B.C.E.. The detailed micro-XRF study of metal artefacts is conducted at the XRF laboratory of the INPP.
Her primary research interest focuses on the chemical analysis, characterization and provenance study of archaeological and historical metals.
She is a regular employee in the field of Conservation of Antiquities for the Greek Ministry of Culture.
Kalliopi Tsampa has graduated from the Physics Department of the University of Athens (2017) presenting a BSc diploma work entitled: “Construction and Characterization of nuclear targets using Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy”. The period 2017-2019 Ms Tsampa attended the interdepartmental MSc program of the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Technical University of Athens (2018-2019). Kalliopi Tsampa MSc thesis was conducted at the XRF Laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics of NCSR “Demokritos” (2018-2019) with the subject: “Macroscopic X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) imaging and quantitative characterization of Platinum Group Mineral inclusions in Mycenean gold signet rings”. She has acquired extensive experience in field XRF measurements and in the analysis, calibration and quantification of MA-XRF imaging data. In March 2019, Kalliopi Tsampa has also participated in a synchrotron radiation experiment at the XRF beamline of Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste aimed to study X-ray resonant Raman scattering on gold atoms.
Angelos Laoutaris is a Ph.D. student of the University of Crete since 2016. He has completed his M.Sc. in Physics and Technical Applications at the National and Technical University of Athens in 2016 and his Bachelor in Physics at the University of Athens in 2014.
During his bachelor studies he participated in the Cosmic Rays group of the University of Athens under Prof. E.C. Mavromichalaki studying geomagnetic storms and completed an internship at the Tandem Laboratory of N.C.S.R. “Demokritos” studying X-Ray Fluorescence, PIXE and PIGE methods of sample analysis.
During his master studies he participated in the APAPES group (Atomic Physics with Accelerators, Projectile electron Spectroscopy), an atomic physics group hosted at the tandem laboratory of N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, where he designed and supervised the construction and installation of an ion post-stripper on the system of the tandem Van de Graaff accelerator, under the supervision of Prof. Theo Zouros.
Currently he is a member of the APAPES group and his research focuses on the field of accelerator-based atomic physics at the 5.5 MV tandem accelerator at the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics at the National Center for Scientific Research – “Demokritos” in Athens, where a beam line dedicated to atomic physics has been developed and a unit for the high resolution Auger spectroscopy of Projectile Ions has been setup funded through the program APAPES (ESPA 2007-2013).
Publications
- Population of the 1s2s(3S)nl 2L states in collisions of mixed-state (1s2 1S, 1s2s 3S) B3+ and C4+ ion beams with He and H2 targets, E. P. Benis, I. Madesis, A. Laoutaris, S. K. Nikolaou, A. Dubois, T. W. Gorczyca, T. J. M. Zouros, X-Ray spectrometry 2019; 1-6.
- Projectile electron spectroscopy: new answers to old questions. Latest results at the new atomic physics beamline in Demokritos, Athens, I. Madesis, A. Laoutaris, T.J.M. Zouros, S. Nanos and E.P. Benis, Preprint (2018) (ISIAC 2017).
- Mixed-State Ionic Beams: An Effective Tool For Collision Dynamics Investigations, E.P. Benis, I. Madesis, A. Laoutaris, S. Nanos, T.J.M. Zouros, ATOMS 6 (2018) 66.
- Experimental determination of the effective solid angle of long-lived projectile states in zero-degree Auger projectile spectroscopy, E.P. Benis, I. Madesis, A. Laoutaris, S. Nanos, T. J. M. Zouros, 2017, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 222 (2018) 31.
- High Resolution Auger Projectile Electron Spectroscopy of Li-like Ions Produced by Electron Capture in collision of He-like ions with Gaseous targets, A. Dimitriou, A. Laoutaris, I. Madesis, S. Doukas, E. P. Benis, B. Sulik, O. Sise, A. Lagoyannis, M. Axiotis, T. J. M. Zouros, 2016, Journal of Atomic, Molecular, Condensate and Nano Physics, Vol.3, No. 2, 125-131.
- The voltage optimization of a four-element lens used on a hemispherical spectrograph with virtual entry for highest energy resolution, O. Sise, G. Martínez, I. Madesis, A. Laoutaris, A.Dimitriou, M. Fernández- Martín, T. J. M. Zouros, 2016, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 211 (2016) 19-31.
- Voltage optimization of a 4-element Injection Lens on a hemispherical spectrograph with virtual entry aperture, G. Martínez, M. Fernández-Martín, O. Sise, I. Madesis, A. Dimitriou, A. Laoutaris and T. J. M. Zouros, 2016, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 369, 92.
- Determination of the solid angle and response function of a hemispherical spectrograph with injection lens for Auger electrons emitted from long lived projectile states, S. Doukas, I. Madesis, A. Dimitriou, A. Laoutaris, T. J. M. Zouros and E. P. Benis, 2015, Review of Scientific Instruments 86, 043111.