Sotirios Baskoutas University of Patras, Greece
Sotirios Baskoutas obtained his Ph.D. from the Physics Department of the University of Patras, Greece. He joined the Materials Science Department of the University of Patras in 2001, where he is currently Professor (Full). Dr. Baskoutas has visited and worked in several Universities and Research Institutes outside Greece, such as the Department of Physics, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (Italy), Department of Physics Fundamental y Experimental, University of Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), Free University of Brussels (Belgium), Research Institute of Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest (Hungary), Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (Canada), Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Munich (Germany), INT Institute for Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe (Germany), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany), Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg (Germany) and Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan (Armenia). His research interests are focused mainly in theoretical but also experimental studies in semiconductor nanostructures, with emphasis to their electronic and optical properties. Dr. Baskoutas has authored over 300 research articles in peer reviewed journals and books in the field of condensed matter physics and materials science with more than 7500 citations with h-index 47. He serves as Section Editor-in-Chief for Nanomaterials (MDPI), Associate Editor for Heliyon Materials Science (Elsevier) and as an Editorial Board Member in several scientific journals such as Materials Futures IOP etc., and has been a member of 40 European and Greek research projects (in 12 of them as project leader). In January 2021 he received the Vebleo Scientist Award due to notable and outstanding contribution in the field of “Materials Science, Engineering and Technology’’ (https://vebleo.com/vebleo-recognitions/) and in May 2021 the Academic Council of Russian-Armenian University (RAU), Yerevan, awarded him as Honorary Doctorate.
