Local Organizing Committee
George Petekidis (co-chair) | Univ. of Crete & FORTH/IESL, Greece
Maria Vamvakaki (co-chair) | Univ. of Crete & FORTH/IESL, Greece
Benoit Loppinet (co-chair) | FORTH/IESL, Greece
Dimitris Vlassopoulos | University of Crete & FORTH/IESL, Greece
Kiriaki Chrissopoulou | FORTH/IESL, Greece
Spiros H. Anastasiadis | University of Crete & FORTH/IESL, Greece
Vagelis Harmandaris | University of Crete & FORTH/IACM, Greece
Emmanouela Filippidi | University of Crete & FORTH/IESL, Greece
Eleni Pavlopoulou | FORTH/IESL, Greece
Doros Theodorou | National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Kostas Karatasos | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Thodoris Karapantsios | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Periklis Papadopoulos | University of Ioannina, Greece
Spyros Υannopoulos | FORTH/ICE-HT, GreeceE
International Scientific Committee
Steve Armes | The University of Sheffield, UK
Hans-Jürgen Butt | Max Planck Inst. for Polymer Research, Germany
Peter Schurtenburger | Lund University, Sweden
Sophia Antimisiaris | University of Patras, Greece
Matthias Barz | Leiden University, The Netherlands
Juan de Vicente | University of Granada, Spain
Rafael Delgado Buscalioni | Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Christian Clasen | KU Leuven, Belgium
Per Cleasson | KTH, Sweden
Paul Clegg | The University of Edinburgh, UK
Nikolai Denkov | Sofia University, Bulgaria
Andreas Fery | Leibniz Inst. for Polymer Research, Germany
George Floudas | University of Ioannina, Greece
George Fytas | Univ. of Crete, Greece & Max Planck Inst., Germany
Deniz Gunes | KU Leuven, Belgium
Daniel Harries | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
John Hone | Syngenta, Basel, Switzerland
Hermis Iatrou | University of Athens, Greece
Arnout Imhof | Utrecht University, The Nertherlands
Lucio Isa | ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Erin Koos | KU Leuven, Belgium
Theodora Krasia-Christoforou | University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Marco Laurati | University of Florence, Italy
Francois Lequeux | ESPCI, Paris, France
Pierandrea Lo Nostro | University of Florence, Italy
Harmut Löwen | University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Igor Muševič | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laurence Ramos | Université de Montpellier, France
Walter Richtering | RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Maud Save | Université de Pau et des Pays de l’ Adour, France
Karin Schillén | Lund University, Sweden
Joakim Stenhammar | Lund University, Sweden
Anna Stradner | Lund University, Sweden
Uwe Thiele | University of Münster, Germany
Veronique Trappe | University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Doris Vollmer | Max Planck Inst. for Polymer Research, Germany
Regine von Klitzing | TU Darmstadt, Germany
Piotr Warszynski | Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Emanuela Zaccarelli | Italian National Research Council, Italy
Primoz Ziherl | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Plenary Speakers
(Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Plenary Talk: “Making Polymer Colloids more Sustainable”
(Caltech, USA)
Plenary Talk: “The Mechanics of Active Matter”
(TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Plenary Talk: “The material properties of soft living matter”
(University of Vienna, Austria)
Plenary Talk: “Cluster Crystals: from a theorist’s toy model to experimental realization”
(University of Leeds, UK)
Plenary talk: “Multiscale Mechanics of Protein Networks”
(Max Planck Institute, Germany)
2022 Overbeek Gold Medal
Plenary Talk: «Electrostatic charging: the source of the missing force on moving drops»
(Hartree Centre, STFC, UK)
2022 Solvay Prize
Plenary Talk: “Colloidal diffusiophoresis – a brief history and recent applications”