Prof. Ioanna Zergioti has a strong track record in the field of laser printing for the development of sensors and organic electronic devices. She is currently a professor at the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Additionally, she is a co-founder of PhosPrint P.C., a spin-off company from the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of NTUA, which develops laser bioprinting technologies. In the past, she has been a researcher at the Laser Applications Division of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser – FORTH, where she worked on ultrashort laser micro-structuring (etching and printing) of metals, oxides and biomaterials.
She has a degree in physics from the University of Crete and a PhD in Laser Materials Processing, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Thessaly, in collaboration with Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (FORTH-IESL)). Part of her PhD was conducted in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley, working on the Laser-Induced Forward Transfer process. Consecutively, she conducted post-doctoral research in Max Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen, investigating laser-matter interactions, as well as in the Philips CFT on Laser Sintering of sol-gels for electronics.
She leads the group of Materials Laser Microprocessing (MLMP), located at the Physics Department of NTUA. The group's research activities focus on laser materials processing for optoelectronics and biological applications, such as laser additive manufacturing and laser bioprinting.
She has been a co-author of several journal publications, conference proceedings, scientific books and owns various granted patents. Finally, she has co-organized many conferences (CLEO, EMRS, COLA).