Up Close: Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
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interrelation with Greece. • Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers, concerned with materials science research. • Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Energy Chemical Processes, affiliated with the University of Patras. • Institute of Chemical Processing Technology, affiliated with the University of Thessaloniki. The governing board includes the president and the directors of the institutes (who are mainly professors at the University of Crete), and a representative of the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology-
Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers
The Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL) is concerned with materials science research, specifically with three This article is part of a seriesfocusingon the research capabilities and goals of main themes: interdisciplinary laboratories pursuing materials research in universities, industry, and1. understanding the physical and elecgovernment tronic properties of materials for the purpose of developing applications in electronics, 2. the study of interactions between matFORTH therefore based its founding The Foundation for Research and ter and laser beams, and strategies on a group of distinguished sciTechnology-Hellas (FORTH), Crete, 3. the design of new lasers and related entists, a network of state-of-the-art equipGreece, was formally founded in Decemelectro-optic devices. ment, and an efficient form of ber 1982 under the auspices of the Greek Organization, Programs, and Personnel organization. The strategies proved very Secretariat of Research and Technology. The IESL currently has two divisions, effective. They facilitated the recruitment Until recently the foundation was known each subdivided into groups pursuing a of other excellent Greek scientists from as the Research Center of Crete. mixture of fundamental and applied reabroad, foreign and national visiting scienFollowing the successful examples of search coherent with the main themes of tists, and postdoctoral fellows. But most university/research center cooperation in the institute (see Table I). importantly, they attracted substantial outother countries, FORTH—although an inIESL is staffed by 23 faculty members side funding (mainly from EEC programs). dependent institution—is strongly affiliand research scientists, 5 postdoctoral felFORTH's location on the island of Crete ated with the University of Crete. It was, in lows, 15 visiting scientists, 8 graduate stuwith its rich historical and intellectual backfact, the university's faculty who planned dents, and 12 technical and administrative ground, natural beauty and excellent cliand proposed the creation of the center. personnel. mate has also been among the assets The foundation's goals have remained contributing to the dynamic growth of the Funding - Cooperation the same since its inception: center. During 1987, IESL's budget was about • To execute quality scientific and applied 190 million Gr. drachmas (about US The original organizational structure of research in carefully selected and diverse $1,357,000). About
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