On February 14th, Fotis Fraggelakis successfully defended his thesis and was awarded the degree of PhD.
The now dr. Fraggelakis, was an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) of the Laser4Fun project. He was the the first PhD-candidate from the project to defend his PhD-thesis. The public defense ceremony took place on February 14th at the Institute d’Optique d’Aquitaine (IOA) in Talence (France). He was supervised by dr. Inka Manek-Hönninger and dr. John Lopez of the University of Bordeaux, carried out most of his work at Alphanov under the supervision of dr. Rainer Kling of Alphanov, amongst others.
The PhD-defense committee consisted, among others, dr. Jörn Bonse of the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) in Berlin (Germany), prof. Antonio Ancona of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Fotonica (IFN) of the University of Bari (Italy), and prof. Gert-willem Römer of the Chair of Laser Processing of the University of Twente (The Netherlands).
