From the academic year 2019-2020, the Department of Electronics Engineering of Hellenic Mediterranean University along with IPPL coordinates the LaPlA Postgraduate MSc degree program in Laser, Plasma & Applications. It is the evolution of the PLAPA Postgraduate Masters Program that was the result of the synergy of top scientists and leading European Higher Education Institutions and Research Centers in the fields of Plasma Physics and Laser Plasma Physics.
The main objective of the one year and a half training program is to prepare high quality scientists & engineers in the field of laser produced plasmas, laser physics, laser matter interaction. The graduates will be capable to conduct a doctoral thesis in Hellenic Mediterranean University or in collaborating internal and overseas Universities and to work in research funding projects. The MSc program will enable students and graduates to broaden their horizons by obtaining new knowledge through the mobility to top universities, research centers and companies abroad in the field of Lasers and Plasma technology. The graduates will enhance their skills and knowledge so that they can be able to create independently or in collaboration with other scientists new high-tech small and medium-sized companies.
During their studies, postgraduate students are required to attend and successfully complete 10 postgraduate courses and to conduct a postgraduate diploma thesis. Postgraduate full-time students must successfully complete ten (10) compulsory courses in the two (2) first semesters of their studies. Postgraduate part-time students must successfully complete ten (10) compulsory courses within four (4) semesters. The Postgraduate diploma thesis for full-time students is carried out in the third semester. For part-time students postgraduate diploma thesis may take up to one year. All courses correspond to thirty (30) units per semester of study. Each course corresponds to six (6) credits. The postgraduate diploma thesis, also corresponds to thirty (30) units.
Course structure of LaPlA
Past MSc Recipients
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Petrakis Stylianos (2013 registered in University of Crete, Micro-Optoelectronics MSc program). Thesis entitled: Study of the High Harmonic Generation in Xe-gas through control of the polarization of two time-delayed femtosecond laser pulses
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Skarvelakis Emmanouil (2015 registered in Technical University of Crete, Production Engineering MSc program). Thesis entitled: Investigation of the thermomechanical behavior of metallic samples with defects irradiated by laser pulses using finite element method simulations
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Mancelli Donaldi (2017) PLAPA MSc program
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Andrianaki Georgia (2017) PLAPA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Experimental and Simulation study of laser induced ion acceleration
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Stelios Passalidis (2018) PLAPA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Hydrodynamic simulations of collisional shockwaves in gas targets for improved ion acceleration
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Tasos Grigoriadis (2018) PLAPA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Study of laser produced plasma during the interaction of 40 TW ultra-short laser pulses with solid and gas targets
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Ioannis Fitilis (2018) PLAPA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Plasma Dynamics in Single Wire Z-pinch Under Moderate Electrical Explosion
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Ioannis Tazes (2019) PLAPA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Experimental and numerical study of laser induced particle acceleration from solid targets
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Nikos Ligopsihakis (2019) PLAPA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Study of X-pinch plasma dynamics using a 40kA pulsed powered device
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Filippos Mastoris (2020) PLAPA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Characterisation of Neutral Gas Jet Nozzles
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Chris Vlahos (2020) PLAPA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Use of Faraday rotation in paramagnetic crystals to characterise magnetostatic fields in coil targets driven by lasers
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Aimilios Mouziouras (2020) PLAPA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Comparison of EPOCH and SMILEI Particle-In-Cell codes in laser driven particle acceleration PIC simulations for laser-plasma interaction
- Manos Kaniolakis (2021) LaPlA MSc program.
- Alexandros Skoulakis (2021) LaPla Msc program.
- Helen Papadaki (2022) LaPlA MSc program. Thesis entitled: Finite element study of the dynamic behavior of Si targets in sequential irradiation by short laser pulses`
- Sofoklis Nikolaou (2022) LaPlA MSc program.
- Chris Karvounis (2022) LaPla MSc program.
- Simos Vlachos (2022) LaPlA Msc program. Thesis entitled: Experimental and numerical analysis of laser wakefield acceleration
- Marina Kamilaki (2022) LaPla Msc program.
- Dimitrios Louloudakis (2022) LaPla MSc program.
- Euridiki Vrouvaki (2023) LaPla Msc program.