Master Thesis Defense of Thanasis Machas

March 10th 2026

University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Thanasis Machas, member of the Polymer and Colloid Science Group at IESL-FORTH, on Tuesday 10th of March, brilliantly defended his Master Thesis entitled: “Shear Induced Tuning of Mechanical Properties and Ionic Conductivity of Colloidal Gels for Energy Applications”. His work was supervised by George Petekidis.

Thanasis’s research project is part of the activities of the FORGReenSoft project, which is funded by the European Union.