Demosthenes Koutsogeorgis

Dr Koutsogeorgis' responsibilities include teaching, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as academic and industrial research.

He is a Module Leader, a Placement Tutor, a Placement Provider, a Project Supervisor (BSc Final Year and Masters projects), a Director of Studies for PhD programmes, the IMEC Research Centre PGR coordinator, a Research Group Leader (iSMaRT Research Group - for research interests and activity please see the relevant tab) and finally the NTU Laser Safety Adviser.

Dr Koutsogeorgis has been one of the founding members (in 2006) of an initiative for providing industry with direct access to the expertise of his Research Group at NTU, via "Thin Film Services" (TFS). This initiative was succeeded by a wider initiative "Scientific Services To Industry" (SS2i), covering the whole School of Science and Technology at NTU. More recently he has been one of the key academics in specifying, designing and delivering parts of the MTIF project at NTU. His research group iSMaRT (Innovations in Surfaces Materials And Related Technologies) is wholly based in MTIF Clifton.

In the past, Dr Koutsogeorgis has served as the interim Head of STEM Development (Feb 2018 to July 2019), an Academic Board Member (2007-2010 and 2010-2013), a Health and Safety Adviser, a Direct Entry Admissions Tutor and a panel member on Course Validations. Also he has served as a University and College Union (UCU) official, with the roles of the Health and Safety Representative and a local NTU Committee Representative.