Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, CERTH

CERTH includes five institutes dedicated to research on sustainable processes, energy resources and advanced materials, informatics, sustainable mobility and transport networks, agricultural technology and biosystems engineering, as well as several cross-disciplinary scientific areas. CERTH’s mission is the promotion of the threefold framework of Research-Development-Innovation, including the conduction of high-quality scientific research and the development of innovative products and services for societal benefit. CERTH has been ranked 1st in funding of European R&D projects among all Greek participants and occupies the 11th place among all European research organizations participating in H2020. CERTH’s revenues reached 65.8 M€ in 2023, coming from competitive research projects (77.6%), government institutional funding (7.2%), and bilateral industrial research contracts (10.5%). CERTH has been awarded the “HR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH” logo in April 2012. 

The Laboratory of Inorganic Materials (LIM) (headed by Prof. Vassilios Zaspalis) is one of the five laboratories at the Chemical Processes and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI) of CERTH, conducting fundamental and applied research on advanced ceramic materials with applications ranging from electromagnetic ceramics to catalysts and magnetic nanoparticles. LIM specializes in the conduction of bilateral industrial R&D contracts governed by global market trends. Its core competence includes the research, design, and development of advanced magnetic materials for automotive, telecommunication, electromagnetic shielding, sensing and space applications, covering an application range from DC to 94 GHz. Additional advancements include the development of soft magnetic powders and upcycling approaches on industrial wastes towards magnetic applications.