Maria Farsari

Maria Farsari is a Research Professor at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) within the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH). She has held this position since 2003 and leads research in advanced laser-based manufacturing and photonics.

• Education: PhD in Physics from the University of Durham (UK, 1997) and B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Crete (Greece, 1992).
• Career Highlights: Postdoctoral roles at Durham and Sussex Universities, Senior Optical Scientist at DeLaRue Holographics, and founding member of Xsil Ltd.

Her research focuses on light-based additive manufacturing, multi-photon lithography, and laser-nanofabrication, with applications in photonics, metamaterials, and biofabrication. She has pioneered techniques such as redox multiphoton polymerization and developed 3D-printed scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Key contributions include enhancing lateral resolution in optical microscopy using microsphere-assisted techniques and creating auxetic metamaterials for biomedical applications. Her work bridges fundamental photonics with practical engineering solutions.

Awards include the 2010 SPIE Innovation Village Runner-Up Prize and a 1992–1994 Human Capital Mobility Fellowship. She serves on editorial boards for journals like Optical Materials Express and Scientific Reports.