George D.Tsibidis is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser at FORTH. He received his PhD in Theoretical High Energy Physics at the University of Sussex in 1997. I His interests include theoretical approaches related to ultrafast laser interaction with materials and laser processing (multiscale physical processes following irradiation of solids with ultrashort pulses). He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on laser–matter interactions. He has been invited to a large number of international conferences on laser–matter interactions, and he has participated in many competitive research projects.