IASA - Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications

The Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA) was founded in 1994 in order to promote research and postgraduate studies in the Greek University system. It is affiliated with six university departments: Medicine, Physics and Informatics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering and General Science of the National Technical University of Athens. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens which equally partake in IASA are the oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning in Greece. IASA is charged with pursuing research and promoting graduate studies in areas where accelerators, and accelerator related technologies play a major role. Its cross disciplinary character and its superb infrastructure in enabling technologies have proven to provide particularly attractive and fertile ground a number of technology driven scientific fronts. Its research program is supported through competitive research grants primarily from the Ministry of Development and the European Union. IASA is currently engaged in Research projects in the following areas: - Nuclear and Particle physics - Nuclear medicine and imaging - Accelerator Science & Engineering - Automated Control - Scientific Computing - Environmental Physics - Microwave Engineering - Telecommunications IASA is collaborating with numerous International Research Centers (CERN, ESA, ESS, DESY, INFN, JINR), Universities (Imperial College London, Oxford University, UC Louvain, Univ. of Padova, Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand, LIP and others) as well as Greek Research Centers and Universities (Demokritos, Univ. of Ioannina).