Stamatelatos Ion | Fusion Technology Group (FTG)

Director of Research

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Dr. Ion Stamatelatos is Director of Research and Head of the Nuclear Research Reactor Laboratory at the Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences, Technology, Energy & Safety, NCSR “Demokritos”. His current research activities focus on fusion technology within the framework of the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy (EUROfusion). He serves as National Representative in the Group of Scientific Experts in terms of Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty and he is a Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Radiation and Isotopes journal.

Dr. Stamatelatos scientific interests include development of nuclear and radiation techniques with applications in nuclear technology, biomedicine and cultural heritage studies, nuclear analytical techniques, radiation transport simulations, radiation detection and measurement, neutron dosimetry, neutronics, radiation protection and nuclear safety.

He has obtained research grants under H2020 EUROfusion, EFDA, IAEA and GSRT. He has authored 80 publications in peer reviewed scientific journals, about 80 publications in International Conference Proceedings, 45 publications in National Conferences & Symposia, as well as a number of technical reports. He has supervised 6 PhD and 16 MSc students now continuing their scientific career excelling in the areas of nuclear technology and radiation physics. He has taught interaction of radiation with matter and radiation protection in nuclear installations in post-graduate courses in Greece and abroad. He has collaborated with Universities and Research Centers in Greece and abroad, such as UKAEA (UK), ENEA (Italy), IFJ/IPPLM (Poland), BNL (US), TUDelft (The Netherlands), Tufts Univ. (US), Univ. of Oslo (Norway), Univ. of Ioannina (Greece) and NTUA (Greece), resulting in common publications and research grants.

Dr. Stamatelatos holds PhD in Physics, from the University of Birmingham, UK (1991), MSc in Medical Physics from the University of Aberdeen, UK (1984) and BSc in Physics from the University of Patras, Greece (1983).

Publications

2025

Villari, R., Litaudon, X., Mailloux, J., Dentan, M., Fonnesu, N., Ghani, Z., Packer, L. W., Rimini, F., Vila, R., Afanasenko, R., Alguacil, J., Batistoni, P., Beaumont, P., Bradnam, S. C., Carman, P., Catalan, J. P., Cecchetto, M., Colangeli, A., Croft, D., … Wójcik-Gargula, A., & the JET contributors (2025). Overview of deuterium-tritium nuclear operations at JET. Fusion Engineering and Design, 217, 115133. doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2025.115133

Kourgiantakis, R., Vasilopoulou, T., Diakaki, M., Kokkoris, M., Savva, M. I., & Stamatelatos, I.-E. (2024). Radiological characterization of ITER materials. HNPS Advances in Nuclear Physics, 30, 219–222. doi:10.12681/hnpsanp.6299

Chatzikos, V., Savva, M. I., Vasilopoulou, T., Stamatelatos, I. E., Terentyev, D., Stankovskiy, A., Patronis, N., & Mergia, K. (2025). Experimental validation of transmutation products calculations in neutron irradiated tungsten. Fusion Engineering and Design, 215, 115012. doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2025.115012 [Accepted manuscript]

2024

Packer, L. W., Batistoni, P., Bearcroft, C., Bradnam, S. C., Eardley, E., Fabbri, M., Fonnesu, N., Gilbert, M. R., Ghani, Z., Gorzkiewicz, K., Grove, C. L., Kierepko, R., Łaszyńska, E., Lengar, I., Litaudon, X., Loreti, S., Mietelski, J. W., Pillon, M., Savva, M. I., Shand, C.-R., Stamatelatos, I.-E., Turner, A.N., Vasilopoulou, T., Villari, R., Wójcik-Gargula, A. & Žohar, A. (2024). ITER materials irradiation within the D–T neutron environment at JET: post-irradiation radioactivity analysis following the DTE2 experimental campaign. Nuclear Fusion, 64 (10), 106059. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ad6f29 [PDF]

Maggi, C. F., Abate, D., Abid, N., Abreu, P., Adabonyan, O., Afzal, M., Ahmad, I., Akhtar, M., Albanese, R., Aleiferis, S., Alessi, E., Aleynikov, P., Aleynikov, P., Alguacil, J., Alhage, J., Ali, M., Allen, H., Allinson, M., Alonzo, M., … Zychor, I. (2024). Overview of T and D–T results in JET with ITER-like wall. Nuclear Fusion, 64 (11), 112012. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ad3e16 [PDF]

Litaudon, X., Fantz, U., Villari, R., Toigo, V., Aumeunier, M. H., Autran, J. L., Batistoni, P., Belonohy, E., Bradnam, S., Cecchetto, M., Colangeli, A., Dacquait, F., Dal Bello, S., Dentan, M., De Pietri, M., Eriksson, J., Fabbri, M., Falchetto, G., Figini, L., Figueiredo, J., Flammini, D., Fonnesu, N., Frassinetti, L., Galdón-Quiroga, J., Garcia-Alia, R., Garcia-Munoz, M., Ghani, Z., Gonzalez-Martin, J., Grelier, E., Di Grazia, L., Grove, B., Grove, C.L., Gusarov, A., Heinemann, B. Hialmarsoon, A., Hyvärinen, O., Ioannou-Sougleridis, V., Jones, L., Kim, H.-T., Kłosowski, M., Kocan, M., Kos, B., Kos, L., Kotnik, D., Laszynska, E., Leichtle, D., Lengar, I., Leon-Gutierrez, E., López-Revelles, A.J., Loreti, S., Loughlin, M., Marcuzzi, D., Mcclements, K.G., Mariano, G., Mattei, M., Mergia, K., Mietelski, J., Mitteau, R., Moindjie, S., Munteanu, D., Naish, R., Noce, S., Packer, L.W., Pamela, S., Pampin, R., Pau, A., Peacock, A., Peluso, E., Peneliau, Y., Peric, Radulović, J., V., Ricci, D., Rimini, F., Sanchis-Sanchez, L., Sauvan, P., Savva, M.I., Serianni, G., Shand, C.R., Snicker, A., Snoj, L., Stamatelatos, I.E., Štancar, Ž., Terranova, N., Vasilopoulou, T., Vila, R., Waterhouse, J., Wimmer, C., Wünderlich, D., Žohar, A., EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team, NBTF Team, & JET Contributors (2024). EUROfusion contributions to ITER nuclear operation. Nuclear Fusion, 64 (11), Article 112006. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ad346e [PDF]

Chasapoglou, S., Kokkoris, M., Vlastou, R., Diakaki, M., Michalopoulou, V., Kalamara, A., Gkatis, G., Stamatopoulos, A., Axiotis, M., Harissopulos, S., Lagoyannis, A., Savva, M. I., Vasilopoulou, T., Lederer-Woods, C., Patronis, N., & Kaperoni, K. (2024). On the accuracy of cross-section measurements of neutron-induced reactions using the activation technique with natural targets: The case of Ge at En = 17.9 MeV. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 203, 111077. doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.111077

2023

Chasapoglou, S., Vlastou, R., Kokkoris, M., Diakaki, M., Michalopoulou, V., Gkatis, G., Stamatopoulos, A., Axiotis, M., Harissopoulos, S., Lagoyannis, A., Savva, M. I., Stamatelatos, I. E., Vasilopoulou, T., & Lederer-Woods, C. (2023). Cross Section Measurements of (n,x) Reactions at 17.9 and 18.9 MeV Using Highly Enriched Ge Isotopes. EPJ Web of Conferences, 284, 01003. doi:10.1051/epjconf/202328401003 [PDF]

M.I. Savva, S.C. Bradnam, T. Vasilopoulou, C.R. Nobs, K. Mergia, L.W. Packer, I.E. Stamatelatos and JET Contributors. (2023). Application of VERDI detectors for ITER materials activation product inventory characterization. Fusion Engineering and Design 191, 113559 doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.113559

2022

Savva, M. I., Vasilopoulou, T., Nobs, C. R., Packer, L. W., & Stamatelatos, I. E. (2022). Compton Suppressed Gamma Spectrometry for activation analysis of materials irradiated at JET. HNPS Advances in Nuclear Physics, 28, 211–214. doi:10.12681/hnps.3599

Vega, J., Murari, A., Dormido-Canto, S., Rattá, G. A., Gelfusa, M., Mailloux, J., Abid, N., Abraham, K., Abreu, P., Adabonyan, O., Adrich, P., Afanasev, V., Afzal, M., Ahlgren, T., Aho-Mantila, L., Aiba, N., Airila, M., Akhtar, M., Albanese, R., … Zychor, I. (2022). Disruption prediction with artificial intelligence techniques in tokamak plasmas. Nature Physics, 18 (7), 741–750. doi:10.1038/s41567-022-01602-2

2021

Georgali, E., Patronis, N., Anastasiadis, A., Aslanoglou, X., Axiotis, M., Chasapoglou, S., Eleme, Z., Harissopulos, S., Kalamara, A., Kokkoris, M., Lagoyannis, A., Mitsi, E., Savva, M. I., Stamatelatos, I. E., Vasilopoulou, T., & Vlastou, R. (2021). Cross-section measurements of the 156Dy(n,2n)155Dy reaction at neutron energies higher than 17 MeV. Phys. Rev. C, 104 (6), 064603. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.104.064603

Žohar, A., Lengar, I., Batistoni, P., Conroy, S., Čufar, A., Kierepko, R., Kos, B., Loreti, S., Mietelski, J. W., Nobs, C. R., Packer, L. W., Pillon, M., Radulović, V., Savva, M. I., Snoj, L., Stamatelatos, I. E., Štancar, Ž., Vasilopoulou, T., Wójcik-Gargula, A., & JET Contributors (2021). Long Term Neutron Activation in JET DD Operation. EPJ Web of Conferences, 253, 03005. doi:10.1051/epjconf/202125303005 [PDF]

Packer, L. W., Batistoni, P., Bekris, N., Bradnam, S. C., Fabbri, M., Ghani, Z., Gilbert, M. R., Kierepko, R., Łaszyńska, E., Leichtle, D., Lengar, I., Loreti, S., Mietelski, J. W., Nobs, C. R., Pillon, M., Savva, M. I., Stamatelatos, I. E., Vasilopoulou, T., Wójcik-Gargula, A., Zohar, A. & JET Contributors. (2021). Technological exploitation of the JET neutron environment: progress in ITER materials irradiation and nuclear analysis. Nuclear Fusion, 61 (11), 116057. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ac2a6b [Accepted manuscript]

Papadakis, D., Dellis, S., Chatzikos, V., Manios, E., Stamatelatos, I.E., Messoloras S. and Mergia K. (2021). Neutron irradiation effects in different tungsten microstructures, Physica Scripta, 96 (12), 124041. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ac1eb2 [Accepted manuscript]

Naish, J. D., Batistoni, P., Kos, B., Obryk, B., Villari, R., Vasilopoulou, T., Stamatelatos, I. E. & JET Contributors (2021). Comparison of neutron flux streaming calculations to the 2019-2020 JET Experimental Deuterium-Deuterium Results. Fusion Engineering and Design, 170, 112538. doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112538 [PDF]

Mergia, K., Chatzikos, V., Manios, E., Dellis, S., Papadakis, D., Terentyev, D., Bonny, G., Dubinko, A., Stamatelatos, I.E., Messoloras, S. & Rieth, M.(2021). Evolution of microstructure in neutron irradiated cold rolled tungsten and its correlation with mechanical properties, Fusion Engineering and Design 172, 112784 doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112784 [Accepted manuscript]

M.I. Savva, T. Vasilopoulou, I.E. Stamatelatos, K. Mergia, S. Messoloras, I. Michelakaki, Z. Ghani, C.R. Nobs, L.W. Packer and JET Contributors. (2021). Application of VERDI detectors for neutron fluence measurements during the JET 2019 Deuterium-Deuterium campaign, Fusion Engineering and Design 166, 112286 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112286

2020

Georgali, E., Patronis, N., Anastasiadis, A., Aslanoglou, X., Axiotis, M., Eleme, Z., Harissopulos, S., Kalamara, A., Karfopoulos, K., Kokkoris, M., Lagoyannis, A., Peoviti, M., Potiriadis, C., Savva, M. I., Stamatelatos, I. E., Stamati, M. E., Stamatopoulos, A., Vagena, E., Vasilopoulou, T., & Vlastou, R. (2020). Experimental study of the 165Ho(n,2n) reaction: Cross section measurements for the population of the 164Ho ground state and isomeric state from the threshold up to 20 MeV. Phys. Rev. C, 102 (3), 034610. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.102.034610

Moradi, S., Anderson, J., Romanelli, M., Kim, H.-T., JET contributors, Litaudon, X., Abduallev, S., Abhangi, M., Abreu, P., Afzal, M., Aggarwal, K. M., Ahlgren, T., Ahn, J. H., Aho-Mantila, L., Aiba, N., Airila, M., Albanese, R., Aldred, V., Alegre, D., … Zychor, I. (2020). Global scaling of the heat transport in fusion plasmas. Physical Review Research, 2 (1). doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013027 [PDF]