The National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” is the largest multidisciplinary research center in Greece, with critical mass in expertise and infrastructure in the fields of Nanotechnology, Energy & Environment, Biosciences, Particle and Nuclear Science, Informatics and Telecommunications.

The Center was inaugurated in 1961 as a state-owned entity under the name Nuclear Research Center “Demokritos”, following the coming into operation of the nuclear reactor research facility. The development of the nuclear reactor introduced a cutting-edge technology to Greece, signifying a major turning point in the development of large-scale research infrastructures and the first step towards the establishment of a national Research and Technology policy.

In 1985, it has been renamed as National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” and became an autonomous Legal Entity of Public Law supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), while preserving its administrative and financial independence.

The NCSR “Demokritos” conducts world-class basic and applied research, for advancing scientific knowledge and promoting technological development in selected areas of national socio-economic interest. The Center also plays a pivotal role in graduate education and professional training and its unique infrastructure is employed for high-technology services to the Industry and the Society.

The NCSR “Demokritos” has contributed significantly and in many ways to:
- The advancement and world-wide recognition of the Hellenic research activity
- The development, diffusion and transfer of high quality know-how to public and private sectors
- The reversal of high-caliber scientific brain drain
- The provision of highly qualified research personnel to the Greek academic community as well as to the Greek Industry

Research activities are currently coordinated by five (5) Research Institutes:
- Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
- Institute of Biosciences & Applications
- Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences & Technology, Energy & Safety (INRASTES)
- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Institute of Nuclear & Particle Physics

Instruments

SUN PHOTOMETER (CIMEL CE318-T)

Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA), Lille, France

AIAS Multi-wavelength (532-1064 nm) Aerosol Depolarisation Lidar

National Technical University of Athens

HALO wind lidar

Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland

Micro Rain Radar for precipitation profiling

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

W-band Cloud Doppler Radar

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

PVM 100 Cloud Probe

NCSR Demokritos

Portable Ice Nucleation Experiment (PINE)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IIMK-AAF

DMT Cloud Condensation Nuclei Counter (CCN-100)

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

TSI Aerodnyamic Particle Sizer (APS) Spectrometer

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IIMK-AAF

WIBS-5/NEO

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Annular Denuder System (URG-3000C)

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM, Aerodyne )

NCSR Demokritos

TSI Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer Spectrometer 3938

Center of Studies on Air quality and Climate Change

Nephelometer (TSI 3563)

NCSR Demokritos

Optical particle counter (OPC, Grimm 1.109)

NCSR Demokritos

High Volume sampler (MCV)

NCSR Demokritos

Continuous Particulate Monitor (BAM1020)

NCSR Demokritos

High Volume sampler (Digitel, Quartz filters, 150 mm)

NCSR Demokritos

Continuous Light Absorption Photometer (GMD_CLAP-3W_HAC)

NCSR Demokritos

Aethalometer (Magee_AE31)

NCSR Demokritos

MAX-DOAS

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-AUTH (Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics-LAP)

AeRosol cloud lIdar System (ARIS lidar)

National Technical University of Athens

Filter Sample Analysis