Dr. Stavros Demos

Stavros G. Demos, Ph.D., is Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Urology at the University of California at Davis (UCD) and Scientific Staff at the National Science Foundation Center of Biophotonics Science and Technology at UC Davis. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Ioannina, Greece and his Ph.D. in Physics in 1993 from the City University of New York.

His research interests are concentrated in the field of biomedical optics. He is working to develop instrumentation for in vivo detection of disease and monitoring of therapeutic intervention. In the field of defect characterization, he is working on optical materials for tunable solid-state and high-power laser systems.

Dr. Demos has published over 80 articles in refereed journals and holds 14 patents.