11/2014 – 07/2017 : postdoc on BEC 1 [1]and Space Optics [2]
Kostas got his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics at the Department of Physics, [3] Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [4], where he majored on Solid State Physics and Optics.
He then started his PhD in 2009 at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, [5] University of Bristol [6], under the supervision of Prof. Jeremy O’Brien [7], where he did experimental research on integrated quantum photonics for quantum information and quantum computation science. His main focus was on implementation of multi-photon integrated quantum walks, with dissertation titled: Integrated Photonic Continuous-Time Quantum Walks [8].
He then did a short post-doc in 2014 still with Prof. Jeremy O’Brien [7] at the Centre for Quantum Photonics [5], working in a collaboration with Prof. Axel Kuhn’s [9] Atom-Photon Connection group [10] at Oxford University [11]. He was also a visiting post-doctoral research assistant (early 2015) at the Atom-Photon Connection group [10], Oxford University [11]. The scope of the collaboration was to use a deterministic single photon source (single Rb87 atoms in a cavity) to perform quantum logic experiments on integrated photonic devices.
In November 2014 he joined the Cretan Matter-Waves / Bose-Einstein Condensation group [12], I.E.S.L. [13], FO.R.T.H. [14] in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, where he is since working as a post-doctoral researcher. His main project is the implementation of a fully-guided, ring-shaped, Sagnac-type atom-interferometer using time-averaged adiabatic potentials (TAAPs) and Rb87 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs).
In summer 2017, Kostas [15] joined the cold atoms group [16] of Thomas Fernholz [17] at Nottingham University [18].
Links
[1] http://bec.gr/projects/bec1/
[2] http://bec.gr/projects/space-optics/
[3] http://www.physics.auth.gr/en
[4] http://www.auth.gr/en
[5] http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/research/quantum/
[6] http://www.bristol.ac.uk/
[7] http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/people/jeremy-l-obrien/
[8] http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633256
[9] http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/kuhn
[10] http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/the-atom-photon-connection
[11] http://www.ox.ac.uk/
[12] https://www.bec.gr/
[13] http://www.iesl.forth.gr/
[14] http://www.forth.gr/
[15] https://coldatomsgroupnottingham.com/people/
[16] https://coldatomsgroupnottingham.com/
[17] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/thomas.fernholz
[18] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/
[19] https://www.iesl.forth.gr/en/research/bec