
Email: f.tzimkas@physics.uoc.gr
Education
- 2014-2019: Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Career
- 2020-2022: Master of Science - Photonics and Nanoelectronics, University of Crete
Interests
- Telecommunications, Photonics and Electromagnetic Fields, Quantum Optics
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2020-2022: Scholarship from the Bodossaki Foundation
Education
- 2021- PhD Student, IESL, FORTH and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 2019-2021: M.Sc. Photonics-Nanoelectronics, University of Crete
- 2015-2019: B.Sc. Physics, University of Crete
Interests
- Ultracold atoms
- Disordered systems
- Quantum and classical open systems
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2021: Manasaki Award for excellent perfomance as a master’s student
- 2019: 1st in class (of 174), B.Sc. Physics degree UOC
- 2015: One of the five members of the Greek team for the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO)
- 2015: 3rd place in the National Chemistry Olympiad
- 2015: Entered 1st in the Physics Department of the UOC (highest grade in National University Entrance Examinations)
- 2015: Karidis award for excellent performance in National University Entrance Examinations
- 2011-2013: Hellenic Mathematical Society: awards for succeeding in the competitions Thales and Euclid
Microscopic dynamics and an effective Landau-Zener transition in the quasiadiabatic preparation of spatially ordered states of Rydberg excitations
AF Tzortzakakis, D Petrosyan, M Fleischhauer, K Mølmer
Physical Review A, Volume:106, Page:063302, Year:2022, DOI:doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.063302
Topological edge-states of the PT-symmetric Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model: An effective two-state description
AF Tzortzakakis, A Katsaris, NE Palaiodimopoulos, PA Kalozoumis, G Theocharis, FK Diakonos, D Petrosyan
Physical Review A, Volume:106, Page:023513, Year:2022, DOI:doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.023513
Ultralong temporal coherence in optically trapped exciton-polariton condensates
K Orfanakis, AF Tzortzakakis, D Petrosyan, PG Savvidis, H Ohadi
Physical Review B, Volume:103, Page:235313, Year:2021, DOI:doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.235313
Shape-preserving beam transmission through non-Hermitian disordered lattices
AF Tzortzakakis, KG Makris, S Rotter, EN Economou
Physical Review A, Volume:102, Page:033504, Year:2020, DOI:doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.102.033504
Transport and spectral features in non-Hermitian open systems
AF Tzortzakakis, KG Makris, A Szameit, EN Economou
Physical Review Research, Volume:3, Page:013208, Year:2021, DOI:doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013208
Non-Hermitian disorder in two-dimensional optical lattices
AF Tzortzakakis, KG Makris, EN Economou
Physical Review B, Volume:101, Page:014202, Year:2020, DOI:doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.014202

Email: nikpalaio@iesl.forth.gr
After receiving PhD from the Physics Department of the University of Athens on the subject of "Transferring states in quantum networks", Dr. Nikolaos Palaiodimopoulos joined the Theoretical Quantum Optics and Technology Group of IESL, FORTH in the framework of a EU QuantERA Project PACE-IN.
Education
- 2013 BSc. Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 2016 MSc in Theoretical Physics, Stockholm University
- 2020 PhD in Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Career
- 2021- Postdoctoral Researcher, IESL, FORTH
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2017-2019 Scholarship for doctoral studies, HFRI and GSRT, Greece