Dr. Odysseas Tsilipakos received the diploma and Ph.D. degrees from the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in 2008 and 2013, respectively. From 2014 to 2015 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with AUTh. In 2016 he started working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) as a member of the Photonic-, Phononic-, and Meta-materials (PPM) group. Since 2021 he is the Principal Investigator of the PHOTOSURF Research Project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. His research interests span metasurfaces and metamaterials, plasmonics and nanophotonics, resonators and cavities, nonlinear optics in resonant structures and waveguides, 2D photonic materials, and theoretical and computational electromagnetics. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of The Optical Society (OSA).
Education
- 2013, PhD, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Career
- Oct 2020 - today: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece
- Nov 2021: Visiting Researcher, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy
- Jun 2016 - Aug 2016: Visiting Scholar, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, US
- Jan 2016 - today: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
- Jan 2014 - Dec 2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests
- Photonics
- Metasurfaces and metamaterials
- Graphene and 2D photonic materials
- Nonlinear optics
- Optical cavities and resonators
- Guided-wave and integrated optics
- Tunable, switchable, and reconfigurable optical components
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- Aug 2019: Have been awarded the IEEE Senior Member grade
- Mar 2019: Recipient of Stavros Niarchos Foundation–FORTH Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Jan 2014: Recipient of postdoctoral excellence research fellowship from the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Apr 2012: Best student paper award in SPIE Photonics Europe 2012 (Nanophotonics Conference)
- Mar 2011: Recipient of “Heracleitus II” research scholarship for PhD studies
- Nov 2009: Recipient of Scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) for PhD studies
Education
- 2013 - Today, PhD in Physics, University of Crete, Greece & Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
- 2011, M.Sc.in Applied Physics, University of Crete, Greece & IMT Bucharest, Romania.
- 2007, B.Sc. in Physics, Dept. of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
Education
- 2007, PhD, Physics, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
- 2002, BSc, Physics, University of Athens.
Career
- 08/2018 - present, Principal Investigator, Physics Department, University of Crete.
- 01/2015 - 07/2018, Senior Researcher, Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology (QCN), Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece.
- 07/2014 - 12/2014, Postdoc Researcher, KRIPIS Project “Advanced Materials for Energy”, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”.
- 07/2012 - 06/2014, Postdoc Researcher, Thales Project “Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems with Applications in Biomedicine, Physics and the Technology of Materials”.
- 10/2012 - 02/2014, Adjunct Professor. School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPETE), Electronics Department.
- 10/2010 - 02/2014, Adjunct Professor. Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Branch of Sparta, Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.
- 01/2009 - 06/2010, Postdoc Researcher. Optical Communications Laboratory, Informatics and Telecommunications Department, University of Athens.
- 10/2002 - 12/2007, Research Assistant. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
Georgios Neofotistos obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from Temple University (USA), joining afterwards the Electrical Engineering Department of Purdue University (USA) as a post-doctoral researcher, the Physics Department of Temple University as a visiting Assistant Professor, and the Physics and Space Sciences Department of the Florida Institute of Technology (USA) as an Assistant Professor of Physics and Space Sciences, before returning to Greece. Since 2013 he is Senior Researcher with the Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology of the Physics Department of the University of Crete. His research work focuses on developing advanced machine learning methods and computational models toward the study of non-linear complex systems.
Antigonos Theodorakis is currently a postgraduate student in the division of Advanced materials / Physical chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Crete and member of the Hybrid Nanostructures Group of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, in 2019.
Education
- Master of Science in Chemistry (2019-), Chemistry Department, University of Crete
- Bachelor of Science in Materials (2015-2019), Materials Science and Technology Department, University of Crete
Interests
- Organic-inorganic nanohybrid materials
- Polymer surfaces and interfaces
- Polymer nanocomposite coatings
- Materials for aerospace applications
Other
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