Georgios Vasilakis is the leader of Quantum Magnetometry lab, which aims to harness the quantum interface between light and atomic ensembles in order to perform quantum enhanced magnetometry.

Before founding the new lab he was a postdoctoral researcher at the BEC and Mattewaves Group with Dr. Wolf von Klitzing at FORTH-IESL, and in the Quantop Group of Eugene Polzik at Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. He got his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he completed his thesis "Precision Measurements of Spin Interactions with High Density Atomic Vapors" under the supervision of Michael Romalis.

Education

• 2011, PhD, Princeton University
• 2006, M.S., Princeton University
• 2001, BSc. Physics Department, University of Crete

Career

• 2016-2020, Postdoctoral Researcher, BEC and Mattewaves Group (Wolf von Klitzing), FORTH-IESL
• 2012-2016, Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantop (Eugene Polzik), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Interests

• Quantum enhanced atomic-optical magnetometry
• Quantum interaction of light with atomic-ensembles
• Precision measurements with light and warm atomic-vapors
• Magnetometry in biomedicine

01/2018- 12/2018  Master Student on BEC2 
06/2016-09/2016 Intern on an optics project

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Curriculum Vitae of Premjith Thekkeppatt

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.