Education

• Ph.D, Polymer Chemistry from the University of Sussex, U.K.
• B.Sc., Chemistry at the University of Crete, Greece

Career

• 2004 - now, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Technology, Univ of Crete, Greece
• 2001 - 2004, visiting Professor, Department of Materials Science and Technology, of the University of Crete, Greece
• 2001 - 2004, visiting scientist, School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science at the University of Sussex, U.K.
• 2000, Research Associate, Chemistry Department of the University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• 1999, Visiting Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the Department of Physical Sciences of the University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• 1997 - 1998, post-doctoral associate, School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, University of Sussex, U.K.

Interests

• Synthesis and characterization of novel polymers of various architectures
• synthesis of model polymer networks and characterization of their swelling behavior
• self-assembly and structure formation of polymeric materials
• biomedical applications of polymers

Brief CV

Education

• Modern Physics II (Quantum Mechanics)
• Photonic Materials

Career

• Associate Professor, Materials Dept., University of Crete (2011-)
• Principal Researcher, Deputy Director IESL-FORTH, Greece (2009-)

Interests

• Nonlinear interactions of intense femtosecond laser pulses with matter.
• Nonlinear laser propagation phenomena - filamentation.
• Nonspreading wave packets in the linear and nonlinear regimes.
• Intense tunable THz sources and THz nonlinear Optics.
• Ultrafast dynamically tunable THz metamaterials.
• Photonic structuring in the bulk of transparent solid materials.
• Quantum and complexity physics with photonic lattices.

Georgios P. Tsironis is Professor of Physics at the Physics Department of the University of Crete, Director of the Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology at the Physics Department of the University of Crete, and leads the Nonlinear and Statistical Physics Group at the IESL-FORTH. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics from the University of Rochester (USA) in 1987. He was a postdoctoral associate in the University of California San Diego (1987-89) and the Fermi National Accelerator Lab (1989-91), and assistant professor of Physics at the University of North Texas (1991-96). He joined the Department of Physics of the University of Crete in 1994. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Physics in the period 2007-2011 and Vice-Rector of the University of Crete in 2016-2017. He has published over 150 papers in refereed journals and has an h-index of 33. His research interests and activity are in the areas of condensed matter physics, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, nonlinear physics, superconducting metamaterials, and machine learning.​

Deceased

Pavlos Savvidis has received the B.Sc. in Physics of the University of Athens. He obtained his doctoral degree in Experimental Condensed Matter and Laser Physics from the University of Southampton in 2001 creating the first polariton amplifier. From 2002 to 2004 he was DARPA funded post-doctoral associate at the Department of Physics at Santa Barbara, USA, working on the terahertz dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures and Bloch Oscillators. In 2004 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete. He is affiliated researcher of the Microelectronics Research Group at FO.R.T.H.-Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (I.E.S.L.) since 2004. He was awarded 1 year Leverhulme Fellowship in 2014 to work as visiting Professor at Cavendish Labs, University of Cambridge. His work on polaritonic devices, appeared in high impact journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Physics, Nature Comm and PRLs. The results of many of these works were featured in News & Views and Perspectives sections of Nature and Science journals respectively.

Education

• 2001, Ph.D. in Physics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
• 1998, B.Sc. in Physics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Career

• 08/2004 - today, Assist. Prof. Dept of Material Science & Technology, University of Crete, Greece
• 03/2012 - 05/2012, Marie Currie Senior Researcher Physics Department, University of Southampton, UK
• 04/2011 - 06/2011, Marie Currie Senior Researcher Physics Department, University of Southampton, UK
• 06/2008 - 10/2008, Visiting Professor Cavendish Labs, Cambridge University, UK
• 03/2004 - 06/2004, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
• 01/2002 - 11/2003, Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Interests

• Novel polariton based optoelectronic devices
• Nonliear properties of hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductor microcavities
• Polariton quantum fluids and circuits
• Polariton condensate lattices for quantum simulation

T. Peter Rakitzis is a Professor of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics at the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Crete, and is the leader of the Polarization Spectroscopy group at IESL-FORTH. The main research goals of this group are the development of cavity-based polarimeters for the ultrasensitive measurement of chirality, and the production high-density and high production rates of spin-polarized hydrogen isotopes for applications in magnetometry, the production of polarized beams, and the study of polarized nuclear fusion.  

Education

• 1992, B.A. Physics, Cornell University, USA
• 1992, B.A. Chemistry, Cornell University, USA
• 1997, Ph.D. Chemistry (major) and Physics (minor), Stanford University, USA

Career

• 2001, Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Crete
• 2006, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Crete
• 2011, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Crete
• 2016, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Crete

Interests

• Production of spin-polarized atoms and molecules
• Angular momentum polarization
• Photodissociation dynamics
• Cavity-based polarimetry
• Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy
• Atomic and Molecular Parity Nonconservation

Education

• 9/1990 - 12/1997: Graduate studies, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
• 2/1993 - 12/1997: PhD, Polymer Physics, Advisor: Prof. G. Fytas, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
• 6/1994 Master’s Degree in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
• 1/1990-8/1990: Graduate student with the theoretical physics group of the Department of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• 9/1984 - 9/1989: Diploma in Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Career

• 7/2017 - : Full Professor, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
• 12/2011 - 7/2017: Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
• 5/2006 - 12/2011: Assistant Professor (tenure, 3/2010), Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
• 7/2004 - 5/2006: Associated Researcher (Grade C) Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
• 9/2002 - 8/2005: Adjunct Associate Professor (Visiting Professorship), Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
• 10/2002 - 9/2003: Individual Marie Curie Research Fellow (return type), Host Institute: Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
• 2/2002 - 9/2002: Research Fellow of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
• 4/2001 - 1/2002: Research Fellow of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK
• 4/1999 - 4/2001: Individual Marie Curie Research Fellow, Project Head: Prof. P.N. Pusey. Host Institute: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK
• 3/1998 - 3/1999: National service in the Greek Army
• 1/1998 - 3/1998: Research Fellow of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Interests

• Dynamics and structure of colloidal dispersions in equilibrium and under shear
• Rheology of colloidal glasses and colloid-polymer gels
• Effects of inter-particle interactions on the structure, dynamics and rheology
• Slow dynamics and ageing of colloidal glasses and gels
• Colloidal dynamics in confinement
• Development of new techniques combining rheology, light scattering and microscopy, optical tweezers for the study of soft matter out of equilibrium

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• Graduate Student Fellowship (ΕΜΥ) (1990), Theory division of the Department of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• “Distinguished student” award: 2nd “Advanced Physics Summer School of University of Crete (1990), Greece
• Graduate Student Fellowship: (1990-1997) University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece
• Marie Curie Research Fellow (1999-2001)
• Marie Curie Research Fellow (return type) (2002-2003)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (October 2016) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

Education

• 1991, Ph.D. in Physics, Brown University, Providence (RI), USA
• 1987, M.Sc. in Physics, Brown University, Providence (RI), USA
• 1985, B.Sc. in Physics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Career

• 2009 - today, Full Professor, Materials Science & Technology Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
• 2003 - 2009, Associate Professor, Materials Science & Technology Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
• 2001 - 2003, Senior Researcher, Microelectronics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Heraklion, Greece
• 1994 - 2001, Research Engineer, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics, Grenoble, France
• 1993 - 1994, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute, Ultrafast Spectroscopy Group, Stuttgart, Germany
• 1992 - 1993, Research Engineer, France-Telecom, Centre National d’Etudes des Télécommunications, Optical Interconnection Group, Lannion, France
• 1991 - 1992, Postdoctoral Researcher, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics, Grenoble, France

Interests

• Quantum dot-based high temperature sources of single and entangled photons
• Polariton lasing and parametric scattering at room temperature
• Next generation solar cells based on halide perovskites and III-V semiconductor nanostructures
• 2D materials for optoelectronic applications

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2014, Chaire d’Excellence LANEF, funded by the French government, for a project entitled “Nanowire Innovative Solar Cells”
• 2011, Solar Innovation 2010 Award, by the French Atomic Energy Commission for a proposal on “III-V Nanowires for Next Generation Photovoltaics”
• 1993, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung fellowship,
• 1991, Bourse du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères