Antonia Loufardaki is a PhD student at the Technical University of Crete and Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL-FORTH). She received her bachelor in Physics and her master in Material Science and Technology from the University of Crete. She joined the Transparent Conductive Materials and Devices Group of IESL in 2023, where she is conducting her PhD. Her current research interests include the rational design, synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for environmental applications, emphasizing Single-Atom Catalysts (SACs) supported on 2D graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-C3N4).
Education:
2022 - PhD student at School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete
2020 - MSc in Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
2017 - BSc in Physics, University of Crete
Interests:
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Nanocatalysis
Single-Atom Catalysts
Surface Science
Laser Processing
Education
- 2020, Master of Science, Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- 2017, Bachelor, Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Career
- 1/11/2018-30/6/2020: Master thesis at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (IESL-FORTH)
- 1/10/2015-30/11/2016: Undergraduate thesis at the IESL-FORTH
- 1/8/2013-31/7/2015: Research internship with undergraduate scholarship from IESL-FORTH
Interests
- Laser sintering techniques
- Reversible wettability of solid surfaces
- Pulsed Laser Deposition
Education
- 1992, B.Sc in Physics from Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
Career
- 1992 - today, Research assistant at Micro electornics research group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
Interests
- Electrical characterization of electronic devices
- Electrochemical characterization and etching of semiconductors
- Cross Polarizer imaging technique.
E. Skoulas is a PhD student at the Dept. of Materials Science & Technology at the University of Crete. He received his MSc in Optics & Vision from University of Crete in 2017.
Education
- 2016, Master of Science, Optics & Vision, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- 2012, Bachelor, Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Interests
- Materials Science
- Optical Vortices
- Beam Shaping
- Light – matter interactions
- Laser processing
- Ultrafast laser pulses
- Laser induced periodic surface structures
- Linear Optics
- Biomimetic surfaces
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- Best Poster Award on 2nd Israel - Greece joint meeting on nanotechnology & bionanoscience 2017. Heraklion, Greece.
- Young investigator price winner on ERMS spring meeting 2017. St Symposium K. Strasbourg, France.
Dr. Nikos Lazarides (male) obtained his PhD in Physics in 1995 from the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. After serving his military service in Greece (1995-1996), he joined the Department of Physics of the University of Crete as an associate researcher (1997-2001). He then worked as an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics (2001-2002) and in the Department of Materials Science and Technology (2002-2004) of the University of Crete, and as senior researcher at the Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology of the Physics Department of the University of Crete, and at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, at the Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas (IESL-FORTH). He currently conducts research on properties of quantum metamaterials, materials functionalities, characterization and system design optimization. In particular, his research focuses on coherence effects induced by electromagnetic pulses; light manipulation and emergence of quantum coherent phenomena in quantum matter systems toward efficient operation and system optimization.
Education
- 1995, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematical Physics at the Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, (taken over by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 31/12/2012), The Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark.
- 1991, M.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
- 1989, B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
Career
- 09/2004 - present, Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
- 03/2013 - 07/2013, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece.
- 10/2012 -02/2013, Scientific Collaborator for teaching of Lecture and Laboratory courses at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete, School of Applied Technology, General Applied Sciences Department & Department of Electrical Engineering.
- 10/2010 - 06/2011, Scientific Collaborator for teaching and research at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete, School of Applied Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering.
- 02/2009 - 08/2013, Collaborating Researcher at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH).
- 09/2005 - 06/2010, Scientific Collaborator for teaching and research at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete, School of Applied Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering.
- 09/2002 - 08/2004, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Materials Science and Technology.
- 09/2001 - 06/2007, Scientific Collaborator for teaching Lecture and Laboratory courses at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete, School of Applied Technology, General Applied Sciences Department.
- 09/2001 - 08/2002, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Crete, Department of Physics.
- 02/1997 - 08/2001, Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Crete, Department of Physics.
- 08/1995 - 01/1997, military service (mandatory) required by Greek law.
- 04/1995 - 07/1995, Research Associate at the Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
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
