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
Linked.in profile: linkedin.com/in/antigonos-theodorakis-070276189
George Mouloudakis received his M.Sc. in 2017 from the University of Crete. For one year (2018-2019) he worked in the Nanophotonics Theory group of ICFO as a Marie-Curie/ICFO Cofund fellow student and since 2019 he is a PhD student in University of Crete. His PhD work focuses on studies of atomic transitions, strongly driven by E/M fields with stochastic properties.
Education
- 2017: M.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 2016: B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
Career
- 2019-today: PhD in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 2018-2019: Marie-Curie ICFO Cofund Fellow Student, Nanophotonics Theory Group, ICFO, Spain
Interests
- Atomic Physics, Quantum Optics, Photon Statistics
Panagiota worked in our group as a Bachelor student, and accomplished Diploma thesis on Calculations of resonant and nonresonant dipole-dipole
interactions between Rydberg atoms. She was then accepted to MSc program of the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy.
Education
- 2017: B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
Alexandros Pavlis joined our group as a Masters student in 2015, and his work pertained to the faithful transfer of quantum states in spin chains. Since 2015, he is a PhD student at the Department of Physics, in the University of Crete, and part of his work is performed jointly with our group.
Education
- 2020: PhD in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 2018: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Crete, Greece
- 2015: M.Sc. in Physics, Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
- 2013: B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
Interests
- low dimensional strongly correlated systems, scattering theory for many body excitations, thermodynamics and transport theory of quantum integrable systems
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 1st in class, B.Sc. physics degree, top 1% in the history of the physics department
- 1st in class, B.Sc. math degree, top 1% in the history of the mathematics department
- 2014: Manasaki Scholarship/Award for excellent perfomance as a master’s student
- 2015-2017: IESL (Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser) Scholarship
- 2017-2018: Greek Foundation of Research and Innovation Scholarship
- 2018-2019: Onassis Foundation Scholarship
Other
Katerina worked in our group as a Bachelor student, on the problem of photon-assisted quantum-state transfer. Subsequently, she did her MSc at the group of Prof. M. Lewenstein in ICFO, and she worked as a postgraduate researcher at the University of Crete. Since 2019 she is a postgraduate researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University.
Education
- 2018: M.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 2017: B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
Career
- May 2019 - present: Postgraduate researcher, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
- Aug. 2018 - Apr. 2019: Postgraduate researcher, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
Interests
- Quantum computing, Quantum Algorithms, Optimization problems
Theodoros Ilias worked in our group as a MSc student, and his thesis was on quantum spin chains and non-markovian reservoirs. Curently he is a PhD student at the group of Prof. M. Plenio, at University of Ulm, Germany.
Education
- 2019-today: PhD in Physics, Institute for theoretical Physics, University of Ulm, Germany
- 2018: M.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- 2017: B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
