2019-20: ONRG post-doctoral fellow at IESL-FORTH; engaged in research aimimg to correlate the electron-doping dependnce of Tc and the local structure effects in intercalated Fe-chalcogenide, layered superconductors.
Education
- 2019, Ph.D. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; University College London, UK
- 2012, M.Sc. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; University of Oslo/Tromsø, Norway
- 2010, B.Sc. Mathematics; University of Oslo/Tromsø, Norway
Interests
- Physics of strongly correlated electron systems
- Single crystal growth of iron-based chalcogenides and their intercalation
- Superconductivity in layered materials
Dr Aikaterini Zoumi obtained her PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her doctorate and post-doctorate research was conducted at the Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, and involved the utilization of multiphoton microscopy and spectroscopy of micro-structural tissue and cellular components in order to address specific biological questions. She received her M.S. degree from the Department of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. During her M.S. research, she studied the formation of chlorination by-products during disinfection of treated wastewater. She received her B.S. degree from the Department of Mineral Resources Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. Her undergraduate thesis focused on trace element and radioactivity analysis of aerosol particles, produced from lignitic power stations in Greece. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at IESL/FORTH focusing on the development of specialized optical spectroscopic analysis methods for the identification and origin and quality control of agricultural products.
Education
- 2003, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, USA
- 1998, M.Sc. in Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece
- 1996, B.Sc. in Mineral Resources Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Interests
- Biophotonics
- Imaging
- Microscopy
- Spectroscopy
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 1993–1998: Outstanding Student Scholarship from National Scholarship Foundation, Greece.
- 1998–1999: Regents’ Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, USA.
- 1999 – 2000: Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Irvine School of Engineering, USA.
- 2001 - present: member of the Optical Society of America
- 2001 - present: member of the SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
- 2001 - present: member of Women in Optics
- 2004 - 2005: Honored member of Manchester Who’s Who
I am a chemist (B.Sc.: UoC-Chemistry Dpt, 2017; M.Sc. UoC-Chemistry Dpt & IESL-FORTH, 2020) current working on my PhD degree at the Chemistry Dpt. of the University of Crete. The research part of my thesis is carried out at the Dynamics Group of IESL-FORTH.
My research focuses on fuel quality evaluation and adulteration detection using spectrscopic techniques combined with machine learning analysis methods.
D. Ladika is a PhD candidate at the Materials Science and Technology Department of the University of Crete, Greece and at IESL, FORTH. He received his MSc in “Photonics and Nanoelectronics” in 2018 from the Department of Physics, University of Crete, and his BSc in Physics in 2016 from the Physics Departments of the University of Patras, Greece.
Education
- 2016-2018:Master Degree "Photonics and Nanoelectronics" by the department of Physics of the University of Crete
- 2011-2016: Bachelor degree in Physics from the Department of Physics of the University of Patras
Interests
- Experimental investigation of the nonlinear optical properties of various solvents and graphene by Z-scan technique using nanosecond and picosecond laser.
- Development of new technique, called Two-Beam Initiation Threshold, in order to determine the order of the nonlinear absorption of photosensitive materials
- Fabrication of 3D nanostructures using Direct Laser Writing
