Giannis joined the Cretan Matter Waves group in March 2015 to work on the ESA-OBST project. He holds a diploma in electrical and computer engineering (2012) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his master's degree from the inter-institutional graduate program “Vision and Optics”, of the University of Crete finishing his master thesis entitled "Vibrational and angular stability of optical systems for space applications" in December 2015. He continued for his PhD working on BEC 1 and OBST, graduating in October 2021. He is now a postdoc on BEC 1 and OBST.
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
Dr. Elmina Kabouraki received her PhD degree from the department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete. She received her Bachelor (2009) and Master degree (2012) from the same department. Among her research interests are the synthesis of hybrid photosensitive materials, synthesis of quantum dots and the fabrication of three-dimensional photonic devices via the multi-photon polymerization technique. In her PhD thesis she was involved in the synthesis of novel photosensitive materials and in the fabrication of optical switching devices as well as three-dimensional photonic crystal lasers. She is a part of the Polymer Synthesis laboratory at the University of Crete under the supervision of Prof. Maria Vamvakaki and of the Non-Linear lithography (NLL) group which is located at FORTH-IESL under the supervision of Dr. Farsari Maria.
Education
- Bachelor in Materials Science and Technology (2009)
- Master of Science (2013, Materials Science and Technology Departement, Crete, Greece)
- PhD (2019, Materials Science and Technology Departement, Crete, Greece)
Interests
- Synthesis and processing of organic, inorganic, and hybrid nanosized materials
- Nanocomposites, nanoparticles, nanocrystalline materials, and nanoclusters
- Nanophotonics
- Polymer synthesis
- Direct laser writing via Multi-Photon Polymerization
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- Maria Manassaki fellowship, 2014
- Research Student Price Oral Presentation Award, Symposium J-EMRS Spring Meeting 2013
- Attendance Brusary for Research Student, Symposium J- EMRS Spring Meeting 2013
2018-19: ONRG post-doctoral fellow at IESL-FORTH; engaged in research exploring the role of correlated disorder in intercalated iron-chalcogenide superconductors.
Career
- 2017, D.Phil. Chemistry; University of Reading, UK
- 2013, M.Sc. Materials for Sustainable & Renewable Energies; Heriot-Watt University, UK
- 2009, Physics; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Interests
- Chalcogenide materials for thermoelectrics
- Metal-atom ordering and phase transformations
- Neutron scattering
