Deceased

Education

• 1988, Ph.D in Solid state electornics, University of Salford, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, U.K.
• 1985, M.Sc in Solid state electronics, University of Salford, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, U.K.
• 1982, B.Sc in Applied physics, University of Salford, Department of Pure & Applied Physics, U.K.

Career

• 12/2016 - today, Research director, Microelectornics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 04/2004 - 12/2016, Senior application scientist, Microelectornics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 07/1998 - 04/2004, Principal application scientist, Microelectornics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 07/1995 - 07/1998, Associated application scientist, Microelectornics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 05/1990 - 07/1995, Postdoctoral fellow, Microelectornics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 12/1989 - 05/1990, Software developer, Eltrans international transport S.A,
• 03/1989 - 11/1989 Software developer, National defense research centre, Greece
• 02/1988 - 05/1988, Postdoctoral fellow, Microelectornics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece

Interests

• High frequency & high power devices: FETs, HEMTs, PHEMTs, MO(I)SFETs (III-arsenides & III-nitrides)
• High power devices: MESFETS, JFETs, IMPATT & ZENER diodes (SiC)
• High frequency & high power MMICs (III-arsenides & III-nitrides)
• THz diodes (III-arsenides)
• III-nitrides Nanowire and FINFET transistors
• Magnonics
• 2D materials based transistors, CNT based devices
• GaN based Qubits
• III-nitrides based UV detectors
• III-arsenides & III-nitrides photovoltaics
• III-nitrides SAW & FBAR based sensors
• III-nitrides CHEMFET based chemical sensors
• III-nitrides LAMB based biosensors
• Arrays of polymeric microneedles based EEG sensors
• Piezoelelectric sensors for gait monitoring
• RF MEMS Piezoelectric (III-nitrides) cantilevers
• Thermoelectric materials and devices
• Left handed & photonic structures
• Reconfigurable front end transmission/reception modules
• 3D system in chip (SiP) solutions for high power miniaturized modules

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2018, Elected as Vice President of the Greek Micro and Nano Society
• 2016, Re-elected to the Scientific Council of IESL (1st in preference)
• 2013, Elected to the Scientific Council of IESL
• 2007, Re-elected Vice President of the Greek Micro and Nano Society
• 2005, Key member of the research team of FORTH (project FP6 “DALHM”) that won one of the EU Descartes prizes
• 2004, Elected as Vice President of the Greek Micro and Nano Society
• 2003, Elected to the Board of Directors of the European Microwave Association (EuMA) for 3 years
• 2003, Prize "Tudor Tanasescu" of the Romanian Academy of Sciences for my work in the membrane supported active & passive devices
• 2002, MRG Leader in the project FP4 INCO-COPERNICUS project "MEMSWAVE" (co- ordinated by IMT Bucharest), that was among the 10 finalists for the EU Descartes prize.

Maria received her first degree in 1992 from the Physics, University of Crete and her PhD in 1997 from the Physics Department, University of Durham, UK. The subject of her PhD was organic nonlinear optics.After graduating, Maria worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Universities of Durham and Sussex and as a Senior Optical Scientist for the security company DeLaRue Holographics. She is a founding member of Xsil Ltd, a Dublin-based company specializing in the design and manufacture of laser micro-machining equipment for the semiconductor industry.

Now Maria is a Research Director at the Institute of the Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, where she joined in 2003. Her main research interests are light-based additive manufacturing, multi-photon lithography, laser-based nanofabrication, and materials processing using ultrafast lasers.

Education

• 1997, Ph.D, Department of Physics, University of Durham, UK.
• 1992, B.Sc., Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece

Career

• 2003-present, Laser Division, FORTH/IESL, Greece
• 2000-2003, Senior Development Engineer, Xsil Ltd, Ireland
• 1999-2000, Senior Optical Scientist, DeLaRue Holographics, UK
• 1997-1999, Research Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Sussex, UK
• 1996-1997, Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Durham, UK
• 1992-1994, Human Capital and Mobility Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Durham, UK

Interests

• Light-based Additive Manufacturing
• Laser-based 3D printing
• Multiphoton Lithography
• Biofabrication
• Nonlinear Optics
• Photonics and Metamaterials

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• Associate Editor, Optical Materials Express
• Editorial Board, JPhys Photonics
• Associate Editor, Scientific Reports
• 2015: Visiting Professorship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun (2014, cancelled due to pregnancy)
• 2010: Second runner up prize at the SPIE Innovation Village
• 1992-1994: Human Capital and Mobility personal Fellowship

Dr. Zekentes works on research and development in the area of compound semiconductors and microelectronics. The last decade the emphasis was devoted in SiC device technology development for microwave and power applications as well as for the development of SiC based nanowire transistors.

Education

• 1989, Ph.D. Physics of Semiconductors, University of Montpellier, France

Career

• 01/2001 - today, Principal Researcher at Microelectornics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 1995 - 2000, Associate Researcher at Microelectornics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 1991 - 1995, Physicist-Researcher at Microelectornics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece

Interests

• Molecular Beam Epitaxy
• Electron devices
• Device fabrication
• Semiconductors physical characterization
• Research projects

Wolf von Klitzing is the PI of the BEC and Matter Waves group (www.bec.gr, www.iesl.forth.gr), and together with Prof Papazoglou the PI of the Space Optics Laboratory.  The BEC group works on Bose Einstein Condensation, matter-wave interferometry and Atomtronics.  They produced the first BEC in South-Eastern Europe on Friday the 13th of August 2010 and the first fully-coherent atomtronic matterwave guides. The the Space Optics Laboratory concerns itself on, e.g.,  behalf of the European Space agency (ESA) with technologies for Atom Quantum Sensors in space and with optical (quantum) communication between earth and LEO satellites.

Before starting the Cretan Matter-Waves group he worked at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB) of the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in Paris, La Sapienzia in Rome, and AMOLF in Amsterdam.

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Education

• 1987, Ph.D. University of Bielefeld, Germany
• 1979, B.Sc., University of Ioannina, Greece

Career

• 2014 - today, Research Director, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 1999 - 2014, Prinicipal Researcher, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 1995 - 1999, Associated Researcher, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 1991 - 1994, Visiting Professor, Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
• 1988 - 1991, Research Assistant, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Dr. Stavros Pissadakis is a Director of Research at FORTH-IESL. He obtained his Ptichion degree in Physics from the University of Crete, Greece and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering/Photonics from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK. He established and leads the Photonic Materials and Devices Laboratory (PMDL), which strategic vision focuses on the development of disruptive design photonic, sensing and actuating devices, for a number of diverse current and emerging application fields; covering investigations from the proof-of-principle stage and reaching device demonstration in relevant environment (TRL5). He has been employed as a Research Fellow in ORC, UK, as Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, as Visiting Assistant Professor in Physics Department, University of Crete, and as Visiting Professor at the Information Engineering Department, University of Parma, Italy. He has been heavily involved in the European Platform Photonics21, being a member in the Board of Stakholders, chaired the national platform PhotonicsGR, while also being active in drawing research policy for Photonics and relevant technology commercialisation aspects. He has been involved into several research projects (European, national, industrial), personally attracting a total budget greater than 2.5MEuros, while coordinated targeted know-how transfer to a number of industrial partners. Dr Pissadakis has been actively participated in the research policy drawing in Institutional and Foundation level, being a member of the Scientific Board of IESL (2013-2016), and a Representative of Researchers in the Board of Directors of FORTH (2013-2014). His current scientific interests include photonic crystal and microstructured optical fiber devices, whispering gallery mode resonators, optical fiber sensors, optofluidics/magnetofluidics and study of optical materials photosensitivity. He is a Senior Member of OSA and IEEE, a Topical Editor of Applied Optics and Associate Editor of IEEE/Optica JLT.

Education

• 2021, Certificate, Business Strategy, Harvard Business School, USA
• 2000, PhD, Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK
• 1994, Ptychion, Physics, University of Crete, Greece

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology, Associate Editor, 2023
• IEEE Senior Member, 2021
• Member of the National Council for Research and Innovation (NCRI), in the section of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, 2020
• Member of the board of the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2019
• OSA Applied Optics, Topical Editor, 2019
• Ph21 Board of Stakeholders Member, 2018
• OSA Senior Member, 2017
• Invited Professor, Excellent Courses, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2014
• Shortlisted 2nd “Greece Innovates”, 2013

David Petrosyan received the undergraduate and PhD degrees in Physics in Armenia. After a nearly three year postdoc stay in Israel, he was hired by IESL/FORTH, first on a tenure-track position and then a permanent position.
Dr. Petrosyan specializes in theoretical quantum optics and quantum information. He has published nearly 80 scientific papers and co-authored a textbook for graduate students.

Education

• 1995 Diploma in Physics, Department of Physics, Yerevan State University, Armenia
• 1999 PhD in Laser Physics, Institute for Physical Research, Armenian National Academy of Sciences

Career

• 1997-1998 Research Fellow, Max–Planck–Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany
• 1998-2000 Research Fellow, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Greece
• 2000-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• 2002- Research Director [A] (since 2024), Principal [B] (2006)/Associate [Γ] Researcher, IESL/FORTH, Greece
• 2006 & 2009 Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
• 2014-2015 D. T. Mortensen Senior Fellow, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2016-2020 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2017- Mercator Fellow, Center for Quantum Science, Physikalisches Institut Universität Tübingen, Germany

Interests

• Quantum non-linear optics with single photons and coherent atomic ensembles
• Spin lattice models with cold atoms in optical lattices, interacting Rydberg atoms
• Quantum simulations of strongly interacting few- and many-body systems
• Physical implementations of quantum information processing and communication with optical, atomic, solid-state and hybrid systems

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 1997 DAAD graduate student Scholarship, Germany
• 2000 Feinberg Postdoctoral Fellowship, Israel
• 2006 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany
• 2013 Dale T. Mortensen Senior Fellowship, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark
• 2014 Friedrich W. Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany
• 2016 APS Outstanding Referee

Dr. Georgios Nikolopoulos received his PhD in 2001 from the University of Crete. His PhD work was focused on the dissipative dynamics of small quantum systems, which are coupled to continua that exhibit an unconventional density of states and do not allow for standard (e.g., Born and Markov) approximations. In 2003, after his military service, he moved to TU Darmstadt where he worked as a research associate in the framework of FP6 IP SECOQC project, which focused on the development of a global network for secure communication based on quantum cryptography.   Dr. Nikolopoulos joined IESL/FORTH as a Junior Researcher in 2007, and his research activities span a broad range of topics including quantum linear and non-linear optics, quantum communication, quantum cryptography, and ultracold quantum gases. In 2019 he was invited to participate as a Mercator Fellow in SFB CROSSING "Cryptography-based security solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments". 

Education

• 2001: PhD in Physics, University of Crete, Greece
• 2001: MSc in Microelectronics-Optoelectronics, University of Crete, Greece
• 1996: Diploma in Physics, University of Patras, Greece

Career

• 2014 - today: Principal Researcher, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
• 2011-2014: Assistant Researcher, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
• 2007-2011: Junior Researcher, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
• 2003-2006: Research Associate, Institut fuer Angewandte Physik, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
• 1997-1999: Max-Planck Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany (two semesters)

Interests

• Quantum Communication and Cryptography
• Quantum Information Processing
• Quantum Optics

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2022: Mercator Fellow, SFB CROSSING “Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments”
• 2019: Mercator Fellow, SFB CROSSING “Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments”