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

 

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

Education

• 2012, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2008, M.Sc. in Computational Physics, Dept. of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2005, B.Sc. in Physics with major in Computational Physics, Dept. of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.

Career

• 2023 – present, Research Associate. Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece.
• 2021 – present, Member of the Collaborating Educational Staff of the Hellenic Open University, Postgraduate program: Data Science and Machine Learning, Greece.
• 2022 – 2023, Senior Data Scientist - VODA.ai, USA (remotely).
• 2020 – 2021, Temporal teaching personnel in the frame of the National-EU program Gaining Academic Teaching experience, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2019 – 2023, Research Associate. Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics and Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 11/2019 – 02/2020, Visiting researcher. Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University, MA, USA.
• 2018 – 2019, Research Associate. Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece.
• 2017 – 2019, Research Associate. Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2015 – 2016, Research Associate. Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology. Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
• 2012 – 2015, Postdoctoral scholar. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA.

Interests

• Physics Informed Machine Learning
• Machine Learning in Complex Systems and Medicine
• Computational Materials and Condensed Matter Physics
• Inverse Problems
• Development of scientific software

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2011, “Maria Michail Manassaki" award as the top graduate student of the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete, Greece.
• 2010, Individual HPC-Europa2 grant for a visit in Finland and access to one of Europe’s largest computers (150000 cpu hours).

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

Education

• 2020 PhD University of Crete, Physics Department Greece
• 2016 Master in “Photonics and Lasers” at the University of Patras (Greece), Department of Physics GPA: 8.66/10
• 2014 Diploma in Physics at the University of Patras (Greece), Department of Physics, GPA: 6.84/10

Interests

• Laser Matter interactions
• Measurement of the nonlinear optical properties of organic solvents, carbon derivatives and thin films employing the Z-scan technique in nanosecond, picosecond and femtosecond domains and Optical Kerr Effect (OKE) technique.
• Development of linear and non-linear optical setups Experimental techniques: Z-scan, Optical Kerr Effect (OKE), White light supercontinuum generation.

Education

• Ph.D. in Atomic & Molecular Physics, University Of Crete, Herakleion – Greece
• M.Sc. in Advanved Theoretical physics, University Of Crete, Herakleion – Greece
• B.Sc. in Physics, University Of Crete, Herakleion – Greece

Career

• Postoctoral Researcher

Interests

• Atomic & Molecular Dynamics
• Quantum Optics in strong–field physics
• Photon counting
• Photon statistics
• Quantum Information
• Nonlinear Phenomena
• Attosecond Physics