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
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.
Dr. Panayotis Kalozoumis received his PhD degree in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). After his PhD studies he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Center of Optical and Quantum Technologies in Hamburg (Germany), in the Physics Department of the NKUA, in the the Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Maine (France) and in the Department of Material Science in the University of Patras. Dr. Kalozoumis was visiting our group from 2018 to 2021 as a joint research associate (with university of Patras) in the framework of program POLISIMULATOR.
Education
- 2014, PhD in Physics, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- 2006, MSc in Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- 2004, Diploma in Physics, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Career
- 2018-2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Patras, Department of Material Science, Greece
- 2017-2018: Research Associate, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- 2016-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire d’Acoustique de l’Université du Maine, Le Mans, France
- 2015 – 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- 2014 – 2015: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center of Quantum and Optical Technologies, Hamburg, Germany
Interests
- Waves in aperiodic structures
- Non-Hermitian Physics
- Photonics
- Quantum optics
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 2015, ΙΚΥ-Siemens Fellowship Excellence fellowship for postdoctoral research in Greece
- 2010, Heracleitus ΙΙ Scholarship for doctoral studies
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
