Emmanouil Skantzakis is a physicist specializing in both experimental and theoretical aspects of attosecond physics. He graduated in Physical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 2004 and initiated his career at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (I.E.S.L.-FO.R.T.H.).
During his academic pursuit, Skantzakis followed a master's program at the University of Crete, concentrating on "Microelectronics-Optoelectronics." Under the guidance of Prof. Dimitris Charalambidis, his master's thesis was focused on the modelling and implementation of a grating interferometer for spectral phase and amplitude retrieval of low order harmonic superposition.
His Ph.D. studies at I.E.S.L.-FO.R.T.H., supervised by Prof. Dimitris Charalambidis and Dr. Paraskevas(Paris) Tzallas, were centered on generating coherent EUV continua using the Interferometric Polarization Gating technique. Skantzakis designed an innovative IPG device, facilitating efficient EUV continuum generation from high-peak power lasers. This work laid the groundwork for the first ever XUV-pump-XUV-probe studies at the 1 fs temporal scale.
Post-Ph.D., Skantzakis continued his research by securing a Marie Curie Individual fellowship. He contributed to the attosecond physics group at CEA-Saclay in France, concentrating on high-resolution high-harmonic spectroscopy in aligned molecules.
Upon his return to I.E.S.L.-FO.R.T.H. in 2014, Skantzakis played a key role in developing and operating MW and GW EUV beamlines. His responsibilities included maintaining the TW laser chain, crucial for successful experiments and collaborations. Additionally, he secured funding for an independent project. The title of the project was “Generation and applications of intense circularly polarized extreme ultraviolet radiation.”- GAICPEU (No 645) and it was funded solely by HFRI. The new EUV beamline was developed in AST with unique characteristics. It provides tunable highly elliptically polarized EUV radiation (17-26 eV) with controlled polarization, reaching energies of the order of 400 nJ per pulse. This is the highest energy content ever achieved in the generation of laser driven circularly/elliptically polarized EUV radiation.

Education

• 2011, PhD, Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
• 2007, MSc Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece
• 2004, Bachelor School of Applied Physical and Mathematical Sciences, National Technical University Of Athens

Career

• Post-doctoral Researcher, Attosecond Science and Technology Laboratory, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas, Research industry, since June 2014, Crete, Greece
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Attosecond Physics Group, CEA, Research industry, April 2012 – April 2014 (2 years), Paris Area, France, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) for Career Development.
• Post-doctoral Researcher, Attosecond Science and Technology Laboratory, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas, Research industry, October 2011 – March 2012 (6 months) Crete, Greece

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• First Award for Young Researchers, International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science (ISUILS), Maui, Hawaii, USA, December 6th-13th, 2010
• Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) for Career Development (2011).
• Post-graduate grant University of Crete 10/2004-10/2006
• Post-graduate grant FORTH-IESL, CRETE, GREECE 10/2006-3/2011
• HFRI (ELIDEK) Post-doc Fellowship grant, 2018 - 2021

Other

Teaching Activities: (10/2004 - 12/2009)

1. Teaching assistant, Computer Science Department University of Crete, Theoretical Classes: Physics Ι, Physics ΙΙ
2. Teaching assistant, Department of Applied Mathematics University of Crete, Theoretical Classes: Physics Ι, Physics ΙΙ
3. Teaching assistant, Physics Department University of Crete, Experimental Classes: Optics Laboratories, Advanced Experiments

Dr. George Deligeorgis earned his PhD in 2008 working on GaAs based Semiconductor laser diodes for telecommunication applications. Following his PhD, carbon-based devices (Graphene and CNTs) became his principal research interest. He stayed in LAAS-CNRS (Laboratory for analysis and architecture of Systems, National Center of Scientific Research), in France between 2010-2014 where he continued his activity in the same subject. He is a Researcher in FORTH - IESL since (2015) working on high frequency carbon and 2D based devices.

Dr. Deligeorgis has worked on numerous projects in design and fabrication of compound semiconductor devices in the field of photonics and high frequency electronics (MMIC) for the last decade. He was involved in several National and European funded projects in the fields of photonics, RF device fabrication and polaritonic devices. He is currently leading the 2 dimensional material based electronics activity in the microelectornics research group, while working on nonlinear graphene based RF devices and polariton optoelectronics devices combining his knowledge in physics and nanotechnology. He has published more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has several invited and contributed talks. Finally, Dr. Deligeorgis is a founding member of the “Graphene Center, Greece”, member of the Steering board of Micro & Nano nanotechnology company, a member of several associations (IEEE e.t.c) and a reviewer in several international journals

Education

• 2008 Ph.D., in Physics; Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
• 2002 M.Sc. in Microelectornics / Optoelectronics, Physics; Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
• 2000 B.Sc., in Physics; Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece

Career

• 12/2019 - today, Principal Researcher (Grade B), FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 02/2018 - today, Adjunct Professor, Physics Departement, University of Crete, Greece
• 09/2015 – 11/2019, Associate Researcher (Grade C; tenure-track), FORTH- IESL, Greece
• 04/2014 – 08/2015, Research Associate, FORTH- IESL, Greece
• 04/2011 – 03/2014, Researcher (contractual), Laboratoire d'Architecture et des systemes (LAAS), CNRS, France
• 04/2010 – 03/2011 PostDoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire d'Architecture et des systemes (LAAS), CNRS, FR
• 07/2008 – 11/2009 Postdoctoral Fellow; Foundation for Research and Tecnhology Hellas, GR

Interests

• 2D materials
• High frequency electronics
• Carbon nanotubes
• Nano electronics fabrication
• Nano photonics

Other

I am currently leading the High frequency measurement facility and the 2D materials activity within the Microelectornics lab.

Dr. Symeon Tsintzos has received his BS degree in Physics by the Physics department of the University of Patras in 2003. In 2006 received the MsC degree in Microelectronics and Optoelectronics from the Physics department of the University of Crete, whereas he received his PhD degree in 2010 by the Materials Science and Technology department of the same University. His PhD was on the design and fabrication of electrical injected polariton LED devices. He worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser) and at the Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology. He was a visitor researcher at the Nano-photonics Croup, Cavendish Laboratory, in Cambridge and at the Ioffe Physical and Technical Institute, Saint Petersburg. His scientific work extends in various fields of polariton physics and technology including electrically injected polariton lasers, design and developing of novel polariton devices (transistors, switches random number generators), on chip manipulation of polariton condensates, polariton condensate optical circuits and polariton analogue and quantum simulators. Furthermore, he involved in the design and fabrication of conventional semiconductor optoelectronic devices such as edge and vertical emitting lasers as well as on the development of quantum dot single photon emitters. In 2008, he awarded Manasaki’s scholarship for the importance of his scientific work during his PhD studies, while in 2017 awarded by the Stavros Niarchos foundation scholarship in the frame of the project “Advancing Young Researchers’ Human Capital in Cutting Edge Technologies in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and the Tackling of Societal Challenges – ARCHERS. Currently, he is an external associate researcher with the MRG of IESL through the GREEK CSRT ΕΔΒΜ34 program, while he holds a permanent position in EULAMBIA Advanced Thechnologies LTD as a scientist engineer working on classical and quantum photonic cryptographic schemes and all optical processing.

Education

• 2010, Ph.D. Material Science, Materials Science and Tecnhology Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
• 2006, M.Sc. in Microelectornics / Optoelectronics, Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
• 2003, B.Sc in Physics, Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece

Career

• 07/2018 - today, Scientist engineer in Eulambia tecnhologies Ltd, Greece
• 07/2018 - today, External Associate Researcher, Microelectronics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 12/2016 - 06/2018, Postdoctoral fellow, Microelectronics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 10/2015 - 11/2016, Postdoctoral fellow, Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology, Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
• 01/2014 - 09/2015, Postdoctoral fellow, Microelectronics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece
• 06/2014 - 10/2014, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 06/2013 - 10/2013, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 05/2012 - 09/2012, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 12/2012 - 12/2013, Postdoctoral fellow, Microelectronics Research Group, Materials Science and Tecnhology Dpt, Greece
• 06/2011 - 12/2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nano-photonics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
• 01/2011 - 11/2012, Postdoctoral fellow, Microelectronics Research Group, FORTH - IESL, Greece

Interests

• Novel polaritonic devices
• Hybrid semiconductor-organic polariton LEDs.
• Semiconductor optoelectronic devices
• Classical and quantum photonic cryptographic schemes
• all optical processing

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• 2017, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Scholarship within the framework of the project ARCHERS
• 2008, Manasaki Scholarship for postgraduate students

Education

• 2020, Ph.D. Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece

Kyriaki Savva is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) at Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete. She received her PhD in Physics from University of Crete in 2018.

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Education

• 2018 ​Ph. D. Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece. 
• 2012, Master of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, University of Crete, Greece. 
• 2009, Bachelor, Physics, University of Crete, Greece

Interests

• Laser ablation in liquid medium for the generation of metallic nanoparticles
• Laser processing of 2D materials
• Pulsed laser deposition of thin films
• Photochemical synthesis of graphene oxide derivatives for applications in organic photovoltaics
• Characterization of photovoltaic devices with electrical measurements
• UV-visible spectroscopy
• Raman spectroscopy
• Optical Microscopy
• XRD spectroscopy

Saurabh started his second postdoc  at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the group of Malcolm Boshier. He will be working on the demonstration of a novel atomtronic rotation sensor based on optical dipole potentials.

Saurabh was previously a PhD student and postdoc  on BEC 1 on guided matterwaves, where he was the lead author on our Nature paper on matter-wave guiding.

Before coming to us Saurabh studied for an integrated Master of Science in applied Physics at the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad.
 

Dr. Vasileia Melissinaki received her PhD degree from the department of Physics of University of Crete. She received her Master degree (2011) and her Bachelor (2009) from the same department. In her PhD thesis she worked on the fabrication and studying of 3D micro-optical elements on the end face of optical fibers and their use as gas and liquid sensors.

 

Education

• 2017, Ph.D. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
• 2011, M.Sc. in Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
• 2009, B.S. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.

Interests

• Direct laser writing via polymerization
• Mechanical metamaterials
• Endface fiber sensors
• 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering
• 3D micro-implants for medical applications