Sofia is an undergraduate student at the Physics Departement of the University of Crete.
She then went to Klaasjan van Druten’s laboratory at the University of Amsterdam, where she constructed a diode laser system for the generation of Rydberg atoms on a chip.
Evgenia Klironomou is an undergraduate physics student at the Physics Department of the University of Crete. She joined IESL-FORTH during the conduct of her BSc thesis, “Photoacoustic imaging for the detection of underdrawings of murals”. Her research interests are focused on Optical and Photoacoustic imaging.
10/2021 – today PhD Student
10/2020 – 10/2021 MSci Student on Laser Stabilisation
Pandora joined us in September 2020 to work on Magneto-Optic Trapping and fluorescence imaging for her master. She is now pursuing a PhD in Space optics and BEC.
05/2021 – today PhD Student on BEC1
Vidhu did her Bachelor of Science (Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science – Triple Major) at Bangalore University (Wiki), from which she graduated second of her class (Gold Medalist).
During the final year of her Bachelor’s Program, she was selected for the prestigious Indian Academy of Science (IASc) – Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP) – 2017 at the Quantum Materials and Devices Group (formerly known as the Low-Temperature Nano-Electronics Group), Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, under Prof Arindam Ghosh.
After working as a Project Trainee in the same group, she continued with her Master of Science (Physics) at Bangalore University and graduated top of her class (Gold Medalist). Her master’s project was on Quantum Computation, Estimating Pi using Quantum Phase Estimation Algorithm, which she runs on the public access quantum computer of IBM (Qiskit).
Following her masters, she joined as a Project Assistant / Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at the Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing Group, Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
At the moment she is awaiting her visa which has been delayed due to COVID restrictions.
10/2020 – today PhD Student on BEC 1
Vishnupriya has joined us in October 2020 to work on our BEC 1 machine. She will study coherence in MatterWave optics.
She joins us from the International School of Photonics of the Cochin University of Science and Technology, India She did her Master thesis project at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India.
Irene Malegiannaki studied chemistry at the Chemistry Department of the University of Crete (B.Sc.) and received her M.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry from the same department, in 2020. She joined IESL-FORTH for her MSc thesis focused on Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for the analysis of both biogeochemical archives for paleoenvironmental studies and archaeological bronze objects. In 2021, she continued with an Erasmus traineeship at the University of Malaga Laser Lab focusing on LIBS analysis of single particles in an optical trap.
In 2021, she received a scholarship to pursue her Ph.D. within the DEEPICE MSCA ITN project at the Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, under the supervision of Asist. Prof. Vasileios Gkinis, Prof. Dorthe-Dahl Jensen (Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen) and Prof. Carlo Barbante (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). She is working on the development of an innovative instrument which couples Laser Ablation with Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy for high quality water isotopic measurements of the Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice core which will be extracted from East Antarctica and it will potentially cover climate history of 1.5 million years.
Maria-Eleni Konstantinou is a chemist and currently a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Crete, Greece, working on “Development of an effective analytical methodology using spectroscopic techniques for the characterization of organic residues in archaeological finds.” Her master’s thesis, entitled “Detection of organic residues on archaeological findings with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy,” was conducted in the Department of Materials Science and Technology. She joined IESL–FORTH for her thesis work, focusing on the spectroscopic characterization of inorganic pigments using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy.
Alexia is an Electronic and Computer Engineer working on Power amplifier and integrated RF design. She has worked in numerous projects involving MOSFET modelling, radiation hard environment design, analog ring oscillators and other RF IC.
