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.
