Alumni

Marcel Morillas
11/2023 Intern on BEC1
Mary Georgousi
PhD Student on Space Optics
12/2022 - today PhD Student on Space Optics
09/2021 – 10/2022 MSci Student on Space Optics
Vidhu Catherine Antony
PhD Student (on leave)
05/2021 - today PhD Student
Vasiliki Bolpasi
University of Crete
05/2014 – 10/2020 Research Assistant on BEC2 and AtomQT
02/2009 – 04/2014 PhD Student
09/2006 – 06/2008 Master Student
Pandora Examilioti
PhD Student
10/2021 - today PhD Student
10/2020 - 10/2021 MSci Student on Laser Stabilisation
T S Hrudya
PhD at Humboldt University, Berlin
02/2020 - 06/2020 MSci Student on BEC1
Konstantinos Vardakis
10/2019 - 10/2020 Master Student on CEMIC
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Vangelis Tzardis
01/2021 – to date PhD Student at the Frederick University in Cyprus
09/2019- 10/2020 Research Assistant on OBST2
08/2018- 09/2019 Master Student on OBST2
Saurabh Pandey
Postdoc at Sandia National Labs
07/2019-11/2019 Postdoc on BEC1
10/2013- 07/2019 Student on BEC1
06/2013-09/2013 Intern on BEC1
Hector Mas of the Bec - Cretan Matter Waves Group
Hector Mas
Post-Doc at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
06/2014 - 07/2019 PhD Student on BEC1
10/2013-06/2014 Intern on BEC 1
Debapriya Pal
Ph.D. student at AMOLF and the University of Amsterdam
05/2019-09/2020 Research Assistant on CEMIC and OBST2
05/2018-07/2018 Intern on laser-fiber optics
Anamika Nair Karunakaran
PhD Candidate at the Technical University of Denmark
05/2016-08/2016 Intern on a LabView project
Premjith Thekkeppatt
PhD student in the group of Florian Schreck in Amsterdam
01/2018-12/2018 Master Student on BEC2
06/2016-09/2016 Intern on an optics project
Mikis Milonakis
PhD Student on Bio Imaging at IESL
05/2016 - 07/2018 Master Student on the Space Optics Project
Giorgos Vasilakis
Associate Group Member (BEC) and Research group leader at IESL-FORTH
01/2020 - today Research group leader at IESL-FORTH
06/2016 – 12/2019 PostDoc on BEC 1
02/2016 – 05/2016 Visiting Scientist
Kostas Mavrakis
PhD Student in Bio-Photonics
05/2015 - 12/2017 Master Student on Space optics
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Ivan Alonso Miguel
Professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears
06/2015-10/2016 Postdoc on BEC 2
Giannis Drougakis
Head of Telecommunications at the Airport of Heraklion
10/2021 - 7/2024 Postdoc on BEC 1 and Space Optics
11/2016 - 10/2021 PhD Student on BEC 1 and OBST
03/2015 - 10/2016 Master Student on the ESA-OBST project
Kostas Poulios
Postdoc in Nottingham (Fernholz)
11/2014 - 07/2017 postdoc on BEC 1 and Space Optics
Stathis Lambropoulos
09/2014-01/2016 Master student
Panagiotis Christodoulou
Post Doc at the ETH in Zurich (Esslinger Group)
01/2016 - 08/2016 Research Assistant
01/2014 - 07/2014 Master Student
Sofia Botsi
Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
06/2013-12/2013 Undergraduate student
Benjamin Sherlock
Lecturer in Translational Biophotonics University of Exeter, UK
04/2012-05/2013 Postdoc on BEC 1
Martins Bruvelis
Senior Information Technology Specialist at the CEMSE
07/2010-09/2010 Visiting Student
Michael Morrissey
Reseracher at the Extreme Light Infrastructure in Prague
09/2009 - 08/2011 Postdoc on BEC2
Gustav Wikström
Development and maintenance of banking systems, reporting and database systems
05/2009-10/2009 Master Student
Jules Grucker
Lecturer at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel at Ecole Normale Superieur
11/2008 to 08/2009 Postdoc on BEC 2
Alexandros Tzimis
PhD Student in the group Prof Savvidis (U. of Crete)
07/2008 to 11/2009 Undergraduate Student
Anastasios Mavris
07/2008 to 08/2009 Undergraduate Student
Grigoris Konstantinidis
09/2007 - 01/2012 PhD Student on BEC1
11/2006 - 08/2007 Master Student on BEC1
Olivier Morizot
Lecturer (Maître de Conférences) at the Université de Provence in Marseille,
03/2007-04/2009 Postdoc on BEC 1 working on dark-gound imaging
Mark Baker
Researcher in Quantum Technologies with Defence, Science and Technology Group, Australia
11/2006 to 12/2009 Post-Doc on BEC 1 and 2
Antonis Protopapadakis
11/2006 to 08/2007 Undergraduate student
Melina Pappa
10/2006 to 06/2011 Phd Student on BEC 1
Daniel Sahagún Sánchez
Research Group Leader at UNAM in Mexico
03/2014-06/2014 PostDoc on BEC1
10/2006-05/2010 PostDoc on BEC1
Nicolas Lagos
PhD student at the University of Patras
08/2006 - 09/2007 Master Student
Constantine Condylis
Head of Data Science at Tokopedia, Indonesia
07/2006 to 07/2010 Postdoc on BEC 1
Igor Lesanovsky
Full Professor and ERC startup prize winner at University of Tuebingen
05/2006 - 12/2006 Theory Postdoc
Lykourgos Bougas
Postdoc in Dmitry Budker's Group in Mainz
03/2006 to 05/2014 PhD student on parity violation
05/2004 to 05/2006 Master student on parity violation
Angelos Lazoudis
Researcher in physics education in Athens
10/2005 to 11/2007 Postdoc on BEC 1
Elena Sakellari
Departement of Music Technology & Acoustics of the T.E..I. of Rethymnon.
07/2005 to 01/2006IESL - postdoc on BEC 1
Vasilis Georgas
01/2005-12/2005 Undergraduate Student