Cretan Matter Waves Group
12/2024 – today PhD Student on BEC 3
Rohit P. Thampy holds a Master’s degree in Quantum Technology from the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT–DRDO), India. His Masters’ thesis focused on the development of a CPT based atom clock, along with experiments on light–matter interactions in rubidium gas.”
11/2023 Visiting Student on BEC1
I am Marcel Morillas, I completed my undergraduate studies at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Then, I pursued an MSc. in Photonics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where I did my Master’s Thesis on simulating one and two-mode squeezed light in topological photonic lattices as a member of the Quantum and Atom Optics Group (QAOS) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Beyond my scientific pursuits, I enjoy watching and playing sports, especially American football and playing the bass guitar.
07/2019 – 11/2019 Postdoc on BEC1
10/2013 – 07/2019 PhD Student on BEC1
06/2013 – 09/2013 Intern
Saurabh was PhD student and postdoc on BEC 1 on guided matterwaves, where he was the first author on our Nature Paper demonstrating ring-shaped matterwave guides.
Saurabh is now a senior postdoc at the Sandia National Lab (in Albuquerque), where he is working on on atomic clocks and Rydberg quantum computing.
Before this, Saurabh worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the group of Malcolm Boshier, where he was working on the demonstration of a novel atomtronic rotation sensor based on optical dipole potentials.
Anamika joined us from the Cochin University of Science and Technology South Kalamassery in Kerala, India. She went on to do her master in the Quantum Information with Cold Atoms and Non-classical Light Group of Morgan Mitchel at the ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. She is now working on her PhD at the Technical University of Denmark in collaboration with the laser manufacturer NKT Photonics. She will be part of the EU project ETN-MEFISTA (Multi-scale fibre-based optical frequency combs: science, technology and applications).
She has successfully defended her PhD at the University of Delft. Her topic was “Investigations of microresonator based frequency combs”
Georgos Vasilakis is joining us as a postdoc on BEC1.
Panagiotis Christodoulou is back for six months working on his publication on the Q-factor and on putting a dipole trap on BEC2.
01/2018- 12/2018 Master Student on BEC2
06/2016-09/2016 Intern on an optics project
Mikis is a Master Student on the Space Optics Project.
Mikis was born in Chania, in 1993. He did his undergraduate studies in Physics science at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete (2011-2015). He continues his studies doing a PhD on bio-imaging.
Georgos Vasilakis is joining us for a couple of weeks as a visiting scientist. He is currently a postdoc in the group of Eugene Polzik.
Kostas did his undergraduate studies in Materials science at the University of Crete. He continues his studies now with his master of science. He is also currently involved in the ESA-OBST project. He is now a PhD Student in the Bio-Photonics group under the supervision of Giannis Zacharakis.