Category Archives: People

Andreas Oikonomou

01.2025 – today PhD Student
08/2024 – 12.2024 Research Assistant

Andreas Oikonomou is an undergraduate student of the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of West Attica. He joined Matter Waves Group as a research assistant and is now the lead PhD Student on RamanBC. He is also leading the Zerodur/OBST based QMem single-pass AOM board.

Pedro Rivero Antunez

5/2024 – 6/2026 Postdoc on BEC 3

Pedro obtained a 4-year Physics degree in 2016 from the University of Seville (Spain), and a master’s degree in Particle Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Granada (2017), finishing his master thesis entitled «Axial Anomaly in the 5d-Anti-deSitter /4d-Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence».

His academic journey continued with a PhD focusing on fabrication and characterization of nanostructured ceramics at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics of the University of Seville, where he graduated in June 2023.

In May 2024, he joined the Cretan Matter Waves group as a postdoc researcher for the BEC2 project.

Theodoros Kapnas

12/2023 – 02/2025 BA Student

06/2023 – 08/2023 Intern on a demonstration project

Theodoros Kapnas is currently in his final year of her undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Crete. During the summer period of 2023 he worked on a demonstration project for the 2023 Researcher’s Night. He built and demonstrated (together with Afroditi Aretakis) a single photon interferometer. In order to make the concept of interferometry more comprehensible, they built acoustic interferometers. Currently, he is working on her thesis which is on a laser Amplifier to be used in a BEC/MOT experiment.