Cretan Matter Waves Group
06/2026 – today PhD Student on BEC 3
Panagiota and joined the lab in June 2026. She studied physics in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where she worked on a number of space projects. She then did a master in Space Sciences and Technologies in the Observatory of Paris (and m space projects).
04/2026 – 09/2026 PhD student visiting from St. Andrews
02/2026 – 08/2026 Research assistant of the Space-Optics Groups
09/2026 – 8/2027 Master Student on Space Optics
02/2026 – 4/2026 Intern on Space Optics
Lasse joins us from the University of Tübingen, where he studies Physics.
8/2025 – today Postdoc on BEC 1
Sourabh did his PhD at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India. He held a Junior and Senior Research Fellow (SRF) at the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, where he worked on TAAP potentials for Rb87.
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.”
09/2024 – today PhD Student on BEC 3
Kostas joined us in September 2024 to work on BEC 3 / OQC
01.2025 – today PhD Student
08/2024 – 12.2024 Research Assistant
Andreas Oikonomou was 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.
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.
01/2024 – today PhD Student on BEC 1
Vishal has joined us in January 2024 to work on our BEC 1 machine.
He completed his M.Sc in Physics from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India in 2019 and M.Tech in Quantum Technology from Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DRDO) Pune, India in 2023