Cretan Matter Waves Group
01/2024 – today Technician of the BEC and Space-Optics Groups
Minoas joined us beginning of 2024 as a technician. He hold bachelor and master diplomas on Material Science and Technology that both took place in Heraklion Crete. Before joining us, he did his Master’s Degree (9/2021 – 9/2023) in the Nanoscale Optoelectronics Lab of Prof Savvidis. He worked on Perovskite crystal synthesis and optical characterization for Polaritonic Devices.
09/2025 – Today Master Student
11/2024 – 08/2025 Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate student at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete (2019-today)
2021-2022 assistant at Physics Laboratory III-optics (Department of Physics)
09/2024 – today Master Student on BEC
12/2023 – 08/2024 Undergraduate Student on single photon interferometer
06/2023 – 08/2023 Intern on a demonstration project
Afroditi Aretaki is currently in her final year of her undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Crete. During the summer period of 2023 she worked on a demonstration project for the 2023 Researcher’s Night. She built and demonstrated (together with Theodoros Kapnas) a single photon interferometer. In order to make the concept of interferometry more comprehensible, they also built acoustic interferometers. Currently, he is working on her thesis which is on a laser Amplifier to be used in a BEC/MOT experiment.
12/2022 – today PhD Student on Space Optics
09/2021 – 10/2022 MSci Student on Space Optics
Mary joined us in September 2021 to work on a novel spectroscopy model for quantum space missions.
Mary Georgousi is a PhD student in the Space–Optics Group in IESL. She completed her undergraduate studies in Physics at the Physics Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As member of the Gravitational Waves Group – AUTh, she has worked on probing the properties of our Galaxy based on the detection of gravitational waves from LISA. She then obtained her MSc diploma on Advanced Physics, focusing on astrophysics and space applications, in the Physics Department of University of Crete. She is also a member of SpaceDot team, participating in Fly your satellite! 3 program for CubeSats.
Email: georgousi@iesl.forth.gr
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/mary-georgousi
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.
10/2021 – today PhD Student
10/2020 – 10/2021 MSci Student on Laser Stabilisation
Pandora joined us in September 2020 to work on a novel type of double-compensated spectroscopy.
She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Crete in the Physics department.
03/2020 – today PhD Student on CEMIC
Vinay has joined us in March 2020 to work on Cavity enhanced Microscopy (CEMIC). He received his Master of Science in Physical Sciences from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (India) in Jun 2019.
06/2010 – today Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
Dimitris is involved in everything optical in the BEC group.
… just have a look at our OPEN POSITIONS,
or contact Wolf von Klitzing
2005 – now: Head of Group
2020-now Group Leader of the Space Optics Group at IESL-FORTH
2005-now Group Leader of the BEC and Matterwaves Groupat IESL-FORTH
2020-2022 Head of the Scientific Council of IESL-FORTH
2006-2010 Marie-Curie Excellence Group Leader
2000-2004 Post-doctoral Fellow with Prof. Walraven at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) and the Van der Waals Zeemann Institute of the University of Amsterdam
1999-2000 Marie Curie post-doctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. De Martini, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
1996 – 1999 Marie Curie Postoc at the ENS with Serge Haroche
1992 – 1996 PhD Student at Cavendish Laboratory of the Cambridge University
Email: wvk@iesl.forth.gr