Category Archives: Active Group Member

Afroditi Aretaki

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.

 

Mary Georgousi

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

Giorgos Vasilakis

01/2020 – today Research group leader at IESL-FORTH
06/2016 – 06/2018 Marie Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellow on BEC
02/2016 – 05/2016 Visiting Scientist

Before joining us Georgos was…

2012 – 2016 PostDoc at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Georgo was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Quantop Group of Eugene S. Polzik at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. He was working on Experimental quantum optics / Light-atom quantum interface.

2006 – 2011 PhD at Princeton University, NJ under the supervision of Michael V. Romalis. The topic of his PhD thesis was: “Precision Measurements of Spin Interactions with High Density Atomic Vapors”

2003-2006 Master at Princeton University

2002-2003 Graduate program in Optoelectronics and Microelectronics, University of Crete

1997-2002 B.S. in Physics University of Crete

Dimitrios Papazoglou

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.

Scientific interests

  1. Nonlinear interactions of ultra-short laser pulses with transparent media
  2. Exotic optical waves and light bullets
  3. Wavefront sensing and manipulation
  4. Laser microfabrication (in bulk structuring of dielectrics, micro-mechanics,
    diffractive surface structures).
  5. Dynamic holography, photorefractive materials

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 

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