Category Archives: Alumni

Igor Lesanovsky

05/2006 – 12/2006 Theory Postdoc

ERCIgor is now a full Professor and ERC startup prize winner at University of Tuebingen.

He has recently won the Maxwell medal.

 

His research interests are:

  • Strongly correlated spin systems
  • Relaxation and thermalization of closed quantum systems
  • Trapping and manipulation of highly excited (Rydberg) atoms
  • Collective phenomena in ultracold atomic gases
  • Creation of non-classical states of light and matter
  • Quantum Information with atoms and trapped ions
  • Non-equilibrium in open quantum systems

Brief CV

  • 2019 – now — Professor for Theoretical Atomic Physics and Synthetic Quantum Systems (U. of Tuebingen, Germany)
  • 2013 – 2019 — Professor of Physics (University of Nottingham/UK)
  • 2011 – 2013 — Associate Professor and Reader in Physics (University of Nottingham/UK)
  • 2009 – 2011 — Lecturer in Physics (University of Nottingham/UK)
  • 2007 – 2009 — PostDoc (University of Innsbruck/Austria)
  • 2006 – 2006 — PostDoc (FORTH IESL, Heraklion/Greece)
  • 2003 – 2006 — PhD (University of Heidelberg/Germany)

Lykourgos Bougas

03/2006 to 05/2014 PhD student on parity violation
05/2004 to 05/2006 Master student on parity violation

Lykourgos received his PhD from the Physics Department of the University of Crete. His thesis was supervised by Peter Rakitzis and Wolf von Klitzing.

 

His first postdoc at Berkeley was on a parity violation. He is now doing a second postdoc with Dmitry Budker’s Group in Mainz.

 

His motto is

Improving your self, is the only thing you can do to improve the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

Angelos Lazoudis

10/2005 to 11/2007 Postdoc on BEC 1

Angelos was one of the first postdocs with the Cretan Matter Waves group and was instrumental in setting up the laboratory.

Before joining us at the Cretan Matter-Waves Angelos did a Ph.D. at Temple University, Philadelphia. He workt on EIT in molecules in the Molecular Quantum Optics group of Prof. Lyyra. He now works on research on education of physics in Athens, where he has been super successful in attracting EU funding for his projects.