Anamika is now doing her master in the theory group of Morgan Mitchell at the ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences.
(Anamika Nair Karunakaran did an internship in our group in summer 2016)
Category Archives: People
Anamika Nair Karunakaran
Anamika joined us from the Cochin University of Science and Technology South Kalamassery in Kerala, India. She went on to do her master in the Quantum Information with Cold Atoms and Non-classical Light Group of Morgan Mitchel at the ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. She is now working on her PhD at the Technical University of Denmark in collaboration with the laser manufacturer NKT Photonics. She will be part of the EU project ETN-MEFISTA (Multi-scale fibre-based optical frequency combs: science, technology and applications).
She has successfully defended her PhD at the University of Delft. Her topic was “Investigations of microresonator based frequency combs”
Premjith Thekkeppatt
01/2018- 12/2018 Master Student on BEC2
06/2016-09/2016 Intern on an optics project
Mikis Milonakis
05/2016 – 07/2018 date Master Student on the Space Optics Project
Mikis is a Master Student on the Space Optics Project.
Mikis was born in Chania, in 1993. He did his undergraduate studies in Physics science at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete (2011-2015). He continues his studies doing a PhD on bio-imaging.
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
Kostas Mavrakis
Kostas did his undergraduate studies in Materials science at the University of Crete. He continues his studies now with his master of science. He is also currently involved in the ESA-OBST project. He is now a PhD Student in the Bio-Photonics group under the supervision of Giannis Zacharakis.
Ivan Alonso Miguel
06/2015 – 10/2016 Postdoc on BEC 2
During his postdoc on Crete he worked on the stability of BEC and its phase fluctuations as well as the “Q-factor”.
Before joining us, Ivan did his MsC in Instrumentation in Physics followed by his PhD at the Applied Physics Department of the University of Salamanca and the University of Salamanca. During this period he worked on the Equilibrium Thermodynamic characterization of liquids, liquid mixtures, the microscopic interpretation of the data via well-known statistical models based on the Guggenheim (quasi-Ising) lattice model, Flory equation of state and contribution group methods like DISQUAC and UNIFAC.
After doing a postdoc at the University of Burgos, Ivan is now a Professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears.
Giannis Drougakis
Giannis joined the Cretan Matter Waves group in March 2015 to work on the ESA-OBST project. He holds a diploma in electrical and computer engineering (2012) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his master’s degree from the inter-institutional graduate program “Vision and Optics”, of the University of Crete finishing his master thesis entitled “Vibrational and angular stability of optical systems for space applications” in December 2015. He continued for his PhD working on BEC 1 and OBST, graduating in October 2021. He is now a postdoc on BEC 1 and OBST. He is going to be the head of telecommunications at the airport in Heraklion and will be in charge of this topic at the new airport in Kastelli
Kostas Poulios
day11/2014 – 07/2017 : postdoc on BEC 1 and Space Optics
Kostas got his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics at the Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he majored on Solid State Physics and Optics.
He then started his PhD in 2009 at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol, under the supervision of Prof. Jeremy O’Brien, where he did experimental research on integrated quantum photonics for quantum information and quantum computation science. His main focus was on implementation of multi-photon integrated quantum walks, with dissertation titled: Integrated Photonic Continuous-Time Quantum Walks.
He then did a short post-doc in 2014 still with Prof. Jeremy O’Brien at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, working in a collaboration with Prof. Axel Kuhn’s Atom-Photon Connection group at Oxford University. He was also a visiting post-doctoral research assistant (early 2015) at the Atom-Photon Connection group, Oxford University. The scope of the collaboration was to use a deterministic single photon source (single Rb87 atoms in a cavity) to perform quantum logic experiments on integrated photonic devices.
In November 2014 he joined the Cretan Matter-Waves / Bose-Einstein Condensation group, I.E.S.L., FO.R.T.H. in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, where he is since working as a post-doctoral researcher. His main project is the implementation of a fully-guided, ring-shaped, Sagnac-type atom-interferometer using time-averaged adiabatic potentials (TAAPs) and Rb87 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs).
In summer 2017, Kostas joined the cold atoms group of Thomas Fernholz at Nottingham University.
Stathis Lambropoulos
09/2014-01/2016 Master student on BEC
Stathis did his master thesis work with us. He developed a novel temperature stabilisation system for our experiment. He did the course work for this master at the Microelectronics-Optoelectronics Master Programme of the University of Crete.