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Daniel Sahagún Sánchez

10/2006-05/2010 PostDoc on BEC1
03/2014-06/2014 PostDoc on BEC1

Daniel did his undergraduate studies in the National University of Mexico (UNAM). After that he carried out a PhD studying the fundamental limitations of atom chips at the Centre for Cold Matter at Imperial College London lead by Ed Hinds in Imperial College, London. In 2006 he joined the Cretan Matter Waves as a postdoc for four years during the lab setup and first BEC experiments. He made a second postdoctoral stay at group of Bjorn Hessmo , part of the Centre for Quantum Technologies, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). In Singapore he worked on fiber optic integration onto atom chips and prepared experiments to study the interaction of micro-nano fibers with cold atoms. During his stay in Singapore Daniel continued to collaborate with the Cretan Matter Waves in experiments related to atom interferometry and lasers.

From June 2014 he has researcher position (tenure track) at UNAM, Mexico City. There he is a founding member of the Laboratory for Quantum Matter of the Physics Institute and has started his own research group

06/2014 to to date Research Group Leader

From June 2014 he has researcher position (tenure track) at UNAM, Mexico City. There he is a founding member of the Laboratory for Quantum Matter of the Physics Institute and has started his own research group.

06/2010 to 06/2014 PostDoc in Singapore

He made a second postdoctoral stay at group of Bjorn Hessmo , part of the Centre for Quantum Technologies, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). In Singapore he worked on fiber optic integration onto atom chips and prepared experiments to study the interaction of micro-nano fibers with cold atoms. During his stay in Singapore Daniel continued to collaborate with the Cretan Matter Waves in experiments related to atom interferometry and lasers.

10/2006 to 05/2010 PostDoc on BEC1

Nicolas Lagos

08/2006 – 09/2007 Master Student

Nick joined the Cretan Matter-Waves Group in August 2006 as a Master student. He then did his mandatory service in the Greek army. Nick is now doing a PhD at the University of Patras in Department of Materials Science and also at the Institute of Materials in E.K.E.F.E at the Demokritos Institute in Athens. He is currently working on the theory of nanowires and nanoparticles structures.

Constantine Condylis

07/2006 to 07/2010 Postdoc on BEC 1

Before landing on Crete, he was a member of the Centre for Cold Matter (CCM) group of Prof. Ed Hinds at Imperial College London. There he completed his PhD working on the experiment searching for time reversal symmetry violation in YbF molecules: looking for the interaction of the electric dipole moment of the electron with the molecule via its tiny shift to the molecular energy levels. After his postdoc in Singapore on cold atoms, he quickly became now Chief Technology Officer at a startup company in Singapore.  The company uses artificial intelligence and neural networks to analyse credit risks using big data.  He is currently Head of Data Science at Tokopedia, an Indonesian unicorn and e-commerce company currently valued at more than  1.1 billion dollars in 2022.

  • 07/2015 to 04/2016 Postdoc at the Singapore Centre for Quantum Technologies working with Rainer Dumke to make an BEC loaded into a ring-shaped optical-potential which forms the “Atomtronics” equivalent of a SQUID flux quit.
  • 07/2010 to 07/2015 Postdoc in Singapore at the centre for quantum technologies in an atom-chip lab of Bjorn Hessmo. There he worked on a Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) experiment to trap an ultra-cold gas of Rb87 atoms below an atom-chip.
  • 07/2006 to 07/2010 Postdoc on BEC 1
  • 09/2002 to 06/2006PhD student at Imperial College London at the Centre for Cold Matter (CCM) group of Prof. Ed Hinds. There he completed his PhD working on the experiment searching for time reversal symmetry violation in YbF molecules: looking for the interaction of the electric dipole moment of the electron with the molecule via its tiny shift to the molecular energy levels.
  • 09/1998 to 06/2002 Master student

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.

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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