Education

• 1970-1975 : Physics Dept., University of Athens/ degree of Physics, Athens / Greece
• 1976-1980 : Physics Dept., University of Freiburg/ Diplom, Freiburg i.Br./FRG
• 1983-1987 : Ph. D. Physics (Dok. Rer. Nat.), University of Freiburg, Freiburg i.Br. / FRG

Career

• 1987-1992 Researcher, FORTH-IESL, Heraklio, Greece and teaching staff at the Univ. of Crete
• 1992-1996 Assist. Prof., Physics Dept. Univ. of Crete and affiliated Univ. Prof. of FORTH-IESL
• 1996-2003: Assoc. Prof., Physics Dept. Univ. of Crete and affiliated Univ. Prof. of FORTH-IESL
• 2003-2020: Full Prof., Physics Dept. Univ. of Crete, affiliated Univ. Prof. of FORTH-IESL
• 2020-today: Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Crete and affiliated faculty member of FORTH-IESL (till 06/2024) /FORTH-IA (since 06/2024) and Chief Scientific Advisor of ELI-ALPS

Awards/Prizes/Distinctions

• FORTH-Price for Basic Research 2000
• CAS-LMU Fellowship 2013

Other

 

• Member of the ERC Starting Grants Panel PE2 - Fundamental constituents of matter
• Member of the HFRI (ELIDEK) post-doc proposals evaluation panel for Physical Sciences
• Member of the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division (AMPD) of the EPS.
• Board of Editors of the European Physical Journal D
• Chief Scientific Advisor of the European Research Infrastructure (ERI) ELI-ALPS
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the ERI ELI-ALPS
• National delegate of the Steering  Committee of the European -XFEL
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European -XFEL
• National delegate of the Analytical Research Infrastructure of ESFRI
• Head of the attosecond S&T laboratory of FORTH-IESL
• Director of the postgraduate program on Micro- and Opto-electronics, Physics Dept., Univ. of Crete.
• Chair of the Sectorial Scientific Council (TES) for Physical Sciences
• Member of the HFRI (ELIDEK) Advisory Committee