11/2014 – 07/2017 : postdoc on BEC 1  [1]and Space Optics [2]

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Kostas got his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics at the Department of Physics, [3] Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [4], where he majored on Solid State Physics and Optics.

He then started his PhD in 2009 at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, [5] University of Bristol [6], under the supervision of Prof. Jeremy O’Brien [7], 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 [8].

He then did a short post-doc in 2014 still with Prof. Jeremy O’Brien [7] at the Centre for Quantum Photonics [5], working in a collaboration with Prof. Axel Kuhn’s [9] Atom-Photon Connection group [10] at Oxford University [11]. He was also a visiting post-doctoral research assistant (early 2015) at the Atom-Photon Connection group [10], Oxford University [11]. 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 [12], I.E.S.L. [13], FO.R.T.H. [14] 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 [15] joined the cold atoms group [16] of Thomas Fernholz [17] at Nottingham University [18].