Prof. G. P. Tsironis

Professor, Physics Department University of Crete and 
Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH

Director of the Institute for Theoretical and Computational Physics ITCP

 

E-mail

gts@physics.uoc.gr

Phone

Tel: +30 2810 394220

Locations

Physics Department, UOC, 218 (Office)

Biography

Giorgos P. Tsironis is a Professor of Physics in the Physics Department of the University of Crete and leads the Nonlinear and Statistical Physics Group at the IESL-FORTH. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics from the University of Rochester (USA) in 1987. He was a postdoctoral associate in the University of California San Diego (1987-89) and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1989-91) and assistant professor of Physics at the University of North Texas (1991-96) while also affiliated with the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (1991-1993). He joined the Department of Physics of the University of Crete in 1994 as an Associate Professor and became a Professor in 2000. He was a visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona in Spain (2000-1 and 2006-7), a Professor at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan (2014-15), and a visiting fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University (2017). He has served as director of the Computing Center of the University of Crete (2003-09), chair of the Department of Physics, University of Crete (2007-2011), acting chair of the Department of Physics, Nazarbayev University (2014-15) and deputy rector of the University of Crete (2016-17). His research focuses on complexity, nonlinear phenomena, and statistical physics with an emphasis on applications such as quantum metamaterials. In recent years he has been actively involved in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in interdisciplinary problems involving physics, engineering, biology, and medicine. He has published over 180 papers in refereed journals.

Research Activities

His research interests are in condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, nonlinear physics, and quantum metamaterials. With contributions to the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of discrete breathers, nonlinear and superconducting metamaterials. In recent years he has been actively involved in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in interdisciplinary problems involving physics, engineering, biology, and medicine.

Awards/Prizes
International "Stephanos Pnevmatikos" award, 1997.
Junior faculty summer award, Department of Physics, Univ. of North Texas, 1991
Best teaching assistant award, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Univ of Rochester, 1983

Distinctions
Honorary member of the Physical Society of Uzbekistan (since 2021).
International Chingiz Aitmatov Award 2015 on behalf of Greece.
Fulbright scholar, 1981-1986.
University of Athens scholarship, 1978-1980.
Greek National Scholarship Foundation award, 1977.

Selected recent publications

  • G. D. Barmparis and G. P. Tsironis, "Discovering nonlinear resonances through physics-informed machine learning," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38, C120-C126 (2021)

  • Detection of abnormal left ventricular geometry in patients without cardiovascular disease through machine learning: An ECG‐based approach, E. Angelaki, M. E. Marketou, G. D. Barmparis, A. Patrianakos, P. E. Vardas, F. Parthenakis, G. P. Tsironis, Journal of Clinical Hypertension (2021).

  • Estimating the infection horizon of COVID-19 in eight countries with a data-driven approach, G. D. Barmparis and G. P. Tsironis, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 135, 109842 (2020).

  • Pattern formation and chimera states in 2D SQUID metamaterials, J. Hizanidis, N. Lazarides and G. P. Tsironis, Chaos 30, 013115 (2020).

  • Compact localized states in engineered flat band PT-metamaterials, N. Lazarides and G. P. Tsironis, Scientific Reports 9, 4904 (2019).

  • Point interactions with bias potentials, A. V. Zolotaryuk, G. P. Tsironis and Y. Zolotaryuk, Frontiers in Physics, 7, 87 (2019).

  • Machine learning with οbservers predicts complex spatiotemporal behavior, G. Neofotistos, M. Mattheakis, G. D. Barmparis, J. Hizanidis, G. P. Tsironis, and E. Kaxiras, Front. Phys. 7, 24, (2019).

  • Superconducting metamaterials, N. Lazarides and G. P. Tsironis, Phys. Rep. 752, 1 (2018).

  • Non-Hermitian optical systems with dispersion, O.V. Shramkova, K.G. Makris, D.N. Christodoulides, G.P. Tsironis, Photonics Research 6, A1-A5 (2018).

  • Extreme events in complex linear and nonlinear photonics media, M. Mattheakis, I. J. Pitsios, G. P. Tsironis and S. Tzortzakis, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 84, 73 (2016).

  • Qubit lattice coherence induced by electromagnetic pulses in superconducting metamaterials, Z. Ivic, N. Lazarides, and G. P. Tsironis, Scientific Reports 6, 29374 (2016).

  • Chimeras in SQUID Metamaterials, N. Lazarides, G. Neofotistos, and G. P. Tsironis, Physical Review B 91, 054303 (2015).

  • Extreme events in discrete nonlinear disordered lattices, A. Maluckov, Lj. Hadzievski, N. Lazarides, G.P. Tsironis, Physica D 252, 59 (2013).

  • Gain driven PT-symmetric breathers in nonlinear metamaterials, N. Lazarides and G. P. Tsironis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 053901, (2013).

  • ''Semiclassical and quantum polarons in Acetanilide'', P. Hamm and G. P. Tsironis, Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 147, 303-331 (2007).

  • “rf SQUID metamaterials, N. Lazarides and G.P. Tsironis, Appl. Phys. Lett.90, 163501 (2007).

  • “Discrete breathers in nonlinear magnetic materials,” N. Lazarides, M. Eleftheriou and G.P. Tsironis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 157406 (2006)