RESEARCH SCHOLARS | qcn.physics.uoc.gr

Senior Researchers

	Nikos Lazarides email: nl@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4260 Office: 234 Physics Bldg.	Metamaterials: conventional, superconducting, and PT-symmetric Fundamentals and applications of nonlinear excitations in complex systems Physics and applications of systems with spontaneous tendencies toward complex electronic pattern formation
	Makris Konstantinos email: makris@physics.uoc.gr tel. (30)2810 39 4200 Office: 234 Physics Bldg.	Nonlinear Optics: solitons and surface waves in photonic lattices, modulation instabilities in waveguides, second harmonic generation Nonhermitian Photonics: Parity-time symmetric (PT)-Optics, singular values of amplified light, wave scattering in nonhermitian optical cavities Semiclassical Laser Physics: exceptional points in microcavity lasers, random lasers, coupled nanolasers Nanophotonics: superoscillations, subwavelength imaging, evanescent waves and focused beams
	Giorgos Neofotistos email: neofotistos@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4114 Office: 112 Physics Bldg.	Quantum transport in electronic devices (nanostructures) Time-dependent phenomena and inelastic scattering in quantum tunneling structures Statistical modeling of complex networks
	Vasilios Niarchos email: niarchos@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4205 Office: 204 Physics Bldg.	Supersymmetric quantum field theories, non-perturbative dualities. Brane dynamics in string/M-theory and black holes in supergravity, string theory and higher dimensional spacetimes. Fundamentals and applications of gauge/gravity dualities.
	Patrick Navez email: navez@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4305 Office: 308-1 Physics Bldg	Large coordination number expansion approach for quantum lattice systems such as Heisenberg, Bose-Hubbard and Fermi-Hubbard models. Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum systems: quench, prethermalisation, Sauter-Schwinger effect. Quantum kinetic description of superfluidity in Bose-Einstein condensate.
	Oksana Shramkova email: oksana@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4322 Office: 308-5 Physics Bldg	Electromagnetic wave propagation in isotropic, anisotropic and gyrotropic media Instabilities in plasma and semiconductors Metamaterials, periodic and bandgap structures Nonlinear Phenomena in homogeneous and inhomogeneous solid state structures Computational methods of theoretical physics (mathematical simulation)

Researchers

	Adikimenakis Adam email: adam@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4147	Epitaxial growth of novel III-nitride films and heterostructures by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy (PA-MBE) Structural and electrical characterization of thin films and heterostructures High Electron Mobility Transistors using novel III-Nitride materials
	Georgios Barmparis email: barmparis@physics.uoc.gr tel. (30)2810 39 4200 Office: 308-12 Physics Bldg.	Quantum phase transition in strongly correlated systems. Defects in semiconductors (capture/emission of carriers in semiconductor devices). Surface chemistry (adsorption, heterogeneous catalysis). Computational physics
	Amy Katherine Raper Briffa email: amy@physics.uoc.gr Office: 308-11 Physics Bldg.
	Vasilios Binas email: binasbill@iesl.forth.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 1269 Office: FORTH	Innovative nanostructured materials for energy and environmental applications (Metal Oxides Semiconductors / Inorganic Porous Materials / Graphene and Carbon Nanostructures / Hybrid – Inorganic materials / Aerogels) MOs with graphene (on flexible substrates) for a range of applications for efficient TFT, transparent/flexible electronics, photocatalysis and sensors technologies. Ink Development and Inkjet printing for emerging applications
	David Chow email: dchow@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4246 Office: 237 Physics Bldg.	String theory General relativity Gauge/gravity duality
	Nicholas Christakis email: nchristakis@tem.uoc.gr	Numerical modelling of non-linear complex systems Dynamics of multi-scale physical processes Computational Physics
	Iacovella Fabrice email: ifabrice@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4129 Office: 125 Physics Bldg.	Conceptions and characterization of graphene devices Quantum electronic transport in 2D materials High magnetic field techniques, cryogenics
	Alberto Fraile email: fraile@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4261 Office: 308-3 Physics Bldg.	Physics of non-linear bidimensional systems; Intrinsic localized modes and breathers. Atomistic simulation of graphene and boron nitride phonon properties. Experimental research on graphene and related materials
	Jacek Herbrych email: jacek@physics.uoc.gr Office: 308-13 Physics Bldg.	Quantum transport in low-dimensional systems spin chain models Quantum magnets Thermalization phenomenon Numerical methods (Lanczos, DMRG)
	Johanne Hizanidis email: hizanidis@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4235 Office: 245 Physics Bldg.	Chimera states in coupled dynamical systems Collective behaviour in complex networks of biological neurons Nonlinear dynamics and control Nonlinear analysis of human brain MRI data
	Eleftheria Kavousanaki email: elia@physics.uoc.gr Office: 308-7 Physics Bldg.	Nonlinear light-matter interactions in semiconductors and their nanostructures Optical excitations in graphene and other 2D materials Theory of nonlinear optical spectroscopy Magneto-optics and optically induced spin polarization
	Li Li email: lili@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4254 Office: 247 Physics Bldg.	Research News (new results, visible publications, etc) Members activity (conference participation, awards, prizes, etc) Suggestions for improvement (any suggestions are welcomed)
	Weijia Li email: weijiali@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4265 Office: 230B Physics Bldg.	Related to General relativity Quantum field theory Gauge/gravity duality
	Wenliang Li email: wenliang@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4266 Office: 229Γ Physics Bldg.	Gauge/gravity duality (RG flows, non-equilibrium physics) The nature of gravity (universality, consistent modification) Conformal field theories (unitarity, higher dimensions)
	Mattheakis Marios email: mariosmat@physics.uoc.gr tel. (30)2810 39 4261 Office: 308-4 Physics Bldg.	Gradient Refractive Index (GRIN) Metamaterials Active plasmonic systems Propagation properties of complex networks
	Yoshinori Matsuo email: matsuo@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4233 Office: 229Γ Physics Bldg.	String theory Gauge/gravity correspondence Black hole thermodynamics Supersymmetric gauge theory
	Leonidas Mouchliadis email: mouhliad@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4317 Office: 308-6 Physics Bldg.	Exciton coherence in low dimensional structures: indirect excitons in coupled quantum wells Light/matter interaction in the strong coupling regime: exciton-polaritons in semiconductors and photonic crystals Ultrafast processes in strongly correlated systems: femtomagnetism in manganites
	Vladimir Prudkovskiy email: vladimir@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4129 Office: 125 Physics Bldg.	Graphene, CNTs, carbon-base materials, semiconducting nanowires Quantum electronic transport in 1D and 2D materials Nanofabrication, clean room technologies High magnetic field techniques, cryogenics
	Anastassia Rissanou email: rissanou@iesl.forth.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 3746 Office: B310 Department of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics Bldg	Simulation study of structural, dynamical and thermodynamical properties of complex systems using various simulation methods. Polymers, Colloids, Biological molecules. Hybrid nanostrucruted materials (Graphene Nanocomposites) Development of new computer simulation methods. Expertise in Monte Carlo, Molecular Dynamics, Brownian Dynamics in atomistic and coarse grained level.
	Zacharias Viskadourakis email: zach@iesl.forth.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4306 Office: 308-2 Physics Bldg.	Ferroelectricity in lightly doped cuprates Engineering ferroelectrics and magnetoelectrics in low dimensional interfaces Development of low temperature experimental set-ups, for transport, dielectric and electrical polarization measurements
	Haisu Zhang email: zhaisu@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 391 291 Office: Physics Bldg.	Femtosecond laser inscribed waveguide arrays (Photonic Lattices) Femtosecond laser filamentation induced remote Air-Laser Laser controlled molecular alignment.

Former Researchers

			Ioannis Margaris (1 Oct 2013 - 30 Sep 2014) email: imarg@physics.uoc.gr	Josephson junction theory Rf squid arrays Scattering theory in layered structures
			Ayan Mukhopadhyay	Application, derivation and generalisation of holographic duality Effective theories for non-Fermi liquids Non-perturbative aspects of QCD Infrared issues in quantum gravity and cosmology
			Thomas Oikonomou email: thoik@physics.uoc.gr Tel.: +(30) 2810 39 4200 Office: 234 Physics Bldg.	Statistical Modelling of Complex Systems Physics of non-linear Lattices in contact with finite temperature baths q-Statistics: Theory and application on biological data
			Fivos Perakis (1 Nov 2013 - 15 Dec 2013) email: f.perakis@stanford.edu	Physical chemistry of liquid, supercooled water and ice. Experiments using non-linear IR and X-ray spectroscopy. Simulations of quantum networks and complexity.
			J. J. P. Veerman (Peter)	Dynamics of large coupled systems and their applications in physics and other sciences. Dynamics, Fractal Geometry, Complex Systems. Geometry and topology of Conflict Sets in Riemannian Manifolds.