Prof. Emmanouil E. Kriezis (PI)

Emmanouil Kriezis was born in Thessaloniki in 1968. He received his diploma in Electrical Engineering and his Doctorate degree from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. His doctoral thesis focused on the development of vector beam propagation methods for light wave propagation in integrated optical devices. In 1998 he jointed the University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, initially as an EPSRC post-doctoral researcher. In 2000 he moved into a grant directly funded by the Hewlett Packard Laboratories at Bristol. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

Since 2014 he has been Professor in Optical & Microwave Communications at the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, AUTH. He is teaching Optical Communications, Microwaves Engineering and Photonics Technology, together with a postgraduate course on advanced photonics. His research interests include nanophotonics with emphasis on guided plasmonic waves, integrated photonic devices on silicon, graphene-based photonics for NIR & THz, nonlinear phenomena in optical resonators, optical bistability and carrier effects, micro-structured optical fibers, computational techniques in photonics, liquid crystals photonics and metasurfaces. He is an IEEE Senior Member and also a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

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Dr. Alexandros Pitilakis (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Alexandros Pitilakis was born in Thessaloniki in 1982. He received his diploma in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2005, and his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the ENST (Telecom) Paris in 2007. Part of his MSc formation was a 6-month internship at the Alcatel-Lucent Optical Transmission Systems group in Marcoussis, France, where he worked on dispersion management of heterogeneous optical fiber networks. He received his PhD degree from AUTH in 2013, under the supervision of Prof. Kriezis, his thesis topic being the "analysis and design of integrated photonic devices based on the hybrid conductor - dielectric - silicon technology", and has continued to collaborate with the Photonics Group.

Alexandros teaches undergraduate antennas & propagation, photonics and optics courses in the UOWM. He has also collaborated with the the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) and the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), in terms of European research projects.

His research interests include computational electromagnetics, nonlinear and electro-optics in graphene, integrated silicon photonics, plasmonics, waveguides & propagation (optical, THz, RF), metamaterials, antennas and optical fiber communications systems.

He is a senior IEEE member, a member of Optica (formerly OSA), and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).

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Dr. Thomas Christopoulos (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Thomas Christopoulos was born in Karditsa in 1990. He received his diploma in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in April 2014 and November 2019, respectively. His doctoral thesis focused on nonlinear resonant nanophotonic, plasmonic, and graphene structures, with special focus on Optical bistability and degenerated four-wave mixing. He is now a postdoctoral researcher with the Photonics Group.

His research interests include novel nonlinear phenomena in photonics, plasmonics, and graphene-based structures; photonic and plasmonic nanoresonators with a special interest on the computational analysis of leaky systems and quasi-normal modes; integrated optical silicon-on-insulator devices; analysis and design of optical metamaterials and metasurfaces; computational electromagnetics with an emphasis on finite elements method.

He is a member of OSA, EOS, and the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).

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Dr. Dimitrios Chatzidimitriou (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Dimitris Chatzidimitriou was born in Ptolemaida, Kozani in 1987. He received his Diploma and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. The topic of his these is "Utilizing linear and nonlinear graphene properties in nanophotonic waveguides". He is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Photonics Group.

His research interests include theoretical and computational electromagnetics and nonlinear effects in nanophotonics and graphene-enhanced integrated optics, with an emphasis on non-Hermitian optical systems with exceptional points and optical non-reciprocity.

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Georgios Nousios

Georgios Nousios was born in Siatista, Kozani in 1997. He received his diploma in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2020 and he is currently a Ph.D. student. 

His research interests include nonlinear optics with an emphasis on saturable absorption in graphene and integrated nanophotonic graphene-enhanced resonators.

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Dr. Dimitrios Zografopoulos (Researcher)

Dimitrios Zografopoulos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980. He received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Doctorate degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. In 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Committee of the AUTH and in 2011 a Post-doctoral Research Fellow of the Greek States Scholarship Foundation and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Electronics Technology, Carlos III University of Madrid. He subsequently moved under a two-year Intra-European Marie-Curie Fellowship to the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems of the Italian National Research Council of Italy, Rome, where he is currently employed as a Researcher.

His current research interests include the investigation of photonic/plasmonic waveguides, tunable metamaterials and metasurfaces, and the interaction between electromagnetic waves and liquid crystals. He is the author or coauthor of more than 70 scientific papers in international journals and 2 book chapters.

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Dr. Odysseas Tsilipakos (Researcher)

Odysseas Tsilipakos was born in Thessaloniki in 1984. He received his diploma in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. His doctoral thesis focused on guided-wave plasmonic switching elements, based on the thermo-optic and nonlinear effects, and the interconnection of such components with silicon-on-insulator waveguides. In 2014 he received a Postoctoral Excellence Fellowship from the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for studying optical bistability with hybrid silicon-plasmonic resonators. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Photonic-, Phononic- and Meta- Materials (PPM) Group, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL).

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