Category Archives: Alumni Master Student

Afroditi Aretaki

09/2024 – today Master Student on BEC
12/2023 – 08/2024 Undergraduate Student on single photon interferometer
06/2023 – 08/2023 Intern on a demonstration project

Afroditi Aretaki is currently in her final year of her undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Crete. During the summer period of 2023 she worked on a demonstration project for the 2023 Researcher’s Night. She built and demonstrated (together with Theodoros Kapnas) a single photon interferometer. In order to make the concept of interferometry more comprehensible, they also built acoustic interferometers. Currently, he is working on her thesis which is on a laser Amplifier to be used in a BEC/MOT experiment.

Mary Georgousi

12/2022 – today PhD Student on Space Optics
09/2021 – 10/2022 MSci Student on Space Optics

Mary joined us in September 2021 to work on a novel spectroscopy model for quantum space missions.

Mary Georgousi is a PhD student in the Space–Optics Group in IESL. She completed her undergraduate studies in Physics at the Physics Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As member of the Gravitational Waves Group – AUTh, she has worked on probing the properties of our Galaxy based on the detection of gravitational waves from LISA. She then obtained her MSc diploma on Advanced Physics, focusing on astrophysics and space applications, in the Physics Department of University of Crete. She is also a member of SpaceDot team, participating in Fly your satellite! 3 program for CubeSats.

Email: georgousi@iesl.forth.gr

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/mary-georgousi

Vasiliki Bolpasi

05/2014 – 10/2020 Research Assistant on BEC2 and AtomQT
02/2009 – 04/2014 PhD Student
09/2006 – 06/2008 Master Student

Vasiliki joined the Cretan Matter-Waves Group in October 2005 as an undergraduate student. She graduated from the Physics Department of the University of Crete in October 2006. Right after that, she started her Master in Optoelectronics – Microelectronics in the University of Crete, where she completed her master thesis working on high-power tapered-diode lasers. She has recently finished her PhD on high flux atom lasers and now she works in our lab as a postdoc. She is now teaching at the University of Crete.

Pandora Examilioti

10/2021 – today PhD Student
10/2020 – 10/2021 MSci Student on Laser Stabilisation

Pandora joined us in September 2020 to work on a novel type of double-compensated spectroscopy.

She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Crete in the Physics department.

T S Hrudya

02/2020 – 06/2020 MSci Student on BEC1

Hrudya joined us in February 2020 to work on the BEC1 experiment. Unfortunately, soon after her arrival, we were locked down due to the Covid crisis. Hrudya successfully switched to Theory and wrote a very successful Master Thesis on Analytic Solutions and Experimental Applications for Thick and Thin Magnetic Coils. She then graduated from the International School of Photonics Cochin University of Science and Technology Cochin, India, 2020.

Konstantinos Vardakis

10/2019 – 10/2020 Master Student – Working his master thesis on CEMIC

Konstantinos Vardakis is a master student of the Physics Department at the University of Crete.

He received his bachelor degree in Physics from the University of Crete on March 2016. Currently, studying “Photonics and Nanoelectronics” at the same University.

Vangelis Tzardis

01/2021 – to date PhD Student at the Frederick University in Cyprus

08/2018- 09/2019 Master Student on OBST2
09/2019- 10/2020 Research Assistant on OBST2

Education and Employment:

2020 – today PhD student in the eHealth laboratory ofthe Frederick University in Limassol, Cyprus. He will be working on intelligent MRI image analysis in order to identify and predict types of metastatic brain tumors

2019- 2020 Research assistant on OBST2

2018 – 2019 Master Student at the University of Crete and IESL-FORTH in the BEC group on OBST2

2017 – 2019 : Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program in Optics and Vision in University of Crete and Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, FORTH

2011 – 2017 : Diploma in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

Premjith Thekkeppatt

01/2018- 12/2018 Master Student on BEC2
06/2016-09/2016 Intern on an optics project

Curriculum Vitae of Premjith Thekkeppatt

Mikis Milonakis

05/2016 – 07/2018 date Master Student on the Space Optics Project

Mikis is a Master Student on the Space Optics Project.

Mikis was born in Chania, in 1993. He did his undergraduate studies in Physics science at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete (2011-2015). He continues his studies doing a PhD on bio-imaging.

Kostas Mavrakis

05/2015 – 12/2017 Master Student on the ESA-OBST Project

Kostas did his undergraduate studies in Materials science at the University of Crete. He continues his studies now with his master of science. He is also currently involved in the ESA-OBST project. He is now a PhD Student in the Bio-Photonics group under the supervision of Giannis Zacharakis.