SHORT- CV

Konstantinos Makris is Associate Professor at the department of Physics of the University of Crete from 2017, and an Associate Faculty Member of the IESL from 2019. He obtained his Diploma from the Electrical and Computer Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) in 2002 and his PhD in Theoretical Physics and Photonics from the School of Optics and Photonics (CREOL-FCPE) at the University of Central Florida, Orlando (USA) in 2008. From 2008 until 2010 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. During 2011 he was Lecturer at Institute for Theoretical Physics of Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien), Austria. From 2012 until 2015 he was a Marie Curie International Outgoing fellow (MC-IOF) between Princeton University, USA and TU-Wien, Austria, and between 2015 and 2017 a senior researcher at the Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology of the Univeristy of Crete.

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece

Associate Professor (September 2022 – now) 

Assistant Professor (February 2017 – September 2022) 

Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) - FORTH, Greece

Affiliated Faculty Member (2019– now) 

Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology, and Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece

Senior Researcher (August 2015 – March 2017) 

Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, NJ, USA

Group of H. Tureci (Mesoscopic Quantum Optics)

Institute of Theoretical Physics, TU-Wien, Austria  

Group of S. Rotter (Complex Wave Scattering)         

Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow (May 2012 – August 2015) 

Self-consistent Ab Initio Laser theory, Complex and Random Lasers, Non-Hermitian Optical Physics

Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece     

Adjunct-Visiting Professor (Oct 2011-Feb 2012)                                                                                                

Teaching of the course “Modern Physics II: Light and Matter”.

Institute of Theoretical Physics, TU-Wien, Austria                          

Lecturer-University Assistant (Dec 2010-Sep 2011)

Advisor: Stefan Rotter

Scattering from Non-Hermitian structures, Optical microcavities and Lasers, Non-Hermitian Optics

Optics Laboratory, School of Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 

Post-doctoral scientist (May 2010 – Nov 2010)

Advisor: Demetri Psaltis

Mandatory service in the Greek army (May 2009 – Feb 2010)

Optics Laboratory, School of Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland   

Post-doctoral scientist (Feb 2008 – Apr 2009)

Advisor: Demetri Psaltis

Nano-optics with emphasis on subwavelength imaging techniques

Theoretical study of evanescent waves (Near-field Optics) 

Nonlinear Optics, filament formation for holography applications

CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA                               

Research Assistant (Aug 2002 – May 2008)

Advisor: Demetrios Christodoulides

Parity-time symmetric (PT) Optics

Theoretical study of nonlinear wave propagation in discrete optical systems.

Design of linear and nonlinear AlGaAs and LiNbO3 waveguides.

Nonlinear Optics in semiconductor waveguide arrays,and photonic crystal fibers. 

Existence and stability of discrete surface solitons in optical lattices.