Education
2013 PhD in Physics
Department of Physics, Purdue University, USA
PhD Supervisor: D.S. Elliott
Thesis title: Measurement of a weak transition moment using Coherent Control
2008 MS in Physics
Department of Physics, Purdue University, USA
2005 BS in Physics
Aristotle University, Greece
Professional experience
2023- Assistant Professor
University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
2020–2023 Junior research group leader
Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany
2014–2020 Postdoctoral researcher
Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany
2010–2013 Research assistant
Department of Physics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
2006–2010 Teaching assistant
Department Physics, Purdue University, USA
Awards
2020 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
Scientific interests
Tests of fundamental symmetries
Searches for dark matter using atomic, molecular, and optical physics techniques
Precision spectroscopy
Sensing with solid-state defects
Invited conferences and seminars
Seminar at the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, Paris, France “Precision tabletop experiments in search for new physics” (2023).
8th Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics, Vienna, Austria, "Low-energy experiments in search for new physics" (2022).
766th WE-Heraeus-Seminar “High‐Precision Measurements and Searches for New Physics”, Bad Honnef, Germany, “Precision experiments in search for new physics” (2022).
Seminar at the Department of Molecular Physics, Fritz-Haber Institute, “Precision measurements of isotope shifts and parity violation in ytterbium” (2022).
Mainz Physics Colloquium, “Parity violation in atoms” (2022).
16th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (virtual), "Precision isotope shifts in ytterbium and implications for new physics" (2021).
AMO seminar (virtual) at the Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece. “Towards neutron skin and anapole moment measurements in atomic ytterbium” (2020).
"Parity Violation and Related Topics”, Virtual Workshop at the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, “Towards neutron skin and anapole moment measurements in atomic ytterbium” (2020).
Seminar at the Department of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, "Atomic parity violation and its isotopic variation" (2019).
50th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Milwaukee, USA, "Search for light scalar dark matter in the rf-band with atomic spectroscopy" (2019).
Beyond Standard Model: Where do we go from here? - Johns Hopkins Workshop Series, Florence, Italy, “Atomic parity violation” (2018).
15th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome, Italy, "Atomic parity violation in Yb" (2018).
7th Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics, Aachen, Germany, "Atomic parity violation in Yb and Dy" (2018).
International workshop on bridging the Standard Model to New Physics with the Parity Violation Program at MESA, Mainz, Germany, "Parity violation in Yb and Dy" (2018).
Xth International Workshop on Applications of lasers and storage devices in atomic nuclei research, Poznan, Poland, "Parity violation in Yb and Dy" (2016).
Funding
"Developing a sensitive method to search for variations of fundamental constants", Internal Johannes Gutenberg University grant, €34,650. Duration: 05/2020-04/2021.
"Tests of fundamental physics with atomic parity violation in ytterbium", ERC Starting Grant, €1,455,244. Duration: 12/2020-11/2026.