CURRENT MEMBERS
Prof. Dimitris Syvridis has obtained a BSc in Physics (1982), an MSc in Telecommunications (1984)
and a PhD in Physics (1988). From 1988-1990 he was Researcher at the Electronics
Laboratory of the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens; from
1990-1993 he was Researcher at the Institute of Quantum Electronics, Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich); from 1993-1997 he was Senior
Researcher at the Department of Informatics, National and Kapodestrian
University of Athens. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department
of Informatics, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens. He has
participated in many European research projects in the field of optical
communications. His research interests cover the areas of optical communications
and networks, photonic devices, and subsystems, as well as photonic integration.
He has more than 130 publications in scientific journals and conference
proceedings. He is also a reviewer for journals of the IEEE.
Dr. Adonis Bogris was born in Athens, Greece, on June 16, 1975. He received the B.S.degree in informatics, the M.Sc. in telecommunications, and the Ph.D. degree in all-optical processing by-means of fiber-based devices from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1997 and 1999, and 2005 respectively. He is an associate researcher working for the Optical Communications Laboratory of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens participating in local and European projects. His research interests include high-speed all-optical transmission systems, non-linear effects in optical fibers, semiconductor lasers dynamics and chaotic optical cryptography. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 articles published in international scientific journals and conferences and serves as a reviewer for journals of the IEEE.
Dr. Apostolos Argyris was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1976. He received the B.S. degree
in physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1999,
the M.Sc. degree in microelectronics and optoelectronics from the University
of Crete, Greece, in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in Informatics and Telecommunications
from the National University of Athens, Greece, in 2006. He also received
the B.Sc. degree as an Observer Meteorologist from the Hellenic National
Meteorological Service in 2005. In 2000-2001 he was with the Foundation
of Research and Technology Hellas, working on fiber Bragg gratings fabrication
and applications. In 2006 he was awarded the "Ericsson Telecommunications
Award 2006" for the South-East Europe region and was also distinguished
as "Top Young Innovator 2006 - TR35" from the Technology Review
magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is
currently a researcher in the Optical Communications Laboratory in the
Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National University
of Athens, Greece and an adjunct lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Engineering,
Telecommunications and Networks of the University of Thessaly, Greece.
His research interests include semiconductor lasers dynamics, four-wave
mixing, fiber Bragg gratings, LIDAR systems, chaotic encryption and optical
communications. He serves as a reviewer for the IEEE. He has authored and
coauthored 30 articles published in international scientific journals and
conferences.
Dr. Konstantinos Chlouverakis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1978. He received the Physics degree in 2001 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the Ph.D. degree in 2005 from the University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, U.K., in the Photonics Group of the Electronic Systems Engineering Department. He is currently working as a research associate at the Optical Communications Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece. He has been a research collaborator with the Physics department of the University of Madison, Wisconsin, USA and with the COSA (Complex Systems and Applications) group of the Demokritos EKEFE institute. His current research interests include non-linear dynamics in semiconductor lasers, chaotic encryption and high-dimensional chaos in delay-differential equations.
Dr. Hercules Simos Hercules Simos received the B.S. degree in informatics, the M.Sc. and
the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the University of Athens, Athens,
Greece, in 1998, 2000 and 2007, respectively. Since 1999, he is with the
Optical Communications Group, University of Athens, as a research associate
in national and European projects in the field of optical communications.
His research areas of interest include all-optical wavelength conversion
and regeneration, semiconductor laser dynamics, photonic devices for all-optical
signal processing and sensing applications.
Nikolaos Skarmoutsos was born in Athens, Greece, on April, 1975. He received the B.S. degree in informatics, the M.Sc. in telecommunication systems and networks, and he is currently working his Ph.D. dissertation in optical networks focusing mainly on optical signaling schemes at the Informations and Telecommunications dpt. at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is an associate researcher working for the Optical Communications Laboratory of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens participating in local and European projects. His research interests include All Optical Labeling schemes, signaling in optical networks, access networks etc. He has authored and co-authored 5 articles published in international scientific journals and conferences.
Dr. Spiros Mikroulis was born in Corfu, Greece, in 1973. He received the B.S. degree in Physics
in 1998, the M.S. degree in Optoelectronics / Microelectronics in 2001,
from University of Crete, Greece and the Ph.D. in Optical communications
in 2007 from the University of Athens. He worked in the Institute of Electronic
Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas
(FORTH) from 1999 to 2001 in growth and characterization of III-V compound
semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. He was awarded for the
best research work of post-graduate student in the 1st conference of Microelectronics
Microsystems and Nanotechnology in Greece (MMN 2000) organized by the National
Center for Scientific Research, Demokritos, (NCFSR-Demokritos). Currently,
he is working as a research associate in the Optical Communications group,
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens.
He is also working as a teaching associate in the Electronics department,
Technological Educational Institute of Athens since 2004. He is the author
of about 25 papers in selected journals and conferences and he has 38 citations.
His present research interests are semiconductor microring devices for
all-optical signal processing, microring lasers for application in WDM
networks, angular velocity sensors, and radio over fiber (RoF) systems
for applications in broadband communication services. He is also reviewer
in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters and IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.
Ioanna Stamataki received the B.S.degree in Physics from the University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, and the M.Sc. degree in Physics of Laser Communications from the University of Essex U.K, in 2001 and 2002, respectively. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree, collaborating with the Optical Communications Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece, working on all-optical wavelength converters. Her other areas of interest include microring resonators, semiconductor laser dynamics and all-optical signal processing.
Pantelis Velanas was born in Athens, Greece, on October 31, 1976. He received the B.S.degree in Physics and the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from the University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree, working on high-speed all-optical transmission systems, non-linear effects in optical fibers, access optical networks and all optical signal processing.
Evangelos Grivas received the B.S. degree in physics from University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2002 and the M.Sc. in microelectronics from University of Athens, Greece, in 2004. He is currently working for the Ph.D. degree at the Optical Communications Laboratory, dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests include optical transmission over multimode fibers, dispersion compensation by electronic means and high speed electronics supporting optical communications.
Alexandros Kapsalis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1978. He received the B.S.degree in informatics & telecommunications and the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from the University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree, on all-optical processing systems. His other areas of interest include microring resonators, semiconductor lasers, and waveguiding properties of semiconductor materials.
Charis Mesaritakis was borned in Athens, Greece, in 1979. He received the B.S degree in informatics and the M.S degree in telecommunications/microelectronics from the University of Athens, Athens, Greece in 2004 and 2006 respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph. D degree, working on all optical signal processing, optical sensors, semiconductor laser dynamics.
PAST MEMBERS
Dr. Dimitris Alexandropoulos was born in Athens, Greece, in 1975. He received the physics degree in
1998 from the University of Athens, Athens, Greece, and the M.Sc. degree
in the physics of laser communications in 1999 from the University of Essex,
Colchester, Essex, U.K., and the PhD degree in the modelling of GaInNAs-based
optoelectronic devices, from the same University in 2003. Until 2007, he
was a researcher at the Optical Communications Laboratory, Department of
Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, working on micro-ring
resonators. His research interests include optoelectronic devices, integrated
photonics and novel semiconductor materials.