Curriculum Vitae of Dimitris G. Angelakis

Dr. Dimitris G. Angelakis, BSc, MSc, MA, PhD, DIC.

NATIONALITY: Greek. DATE OF BIRTH: 3rd November 1975.

 

Centre for Quantum Computation,

Department of Applied Mathematics,

University of Cambridge,

Wilbeforce Road
CB3 0WA,

Cambridge, UK.

Email: dimitris.angelakis@qubit.org

Tel: +44-(0)-1223-760380, FAX: +44-(0)-1223-765900

URL: http://qubit.damtp.cam.ac.uk/users/dimitris/index.php

 

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

 

·        September, 1998 –October 2001: PhD, Quantum Optics, Imperial College.

       Supervisor: Prof. Sir Peter Knight FRS

·        September, 1997 - August, 1998: M.Sc., Theoretical Physics with specialization in Atomic and Molecular Physics, University of Crete.

·        September, 1993 - June, 1997: B.Sc. Physics, University of Crete

 

SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

 

1.      Greek Ministry of Defence, Greek Scientist Abroad Award 2004.

2.      Institute of Physics, Quantum Electronics and Photonics Thesis Prize 2002: First prize for theses examined in 2001-2002 in the UK.

3.      St Catharine’s College Cambridge, Stipendiary Research Fellowship in Physics 2001.

4.      Valerie Myescrough Prize 2000: Awarded from the University of London to PhD students who show outstanding ability and potential for original work in Astronomy Maths or Physics.

5.      Greek State Graduate Scholarship for PhD studies abroad.1998-2001: Position 1st at the corresponding national exams at  the field "Lasers and Applications".

6.      Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (F.O.R.T.H.) Graduate Scholarship 1997-1998.

7.      University of Crete and Greek State Graduation Scholarship 1997 for graduating 2nd in Class of 100.

8.      University of Crete and Greek State Undergraduate Scholarship for consecutive years 1993-1994-1996 for being in the top three students in a class of 100.

9.      Greek State National Exams Scholarship 1993: Position 1st in the National Qualifying Exams for entering University at the subject of Physics for the University of Crete.

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH  EXPERIENCE

 

October, 2001 – present*: Research Associate, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and also senior member of the Centre for Quantum Quantum Computation (since 2002), University of Cambridge.

Currently funded through the Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration of EPSRC until October 2007 (extendable to October 2009).

Research topic: Quantum Optics, Photonic Crystals, CQED, Quantum Information and Quantum Computation. Head of group: Prof. Artur Ekert.

*6/9/04-6/3/05: Compulsory national military service. Served at the Operations Centre of the 340, F-16 Block 52+, Fighting Squadron, NATO Souda Base, Crete, Greece.

 

August 2003, 2004, 2006 : Visiting Professor, Physics Department of National University of Singapore.

 

October, 2001 – September 2004: Research Fellow, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Undergraduate teaching and tutoring.

 

September, 1998 – October, 2001: PhD student, Dept. of Physics, Imperial College.

Research topic: Atom Photon-Interactions in CQED and Photonic Crystals. Supervisor: Prof. Sir Peter Knight FRS

 

September, 1997- August, 1998: Research Student (MSc), Dept. of Physics University of Crete and Foundation   of Research and Technology Hellas.

Research Topic:  The Quantum Jump Approach for Dissipative Systems in Quantum Optics. Supervisor: Prof. Peter Lambropoulos

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

·        E. Paspalakis, D. G. Angelakis and P.L. Knight. The influence of the density of states on dark lines in spontaneous emission. Opt. Com 172, Issues 1-6, 15 229-240 (1999).

·        D. G. Angelakis, E. Paspalakis and P.L. Knight. Transient properties of modified reservoir-induced transparency. Phys. Rev. A 61, 55802 (2000).

·        D. G. Angelakis, E. Paspalakis and P.L. Knight. Coherent phenomena in photonic crystals. Phys. Rev. A 64, 013801 (2001)

·        D. G. Angelakis, A. Beige, P. L. Knight, W. J. Munro, B. Tregenna. Verifying Atom Entanglement Schemes by Testing Bell's Inequality. Z.  Naturforsch. 56 a, 27 (2001).

·        D.G. Angelakis. Atom-Photon Interactions in Structured Reservoirs, PhD Thesis, Imperial College, University of London, December 2001.

·        D. G. Angelakis and P.L. Knight. Testing Bell Inequalities in Photonic Crystals. Eur. Phys.  Journal   D.  18 (2): 247-250 (2002)

·        D.G. Angelakis, E. Paspalakis and P.L. Knight. Photonic crystals and inhibition of spontaneous. An introduction (Contemporary Physics, Vol. 45, 303 (2004).

·        D.G. Angelakis, M. Santos, V. Yanopappas, A.K. Ekert.  Quantum Computation in Photonic Crystals (submitted in PLA -preprint available on quant-ph/0410189).

·        D.G. Angelakis and S. Bose. Generation and verification of high dimensional entanglement from coupled cavity arrays. To appear in Journ. of Opt. Soc. of America B, preprint available on request.

·        D.G. Angelakis, M. Santos, S. Bose. Photonic Mott transitions and X-Y spin chains in coupled cavity arrays(submitted, preprint available on quantum-ph-0606159).

·        M. Santos, D.G. Angelakis S.Bose. A proposal for a photon counting device (in preparation, preprint available on request).

·        D.G. Angelakis and Sougato Bose. On demand production of polarized entangled photons using coupled photonic crystal defects (in preparation).

·        D.G. Angelakis. Single photon switches and GHZ states in photonic band gap structures(in preparation).

 

SELECTED TALKS

·        Invited talk, Physics Department, National University of Singapore, August 2006. Quantum phase transitions in coupled cavity arrays

·        Invited talk, The fifteenth annual International Laser Physics Workshop, L'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, July 2006. Quantum phase transitions of light.

·        Invited talk, QIP IRC meeting, St Anne’s College, Oxford, September 2005. Optical quantum gates in coupled cavity waveguides.

·        Invited Talk. The fourteenth annual International Laser Physics Workshop, Kyoto Japan,  July 2005: Quantum Computing in Photonic Crystals,

·        Invited talk. Quantum Information and Probability Meeting, Patras, Greece, May 2005. Bell Inequalities and Quantum Computation.

·        Invited talk, Physics Department, National University of Singapore, August 2004. Optical quantum computing in photonic crystals.

·        Invited talk, Physics Department, University College London, February 2004. Photonic crystals: From light localization and optical circuitry to single photon switches and more.

·        Invited talk, Physics Department, National University of Singapore, August 2003. Light localization and spontaneous emission in photonic crystals.

·        Contributed presentation at: Advances in Quantum Information Processing Conference: From Theory to Experiment, Sicily, Italy March 2003. Single photon switches and GHZ states in photonic band gap structures.

·        Invited talk at Cambridge-MIT workshop, MIT, Boston, January 2003. Direct distance estimation between unknown quantum transformations.

·        Invited talk: Physics Department, Aristotelean University of Greece, Thessaloniki, December 2002. Quantum Nonlocality and Quantum Computation in photonic crystals.

·        Invited talk given at the Physics Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, April 2001.   Bell Inequalities and Quantum Computation in photonic crystals.

·        Invited talk given at the Quantum  Optics and Solid State  group  at University of Toronto, Canada, September  2000. Transparency  Effects in Photonic Crystals.

·        Invited talk: The Young Researchers Meeting of the TMR network on Microlasers and Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, Durham July 2000. Testing Bell Inequalities in Photonic Crystals.

·        Contributed talk. International Quantum Electronics Conference 2000, Nice, France,September 2000(IQEC). Testing Bell Inequalities in Photonic Crystals

COLLABORATIONS AND RESEARCH SUPPORT

 

·        The Irakleitos program in Quantum Computing-In collaboration with the Physics Department, Aristotelean University of Greece. 31000 EURO.

·        Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Quantum Information Processing: EPSRC funded research and travel support.

·        Scalable Quantum Information Processing and Computing. EU funded research support.

·        NATO.  Towards the organization of a NATO Advanced Study Institute in Quantum Information and Quantum Computation, held in Crete in May 2005. 55.000 EUROS

·        The Cambridge-MIT Institute research and travel support under the program on Quantum Information.

·        The Cambridge-MIT Institute co-investigator under the program on Enhancing Knowledge Integration in the Quantum Information Community. Total Budget 200.000 GBP

·        Resources for Quantum Information (RESQ). Travel support for 2003-2006

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

·        September, 2001-October, 2003: College supervisor, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. 1st year course:  Fields, Relativity and Quantum Physics.

·        September, 1998-October, 2001: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Physics Class-works, Imperial College(demonstrating, assistance with problem sets, marking)

·        February, 1998 – June, 1999: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Physics Department University of Crete-Delivering lectures in the Classical Mechanics -2nd year course, (marking, assistance with problem sets, tutorials)

·        September, 1997 – February, 1998: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Physics Department University of Crete. Delivering lectures in the Mathematical Methods for Physicists (tutorial lectures, assistance with problem sets, marking).

·        September, 1995-February, 1996: Lab demonstrator, Freshman physics, Physics Department University of Crete (assistance to carry out the lab experiments, marking lab reports).

 

SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS ORGANIZING EXPERIENCE;

 

Principal organizer of the NATO ASI in Quantum Computation and Quantum Information to be held in Crete, May 2005.

Principal organizer of the 3rd Cambridge-MIT meeting in Quantum Computing  held in Cambridge, UK, June 2003.

Co-organized with Prof. Tim Havel the 2nd  Cambridge-MIT meeting in Quantum Computing held in MIT, Boston January 2003.

 

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

Thorough knowledge of DOS, Windows, and UNIX operating systems, associated Office and mathematical packages such a Matlab and Mathematica. Experience in programming in FORTRAN, basic knowledge of C++

 

POPULAR SCIENCE TALKS AND PRESS COVERAGE

1.      Quantum Computation, The Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK, January 2004

2.      Quantum Physics and Computers, The Rugby School, Rugby, UK, December 2003.

3.      The road to Quantum Computation: Local Greek newspapers and TV news channels, Crete, May 2005.

 

WORK  EXPERIENCE (EXTRA-ACADEMIC)

 

·        September, 2004-March, 2005. Operations and training assistant in the Operations Centre, 340 F-16 Block 52+, Fighting Squadron, NATO Souda Base, Crete, Greece.

·        October, 2001- September, 2004:  Warden in the Russell St. Graduate Students Residence, University of Cambridge.

·        September, 1998- October, 2001: Assistant Books Review Editor for the Scientific journal of Contemporary Physics.

·        September, 1995- October, 2001: Private tutor for High-School students and/or preparation for A-levels and  GCSE.

·        September, 1998-October, 2001: Elected Member of the Clayponds University Hall of Residence student committee.

OTHER:

Due to family background, farming, agriculture and construction sites works experience.

HOBBIES

Traditional Greek Music, playing the Cretan Lyra for several years. International cinema, mountain trekking, scuba-diving. Traditional Greek, Latin and Argentine Tango dancing.