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Dr. Stylianos Tzortzakis

Dr. Stylianos Tzortzakis

Professor

Office Number: 326C
Office Phone: +974.4423.0641

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Dr. Tzortzakis’ expertise lies in the field of intense ultrashort laser pulse interaction with matter and he has a broad experience in the following domains:

- Nonlinear interactions of intense femtosecond laser pulses with matter

- Advanced shaping in space and time of light with applications in materials processing

- Nonlinear laser propagation phenomena - filamentation

- Integrated photonic circuits in the bulk of transparent solids

- Quantum and complexity physics with photonic lattices

- Intense tunable THz sources and THz nonlinear Optics

- Tunable THz metamaterials

- Environmental/atmospheric physics

His research team deals with both fundamental science aspects as well as technological applications. The polyvalent nature of their laser facilities allows studies in cross-disciplinary science including physics, chemistry, materials science and bio-medicine.

Dr. Tzortzakis has a long successful track record in organizing and participating in national and international research funding projects, summing ~$10M in the past 10 years. For more than 20 years, he has participated in European Union research funded projects (Greece, France), National research funded projects (Qatar-NPRP, France, Greece) and bi-national projects (Qatar-Greece, France-Germany, Greece-France), while he has been awarded many “Excellence grants” in Greece and the EU, including a Marie Curie Excellence Grant of 2M€.

He teaches, regularly, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, optics, and photonics courses, as well as “Physics for World Leaders” for schools of foreign affairs. He has supervised >40 undergraduate and graduate students (9 Ph.D.). He is a recognized expert in nonlinear laser propagation phenomena and has created the filamentation.org website, a unique information resource for the related scientific community.

Dr. Tzortzakis has been chair/co-chair and member of scientific committees for many international conferences, and is organizing COFIL 2020. He has more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in high impact international journals (>7000 citations, h-index=42) and has given more than 210 presentations and 100 invited/plenary talks at international conferences.  

Education

PhD in Nonlinear Optics, Ecole Polytechnique, France, 2001

DEA in Laser-Matter Interactions, Ecole Polytechnique, France, 1998

Bachelor of Science in Physics, University of Crete, Greece, 1997

Experience

Professor of Physics, Texas A&M University at Qatar (2018- )

Associate Professor of Physics, Texas A&M University at Qatar (2015-2018)

Associate Professor, University of Crete, Greece (2011- )

Associated Faculty, FORTH, Greece (2011- )

Deputy Director of IESL-FORTH, Greece (2009-2015)

Principal researcher, FORTH, Greece (2006-2010)

CNRS researcher, Ecole Polytechnique, France (2003-2005)

Postdoctoral researcher, Ecole Polytechnique, France (2001-2002)

Awards

  • “Rozhdestvensky Medal” of the Russian Optical Society for key contributions in strong field Laser and THz science (2013)
  • Two Greek Excellence Grants (2012, 2013)
  • Marie Curie Excellence Grant (2006)

Honors

  • Member of the Scientific and Technical Assessor Committee (CACT) of the Salamanca Pulsed Lasers Center CLPU, Spain (2014-present)
  • Member of the Physical Sciences board of the Greek National Research and Technology Council (2014-2018)
  • Fellowship from the Ecole Polytechnique (France) (2002-2003)
  • Fellowship from the CEA (France) (2001-2002)
  • Ph.D. obtained with distinctions.
  • Fellowship from the French ministry of education (1998-2001)
  • Fellowship from the Ecole Polytechnique (France) (1997-1998)

Publications

Selected publications include:

  • A. D. Koulouklidis, C. Gollner, V. Shumakova, V. Fedorov, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuska, and S. Tzortzakis
    "Observation of extremely efficient terahertz generation from mid-infrared two-color laser filaments"
    Nature Communication 11, 292 (2020) [Highlighted in Phys.org]
  • A. C. Tasolamprou, A. D. Koulouklidis, C. Daskalaki, C. P. Mavidis, G. Kenanakis, G. Deligeorgis, Z. Viskadourakis, P. Kuzhir, S. Tzortzakis, M. Kafesaki, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis
    "Experimental Demonstration of Ultrafast THz Modulation in a Graphene-Based Thin Film Absorber through Negative Photoinduced Conductivity"
    ACS Photonics 6, 720-727 (2019) [Journal Cover Page]
  • D. Koulouklidis, D. G. Papazoglou, V. Y. Fedorov, and S. Tzortzakis
    "Phase Memory Preserving Harmonics from Abruptly Autofocusing Beams"
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223901 (2017)
  • Dey, K. Jana, V. Y. Fedorov, A. D. Koulouklidis, A. Mondal, M. Shaikh, D. Sarkar, A. D. Lad, S. Tzortzakis, A. Couairon, and G. R. Kumar
    "Highly efficient broadband terahertz generation from ultrashort laser filamentation in liquids"
    Nature Communications 8, 1184 (2017)
  • Chanal, V. Y. Fedorov, M. Chambonneau, R. Clady, S. Tzortzakis, and D. Grojo
    "Crossing the threshold of ultrafast laser writing in bulk silicon"
    Nature Communications 8, 773 (2017)
  • Yu. Fedorov, M. Chanal, D. Grojo and S. Tzortzakis
    “Accessing Extreme Spatiotemporal Localization of High-Power Laser Radiation through Transformation Optics and Scalar Wave Equations”
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 043902 (2016)
  • Manousidaki, D. G. Papazoglou, M. Farsari, and S. Tzortzakis
    "Abruptly autofocusing beams for advanced multiscale photo-polymerization"
    Optica 3, 525-530 (2016)
  • Liu, A. D. Koulouklidis, D. G. Papazoglou, S. Tzortzakis, X.-C. Zhang
    "Enhanced terahertz wave emission from air-plasma tailored by abruptly autofocusing laser beams"
    Optica 3, 605-608 (2016)
  • Panagiotopoulos, D. G. Papazoglou, A. Couairon, and S. Tzortzakis
    "Sharply autofocused ring-Airy beams transforming into nonlinear intense light bullets"
    Nature Communications 4, 2622 (2013)
  • Bellec, P. Panagiotopoulos, D. G. Papazoglou, NK. Efremidis, A. Couairon, S. Tzortzakis
    “Observation and optical tailoring of photonic lattice filaments”
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 113905 (2012)
  • H. Shen, M. Massaouti, M. Gokkavas, J.-M. Manceau, E. Ozbay, M. Kafesaki, T. Koschny, S. Tzortzakis, C. M. Soukoulis
    “Optically implemented broadband blue-shift switch in the terahertz regime”
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 037403 (2011)
  • Abdollahpour, S. Suntsov, D. G. Papazoglou and S. Tzortzakis
    “Spatio-temporal Airy light bullets in the linear and nonlinear regimes”
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 253901 (2010)