Selected highlights in the press & popular items
- Our MSc student, Mr. Nickolas Christou, was awarded the Best Young Scientist Paper Presentation at the IEEE DIPED 2025 (2025 IEEE 30th International Workshop on Direct and Inverse Problems of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Wave Theory) - congratulations! [Fig.]
- Our full Review article on ‘Topological rainbow trapping’ in Nature Reviews Physics is featured on the journal's August 2025 front cover.
- Plenary talk at the 4th Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials (SAM), Aegina, Greece, 2024. [Fig.]
- Graduation (May 2024) of Group's first PhD researcher, Dr Kostas Baskourelos - congratulations! [Fig.]
- Invited talk at the Asia Light Conference 2024. [Fig.]
- Selected for the 2023 Stanford Univ.'s list of ‘top 2%' scientists internationally, across all scientific disciplines and sub-fields, based on the impact of their work. [Fig. 1, Fig. 2]
- Our group was awarded the 3rd place (with a prize of €6000) in the inaugural ‘Applied Innovation’ competition of NKUA. [Fig. 1] [Fig. 2]
- Prof. Tsakmakidis became Senior Member of Optica (formerly, Optical Society of America / OSA) (2022).
- Our invited work on all-optical all-linear digital logic is featured in the ‘rising stars’ series of the journal ‘Advanced Optical Materials’ (IF: 10.050). [PDF]
- Selected for the 2022 Stanford Univ.'s list of ‘top 2%' scientists internationally, across all scientific disciplines and sub-fields, based on the impact of their work. [Fig.]
- Selected for the list of ‘Outstanding Reviewers in 2021’ for the journal ‘Light: Science & Applications’ (IF: 17,8).
- (in Greek) EΡΤ news: Τα βραβεία της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών για το 2021 (Λυκούργειο Βραβείο).
- Ακαδημία Αθηνών (Academy of Athens): Λυκούργειο Βραβείο στη Θεωρητική Φυσική (2021) / Lycurgus Award in Theoretical Physics (2021).
- (in Greek) ΕΘνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ) (2019): Ερευνητές του ΕΚΠΑ ανακάλυψαν ευρυζωνικούς "μανδύες αορατότητας".
- (in Greek) XRONOS.GR (2019): Δημοσίευση της εφημερίδας "Ο Χρόνος".
- (in Greek) To Βήμα Science (2018): Το μέλλον μας είναι στα χέρια τους.
- EPFL, Research Office (2017): Selected Fellows case studies – Kosmas Tsakmakidis.
- Phys.org (2017): 10 years of the 'trapped rainbow'—the revolution of slow light.
- Phys.org (2017): A 100-years old physics problem has been solved.
- Futurism.com (2017): Researchers break a 100-year-old fundamental limitation of physics.
- EPFL, News Mediacom (2017): A 100-year old physics problem has been solved at EPFL.
- (in Greek) Το Βήμα (2014): Αιχμαλωτίζοντας το φως!
- APS Physics Focus (2014): Light nearly stopped in a waveguide.
- Physics World (2014): Plasmonic waveguide stops light in its tracks.
- K. L. Tsakmakidis and O. Hess, "'True' stopping of light – a new regime for nanophotonics", 2Physics (2014) (invited).
- Royal Academy of Engineering (2013): 'Meet the innovators' – Researcher case studies (p. 7).
- Imperial College London, Fellows Forum (2012): "Case study" online video.
- BBC News (2012): 'Cloaking' idea traps a rainbow.
- O. Hess and K. L. Tsakmakidis, "Gain-enhanced nanoplasmonic metamaterials: ultrafast sub-wavelength emitters", SPIE Newsroom (2012) (invited).
- Royal Academy of Engineering News (2010): Research – Showcasing Britain’s engineers (p. 4).
- Advanced Technology Institute Newsletter (2010): May 2010 – Researcher of the year award for Kosmas Tsakmakidis.
- BBC News (2008): 'Slow' light to speed up the net.
- The Royal Academy of Engineering Annual Review: Research Fellowships (p. 22).
- Materials World (2008): Unweaving a rainbow – transparent materials and refractive indices.
- Nature News (2007): How to trap a rainbow.
