Selected highlights in the press & popular items
- 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.
