Makris Konstantinos

Prof. Konstantinos Makris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete, Greece, and a researcher affiliated with the Institute of Electronic Structure and Computational Chemistry (IESL-FORTH). His career includes a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (MC-IOF) between Princeton University, USA, and TU Wien, Austria (2012–2015), and a Postdoctoral Researcher position at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (2008–2010). He also served as a Lecturer at TU Wien’s Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2011.

Prof. Makris holds a PhD in Theoretical Photonics from the School of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida, USA (2008), and a B.Sc. in Physics from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2002).

His research interests lie at the interface of complex photonics and condensed matter physics, focusing on four key areas: nonlinear optics in synthetic lattices, non-Hermitian photonics (including PT-symmetry), nanophotonics, and semiclassical laser physics for complex structures. He applies mathematical methods such as Floquet-Bloch theory, bandstructure analysis, Green’s functions, and scattering matrix techniques to study periodic, disordered, topological, and non-Hermitian systems. This work bridges theoretical frameworks from solid-state physics with cutting-edge optical phenomena.

While no specific scientific awards are listed, his contributions include securing a Marie Curie fellowship and ongoing research projects. His advising and grant activities are tied to the MC-IOF program, though current advisees are not detailed here. He contributes to IESL-FORTH’s research through collaborations and utilizes the institute’s facilities, such as the Computer Center and Electronics Design and Development Lab, for his theoretical studies.