Meet the Team

​Permanents

Dr. Patrice Genevet
Professor of Physics
​Colorado School of Mines, CoorsTek 301
Phone: +1 303-273-3657
Cell: +1 720 375 2838
Email: [email protected]
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=lEyXxl4AAAAJ&hl=en
CV available here

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Dr. Samira Khadir
Maître de conférences UCA
​CRHEA -Centre de Recherche sur l'Hetero-Epitaxie et ses Applications -
Avenue Bernard Gregory, Valbonne, France
Email: [email protected]
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_X1n1IwAAAAJ&hl=fr
Research interest: light-matter interaction, nanophotonics, metasurfaces 

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 Dr. Rémi Colom
 Chercheur CNRS
CRHEA -Centre de Recherche sur l'Hetero-Epitaxie et ses Applications -
Avenue Bernard Gregory, Valbonne, France
Email: [email protected] 
Research interests:  Optical Scattering, Metasurfaces, Topological photonics, Optical Chirality
 

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Loubnan Abou-Hamdan
Research interests:  Nanophotonics and condensed matter physics
Education and Training :
        - Ph.D. in physics, ESPCI Paris-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris, France, 2019-2023
        - M.Sc. in physics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 2016-2019
        - B.Sc. in physics, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon, 2013-2016
Contact: [email protected]

Renato Juliano Martins
Research interests:  Nonlinear Optics, Metasurfaces, LiDAR.
Education and Training :
        - Post-Doc Researcher, Université de Bourgogne 2017-2019
        - Visiting Scholar, University of Colorado 2015-2016;  
        - PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil 2010-2017
Contact: [email protected]​

Christina Kyrou
Research interests: Optics, Liquid Crystals, tunable metasurfaces
Education and Training :
        - PhD in Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of ​Athens, Greece, 2016-2019
Contact: [email protected]

     Clément Majorel
         
  Research interests:  Metasurfaces, Numerical Optimization
  Education and Training:
       -PhD in Physics, LAAS, Toulouse France

​      Contact:  [email protected] 

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Nicolas Kossowski
         
  Research interests:  Metasurfaces, Metalens arrays, Mid-infrared imaging
  Education and Training:
       -PhD in Physics, NTU, Singapore

​      Contact:  [email protected] 

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PhD Students

Aloke Jana
         
Research Interest:  Topological Photonics, Meta-materials, Spin-Orbit Interactions of Light. 
Education: BS-MS (2018-23), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India.
 
Contact : [email protected]

Martin Lepers (PhD CIFRE ST Microelectronics)
         
Research interests:  metasurface design, nanofabrication, DeepUV lithography
Education and Training:
    -MS, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie de Lannion (2019-2021)
​   Contact: [email protected]

Yanel Tahmi (PhD CIFRE with Phasics in co-direction with S. Khadir)
         
Research interests:  Metasurface Metrology, Phase imaging, Vortices
Education and Training:
    -MS, Université Cote d'Azur (2019-2021)
​   Contact: [email protected]

Fouad Bentata (PhD in co-direction with INL)
         
Research interests:  Reconfigurable metasurfaces, Nanophotonics, Holography
Education and Training:
    -MS, Ecole Centrale de Lyon (2019-2020)
​   Contact:[email protected] 

         Nikita Nikitskiy (PhD in co-direction avec Julien Brault)
         
            Research interests:  Metasurfaces, Quantum dots, MEB, UV sources. 
            Education and Training:
             -BS,  Fundamental Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
             -MS, Engineering of Functional Materials, Grenoble INP PHELMA, France  

​      Contact:   nikita.nikitskiy@crhea.cnrs.fr ​

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         Emil Marinov
            Research interests:  Metasurfaces, LiDAR
            Education and Training:
                   -MS, Engineering School Denis Diderot Paris 13  

​      Contact: emil.marinov@crhea.cnrs.fr​

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Research Engineer

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Visiting Postdoctoral fellows and Professors

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Prof. Konstantin Dorfman

Professor, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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Alumni

     Elena Mikheeva
         
  Research engineer at Essilor France

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   Aziz Ben Youssef
            Research engineer at power electronics

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​      Anthony Gourdin
         
   Research engineer at SOLNIL

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         Sandeep Yadav Golla

   Research engineer at CEA grenoble, France
         
     

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  Rajath Sawant
         
Postdoc. in Benoit Cluzel group in the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

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    Qinghua Song
    Now Assistant Professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School

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 Peinan Ni
 Postdoc. Now research associate at Baylor University, Tx, USA, in Howard Lee group.
Now assistant professor at Zhengzhou University, China

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Mario Ferraro
PhD student. Now postdoc, Italy 

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Gauthier Briere
PhD student. Now at Dispelix, Finland 

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Mohamed Sabry Mohamed
Postdoc. Now at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, USA 

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Sébastien Héron
Postdoctorate (2016-2018). Now with Thales TRT, France

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Synda Labidi
BS-MS Student, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and natural sciences of Tunisia

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Purva Bhumkar
BS-MS Student, now at the University of Wisconsin, USA

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Multiple PhD and Postdoctoral positions supported by the European Research Council are available.
Candidates from various backgrounds are invited to apply. Please send your CV and a brief description of your research interests via email. We also encourage visiting scholars who will be  interested by a research position or to initiate some sort of collaboration to send an email at: patrice.genevet@crhea.cnrs.fr