Iannis Kominis received his Diploma in
Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens
in 1996 and his Ph.D. at the Physics Department of Princeton University
(USA) in 2000. His thesis concerned scattering of high energy polarized
electrons off polarized 3He nuclei.
Career:
He worked as a postdoctoral researcher
at Princeton University (2001-2002) and at the Nuclear Science
Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2002-2003). In
2004 he joined the Department of Physics as a Lecturer and he was promoted
to an Assistant Professor in 2009.
Interests:
Optical pumping and spin-polarized
alkali atoms and noble gases, sensitive atomic magnetometers, laser
cooling and trapping, precision quantum measurements, quantum effects in
biological systems, spin chemistry.
