Kyriacos Georgiou, PhD

I was born in Cyprus, a small island in the Mediterranean sea. Being interested in sciences from a young age, I was curious to understand how nature works and I always wanted to study Physics. 

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In 2007 I moved to Greece for undergraduate studies where I obtained a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Patras. My specialization area was Energy and Environmental Physics. In 2012 I joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Manchester to study for a masters degree in Renewable Energy and Clean Technology. For my dissertation project, with title 'Effects of temperature and series resistance variation in the performance of silicon solar cells', I undertook experiments at the Photon Science Institute (PSI) at the University of Manchester.

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In 2018 I obtained a PhD in Physics from the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Prof. David Lidzey. During the 4 years of my PhD, I worked on strong light-matter interactions in organic and hybrid nanostructures. My thesis title was "Exciton-Polaritons in BODIPY-filled Microcavities". I am interested in photonics and organic/hybrid optoelectronics with a particular focus on utilising the properties of organic polaritons in optoelectronic devices. From  October 2018 until October 2020 I was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield working on the EPSRC-funded project Hybrid Polaritonics within the Electronic and Photonic Molecular Materials group.

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Between October 2020 and March 2022 I was an Onisilos Research Fellow at the Department of Physics at the University of Cyprus working within the Laboratory of Ultrafast Science led by Prof. Andreas Othonos.

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From March 2022 until March 2023, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory working at the Center for Nanoscale Materials within the Division for Nanoscience and Technology. At the same time I was affiliated with the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.

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Between April 2023 and April 2025, I returned to the Laboratory of Ultrafast Science at the University of Cyprus as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, working closely with Prof. Andreas Othonos. My main research activities concerned hybrid organic/inorganic polariton LEDs and ultrafast dynamics of novel materials and nanostructures.

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I am currently a Research Fellow in the same group holding my own research grant on polariton solar cells, as well as working on a variety of other projects related to quantum optics, nanophotonics, quantum materials and biosensing.

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Fall Semester 2021: Lecturer of the final-year undergraduate module 'PHY 322 - Advanced Physics Laboratory II (Atomic and Nuclear Physics)' in the Department of Physics at the University of Cyprus.