News

Our recent article at PRX Life was selected by the Editors for the cover of the Jan-March 2025 issue. We are humbled by this distinction, which motivates us to keep pushing the exciting frontier of quantum biology.

An article at the Guardian by Anna Demming discusses our recent work on biological quantum sensing of the geomagnetic field.

An article at APS news by Katherine Wright discusses our recent work on biological quantum sensing of the geomagnetic field.

Iannis Kominis is for a second consecutive year in the Stanford list of top 2% scientists, the metrics of which list weigh research independence and leadership.

With Onur Pusuluk, from Iannis Kominis’ recent visit to Koc University in Istanbul.

With Ozgur Mustecaplioglu at Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, from Iannis Kominis’ recent visit to Koc University.

Warm congratulations to our group member Antonis Margaritakis, who was offered a PhD fellowship at the University of Southern California. We wish him all the best for his new academic endeavor!

We are delighed to organize, together with colleagues from the University of Waterloo, the first international workshop on Quantum Vision.

Kostas Mouloudakis presented his work on spin noise in coupled atomic vapors at the Basel Quantum Metrology and Sensing Conference, held during 12-14 February.

We were very happy to host two colleagues from the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan, Prof. Huang from the Institute of Photonic Technologies, and Prof. Liu from the Physics Department. Together with faculty from the UoC Physics Department and colleagues from FORTH-IESL we explored scientific collaboration opportunities.

Antonis Margaritakis attended the “Modern Physics at all Scales” summer school at Leiden University in July 2019.

Kostas Mouloudakis presented his work on an open-quantum-systems description of spin-exchange collisions at the Heraeus Workshop on Quantum Sensing and Magnetometry in Bad Honnef.

In November 2018 Iannis Kominis visited the group of Ozgur Mustecaplioglu at Koc University and delivered a seminar talk on quantum biology.

Kostas Mouloudakis presented a poster and Iannis Kominis delivered a talk about spin-noise correlations at the Hot Vapor Workshop held at the University of Stuttgart.

Iannis Kominis delivered a talk at the 2017 Workshop on Complex Quantum System Dynamics in Cartagena Spain.

Kyriacos Vitalis successfully defended his PhD thesis in April 2017.

Iannis Kominis delivered a talk at the Workshop on Quantum Effects in Biological Systems, held in Jerusalem in March 2017.

Dinner celebration for the graduation of K. Tsampourakis and K. Mouloudakis from the Advanced Physics Master Program, as well as K. Mouloudakis’ award from the State Scholarship Foundation to conduct his PhD thesis.

Iannis Kominis attended the Berlin November 2016 workshop for the upcoming EU flagship program on quantum technologies.

Kostas Mouloudakis attended the summer school “Coherent quantum dynamics” at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

Konstantinos Saliaris attended the summer school “Modern physics at all scales”, at the University of Leiden.

Iannis Kominis delivered a talk at the 2015 Workshop on Quantum Effects in Biological Systems, held in Florence Italy.

We recently organized a workshop on Quantum Phononics: From transport and optomechanics to quantum biology.

Iannis Kominis participated at the Forward Look Meeting organized by the European Science Foundation in January 2015, to discuss the prospects of the emerging field of Quantum Biology.

Iannis Kominis presented an invited talk titled “The radical-pair mechanism as a paradigm for the emerging science of quantum biology” at the 2015 Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics in Snowbird Utah.