Apostolos Argyris

Dr. Argyris is an Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and a member of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC). He is the director of the Master's studies programme at IFISC. His research field is "Complex Photonics", including nonlinear laser dynamics, coupled laser networks, neuro-inspired information processing, unconventional signal processing, and encryption techniques in optical communications, hardware-based AI, ultrafast pattern and random number generation with photonic media.

He received the B.Sc. degree in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), the M.Sc. degree in Physics with a specialization in Microelectronics and Optoelectronics from the University of Crete (Greece), and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). He first joined IFISC in 2016, with a post-doctoral H2020 Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship. He has participated in 22 National & European research projects. The results of his studies appear in more than 120 publications in international journals and conference proceedings, with more than 4600 citations, while he is also the main author of 3 book chapters. In 2006, he was distinguished as one of the "World’s Top Young Innovators 2006” by receiving the “TR35 Award” from the Technology Review magazine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the same year, he was awarded the "Ericsson Award of Excellence in Telecommunications" for his work in chaotic optical communications. Since 2021, he appears in the annual list of the top 2% scientists published by Stanford University / Elsevier.

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