Apostolos Argyris

Dr. Argyris is an Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Balearic Islands (UIB) and a member of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC). 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 110 publications in international journals and conference proceedings, with more than 4100 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 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. His fields of expertise and interests include complex photonics and nonlinear dynamics, coupled laser network dynamics, 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.