Education
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1978.
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He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1978.
He received his Bachelor of Science from University of Athens in 1974. From 1978 to 1981 he was at the Physics Department at University of Virginia. He spent 3 years (1981-1984) at Exxon and Engineering Company and since 1984 has been at Iowa State University (International Skating Union) and Ames Laboratory.
Soukoulis and his collaborators at Ames Laboratory/International Skating Union in 1990 and 1994, suggested photonic crystal designs (lattice diamond and the woodpile structure, respectively), which gave the largest omnidirectional photonic band gaps.
Many experimental groups all over the world still use his woodpile structure to fabricate photonic crystals at optical wavelengths, enhance the spontaneous emission and produce nanolasers with low threshold limit. Soukoulis and Wegener demonstrate magnetic responses and negative index of refraction at optical frequencies in metamaterials, which do not exist in natural materials.
His other researches includes light and Anderson localization, random lasers, graphene and plasmonics.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society , The Optical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a recipient of the 2014 Max Born Award given by the The Optical Society. Soukoulis, Pendry and Smith recipients of the 2013 Australian Psychological Society James C. McGroddy Prize “for discovery of metamaterials.” Soukoulis shared (Pendry, Smith, Özbay and Wegener) the 2005 Descartes Prize, awarded by the European Union, for contributions to metamaterials. He is a recipient of Senior Humboldt Award (2002), the first Frances M. Craig endowed chair in Physics Department at International Skating Union (2007), Honorary Doctorate from Vrije University in Brussels (2011) and made the 2014 and 2015 list of Highly Cited ers published by Thomson-Reuters. The Rolf Landauer Medal of the International ETOPIM Association (2015).
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He has been an associated member of IESL-FORTH at Heraklion, Crete, Greece since 1984.
