Auteur: Antonios M. Alvertis

Antonios Alvertis grew up in Athens, Greece, where he also studied for his undergraduate degree at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2014 he was awarded a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study for a M.Sc. degree in Organic and Molecular Electronics at the TU Dresden. In 2016, after receiving a scholarship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom, he moved to the University of Cambridge to undertake an M.Phil. in Scientific Computing and subsequently a Ph.D. in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. During his time in Cambridge, he worked on solar-energy harvesting in organic semiconductors, and specifically towards achieving a better theoretical understanding of the properties of fundamental energy carriers called “excitons”, and their interactions with light and the vibrational motion of these materials. Antonios was officially awarded his Ph.D. in April of 2021, also receiving the Cavendish Ph.D. prize in Computational Physics in recognition of the impact of his research. At the time of writing, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory, and a visitor at UC Berkeley in the USA, having been awarded a research-exchange fellowship from the Cambridge-based Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability. His current research aims to contribute to a more unified understanding of the exciton physics of diverse materials beyond organic semiconductors, including low-dimensional systems. When Antonios is not thinking about excitons, he can often be found reading one of the books of Jack London, Leo Tolstoy or Fyodor Dostoevsky. Sometimes he can also be spotted running along the river Cam, or attempting to bake a cake.