Costas Soukoulis

Costas M. Soukoulis
Born	15 January 1951 Corinth, Greece
Fields	Physics, materials science
Institutions	University of Athens University of Chicago University of Virginia Exxon Research Laboratory Ames Laboratory - Iowa State University IESL - Forth Research Center
Doctoral advisor	Kathryn Liebermann Levin
Known for	Photonic crystal Random lasers Metamaterials Light localization
Notable awards	Rolf Landauer Medal (2015) Max Born Award (2014) James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (2013) Honorary Doctorate from the Vrije University in Brussels (2011) Frances M. Craig endowed chair in Physics Dept. at Iowa State University (2007) Descartes Prize (2005) Humboldt Research Award (2002) Fellow of the APS, OSA and AAAS

Costas M. Soukoulis (Greek: Κώστας Μ. Σούκουλης) is a Senior Scientist in the Ames Laboratory and a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Iowa State University. He received his B.Sc. from University of Athens in 1974. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1978. From 1978 to 1981 he was at the Physics Department at University of Virginia. He spent 3 years (1981–84) at Exxon Research and Engineering Co. and since 1984 has been at Iowa State University (ISU) and Ames Laboratory. He has been an associated member of IESL-FORTH at Heraklion, Crete, Greece since 1984.

Research

Soukoulis and his collaborators at Ames Lab/ISU in 1990 and 1994, suggested photonic crystal designs (lattice diamond ^{[1] [2]} and the woodpile structure,^[3] 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^[4] and negative index of refraction at optical frequencies ^[5] in metamaterials, which do not exist in natural materials. His other researches includes light and Anderson localization, random lasers, graphene and plasmonics.

Awards and honours

• He is a Fellow of the APS, OSA and AAAS.

• He is a recipient of the 2014 Max Born Award given by the OSA.

• Soukoulis, Pendry and Smith recipients of the 2013 APS 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 Research Award (2002), the first Frances M. Craig endowed chair in Physics Department at ISU (2007), Honorary Doctorate from Vrije University in Brussels (2011) and made the 2014 and 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers published by Thomson-Reuters.

• The Rolf Landauer Medal of the International ETOPIM Association (2015)

References

1. Existence of a Photonic Gap in Periodic Dielectric Structures. Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 3152 - 3155 (1990).
2. Photonic Band Gaps in Experimentally Realizable Periodic Dielectric Structures. Europhysics Letters, 16, 563-568 (1991).
3. Photonic Band Gaps in Three Dimensions: New Layer-by-layer Periodic Structures. Solid State Communications, 89, 413-416 (1994).
4. Magnetic Response of Metamaterials at 100 Terahertz. Science, 306, 1351-1353 (2004).
5. Negative Refractive Index at Optical Wavelengths. Science, 315, 47-49 (2007).

External links

• Soukoulis Research Group
• Ames Laboratory Profile
• Costas Soukoulis on Photonic Metamaterials