Biography
Georgia T. Papadakis studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (Greece, 2006-2011). She then moved to CERN (Switzerland), in 2011, where she worked in particle accelerator designs. In 2012, she moved to Los Angeles, California (USA), where she carried out her doctoral studies in the area of nanophotonics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She investigated “metamaterials” at visible and infrared wavelengths. In 2018, she moved to Stanford University, where she was a TomKat Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Energy. There, Georgia worked on heat-to-electricity generation with thermophotovoltaic systems. In 2021, she moved to Barcelona, where she started her tenure-track position as a Group Leader at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). At ICFO, Georgia leads the group of Thermal Photonics.
Georgia is the recipient of the Materials Research Society Best Student Award, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, the Tomkat Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University, the Princeton Pathway Into the Academy Fellowship and the la Caixa Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship. Currently, Georgia’s group investigates ways to utilize thermal radiation for recycling heat and generating energy in a clean ways. Recently, Georgia and her group have been awarded the Best Early Career Paper Award in the Journal of Applied Physics, and the Early Career Award from the Journal Nanophotonics (De Gruyter).
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ICFO, Spain
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Invited speaker, 2026