Efstathios Poulis Tsichritzis

Efstathios Poulis Tsichritzis is a PhD student at VUB B-PHOT Brussels Photonics since October 2026. After studying Electrical and Computer Engineering in Greece, he worked as a software engineer for about a year and completed his mandatory military service. He later came to Belgium for a second master's degree in Nanoscience at KU Leuven, where he became involved in research on magnonics and spin-wave-based devices.

At B-PHOT, Efstathios is part of the Laser Dynamics team and works under the supervision of Professor Martin Virte. His research focuses on developing an interrogator based on fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs).