New POLIMA postdoc from KU Leuven
POLIMA is happy to announce that Christos Mystilidis has started as a new postdoctoral researcher.
Christos began his academic journey at the National Technical University of Athens, earning his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in March 2020. Under the mentorship of Prof. George Fikioris (NTUA) and Assoc. Prof. Panagiotis J. Papakanellos (Hellenic Air Force Academy), he helped clarify the origin of unphysical oscillations in wire antenna simulations and contributed to solution strategies that resolve this pathological behavior. For his undergraduate research, he received the Thomaidio Award in 2020.
He then joined KU Leuven to pursue his PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Xuezhi Zheng (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and Prof. Guy A. E. Vandenbosch (KU Leuven). During his doctoral research, Christos developed numerical and semi-analytical solution strategies (with an emphasis on scattering-matrix and integral-equation methods) for electromagnetic scattering problems from nanoscopic architectures. At such length scales, comparable to the wavelength of electron matter waves, quantum corrections to the material response are essential, fundamentally altering the numerical frameworks traditionally used in light–matter interaction studies. Christos contributed to the nascent field of Computational Mesoscopic Electromagnetics through novel numerical recipes, adaptations of classical electromagnetic theorems to quantum-corrected models, and one of the first software implementations in the field. Christos received the 2022 IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Grant and a Long Stay Abroad grant from the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO) to perform a research stay at POLIMA in 2024, before earning his PhD in Engineering Science in May 2025.
Christos has developed a strong interest in engineering education and actively contributed to teaching at KU Leuven. He published research on the pedagogical strengths of an analytical integration technique and received the Best Teaching Assistant Award in Electrical Engineering for the academic year 2022–2023. He also assumed leadership roles within the engineering community, serving as treasurer of the IEEE AP/COM/MTT Student Chapter at KU Leuven.
At POLIMA, Christos joins the strong coupling subgroup led by Prof. Christos Tserkezis, contributing to the development of solution strategies for polaritonic systems probed by electron beams.
He then joined KU Leuven to pursue his PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Xuezhi Zheng (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and Prof. Guy A. E. Vandenbosch (KU Leuven). During his doctoral research, Christos developed numerical and semi-analytical solution strategies (with an emphasis on scattering-matrix and integral-equation methods) for electromagnetic scattering problems from nanoscopic architectures. At such length scales, comparable to the wavelength of electron matter waves, quantum corrections to the material response are essential, fundamentally altering the numerical frameworks traditionally used in light–matter interaction studies. Christos contributed to the nascent field of Computational Mesoscopic Electromagnetics through novel numerical recipes, adaptations of classical electromagnetic theorems to quantum-corrected models, and one of the first software implementations in the field. Christos received the 2022 IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Grant and a Long Stay Abroad grant from the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO) to perform a research stay at POLIMA in 2024, before earning his PhD in Engineering Science in May 2025.
Christos has developed a strong interest in engineering education and actively contributed to teaching at KU Leuven. He published research on the pedagogical strengths of an analytical integration technique and received the Best Teaching Assistant Award in Electrical Engineering for the academic year 2022–2023. He also assumed leadership roles within the engineering community, serving as treasurer of the IEEE AP/COM/MTT Student Chapter at KU Leuven.
At POLIMA, Christos joins the strong coupling subgroup led by Prof. Christos Tserkezis, contributing to the development of solution strategies for polaritonic systems probed by electron beams.