Christos Tserkezis is a full professor of 'Theory of polaritons and light-matter interactions' since August 2025, and a founding member of POLIMA, which he joined in 2023 as associate professor of ``Theoretical condensed-matter physics''. He studied Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2005), where he also obtained his master's degree (2007) and PhD (2012) on the topic of ``Light emission and propagation in plasmonic metamaterials''. He spent three years as a postdoc at the Donostia International Physics Center, before moving to Denmark in 2015, first as an H.C. Ørsted postdoc at the Technical University of Denmark, and then at SDU (2017), where, in 2019, he became assistant professor at the Center for Nano Optics. In 2021, he obtained his Dr. Techn. degree from the Faculty of Engineering at SDU.
His research focuses on the theory of light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, combining elements of classical electromagnetism, quantum physics and condensed-matter physics. Over the years, he has been interested in classical and quantum plasmonics, polaritons, nanophotonics, Mie resonances in dielectrics, electron-beam spectroscopies, weak and strong coupling of quantum emitters, non-Hermitian photonics, chiroptical and magneto-optical effects, photonic crystals and metamaterials. He serves as topical editor in The Journal of the Optical Society of America B, and was the chair of SCOM5: Strong Coupling with Organic Molecules conference in 2025.
