Brief details of those Experienced Researchers (ERs) and Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) employed on the POISE project are given below.

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Experienced Researchers (ERs)

Name Email From (Country) Employing Institution
Aaron Maxwell Andrews max.andrews@tuwien.ac.at USA TU Wien
BS in Materials from University of California, Los Angeles in 1997 (X-Ray and Ion implantation). PhD in Electronic Materials from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003 (Thin film strain relaxation, MBE, XRD, AFM, SEM, SIMS). PostDoc at TU Vienna, Austria started in 2004 (Quantum cascade laser growth, characterisation, processing, design. Quantum dots and nano wires).
Vasileios Apostolopoulos va233@cam.ac.uk Greece Cambridge University
First degree Physics University of Athens, 1993-1998. MSc in optical fibre communications, University of Southampton, 1998-1999. PhD in optics, University of Southampton, 1999-2003. Postdoctoral researcher in Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), September 2003 - December 2005. Skills: Dielectric waveguides-lasers, Optical fibres, Femtosecond writing of waveguiding structures inside crystals and optical fibres, Cleanroom Processing- structuring of dielectrics.
Richard Green r.green@sns.it United Kingdom Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
I obtained a PhD from the University of Sheffield, where I worked on quantum cascade lasers and intersubband transitions within self-assembled quantum dots. Since December 2004 I have been working at SNS in Pisa, studying the properties of terahertz quantum cascade lasers. My work involves the active region design of new devices, the use of advanced processing techniques to realise the devices and their characterisation. As well as standard characterisation techniques, I have been using optical self mixing measurements and time resolved photocurrent measurements to discover more about the operataion of these important devices.
Usman Sapaev usapaev@uniroma3.it Uzbekistan Terza University of Rome
Usman Sapaev was born on December 13, 1974, in Khorezm Region of Republic of Uzbekistan. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the National University of Uzbekistan (former Tashkent State University) in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and his PhD degree from NPO Akadempribor, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan in November 2001. He has been awarded two NATO Science fellowships; NATO-DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003, Germany) and NATO-Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004, UK). His research interest is focused on theoretical study of various nonlinear frequency conversion processes in nonlinear optical media. In particular, SHG, OPA, OPO and etc processes in nonlinear, periodic/aperiodic quasi-phase matched crystals.

Early Stage Researchers (ESRs)

Name Email From (Country) Employing Institution
Alessio Andronico alessio.andronico@gmail.com Italy Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7
*2004)* Laurea Thesis in Physics (University of Rome "La Sapienza"). *Summer 2005)* Summer School on "Parallel Computing" at CINECA (Bologna, Italy). *2005)* Start of PhD in France (University "Paris7"), supervisor: Giuseppe LEO. *Summer 2006)* POISE Summer School.
Jan Devenson devenson@cem2.univ-montp2.fr Lithuania University of Montpellier 2
BS and MS in Physics from the University of Vilnius/Lithuania for his work on THz photocurrent spectroscopy on Be doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells, THz photodetectors and THz imaging.
Milan Fischer milan.fischer@unine.ch Czech Republic University of Neuchâtel
MS in Physics from Charles University, Prague in 2005 (Photoluminescence mapping of ZnCdTe). Internships at Fraunhofer IPM, Germany in 2003-2004 (Optical parametric oscillators in LiNbO3) and NCSR, Dublin in 2002 (Waveguide laser writing). Since 2005 PhD student at University of Neuchâtel (strained material, MBE growth of mid- and far-infrared QCL).
Lukas Mahler l.mahler@sns.it Switzerland Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Diploma in Physics from the ETH Zuerich/Switzerland in 2005 for his thesis "Controlling Surface Plasmons in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers".
Stefan Menzel s.menzel@sheffield.ac.uk Germany University of Sheffield
Diploma in Physics from the University of Dresden/Germany in 2005 (Antimonide based III-V heterostructures, Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) design and processing, time resolved femtosecond spectroscopy). PhD student at the University Of Sheffield since 2005 (III-V materials for QCLs, Quantum Dots, Nonlinear spectroscopy (OPA, OPO), carrier dynamics).
Marco Ravaro marco.ravaro@gmail.com Italy Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7
MS in Electronic Engineering from the University "Roma Tre" in 2003 discussing the thesis "Characterization of optical multilayer waveguides for parametric fluorescence"
Luca Sapienza luca.sapienza@paris7.jussieu.fr Italy Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7
PhD student in the group QUAD of the Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, University of Paris7 from October 2004 - September 2007. Project title: Quantum cascade electroluminescent structures for the emission of intersubband polaritons. MSc in Materials Science, Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) in June 2004. Erasmus student at Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) University (France) and Training period at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris from September 2003 - May 2004. Project title: Optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots in a magnetic field. Training period at University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) in Summer 2002. Project title: Tight-binding model for spontaneous magnetism of quantum dot lattices. Training period at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) Summer 2001. Project title: Photoluminescence of nanocrystals of GaN.