Consortium

The ULTRACHIRAL Consortium brings together 10 leading European groups that specialize in fields where improvements of chiral sensing, through cavity-based methods, will lead to important breakthroughs. Specifically, the 10 groups, and the complementary fields of expertise that they bring to the UTLRACHIRAL project, are:

The Rakitzis group at IESL-FORTH

[Chiral Cavity-based Polarimetry]

The Altug group at EPFL

[Bioengineering, chiral plasmonics]

The Ritchie group at Oxford University

[Mid-IR spectroscopy]

The Budker group at Johannes Gutenberg University

[Ultra-sensitive (conventional) polarimetry]

The Vollmer group at the University of Exeter

[Microresonators, single molecule detection]

The Williams group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

[Atmospheric chemistry and Forest ecology]

PHOTEK Limited in Hastings, UK

[Ultra-fast detectors, and integrated fast data acquisition]

The Thermos group at the University of Crete, Department of Medicine

[leads a larger group with expertise in Pharmacology (Dr. Thermos), toxicology (Dr. Tzatzarakis), ophthalmology (Dr. Tsilimbaris), and Natural products (Dr. Katerinopoulos)]

The Vamvakaki group at the University of Crete, Department of Material Science

[HPLC, and functionalized chiral surfaces]

The Kafesaki group at the University of Crete, Department of Material Science

[Theory for Microresonators and chiral plasmonics]