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Pavlos Savvidis is an Armenian-born Greek physicist. He is a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology of University of Crete.

Education
Savvidis was born on 18 July 1976. He was educated at the University of Athens where he was awarded a Bachelor's degree in Physics in 1998. He moved to the University of Southampton where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2001. During his postgraduate study, he was supervised by Jeremy Baumberg where his doctoral research investigated polariton amplification, lasing and condensation in semiconductor microcavities.

Carrier
Following his PhD, Savvidis was a DARPA fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) from 2001 to 2003. He returned to Greece at the University of Crete, elected to an Assistant Professor position at the age of 27. He was promoted to Associate Professor position in 2014 and Full Professor position in 2018.

In 2014 he received the Leverhulme Trust visiting professor fellowship to spend one-year sabbatical leave at the Cavendish Laboratories of the University of Cambridge. In 2017 he received the biannual FORTH research institutes 2017 award. In 2019, he was appointed as an Associate Professor at Westlake University.

Research
His research activities are mainly focused on light-matter interactions with special emphasis on low dimensional semiconductor nanostructures including the design and realization of optoelectronic devices based on fundamentally novel principles.

Personal Life
Born and grown up in Soviet Armenia he immigrated to Greece in 2003. He is the son of George K. Savvidy, a Soviet-Greek theoretical physicist who worked at the Yerevan Institute of Physics until 2005 and later at the "Demokritos" National Research Center in Greece. He has three daughters.