Prof Pavlos Lagoudakis graduated from the University of Athens, Greece. He received his PhD from the University of Southampton and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2006, he joined the faculty of the University of Southampton. In 2016, he joined Skoltech where he setup and heads the Laboratories for Hybrid Photonics. His research spans the fields of photonics, strong light-matter coupling, semiconductor, and condensed matter physics.