- Synthetic optical media and systems
- Nonlinear optics
- Nonlinear fibre optics
- Nonlinear properties of colloidal suspensions
- Optical thermodynamics
- Quantum transport in lattices
- Accelerating optical beams
- Spatial and spatio-temporal soliton interactions
- Lightwave technology
- Quantum electronics
Education:PhD in Electrical Engineering, 1986, The Johns Hopkins Universty
Demetri Christodoulides is the Cobb Family Endowed Chair and Pegasus Professor of Optics at CREOL-the College of Optics and Photonics of the University of Central Florida. He received his PhD degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and he subsequently joined Bellcore as a post-doctoral fellow at Murray Hill. Between 1988 and 2002 he was with the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University.
His research interests include linear and nonlinear optical beam interactions, synthetic optical materials, optical solitons, and quantum electronics. He has authored and co-authored more than 350 papers. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. In 2011 he received the R.W. Wood Prize of OSA and in 2018 the OSA Max Born Award.