T. Peter Rakitzis is a Professor of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics at the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Crete, and is the leader of the Polarization Spectroscopy group at IESL-FORTH. The main research goals of this group are the development of cavity-based polarimeters for the ultrasensitive measurement of chirality, and the production high-density and high production rates of spin-polarized hydrogen isotopes for applications in magnetometry, the production of polarized beams, and the study of polarized nuclear fusion.