[1] Christodoulides received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and then joined BELLCORE as a postdoctoral research fellow.
Between 2002 and 2022, Christodoulides worked at The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida as a Pegasus Professor and the Cobb Family Endowed Chair.
[2] Christodoulides has also served as an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and JOSA B.
[citation needed] In 2007, Christodoulides and his collaborators studied the implications of parity–time non-Hermitian symmetry in optics.
He has also worked on accelerating Airy waves and discrete solitons in periodic media.