Kalaitzidakis

Kalaitzidakis
Education

George Kalaitzidakis graduated from the Experimental High School of the University of Crete in Rethymno in 2018 with a grade of 19.5/20 (‘Excellent’). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete. He obtained his BSc in 2023 and commenced his MSc in Advanced Physics in the fall of 2023.

Career

In 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou, he participated in the “SMILE: Search for Milli-Lenses” project, and became an official member of the project in 2021. The same year he started working, under the supervision of Dr. Casadio Carolina, on his senior thesis concerning the study of a sample of compact radio loud sources using VLBI radio data in search of strong gravitational lens systems that could account for Dark Matter halo candidates. 

Interests

Extragalactic astrophysics, Active galactic nuclei, Strong gravitational lensing,  Radio and mm-VLBI interferometry

Email
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
George
Supervisor
Casadio
Past Member
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Student Category
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Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
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