Petrov

Polina Petrov
Education

Polina Petrov earned her BSc in Physics, with a specialization in Astrophysics, from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) in 2021. She then completed her PhD in Astrophysics in 2026 from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA) under the supervision of Prof. Stephen R. Taylor.

Career

Polina has been a member of the pulsar timing array collaboration NANOGrav since 2021. She arrived as a Postdoctoral Researcher at IA-FORTH in October 2026, working on the ERC-funded MMMonsters project led by Prof. Maria Charisi.

Interests

Supermassive black hole binaries, gravitational waves, multi-messenger astrophysics, pulsar timing arrays, quasars, active galactic nuclei

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107β Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4167
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