Vasilios Binas-Valavanis graduated from the high school of Kardamyli (Messinia) in 2019 with a grade of 19.8/20.0 ('Excellent'). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. He obtained his BSc in 2023 and his MSc in 2024. In January 2025 he started his PhD at the Univ. of Crete and IA-FORTH.
Career :
He became a member of the Institute of Astrophysics in 2022 when he started working on his senior undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis to study the X-ray variability of Active Galactic Nuclei using Swift/BAT light curves. He is currently a PhD student.
Interests :
Active Galactic Nuclei, Fourier analysis of variable phenomena, High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmology.
