Gkogkou Athanasia

Postdoctoral Researcher of the Institute of Astrophysics
Group of : Starck

E-mail : agkogkou@ia.forth.gr
Phone : (+30) 2810 39-1580
Office : FORTH/ICS/SLP

Education :

Athanasia Gkogkou obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, completing her studies in 2020 with a Master thesis entitled "Evaluating the impact of radio jets in the evolution of galaxies" under the supervision of Prof. K. Dasyra. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Astrophysics and Cosmology from Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (France) in November 2023 under the supervision of Dr. G. Lagache and Dr. M. Béthermin, with a thesis entitled “Intensity mapping from 2D to 3D: Evaluating the feasibility of interpreting upcoming data".

Career :

Since January 2024, she has been a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Dr. J-L. Starck and Prof. P. Tsakalides in TITAN, a collaborative project between the Institutes of Computer Science and Astrophysics of FORTH.

Interests :

Galaxy evolution at high-z using 2D (cosmic infrared background) or 3D (line emission) intensity mapping; epoch of reionization (line intensity mapping, thermal/kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect); cosmic microwave background (CMB)