PhD Student

During his undergraduate and postgraduate studies he studied the various mechanisms of galaxy activity. He developed diagnostics for galactic activity in the optical and infrared part of the spectrum, utilizing machine learning methods. He collaborates with Professor Andreas Zezas in the study of the evolution of galaxies and the application of machine learning methods in Astrophysics. In May 2022 he commenced a studentship at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University (USA).

In 2021 he was awarded with a JAE Intro SOMdM scholarship to complete his master thesis “On the inpainting of incomplete CMB sky maps” at the Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA). Since December 2022 he is a PhD student at the University of Crete and IA-FORTH under the supervision of Dr. Carolina Casadio.

In 2019, she was an intern at the University of Cardiff and, in 2021, she won a scholarship “Scaling relations in nearby galaxies: the interplay of stars, dust and gas” at the Università degli Studi di Padova” (Italy). She joined the Department of Physics of the University of Crete and the Institute of Astrophysics (IA-FORTH) in November 2022 as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Tanio Diaz Santos.

The last year of her undergraduate studies she collaborated with the research group of Prof. George Tsironis, in the project of chaotic timeseries prediction using Recurrent Neural Networks. Her master’s thesis with title “Modeling of Speech Signals using Recurrent Neural Networks”, was completed under the supervision of Dr. Yannis Pantazis. During the same period she also collaborated with Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou on the analysis of optopolarimetric observations with statistical and Machine Learning tools. The title of her PhD thesis is "Computational Intelligence for Multimodal Astrophysical Tomography" and it is part of the project "Polar", and it is part of the ongoing collaboration between FORTH and the Univ. of Cambridge under the auspices of GAPSTI.

At the Univ. of Athens she completed her undergraduate thesis, entitled "Spectroscopic study of Solar System bodies in optical wavelengths" (in greek) in order to detect molecular compounds in their atmospheres. After completing her Master Thesis entitled "Study of the impact of interstellar cloud shapes on CMB polarization foregrounds", she commenced her PhD on realistic simulations of the magnetic fields in galaxies.

Savvas Chanlaridis moved back to Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2020 as a guest researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Stergioulas where he studied the effect of stellar wind on the evolution of low-mass helium stars. In 2021 he joined the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete and the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH as a PhD student in order to work on the understanding of the mass spectrum of neutron stars under the supervision of Dr. John Antoniadis.

In 2020 he was an intern at the European Space Astronomy Center (ESAC) of ESA in Spain. He joined the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Crete and the Institute of Astrophysics in January 2021 as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Tanio Diaz Santos. He was awarded a 1 year ESO studentship and in April 2022 he commenced his collaboration with Dr. Evanthia Hatziminaoglou and Dr. Paola Andreani at ESO,Garching (Germany).

During the summer of 2019 he attended a research program at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) of ESA in the Netherlands. He is working with Prof. Andreas Zezas in topics related to observational astrophysics and machine learning.

Alexandros Tsouros joined the Institute of Astrophysics as a PhD student in August 2020 to work under the supervision of Prof. V. Pavlidou. In 2021 he was awarded a fellowship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation towards the completion of his thesis entitled "Reconstructing the Magnetic Field of the Milky Way via Astrophysical Techniques and Numerical Simulations", being ranked 1st in Greece in the field of Natural Sciences In 2024 he received the "Eleftherios N. Economou Doctoral Student Research Award” from the Department of Physics.