Associate Professor

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Associate Professor

Mus

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Education

Alejandro Mus earned his BSc from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain) and went on to complete an MSc at Université Paris-Saclay (France). He continued with his PhD at the Universitat de València (Spain), finishing in 2023. 

Career

After his PhD he worked as  postdoctoral fellow at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy). Alongside academia, he has worked as a computer scientist in several private-sector technology companies. In February 2025 he joined the group of  Carolina Casadio, where he contributes to the ERC-funded project SMILE – Search for Milli-lenses to Discriminate Between Dark-Matter Models.

Interests

Radio and mm-VLBI, Active Galactic Nuclei, imaging reconstruction algorithms.

Email
Office
236 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Host
C. Casadio
Name
Alejandro
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University/Institute
University of Balearic Islands
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Casadio
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Chatzopoulos

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Education

Manos Chatzopoulos obtained his BSc in Physics from the University of Crete in 2007. He then completed his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 2013 at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of J. Craig Wheeler.
 

Career

Between 2013-2016 he worked as an Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Astronomy at the University of Chicago and the FLASH Center for Computational Science until he joined the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University in 2016 at the rank of Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associated professor in 2022. He joined IA-FORTH as research fellow in 2021.

Interests

Numerical modeling of supernovae and luminous transients. Superluminous supernovae and circumstellar interaction. Massive stellar evolution. Binary star mergers. Monte Carlo radiation transport. 
 

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Department
Dept. Physics & Astronomy
Affiliation
Name
Manos
University/Institute
Louisiana State University (USA)
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Hatzidimitriou

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Name
Despina
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Moved to Institute
Dept. of Physics, University of Athens
Last known position
Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens
Educational Title
Associate Professor
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Affiliated Faculty (1993-2009)
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