Assistant Professor

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Porfyriadis

Porfyriadis
Education

Achilleas Porfyriadis received his B.Sc. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Harvard University in 2016. His academic genealogy tree is here.

Career

He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2016-2019) and at Harvard's Black Hole Initiative (2019-2022). He joined the Department of Physics at the University of Crete as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2022 and became affiliated with IA-FORTH in February 2026.

Interests

Theoretical high energy and gravitational physics. Current topics of interest include black holes, holographic dualities, and gravitational waves.

Email
Department
Department of Physics
Office
201 Physics Bldg
Telephone
+(30) 2810-394203
Affiliation
Name
Achilleas
University/Institute
University of Crete
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Götberg

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Office
216 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Host
Souropanis
Name
Ylva
Visit Duration
University/Institute
Institute of Science and Technology (Αυστρία)
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Charisi

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Education

Maria Charisi obtained her BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2011. She then completed her PhD in Astronomy in 2017 at Columbia University in the City of New York under the supervision of Zoltan Haiman.

Career

Between 2017-2020, she worked as a NANOGrav (North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves) fellow in the TAPIR group at Caltech. From 2020-2023, she was a VIDA (Vanderbilt Initiative for Data-intensive Astrophysics) fellow at Vanderbilt University and subsequently she joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Washington State University as an assistant professor. She is a member of the NANOGrav Collaboration, the International Pulsar Timing Array, the LISA Consortium and the LSST AGN Science Collaboration. In 2023, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant entitled "MMMonsters: The first multi-messenger detection of a supermassive black hole binary" and she joined IA-FORTH as a research fellow. In 2024 she was the recipient of the “L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for women in science”.

Interests

Supermassive black hole binaries, multi-messenger astrophysics, time-domain and gravitational-wave astrophysics, pulsar timing arrays, big data and machine learning

Email
Department
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Affiliation
Name
Maria
University/Institute
Washington State University (USA)
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Director
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Female
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Educational Title TR