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216 Physics Bldg
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
| Department |
Department of Physics
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| Office |
201 Physics Bldg
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| Telephone |
+(30) 2810-394203
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| Affiliation |
| Office |
216 Physics Bldg
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| Affiliation |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
| Department |
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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