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Agianoglou

EmmanouilAgianoglou
Education

Emmanouil Agianoglou graduated from the 2nd High School of Korydallos in 2018 with a grade of 19.5/20 ('Excellent'). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete. He obtained his BSc in 2024 and commenced his MSc in Advanced Physics in the fall of the same year.
Career

In 2023 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, when he started working on his senior thesis concerning modeling the early phases of star formation under the supervision of Prof. Tassis.
Interests

Theoretical astrophysics, star formation, active galactic nuclei, cosmology
Email
eagianoglou@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Emmanouil
Supervisor
Tassis
Past Member
Off
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
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Foukarakis

EmmanouilFoukarakis
Education

Emmanouil Foukarakis graduated from the High school of New Alikarnassos in Heraklion Crete with a grade of 19.3/20 (‘Excellent’). In 2013, he joined the Department of Physics of the University of Crete as an undergraduate student from which he obtained his BSc in physics in January 2019. In 2022 was admitted in the MSc program of Advanced Physics.
Career

Since 2023 he is a member of the project "ARGOS". For his MSc thesis he is working under the supervision of Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou in collaboration with Dr. John Antoniadis in the study of neutrino radio signatures with the "ARGOS" program.
Interests

High Energy Astrophysics, Theoretical Astrophysics, Neutrino detection
Email
efoukarakis@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Emmanouil
Supervisor
Pavlidou
Past Member
On
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
URL and Title of Dissertation
Neutrino radio signatures with Argos
Departure Date
Female
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Orfanos

Orfanos
Education

Ioannis Orfanos studied physics at the University of Athens until 2022 when he graduated. Immediately after, in September 2022, he began his studies in the "Advanced Physics" postgraduate program at the University of Crete.
Career

During his undergraduate studies, he completed his thesis, entitled "Gamma radiation absorption by GRBs via photon-photon reaction", under the supervision of Professor Apostolos Mastichiadis.
Interests

High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmology
Email
gorfanos@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Ioannis
Supervisor
Casadio, Blinov
Past Member
On
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
URL and Title of Dissertation
Search for AGN jet alignments in the Very Large Array Sky Survey data
Departure Date
Female
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Volakakis

VolakakisIoannis
Education

Giannis Volakakis graduated from the 3rd high school of Rethymno in 2017. The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Physics Department of the University of Crete. He obtained his BSc in Physics in 2022 and was admitted in the MSc programm of Advanced Physics of the same Department.
Career

Since 2023 he is a member o the project "ARGOS". For his MSc thesis, he is working on pulsar timing simulations for the ARGOS array under the supervision of Dr. John Antoniadis.
Interests

Astrophysics, Cosmology, binary systems, interferometry
 
Email
ivolakakis@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Ioannis
Supervisor
Antoniadis
Past Member
On
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
URL and Title of Dissertation
Pulsars with Gaia counterparts
Departure Date
Female
Off

Zacharopoulou

TheodoraZacharopoulou
Education

Theodora Zacharopoulou graduated from Sparta’s high school and obtained her BSc in Physics at the University of Patra in 2022. The same year she joined the MSc program of Advanced Physics at the University of Crete.
Career

During her undergraduate studies she completed his senior thesis entitled “First photometry of the contact binary star NSVS 12092853 from TESS’’.
Interests

Astrophysics, Binary Stars, Interferometry
Email
tzacharopoulou@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Theodora
Supervisor
Antoniadis
Past Member
On
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
URL and Title of Dissertation
Interferometric imaging simulations for the ARGOS array
Departure Date
Female
On

Kyvernitaki-Synani

Kyvernitaki
Education

Anna Kyvernitaki - Synani obtained her BSc in Physics at the University of Crete in 2022 and joined the MSc program of Advanced Physics.
Career

Since 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou, she is working on the dependence of the turnaround density of galaxy clusters on the cosmological model.
Interests

Astrophysics, Cosmology, Cosmological models and structure formation
Email
akyvsyn@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Anna
Supervisor
Pavlidou
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - PhD student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
URL and Title of Dissertation
Turnaround density as a probe of the dark energy equation of state
Departure Date
Female
On

Tersenov

Tersenov
Education

Andreas Tersenov graduated from the 8th High School of Heraklion in 2018. The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Physics Department of the University of Crete. He graduated in 2022 and joined the Advanced Physics MSc program of the Department.
Career

During his undergraduate studies, he completed his senior thesis entitled “Cosmic-ray air-shower simulations across the ankle: Combining mixed Galactic composition with new physics above 50 TeV”, under the supervision of Prof. V. Pavlidou and PhD candidate Stylianos Romanopoulos. Since 2021, he is also working with Professor Elias Kiritsis on a project on “Holographic RG flows on deformed 3-sphere”.
Interests

High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmic Rays, Cosmology, Gravitational Physics, AdS/CFT, Holographic RG Flows.
Email
atersenov@physics.uoc.gr
Office
108 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4166
Affiliation
Student
Name
Andreas
Supervisor
Pavlidou
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - PhD student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
URL and Title of Dissertation
Comparison of mass-mapping techniques using weak gravitational lensing: applica…
Departure Date
Female
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Triantafyllou

Triantafyllou
Education

Nikolaos Triantafyllou graduated from the 8th high school of Heraklion with a grade of 19.6/20 (‘Excellent’). In 2018, he joined, as  an undergraduate student the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete. He graduated in 2022 and was admitted in the MSc program of Advanced Physics.
Career

Since 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou, he is using machine learning methods to detect the turnaround radius of galaxy clusters.
Interests

Cosmology, Astrophysics, Machine learning methods in Astrophysics
Email
ntriantafyllou@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
URL
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8609-4529
Name
Nikolaos
Supervisor
Pavlidou
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) - PhD student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
URL and Title of Dissertation
Searching for a signature of turnaround in velocity profiles of galaxy clusters…
Departure Date
Female
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Papoutsis

Papoutsis
Education

Marios Papoutsis graduated from Skipero's highschool in Corfu with grade 19.6/20 (‘Excellent’). In 2018, he joined as an undergraduate student the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete. He graduated in 2022 and was admitted in the Advanced Physics MSc program.
 
Career

During his undergraduate studies, he completed his senior thesis entitled "The energy spectrum of accretion discs in AGN" under the supervision of Prof. I. Papadakis. He is currently working on his master thesis, which extends the previous work to include relativistic effects in accretion discs.
Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei, Accretion Discs, Machine learning methods
Email
mpapoutsis@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Marios
Supervisor
Papadakis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete & IESL/FORTH - PhD student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
URL and Title of Dissertation
Theoretical model fits to the optical/UV spectral energy distributions of AGN
Departure Date
Female
Off

Mastorakis

μαστορακης
Education

Michalis Mastorakis graduated from the Neas Kydonias' high school that is located in Kato Daratsos, Chania in 2018. The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. He graduated in 2022 and joined the Advanced Physics MSc program of the Department.
 
Career

In September 2021 he started working on his senior thesis under the supervision of Professor Vasiliki Pavlidou and her graduate student Stelios Romanopoulos on Backtracking of ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays through the Galaxy’s magnetic field in order to determine their sources and their composition. 
Interests

Cosmology, Theoretical Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysics, Neutron Stars
Email
mmastorakis@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Michalis
Supervisor
Antoniadis
Past Member
On
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
URL and Title of Dissertation
Investigating stellar explosions using stellar evolution models
Departure Date
Female
Off
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