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Binas-Valavanis

Binas-Valavanis
Education

Vasilios Binas-Valavanis graduated from the high school of Kardamyli (Messinia) in 2019 with a grade of 19.8/20.0 ('Excellent'). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. He obtained his BSc in 2023 and commenced his MSc studies at the same Department.
Career

He became a member of the Institute of Astrophysics in 2022 when he started working on his senior undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis to study the X-ray variability of Active Galactic Nuclei using Swift/BAT light curves. 
Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei, Fourier analysis of variable phenomena, High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmology.
Email
vbinasval@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Vasileios
Supervisor
Papadakis
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7074-3699
Past Member
On
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
URL and Title of Dissertation
X-ray variability studies of accreting compact objects
Departure Date
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Chaniotaki

EiriniChaniotaki
Education

Eirini Chaniotaki graduated from the 1st Hight School of Kalymnos in 2019 with a grade of 19.0/20.0(‘Excellent’). The same year, she started her studies in the University of Crete at the Department of Physics. She graduated in July 2025 and commenced her MSc in Advanced Physics at the University of Crete.
Career

During the summer of 2022 she participated in the physics summer school of the University of Ljubljana for bachelors and masters level students. At the beginning of 2023, she started working on her thesis regarding polarization in supernovae, under the supervision of Dr. John Antoniadis.
Interests

Observational Astrophysics, Supernovae, Stelar evolution, Galaxies, Microlensing
Email
echaniotaki@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Eirini
Supervisor
Antoniadis
Past Member
Off
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2025
Female
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Tzouvanou

Tzouvanou
Education

Anastasia started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete in 2018. She graduated in 2022 and commenced her MSc in Advanced Physics in 2023.
Career

During the summer of 2021 she worked as an intern at the Skinakas Observatory under the supervision of Dr. Reig. In 2022 she started working on her senior thesis with Dr. Reig studying the long term optical variability of Be/X-ray binaries. She also spend 5 months at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy as an intern where she worked on the project entitled: "Do all gaps in protoplanetary discs host planets?". In 2023 she started working for her master thesis studying the long-term polarimetric variability of Be/X-ray binaries in order to study the neutron star-disc connection.
Interests

Planet formation, stellar evolution, binary stars
 
Email
atzouvanou@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Anastasia
Supervisor
Reig
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=do6AyD4AAAAJ
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4171-8454
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany - PhD student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
URL and Title of Dissertation
Optical polarimetry in Be/X-ray binaries : warped and precessed disks during ty…
Departure Date
Female
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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
Off

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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