MSc Student

During his undergraduate studies he completed his senior thesis entitled "Relativistic QED versus classical magnetic resonant cross-sections" under the supervision of Prof. N. Kylafis and Prof. J. Truemper (MPE). Since 2019, he is a member of the Institute of Astrophysics currently working with Prof. N. Kylafis on a project related to cyclotron line formation in a radiative shock. In parallel, he studies the properties of various dark matter models, as well as their impact on structure formation and strong gravitational lensing under the supervision of Prof. V. Pavlidou, Prof. K. Tassis, and Dr. C. Casadio. Moreover, he is involved in the SMILE project focusing on theoretical calculations of the lensing probabilities.  In 2021, he was awarded a fellowship from the IA/FORTH and in 2022, he received the "ELISABETH KARAMINTZOU" award for his academic excellence.

During his undergraduate studies, he collaborated with the Dr. Pablo Reig studying the properties of high-mass X-ray Binaries using optical spectra from Skinakas Observatory. He also spent 4 months at the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy (Germany), where he started the development of Exo-Striker's web documentation, a sophisticated scientific software, and he was involved in the dynamical analysis of a two planet system (HD82943), composed of two massive planets locked in 2:1 mean motion resonance.

In 2020 he started his undergraduate thesis in Astrophysics under the supervision of professor Andreas Zezas. The title of the thesis was "Galactic activity diagnostics based on WISE photometry Machine Learning Methods".

The last year of her undergraduate studies she collaborated with the research group of Prof. George Tsironis, in the project of chaotic timeseries prediction using Recurrent Neural Networks. Her master’s thesis with title “Modeling of Speech Signals using Recurrent Neural Networks”, was completed under the supervision of Dr. Yannis Pantazis. Since December of 2020, she collaborates with Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou for the analysis of optopolarimetric observations with statistical and Machine Learning tools.

In 2018 she started a project on intrinsically polarized stars, under the supervision of professor Konstantinos Tassis. She then commenced her undergraduate thesis, entitled "Detecting artefacts in Robopol images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" in which, with the help of PhD candidate Rafael Skalidis, she  analyzed data taken outside the mask of the RoboPol instrument.

In the third year of her undergraduate studies (2018), she started working on her diploma thesis, entitled "Classification of stars to normal and intrinsically polarized", under the supervision of Prof. Kostantinos Tassis. For her MSc project she is working on mid-infrared spectroscopy of luminous interacting galaxies under the supervision of Dr. Tanio Diaz Santos.

He participated as a high school student in the Students' Astronomy and Space Science contest where he reached the third phase of the contest for two consecutive years (2015,2016).  His undergraduate thesis, under the supervision of Professor Andreas Zezas, was on X-ray binary population modelling.
 

Angelos Karakonstantakis  is currently preparing his MSc thesis, modeling AGN's variability in X-rays, under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis.