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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
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Nikolaos
Supervisor
Pavlidou
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) - PhD student
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Director
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Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
Departure Date
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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
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Marios
Supervisor
Papadakis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete & IESL/FORTH - PhD student
Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
Departure Date
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Mastorakis

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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
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Michalis
Supervisor
Antoniadis
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
Departure Date
Female
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Vasilaki

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Email
Office
Sorbonne Univ., Paris, France
Affiliation
Name
Christiana
Supervisor
Petraki, Pavlidou
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Sorbonne Univ., Paris, France - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2021
Ending Year
2022
Departure Date
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Loudas

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Education

Nick Loudas graduated from the 2nd high school of Grevena with a grade of 19.5/20 (‘Excellent’) and from 2017 until 2018, he studied Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki. Then, he joined the Physics department at the University of Crete and in 2022 obtained his BSc in Physics with high distinction. He is currently a MSc student under the supervision of Prof. V. Pavlidou and Prof. N. Kylafis.

Career

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.

Interests

Cosmology, Dark matter, strong gravitational lensing, Theoretical Astrophysics with special interests in Production and Transfer of Radiation

Email
Office
230 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4256
Affiliation
Name
Nikolaos
Supervisor
Kylafis, Pavlidou
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University (USA) - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
Departure Date
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Psarakis

Psarakis
Education

Harry Psarakis graduated from the 2nd High School of Heraklion and obtained his BSc in Physics from the Univ. of Crete in 2021. He is currently an MSc student at the Advanced Physics Program of the Department Physics of the University of Crete.

Career

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.

Interests

X-ray Binaries, Exoplanets.

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Charalampos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
Departure Date
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Daoutis

Daoutis
Education

Charalampos Daoutis started his undergraduate studies in 2017 at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete and he graduated in 2021. In the same year he joined the MSc in Advanced Physics.

Career

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".

Interests

Observational Astrophysics, extragalactic Astrophysics, Machine learning methods in Astrophysics

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Charalampos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2021
Ending Year
2022
Departure Date
Female
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Papadaki

Katerina Papadaki
Education

Katerina Papadaki completed her BSc in Physics at the University of Crete in 2019 and continues her studies at the MSc programme Advanced Physics.

Career

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.

Interests

Astrophysics, Non-Linear Dynamics, Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning

Email
Office
109Β Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Katerina
Supervisor
Pantazis, Pavlidou
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Crete - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
Ending Year
2021
Departure Date
Female
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Gkimisi

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Education

Katia Gkimisi graduated from the 1st High School of Agia Paraskevi, Athens and entered the undergraduate program in the Department of Physics, University of Crete in 2016. She completed her BSc in 2020 and she continued to the MSc program of Advanced Physics.

Career

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.

Interests

Stellar polarization, Observational Astrophysics, ISM

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Katia
Supervisor
Tassis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Bologna, Italy - Erasmus student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
Ending Year
2022
Departure Date
Female
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