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Tsakalou

TsakalouMarina
Education

Marina Tsakalou graduated from General High School of Archanes in 2020 with a grade of 19.1/20. The same year she started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In October of 2025, she started working on her senior thesis on the topic of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) under the supervision of Dr. Ioannis Liodakis.

Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), Black Holes, Dark Matter, Cosmology.

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Affiliation
Name
Marina
Supervisor
Liodakis
Past Member
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Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2025
Female
On
Starting Month
10

Fotis

FotisPanagiotis
Education

Panagiotis Fotis graduated from the 1st High School of Ierapetra in 2021 with a grade of 19.4/20 (‘Excellent’). In the same year, he began his undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In 2025, he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, following a research internship in Skinakas Observatory. As a member of Dr. Ioannis Liodakis’ BOOTES project team, he started conducting his thesis on circular polarimetry.

Interests

AGNs, Blazars, Supermassive Black Holes, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Polarimetry

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Affiliation
Name
Panagiotis
Supervisor
Liodakis
Past Member
Off
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Director
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Starting Year
2025
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Τsioupli

Tsioupli Vasiliki
Education

Vasiliki graduated from General highschool in 2019. The same year she started her undergraduate studies in University Of Crete Department of Physics.

Career

In 2025 she completed a summer internship programm at Skinakas observatory, Institute of Astrophysics (FORTH). In the same year she started working on her bachelor's thesis about circular polarization under the supervision of Dr Ioannis Liodakis.

Interests

Active galactic nuclei (AGNS), Blazars, extra galactic objects, super massive black holes, circular polarization, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Star formation, dark matter, observational Astrophysics, cosmology.

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Affiliation
Name
Vasiliki Rafailia
Supervisor
Liodakis
Past Member
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Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2025
Female
On
Starting Month
9

Fotiadis

FotiadisProdromos
Education

Prodromos Fotiadis graduated from Nikiforos Drama High School in 2023 with a grade of 19.8/20. The same year, he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete. As a student, he represented Greece in several Balkan and International Mathematics Competitions (JBMO, BMO, IMO). In March 2025, he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH. Under the supervision of Prof. Kylafis and Nick Loudas (Princeton University), he is studying accretion onto strongly magnetized neutron stars and the associated X-ray radiation, with a focus on the formation of cyclotron lines in the accretion column.

Career

As a student, he represented Greece in various Balkan and International mathematics competitions (JBMO,BMO,IMO).

Interests

Neutron stars.

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Affiliation
Name
Prodromos
Supervisor
Kylafis
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2025
Female
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Starting Month
3

Mavrommatis

MavrommatisMichalis
Education

Michalis Mavrommatis graduated from Soudas High School of Chania in 2020 with a grade of 18.3 (Excellent). That same year, he began his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.
 

Career

He has worked on projects analyzing data from meteorological stations, investigating urban emissions, and detecting wildfires across Europe. Currently he is part of "PARSEC", a project collaboratively implemented by the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) and the Institute of Astrophysics (IA) of FORTH. At this project, he develops and applies a machine-assisted methodology for constructing and curating semantically enriched astrophysical catalogs in the form of knowledge graphs under the supervision of Dr. Leonidaki (IA-FORTH) and Dr. Flouris (ICS - FORTH).
 

Interests

Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Astrophysics

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Affiliation
Name
Michalis
Supervisor
Leonidaki
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2024
Female
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Starting Month
12

Glykopoulou

AnastasiaGlycopoulou
Education

Anastasia Glykopoulou graduated from the High School of Sofades in 2020 with a grade of 18.4/20 (“Excellent”). She began her undergraduate studies the same year in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete. During her studies, she applied machine learning methods to Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) analysis and performed time-series analysis on AGN data in various research projects.

Career

In the summer of 2024, she completed an internship at the Skinakas Observatory, gaining hands-on experience in observational astrophysics and data analysis. Later that year, she joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, working on the topic “Search for rotations of the polarization position angle of blazars” under the supervision of Dr. Ioannis Liodakis. Her research focuses on analyzing long-term blazar polarization data using statistical techniques to identify and characterize rotations of the polarization position angle.

Interests

High-Energy Astrophysics, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Blazars, Polarization Studies, Observational Astrophysics, Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning Applications in SED Modeling, and Time-Series Analysis of AGNs.

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Affiliation
Name
Anastasia
Supervisor
Liodakis
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2024
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Starting Month
9

Vogiatzis

VogiatzisStavros
Education

He graduated from the 2nd General High School of Sykeies, Thessaloniki, with a grade of 17.5 (Very Good) in 2022, and he began his undergraduate studies in Physics at the Univ. of Crete.

Career

He joined the Institute of Astrophysics in 2024, when he commenced his research, under  the supervision of Prof. Kylafis, on problems related to scattering in the strong magnetic fields of neutron stars.

Interests

Magnetic fields, accretion disks, scattering.

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Affiliation
Name
Stavros
Supervisor
Kylafis
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Female
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Diamantopoulos

VasilisDiamantopoulos
Education

Vasilis Diamantopoulos received his High School Diploma from the 8th General High School of Peristeri in 2018. In the same year he began his studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete.

Career

In 2024 he started working on his bachelor’s thesis titled “X-ray Variability Studies of NGC 4051” under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis.

Interests

His interests include Extragalactic Astronomy, Active Galactic Nuclei, Gravitational Lenses, Observational Cosmology and the teaching of Physics laboratories.

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Affiliation
Name
Vasilis
Supervisor
Papadakis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
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Kofinaki

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Education

Maria Kofinaki graduated from the 7th High School of Heraklion in 2021 with grade 19.9/20 ("Excellent"). The same year, she started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics.

Career

In 2024 she joined the Institute of Astrophysics when she started her practical training at Skinakas observatory.

Interests

Observational Cosmology,  Αstrophysics

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Affiliation
Name
Maria
Supervisor
Liodakis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete - Undergraduate student
Student Category
Director
Off
Position at IA-FORTH
Practical Training at Skinakas Observatory
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
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