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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. |
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As a student, he represented Greece in various Balkan and International mathematics competitions (JBMO,BMO,IMO). |
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Neutron stars. |
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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. |
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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). |
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Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Astrophysics |
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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. |
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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. |
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Magnetic fields, accretion disks, scattering. |
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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. |
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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. |
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His interests include Extragalactic Astronomy, Active Galactic Nuclei, Gravitational Lenses, Observational Cosmology and the teaching of Physics laboratories. |
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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. |
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In 2024 she joined the Institute of Astrophysics when she started her practical training at Skinakas observatory. |
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Observational Cosmology, Αstrophysics |
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Styliana Gregoriou graduated from the High School of Agios Ioannis, Limassol, in 2021 with a grade of 19.25/20 ("Excellent"). In the same year, she started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete. |
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In the summer of 2024, she completed her internship at Skinakas Observatory. |
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Cosmology, Extragalactic astrophysics |
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Kalliopi Barla graduated from the Highschool of Kastelli Pediados, Heraklion, in 2018 with a grade of 18,3/20,0. In the same year she started her undergraduate studies in the Physics Department of the University of Ioannina. During the spring semester of academic year 2021-22, she was an Erasmus studies student in the Faculty of Sciences of Universidad de Girona, in Catalonia, Spain. |
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In October 2023, she started working on her senior thesis under the supervision of Prof. Nikolaos Chatzianastasiou, exploring possible effects of solar activity (using sunspot number as index) on stratospheric temperatures during the last 80 years. |
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Observational astrophysics, evolution of galaxies, star formation, exoplanetary systems, astrobiology, ethics in modern physics. |
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Aristeidis Polychronakis graduated from the 8th High School of Heraklion in 2020 with a grade of 18.3/20 ('Excellent’). The year after, he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. |
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In 2024, he started working on his senior thesis concerning testing the accuracy of magnetic field estimation methods in star-forming regions, using simulations of collapsing molecular clouds, under the supervision of Prof. Tassis. In the summer of 2024, he completed his internship at Skinakas Observatory. |
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Interstellar medium physics, magnetic fields, star-formation |
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