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Rompogiannakis

DimitriosRompogiannakis
Education

Dimitrios Rompogiannakis graduated from the 3rd High School of Heraklion in 2014 with a grade of 17.8/20 (‘Very Good’). In the same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In 2024 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH when he started working on the topic of Expansion of Extragalactic Catalogues under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Zezas.

Interests

Extragalactic astrophysics, Galaxy Catalogues, Galaxy Characterisation, Applications to Multimessenger Astrophysics

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Name
Dimitrios
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
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Director
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Starting Year
2024
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Papatheodorou

ErrikosPapatheodorou
Education

Errikos Papatheodorou graduated from the 5th High School of Korydallos in 2018. In the same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In 2024 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH when he started working on his diploma thesis entitled "Galactic spectra classification using cross-correlation methods" under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Zezas.

Interests

Galactic spectra analysis, Machine learning with applications in astrophysics.

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Affiliation
Name
Errikos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
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Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
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Zoumpoulakis

OrestisZoumpoulakis
Education

Orestis Zoumpoulakis graduated from the High School of Makry-Gialos in 2021 with a grade of 19.7/20 (‘Excellent’). In the same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In 2024 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH when he started working on the topic of Stellar Population Inference under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Zezas.

Interests

Extragalactic astrophysics, star-formation, evolution of galaxies

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Name
Orestis
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
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Director
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Starting Year
2024
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Vasilas

NikolasVasilas
Education

Nikolas Vasilas graduated from 2nd High School of Heraklion Crete in 2020 with a grade of 19.9/20 (‘Excellent’). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In the year of 2016 he and the team of Science of his school participated in the ESA competition “ASTRO PI” and they proceeded to the next phases of the competition with two projects. In the summer of 2022 he started his bachelor thesis under the supervision of professor A. Zezas; in which he is studding X-ray Binaries utilizing Machine Learning techniques and algorithm. In the same summer he got accepted and attended the 2022 Summer School of Astrostatistics in Crete. In the summer of 2023 he completed his internship at the company JADBio – Gnosis DA as junior Data Scientist.

Interests

X-ray Binaries, Compact Objects, Machine Learning, Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Accretion Disks.

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Name
Nikolas
Supervisor
Zezas
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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Polioudakis

MichailPolioudakis
Education

Michail Polioudakis graduated from the Experimental High School of the University of Crete in Rethymno in 2019. The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In February of 2024, he started working on his senior thesis under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis, titled "Study of the temperature radial dependence in X-ray illuminated accretion discs".

Interests

Cosmology, Active Galactic Nuclei, Theoretical Astrophysics, Extragalactic Astrophysics

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

NataliaPapagiannopoulou
Education

Natalia Papagiannopoulou graduated from the General High School of Astros in 2018 with a grade of 19.4/20 ("Excellent"). The same year she started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In 2023 she joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, when she started working on her senior thesis studying the timing and spectral variability of Be/X-ray binaries under the supervision of Dr. Pablo Reig.

Interests

X-ray Astronomy, Be/X-ray binaries, Black holes

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Affiliation
Name
Natalia
Supervisor
Reig
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
On

Koutsiona

EleniKoutsiona
Education

Eleni Koutsiona graduated from the 27th High School of Thessaloniki in 2018 with a grade of 19.7/20 ('Excellent'). In the same year she started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In the summer of 2023 she completed her internship at Skinakas Observatory. At the beginning of the academic year she started working on her senior thesis which is centered around the spatially resolved dust attenuation in Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs). Throughout autumn of 2023 she worked on supernovae and transient astronomy at the University of Kyoto and Okayama Observatory.

Interests

Observational Astrophysics, Interstellar Medium, LIRGs, Supernovae, Machine Learning, Remote Sensing

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Affiliation
Name
Eleni
Supervisor
Diaz Santos
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany - MSc student
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Director
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Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
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Kontopodis

Kontopodis Evangelos
Education

Evangelos Kontopodis graduated from the 1st High School of Ierapetra in 2019 with a grade of 18.7/20. In the same year, he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete.

Career

In the summer of 2022, he completed his internship at Skinakas Observatory and the following summer worked there voluntarily. In the fall of 2023, he started working on his senior thesis studying the long term optical variability of Be/X-ray binaries under the supervision of Dr.Reig.

Interests

Observational Astrophysics, Binary Stellar Systems, Quasars

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Affiliation
Name
Evangelos
Supervisor
Reig
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
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Markoudakis

GiannisMarkoudakis
Education

He graduated from the General High School of Atsipopoulo Rethymno in 2019, and at the same year he enrolled in the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete.

Career

In the fall of 2022, he started his bachelor thesis entitled "Measuring Galaxy Distances using Cross-Correlation Methods", to be later used for the SMILE project, under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Zezas and Dr. Carolina Casadio. In the summer of 2023 he completed his internship at Skinakas Observatory.

Interests

Observational Astrophysics, Cosmology, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Pre-Main-Sequence Stars, Machine Learning.

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Affiliation
Name
Giannis
Supervisor
Zezas, Casadio
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
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