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... He joined IA on March 2025. |
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233 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810-394233
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Ethan Partington graduated with a BSc in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 2019. They then joined the research group of Edward Cackett at Wayne State University, USA, pursuing a MSc and PhD in Physics. Ethan completed their studies in 2024. |
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Ethan has designed and led multiple AGN monitoring campaigns in the X-rays, using the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) to provide daily spectral monitoring of nearby Seyfert 1 galaxies. In October of 2024, Ethan began a postdoctoral research position at IA-FORTH, working on the “MMMonsters: The first multi-messenger detection of a supermassive black hole binary” project with Maria Charisi. |
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Supermassive black hole binaries, active galactic nuclei, reverberation mapping, computational astrophysics, machine learning |
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114β Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4154
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Victor Bonjean obtained his B.Sc. in fundamental physics from the Université de Bordeaux and his M.Sc. in Astrophysics from the Observatoire de Paris, completing his studies in 2016. He obtained his Ph.D. in Astrophysics ans Cosmology from the LERMA (Observatoire de Paris, PSL) and the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in September 2019, under the supervision of Philippe Salomé and Nabila Aghanim. His thesis is entitled « Matter in the largest structures of the Universe : from galaxies to filaments, observations and data analysis ». |
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He has done a first post-doc at SISSA in Trieste on the data analysis group with Roberto Trotta in 2020, then he joined the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife, Canary Island as a member of Euclid in 2020/2021 with Helmut Dannerbauer and Carlos Gutierrez. In 2023, he joined a project outside of astrophysics to work as a research engineer on oceanography in LIENSs in La Rochelle (France) with Mélanie Becker. Since 2024, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at FORTH under the supervision of Jean-Luc Starck and Panagiotis Tsakalides in the TITAN team. |
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His main interests are cosmology in general and has mainly focused on the properties of the matter (both gas with Sunyaev-Zel’Dovich effect and galaxies with large surveys) around the largest structures of the Universe such as cosmic filaments and galaxy clusters. He is interested in the development of statistical tools that can help in nowadays challenges in cosmology, and especially in image component separation from satellites of telescopes with deep learning networks and other state-of-the-art methods. |
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107β Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4167
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Namita Uppal obtained her MSc degree in physics from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, in 2017. She completed her PhD in 2023 from the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, registered at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India. |
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Her thesis work focused on the study of the disk of the Milky Way disk at different scales taking insights from the distribution of red clump stars and open cluster polarimetry. During her doctoral studies, she conducted optical linear polarization observations of open clusters utilizing Indian observational facilities to trace line-of-sight dust distribution. She joined the Institute of Astrophysics-FORTH as a post-doctoral Fellow in the PASIPHAE project in April 2024. |
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ISM polarization; Optical and IR observations; Galactic morphology and evolution; small-scale and large-scale magnetic fields. |
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236 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810-39-4245
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Alessandro Paggi obtained his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Rome, Italy) in 2007 with a Master thesis entitled “Gamma-rays from Blazars: Emission Mechanisms from MeV to TeV” under the supervision of Prof. A. Cavaliere. He then started his Ph.D in Astronomy at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, under the supervision of Prof. F. Vagnetti and Prof. A. Cavaliere. In 2010 he spent 6 months at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (Cambridge, MA, USA) as a visiting student, working under the supervision of Dr. D. E. Harris on X-ray spectroscopic observations of blazars. He obtained his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 2010 with a thesis entitled “Flares in Blazars”. |
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After a six-months appointment at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (Cambridge, MA, USA) in 2011 as a visiting scientist under the supervision of Dr. G. Fabbiano, he worked as a post-doc work at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, first under the supervision of Dr. G. Fabbiano to study the multi-wavelength emission of AGN (2011-2014), and then under the supervision of Dr. D.-W. Kim, studying the extended X-ray emission in galaxies and developing pipelines for spectral and imaging analysis of X-ray data (2014-2016). After another six-months appointment as a visiting scientist in 2017 at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian under the supervision of Dr. D.-W. Kim, he worked at the University of Turin (Torino, Italy) as a post-doc under the supervision of Prof. F. Massaro and at the Astrophysical Observatory of Turin (Pino Torinese, Italy) as an AstroFIt2 fellow under the supervision of Dr. C. Raiteri, to study the large scale environment and the extended emission of radio sources and unidentified gamma-ray sources, and the multi-wavelength variability and polarization of blazars (2017-2023). Since March 2024, he has been a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Dr. Y. Liodakis in the BOOTES project. |
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X-ray emission from AGN, galaxies and clusters; multi-wavelength studies of blazars; development of pipelines for automated data reduction and analysis. |
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230β Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4200
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Beatriz Agís González obtained her BSc in Physics as well as her MSc in Astrophysics and Instrumentation in 2011 both from the University La Laguna (ULL, Spain). She completed his PhD in Astrophysics at "Centro de Astrobiología" (CSIC-INTA) and "Universidad Complutense de Madrid" (Spain) in 2017. |
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After her PhD, she moved to University of Liège (Belgium) with a IAC-KULeuven Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2019) followed by a postdoctoral contract (2019-2021) in the same University. In 2021, she got a "Junta de Andalucía" fellowship (2021-2024) to develop her research at the "Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía" (Spain). In March 2024, she has joined the BOOTES ERC project at IA-FORTH. |
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Supermassive black holes, active galactic nuclei, tidal disruption events, quasi-periodic eruptions, multiwavelength photo- and spectro- polarimetry, multiwavelength spectral variability. |
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246 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4252
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Athanasia Gkogkou obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, completing her studies in 2020 with a Master thesis entitled "Evaluating the impact of radio jets in the evolution of galaxies" under the supervision of Prof. K. Dasyra. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Astrophysics and Cosmology from Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (France) in November 2023 under the supervision of Dr. G. Lagache and Dr. M. Béthermin, with a thesis entitled “Intensity mapping from 2D to 3D: Evaluating the feasibility of interpreting upcoming data". |
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Since January 2024, she has been a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Dr. J-L. Starck and Prof. P. Tsakalides in TITAN, a collaborative project between the Institutes of Computer Science and Astrophysics of FORTH. |
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Galaxy evolution at high-z using 2D (cosmic infrared background) or 3D (line emission) intensity mapping; epoch of reionization (line intensity mapping, thermal/kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect); cosmic microwave background (CMB) |
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FORTH/ICS/SLP
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(+30) 2810 39-1580
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Dimitris Souropanis graduated from the Department of Physics of the University of Patras in 2016. He obtained his MSc in Theoretical, Computational Physics & Astrophysics at the same University in 2018, and his PhD in Astronomy at the University of Athens in collaboration with the National Observatory of Athens in 2023 under the supervision of Panos Boumis and Alexandros Chiotellis. |
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During his doctoral studies, Dimitris spent one year and a half supporting operations on the 2.5m Isaac Newton telescope (INT), one of the many telescopes at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos (La Palma), while the last 6 months he was one of the trainers of the next-generation of INT support astronomers. Since Fall 2023, he joined the SFERICSS project as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH. |
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photoionization, binary population synthesis, stellar evolution, massive stars, interacting binaries, supernovae, planetary nebulae, supersoft X-ray sources |
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233 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810-394233
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Manos Zapartas was awarded his Degree in Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in July 2012. He completed his PhD thesis in December of 2018 at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam (NL) under the supervision of Selma de Mink and Alex de Koter, where he also obtained his MSc Degree with Cum Laude (2014). He is originally from Alexandroupolis, Greece. |
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In 2019 he moved at the Observatory of Geneva (Switzerland), in the group of Tassos Fragkos, as a postdoc, partially funded from the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. In 2022, he moved at the National Observatory of Athens in the ERC-funded group of Alceste Bonanos, ASSESS. ince Fall 2023, he joined as a Postdoctoral HFRI (ELIDEK) Fellow at the Institute of Astrophysics, - FORTH, as the PI of the SFERICSS project. |
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Stellar evolution, massive stars in binary systems, their late evolutionary stages, core-collapse supernovae, compact remnants, X-ray binaries and merging compact objects. He studies them implementing binary population synthesis, such as POSYDON of which he is a core developer (that is based on grids of detailed MESA binary stellar evolution models), as well as more parametrized ones, such as binary_c. |
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230β Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810-394265
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Valentina Missaglia obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy), completing her studies in 2018 with a Master thesis entitled "WATCAT: a tale of wide-angle tailed radio galaxies" under the supervision of Prof. M. Paolillo. Then, she spent one year at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (Cambridge, MA, USA) as a visiting student, working under the supervision of Dr. R. P. Kraft on Chandra X-ray observations of galaxy clusters. She obtained her Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Turin (Italy) in December 2022 under the supervision of Prof. F. Massaro, with a thesis entitled "A Panchromatic View of Radio-Loud AGN and Their Environment". |
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Since February 2023, she has been a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Dr. C. Casadio in the SMILE group. She moved to the Observatory of Bologna in November 2024. |
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Radio emission from radio galaxies and interaction of radio plasma with X-ray emitting hot gas; emission from relativistic jets; X-ray emission from Active Galactic Nuclei and feedback. |
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246 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4252
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