Postdoctoral Researcher

Siddharth joined his first postdoc at the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, Crete in October 2022. His main work is centered around the design and development of instruments for astronomical observatories. Since 2017 onwards, his major research efforts have been in building the new set of two upcoming polarimeters called the Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeters (WALOP) for the upcoming PASIPHAE survey. The PASIPHAE project is an international collaboration on the mapping of polarized foregrounds for Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode searches through a large-scale opto-polarimetric survey of high Galactic latitudes.

Since 2022, she has been working at IA-FORTH in the XTREME Project.
 

After completing his PhD, he worked for one year as lecturer at the University College Cork, teaching undergraduate physics and astrophysics courses, while expanding his research on radio-polarimetric studies of jets in active galactic nuclei. Starting in October 2022, he is currently working as postdoctoral researcher at IA-FORTH on the ERC-grant-awarded project of “SMILE: Search for Milli-lenses to discriminate between dark matter models” with Carolina Casadio.

In 2019 he joined the Fusion Technology Group of the Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences and Technology, Energy & Safety (INRASTES) of NCSR “Demokritos" where he worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher for the purposes of the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy (EUROfusion) in code development for the analysis of experimental data and in code development of theoretical physics. Since November 2021, he is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics and at the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH working on the project "MagMASim".

She was a postdoctoral fellow at the CEA (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives) in Saclay, France until 2017. She then moved, as a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow at FORTH, where she collaborated with Prof. Konstantinos Tassis. In 2020 she moved as a postdoctoral researcher to Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) and returned back to IA-FORTH in 2021 as an HFRI postdoctoral fellow.

Since March 2021, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH.

David completed his PhD in the University of Bonn on the topic of massive star evolution, and its connection to transients such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and gravitational waves. Since early 2021, he is working at FORTH-IA on the project EPICS, seeking to understand the birth and evolution of compact objects.

Between 2015 and 2019, he held a postdoctoral position at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen (The Netherlands).
 Since September 2019 he is affiliated with the Institute of Astrophysics of FORTH (Greece).