Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Vardoulaki

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Name
Eleni
Past Member
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Moved to Institute
AIA, Univ. of Bonn (Germany) - Postdoctoral researcher
Last known position
National Observatory of Athens (Greece) - Public Outreach Officer
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
2012-2015, Postdoctoral Researcher (GSRT)
Group of
Charmandaris
Departure Date
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Ciesla

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Laure
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
CEA/Saclay (France) - Postdoctoral Researcher
Last known position
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (France) - Researcher CNRS
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
2013-2015, Postdoctoral researcher (THALES)
Group of
Charmandaris
Departure Date
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Sell

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Paul
Past Member
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Moved to Institute
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Florida (USA) - Lecturer
Last known position
School of Physics, Georgia Tech (USA) - Director of the Georgia Tech Observatory
Educational Title
PhD
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
2016-2019, Postdoctoral Researcher (ERC)
Group of
Zezas
Departure Date
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Williams

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Interests

Massive stars, resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies

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Stephen J.
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
USNO, Flagstaff (USA) - Staff astronomer
Last known position
USNO, Flagstaff (USA) - Staff astronomer
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
2015-2017, Postdoctoral Researcher (ERC)
Group of
Zezas
Departure Date
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Andrews

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Interests

X-ray and multi-wavelength studies of X-ray binaries

Affiliation
Name
Jeff
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Dark Cosmology Center, Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark) - Postdoctoral researcher
Last known position
University of Florida, Gainesville (USA) - Assistant Professor
Educational Title
PhD
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
2015-2018, Postdoctoral Researcher (ERC)
Group of
Zezas
Departure Date
Female
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Díaz-Santos

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Interests

Infrared Astrophysics, star-formation, AGN activity

Affiliation
Name
Tanio
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
SSC/Caltech (USA) - Postdoctoral researcher
Last known position
Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH (Greece) - Senior Researcher
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
2009-2011, Postdoctoral Researcher (EU REGPOT)
Group of
Charmandaris
Departure Date
Female
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Ntormousi

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Education

Evangelia Ntormousi studied Physics at the University of Thessaloniki. She obtained her Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 2012, from the Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich, as part of the International Max-Planck Research School in Astrophysics.

Career

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 is is collaborating with Prof. Konstantinos Tassis.

Interests

Magnetic fields; Interstellar turbulence; Galactic dynamics; Star formation; Stellar feedback

Email
Office
237 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4173
Affiliation
Name
Evangelia
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) - Postdoctoral Researcher
Last known position
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) - Tenure Track Researcher
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
2017-2020, Marie Curie Fellow
Group of
Tassis
Departure Date
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Bonfini

Bonfini
Education

Paolo Bonfini obtained his MSc in Astrophysics at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy) in 2008, and his PhD in Physics at the University of Crete (Greece) in 2013.

Career

After the PhD, he obtained a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS) of the Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) during 2013-2015. Then, during 2015-2017, he was awarded a Mexican postdoctoral fellowship to work at the Instituto de Radioastronomia y Astrofisica (IRyA) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2018 returned to IA-FORTH as a postdoc. From July 2018 until February 2020 he was a postdoc affiliated with the National Observatory of Athens.

Interests

Spectral properties of nearby galaxies,  scaling relations between Super-Massive Black Holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies, morphological modelling and evolution of nearby galaxies, dust rings in early-type galaxies, extragalactic Globular Cluster (GC) populations.

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4200
Affiliation
Name
Paolo
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete, Dept. of Computer Science (Greece) - Postdoctoral Researcher
Last known position
UniversiData, Rome (Italy) - Senior Data Scientist
Educational Title
PhD
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
2018-2020, Postdoctoral Researcher
Group of
Charmandaris
Departure Date
Female
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Dey

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Education

Lankeswar Dey earned his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Kalyani, India, in 2015. He then pursued an Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. program at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India, completing his doctoral degree in 2022.

Career

Following his Ph.D., Lankeswar briefly worked at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), India, before joining West Virginia University (WVU) as a Postdoctoral Fellow in September 2022. At WVU, he was an active member of the NANOGrav collaboration, contributing to pulsar timing array research. In September 2025, he joined the Institute of Astrophysics, Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (IA-FORTH), as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the MMMonsters project, focusing on the first multi-messenger detection of a supermassive black hole binary in collaboration with Maria Charisi.

Interests

Gravitational Waves, Supermassive Black Hole Binaries, Pulsar Timing Arrays, Multi-messenger Astronomy

Email
Office
114β Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 281039 4154
Affiliation
Name
Lankeswar
Past Member
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Educational Title
PhD
Director
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Deputy Director
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Group of
Charisi
Female
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