Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Anastasopoulou

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Education

Konstantina Anastasopoulou received her BSc in Physics from the University of Patras in 2012,  her MSc in Astrophysics from the University Observatory Munich of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in 2014 and her PhD from the University of Crete in 2020.
 

Career

Upon completion of her PhD she continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics. 

Interests

X-ray binaries and ultra-luminous X-ray source populations in nearby galaxies, relation with host galaxy properties (e.g. star-formation rate, stellar mass); Spectral energy distribution of black holes, neutron stars and ultra-luminous X-ray sources, integrated X-ray spectrum of galaxies.
 

Email
Office
232, Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Konstantina
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Moved to Institute
Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera / INAF (Italy) - Postdoctoral Researcher
Last known position
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian (USA) - Postdoctoral Researcher
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Position at IA-FORTH
1/2020 - 9/ 2020, Postdoctoral Researcher
Starting Year
2014
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Maravelias

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Education

Grigoris Maravelias graduated from the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) in 2004. He obtained his MSc in Microelectronics and Optoelectronics from the University of Crete (Greece) in 2007, and his PhD in Astrophysics in 2014 from the same university.

Career

After completing his MSc, he served his military service (2007) and worked as a laser technician (2007-2009) at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH, Greece). In 2010, he succeeded in acquiring funding from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece that allowed him to obtain his PhD in Astrophysics in 2014. Then, he moved on to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czechia, 2014-2016), the Universidad de Valapaiso (Chile, 2017), and at the University of Crete and FORTH (Greece, 2017-2018). Since September 2018 he is employed at Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications, and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens, while collaborating with the Institute of Astronomy (FORTH) and the University of Crete.

Interests

Observational Astrophysics, with focus on massive stars, X-ray binaries, variable stars, circumstellar matter, stellar populations in other galaxies, exoplanets. Other interests include Professional-Amateur networking and collaborations, and Openness in Astronomy.

Email
Office
232, Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Grigoris
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PhD
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Blinov

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Education

Dmitry Blinov obtained his MSc and PhD in Astronomy at the University of Saint Petersburg (Russia) in 2008 and 2011.

Career

After a short period of Junior research fellow at the Astronomical Institute of the St. Petersburg University he moved to Crete in 2013. In Crete, he has been a member of the RoboPol project, an international collaboration on optopolarimetric studies of active galactic nuclei. His research was mainly focused on studies of optical polarization behavior in blazars and its connection to high-energy emission of these sources. Since 2017, he has joined the PASIPHAE project, an international collaboration on the mapping of polarized foregrounds for Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode searches through a large-scale optopolarimetric survey of high Galactic latitudes.

 

Interests

Optical polarimetry; AGN; high-energy astrophysics; magnetic fields in the Milky Way and extragalactic environments; 

Email
Office
236 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4245
Affiliation
Name
Dmitry
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PhD
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