Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Kiehlmann

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Education

Sebastian Kiehlmann received his diploma in Physics at the University Göttingen (Germany) in 2010 and his PhD in Experimental Physics at the University of Cologne (Germany) for a thesis written at the Max Planck Insitute of Radio Astronomy in Bonn (Germany) in 2015.

Career

He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Metsähovi Radio Observatory of the Aalto University, Espoo in Finland in 2015/2016. From 2017-2019 he was a staff researcher at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and California Institute of Technology in the USA. He joined the Institute of Astrophysics in Crete in spring 2019 as postdoctoral researcher.

Interests

Active galactic nuclei; blazars; astronomical jets; radio astronomy; high-energy astrophysics; optical polarization; time domain astronomy.

Email
Office
236, Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4243
Affiliation
Name
Sebastian
Past Member
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Moved to Institute
Federal Central Tax Office (Germany) - Data Scientist
Educational Title
PhD
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Position at IA-FORTH
4/2019 - 1/2025, Postdoctoral Researcher
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Del Sordo

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Education

Fabio Del Sordo obtained his Bachelor degree at the University of Pisa in Physics in 2002, his Master in Astrophysics at the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2008, and his PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Stockholm (Sweden) in 2013.

Career

He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Commissariat à l´énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) in Saclay - Paris (2013-2014) and VR international postdoc fellow at Yale University (USA) and NORDITA (Denmark) during 2014-2017.

Interests

Astrophysical dynamos; Stellar and interstellar magnetic fields; Magnetohydrodynamical instabilities, Exoplanet detection and characterization, Star-planet interaction

Email
Office
246, Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4200
Affiliation
Name
Fabio
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
INAF Catania (Italy) - Postdoctoral researcher
Last known position
ICE CSIC Barcelona (Spain) - Postdoctoral researcher
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
2017-2020, Postdoctoral researcher
Departure Date
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Kypriotakis

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Education

John Andrew Kypriotakis was born in 1995. He obtained his BSc in Physics at the University of Crete in 2017 and his PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the same university in 2025.

Career

As an undergraduate student he performed research at the Polarization Spectroscopy Lab of IESL/FORTH (2014-2015) and with the Astrophysics Group of the Dept. of Physics (2016-17). His PhD was on the instrumentation and software of the PASIPHAE project. Since 2025 he is a postdoctoral researcher with the BOOTES project. 

Interests

Supernova Remnants, Pulsars (High-Energy), Polarimetry, Astronomical Methods and Instrumentation

 
Email
Office
229, Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4231
Affiliation
Name
John
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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
234, Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4260
Affiliation
Name
Grigoris
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Educational Title
PhD
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Group of
Zezas
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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
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera / INAF (Italy) - Postdoctoral Researcher
Last known position
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian (USA) - Postdoctoral Researcher
Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
1/2020 - 9/ 2020, Postdoctoral Researcher
Starting Year
2014
Group of
Zezas
Departure Date
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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
Supervisor
To be completed
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Educational Title
PhD
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