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Fotiadis

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Education

Prodromos Fotiadis graduated from Nikiforos Drama High School in 2023 with a grade of 19.8/20. The same year, he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

As a student, he represented Greece in various Balkan and International mathematics competitions (JBMO,BMO,IMO).

Interests

Neutron stars.

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Name
Prodromos
Supervisor
Kylafis
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Starting Year
2025
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Mavrommatis

MavrommatisMichalis
Education

Michalis Mavrommatis graduated from Soudas High School of Chania in 2020 with a grade of 18.3 (Excellent). That same year, he began his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.
 

Career

He has worked on projects analyzing data from meteorological stations, investigating urban emissions, and detecting wildfires across Europe. Currently he is part of "PARSEC", a project collaboratively implemented by the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) and the Institute of Astrophysics (IA) of FORTH. At this project, he develops and applies a machine-assisted methodology for constructing and curating semantically enriched astrophysical catalogs in the form of knowledge graphs under the supervision of Dr. Leonidaki (IA-FORTH) and Dr. Flouris (ICS - FORTH).
 

Interests

Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Astrophysics

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Name
Michalis
Supervisor
Leonidaki
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Starting Year
2025
Female
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Vogiatzis

VogiatzisStavros
Education

He graduated from the 2nd General High School of Sykeies, Thessaloniki, with a grade of 17.5 (Very Good) in 2022, and he began his undergraduate studies in Physics at the Univ. of Crete.

Career

He joined the Institute of Astrophysics in 2024, when he commenced his research, under  the supervision of Prof. Kylafis, on problems related to scattering in the strong magnetic fields of neutron stars.

Interests

Magnetic fields, accretion disks, scattering.

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Name
Stavros
Supervisor
Kylafis
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Director
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Starting Year
2024
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Diamantopoulos

VasilisDiamantopoulos
Education

Vasilis Diamantopoulos received his High School Diploma from the 8th General High School of Peristeri in 2018. In the same year he began his studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete.

Career

In 2024 he started working on his bachelor’s thesis titled “X-ray Variability Studies of NGC 4051” under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis.

Interests

His interests include Extragalactic Astronomy, Active Galactic Nuclei, Gravitational Lenses, Observational Cosmology and the teaching of Physics laboratories.

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Name
Vasilis
Supervisor
Papadakis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
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Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2024
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Sidiropoulos

ChrysostomosSidiropoulos
Education

Chrysostomos Sidiropoulos graduated from the high school of Hellenic College of Thessaloniki in 2020 with a grade of 19.6/20 (‘Excellent’). That same year, he was admitted to the Department of Physics at the University of Ioannina to pursue his undergraduate studies. He graduated in the summer of 2024 and started his MSc in "Advanced Physics" in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In 2021, he became a member of the ExoClock Project, which supports the ARIEL mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2024, he completed his thesis titled "Solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equations for neutron stars with polytropic equations of state and continuous speed of sound," under the supervision of Professor Panagiota Kanti.

Interests

Theoretical Astrophysics, Cosmology, Dark matter, Strong Gravitational Lensing, Compact Objects

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Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Chrysostomos
Supervisor
Pavlidou, Casadio
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Off
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Director
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Starting Year
2024
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Langis

Langis
Education

Dimitrios Alkinoos Langis graduated from the 9th Lyceum of Athens in 2018. In September of the same year, he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. He graduated in 2023 and joined the postgraduate program "Advanced Physics" at the University of Crete. In 2024 he completed his MSc degree  and joined the PhD program of the Department of Physics and the Institute of Astrophysics, under the supervision of Dr. Ioannis Liodakis.

Career

In February of 2023, he started working on his senior thesis under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis, entitled "UV and optical cross correlation studies of AGN at different time-scales". The objective of his thesis was to quantitatively study the long timescale variations in Active Galactic Nuclei. His MSc degree was also under the supervision of Prof. Papadakis and it was entitled Study of the optical/UV time lags in quasars.

Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei, Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics, Theoretical Astrophysics

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Office
106β Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Dimitrios Alkinoos
Supervisor
Liodakis
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Off
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Director
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Starting Year
2024
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Kofinaki

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Education

Maria Kofinaki graduated from the 7th High School of Heraklion in 2021 with grade 19.9/20 ("Excellent"). The same year, she started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics.

Career

In 2024 she joined the Institute of Astrophysics when she started her practical training at Skinakas observatory.

Interests

Observational Cosmology,  Αstrophysics

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Name
Maria
Supervisor
Liodakis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete - Undergraduate student
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Director
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Position at IA-FORTH
Practical Training at Skinakas Observatory
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2024
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Capecchiacci

SaraCapecchiacci
Education

Sara Capecchiacci obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Physics at the Università degli Studi di Milano Statale in 2021, and her Master’s degree in Astrophysics and Space Physics at Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca in 2023. She is currently a PhD student at IA-FORTH, with supervisor Ioannis Liodakis.

Career

Both her MS and BS thesis (respectively entitled “Mitigating unbalanced training sets for machine learning: generation of synthetic SEDs for the selection of high-redshift quasar” and “Study of time dependence of Planck-LFI detector properties”) were carried out in collaboration with INAF. Her PhD project will be focused on polarisation of blazar emission, with observations carried out at the Skinakas Observatory.

Interests

AGNs, Quasars, Blazars, Polarimetry, Astronomical Instrumentation.

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Office
106β Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4168
Affiliation
Name
Sara
Supervisor
Liodakis
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Off
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Director
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Starting Year
2024
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Floris

FlorisAlberto
Education

Alberto Floris obtained his BSc in Astronomy at the "Università degli Studi di Padova" in October 2021. He obtained his MSc in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the same University in December 2023. 

Career

In March 2022 he started to work on quasar observations at the Asiago Astrophysical Observatory, and in February 2023 he started working on his Master thesis titled "Chemical abundances along the Quasar Main Sequence". After graduation he was invited as a visiting researcher at the Center for Theoretical Physics in Warsaw to build a model for FeII emission in quasars. He joined the Department of Physics of the University of Crete and the Institute of Astrophysics in October 2024 as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Yannis Liodakis.

Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei, Broad Line Regions, Tidal Disruption Events, Changing-look AGN, star formation and the Interstellar Medium.

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Office
106β Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4168
Affiliation
Name
Alberto
Supervisor
Liodakis
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2024
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