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Orfanos

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Email
orfanosg@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Ioannis
Supervisor
Leonidaki
Past Member
Off
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Deputy Director
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Starting Year
2026
Departure Date
Female
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Starting Month
9

Gouva

Christina Gouva
Education

Graduated from General highschool in 2023. The same year she started her undergraduate studies in the University Of Crete Department of Physics.
Career

In 2026 she completed a summer internship programm at Skinakas observatory, Institute of Astrophysics (FORTH). In the same year she started working on her bachelor's thesis about Search for periodic variability in optical light curves of blazars under the supervision of Dr Ioannis Liodakis.
Interests

Active galactic nuclei (AGNS), Blazars, extra galactic objects, super massive black holes, Star formation, dark matter, cosmology. 
Email
ph5810@edu.physics.uoc.gr
Affiliation
Student
Name
Christina
Supervisor
Liodakis
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Undergraduate Student
Director
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Deputy Director
Off
Starting Year
2026
Female
On
Starting Month
9

Magkanari

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Education

Mirella Magkanari graduated from the 3rd General Highschool of Glyfada in 2024 with a grade of 19.4/20 ("Excellent"). In the same year she started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.
Career

In 2026 she joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH when she started a summer internship under the supervision of Dr. I. Liodakis on the reduction and calibration of a polarimeter. In September 2026 she started a research project supervised by Prof. K. Tassis on the subject of spectropolarimetric analysis of galaxies with data from the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT).
Interests

Polarimetry, galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei, properties of the ISM, observational astrophysics
Email
ph5887@edu.physics.uoc.gr
Affiliation
Student
Name
Mirella
Supervisor
Tassis
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Undergraduate Student
Director
Off
Deputy Director
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Starting Year
2026
Female
Off
Starting Month
9

Rodríguez-Sacristán

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Education

Alejandra is from Sevilla, Spain and she is 22 years old. She lived and studied in Sevilla until 2021 and then moved to Groningen, the Netherlands to study a bachelor's in Physics at the University of Groningen. She followed the theoretical particle physics track and graduated in the summer of 2025. In september 2025 I started the MCs Advanced physics program at the University of Crete. 
Career

She is following the theoretical high energy physics and cosmology track and started her masters thesis under the supervision of professor Achilleas Porfyriadis.
Interests

Interested in high energy theoretical physics, cosmology, gravity and quantum field theory.
Email
arodriguez@physics.uoc.gr
Affiliation
Student
URL
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-rodríguez-sacristán-gaudette-348343422/
Name
Alejandra
Supervisor
Porfyriadis
Past Member
On
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Deputy Director
Off
Starting Year
2025
Ending Year
2026
URL and Title of Dissertation
Solving the connection problem for the Heun equation via conformal field theory…
Departure Date
Female
On
Starting Month
12

Tsaraktsidis

GeorgiosTsaraktsidis
Education

Georgios Tsaraktsidis graduated from the 1st High School of Komotini in 2022 with a grade of 19/20 ('Excellent'). In the same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.
Career

In the summer of 2024 he joined Prof. Achilleas Porfyriadis's research group when he started working on the analytical study of dynamical extreme black holes.
Interests

Theoretical gravitational and high energy physics
Email
ph5744@edu.physics.uoc.gr
Affiliation
Student
URL
https://inspirehep.net/authors/3097360
Name
Georgios
Supervisor
Porfyriadis
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4831-6341
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Institut Polytechnique de Paris (France) - PhD student
Student Category
Undergraduate Student
Director
Off
Deputy Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2026
URL and Title of Dissertation
(Dynamical) Extreme Black Holes and Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity
Departure Date
Female
Off
Starting Month
9

Parvantoni

MelpomeniParvantoni
Education

Melpomeni Parvantoni graduated from the 4th General Lyceum of Marousi with a grade of 19.4 (Excellent) in 2021 and continued her undergraduate studies at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete.
Career

In the summer of 2025, she began researching Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) under the supervision of Dr. Tanio Diaz Santos. In addition, she completed an internship in the summer of 2025 at the Institute of Astrophysics of FORTH under the supervision of Dr. Andreas Zezas on the study of galaxy spectra.
Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), Black Holes and their evolution, Binary Star Systems, Dark Matter.
Email
ph5772@edu.physics.uoc.gr
Affiliation
Student
Name
Melpomeni
Supervisor
Diaz Santos
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Undergraduate Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2025
Female
On
Starting Month
6

Konstantinou

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Education

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Career

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Interests

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Email
akonstant@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Anastasia
Supervisor
T. Diaz Santos
Past Member
Off
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
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Deputy Director
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Starting Year
2026
Female
On
Starting Month
9
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Konstantinou-Anastasia

Simosi

KonstantinaSimosi
Education

Konstantina Simosi earned a BSc in Physics with a specialization in Astrophysics, Astronomy, and Mechanics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2024. In September 2025, she began her graduate studies at the University of Crete.
Career

Konstantina Simosi conducted part of her undergraduate thesis research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, through the Mitacs Globalink Research Award, which she received in 2022. In 2024, she received a distinction for her academic performance upon graduation.  For her MSc thesis she will be working under Dr. Tanio Diaz Santos.
Interests

Extragalactic astrophysics, high-redshift galaxies, interstellar medium, circumgalactic medium, galaxy evolution, radio astronomy
Email
ksimosi@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
Name
Konstantina
Supervisor
Diaz Santos
Past Member
Off
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2025
Female
On
Starting Month
12

Bellas

MichalisBellas
Education

Michalis Bellas graduated from the 2nd General High School of Metamorfosi (Athens) in 2022 with a grade of 18.9/20 ('Excellent'). The same year, he began his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.
Career

In September 2024 and 2025, he volunteered at "Researcher's Night at FORTH".  In November 2025, he joined the Institute of Astrophysics (IA) at FORTH when he began working on his bachelor's thesis on the topic of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) in compact Luminous and Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs and ULIRGs), under the supervision of Dr. Tanio Diaz-Santos.
Interests

Properties of the ISM, star-formation, exoplanets and planetary systems
Email
ph5764@edu.physics.uoc.gr
Affiliation
Student
Name
Michalis
Supervisor
Diaz Santos
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Undergraduate Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2025
Female
Off
Starting Month
11
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