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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. |
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As a student, he represented Greece in various Balkan and International mathematics competitions (JBMO,BMO,IMO). |
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Neutron stars. |
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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. |
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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). |
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Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Astrophysics |
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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. |
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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. |
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Magnetic fields, accretion disks, scattering. |
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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. |
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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. |
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His interests include Extragalactic Astronomy, Active Galactic Nuclei, Gravitational Lenses, Observational Cosmology and the teaching of Physics laboratories. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Theoretical Astrophysics, Cosmology, Dark matter, Strong Gravitational Lensing, Compact Objects |
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308 Physics Bldg
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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. |
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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. |
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Active Galactic Nuclei, Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics, Theoretical Astrophysics |
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106β Physics Bldg
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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. |
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In 2024 she joined the Institute of Astrophysics when she started her practical training at Skinakas observatory. |
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Observational Cosmology, Αstrophysics |
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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. |
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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. |
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AGNs, Quasars, Blazars, Polarimetry, Astronomical Instrumentation. |
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106β Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4168
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