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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.

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.

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.

In November 2025, he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH when he started working on his senior thesis on the topic of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) under the supervision of Dr. Ioannis Liodakis.

In 2025, she joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH as a member of Dr. Ioannis Liodakis’ team.

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. His MSc thesis, performed under the supervision of Dr. Casadio, was entitled "Do intervening clusters significantly enhance the millilensing probability for distant compact radio sources?".

In 2024 he completed his bachelor’s thesis titled “X-ray Variability Studies of NGC 4051” under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis. During his M.Sc. he worked with Prof. Papadakis on the energy dependence of the X-ray variability of NGC 4051 and NGC 4395. He presented his M.Sc. thesis in July 2025. His Ph.D. research will focus on Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs), using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), under the supervision of Prof. Anthony C. S. Readhead.

In 2023 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, when he started working on his senior thesis concerning modeling the early phases of star formation under the supervision of Prof. Tassis. He is working towards his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Tassis and Dr. Tritsis.

In 2024 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH when he started working on the topic of Expansion of Extragalactic Catalogues under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Zezas.