Student

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

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).
 

In the summer of 2024, she completed an internship at the Skinakas Observatory, gaining hands-on experience in observational astrophysics and data analysis. Later that year, she joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, working on the topic “Search for rotations of the polarization position angle of blazars” under the supervision of Dr. Ioannis Liodakis. Her research focuses on analyzing long-term blazar polarization data using statistical techniques to identify and characterize rotations of the polarization position angle.

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.

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.

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.

2016, he and his school’s science team participated in the ESA “ASTRO PI” competition, advancing to the next phases with two projects. In the summer of 2022, he began his bachelor’s thesis titled “Diagnostics for Compact Object Types in Extragalactic X-ray Binaries” under the supervision of Professor A. Zezas, in which he studied X-ray binaries using machine learning techniques and algorithms. He presented it in July 2024. That same summer, he was accepted to and attended the 2022 Summer School of Astrostatistics in Crete. In the summer of 2023, he completed an internship at JADBio – Gnosis DA as a junior data scientist. In the summer of 2024, he undertook an Erasmus+ internship at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. Under the supervision of Dr. Johannes Buchner, he applied simulation-based inference on eROSITA surveys of quasars and their host galaxies. At the end of this internship, he presented a poster at the “First Results from the SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: From Stars to Cosmology” conference.

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.

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

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.