Student

Student

Psarakis

Psarakis
Education

Harry Psarakis graduated from the 2nd High School of Heraklion and obtained his BSc in Physics from the Univ. of Crete in 2021. He is currently an MSc student at the Advanced Physics Program of the Department Physics of the University of Crete.

Career

During his undergraduate studies, he collaborated with the Dr. Pablo Reig studying the properties of high-mass X-ray Binaries using optical spectra from Skinakas Observatory. He also spent 4 months at the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy (Germany), where he started the development of Exo-Striker's web documentation, a sophisticated scientific software, and he was involved in the dynamical analysis of a two planet system (HD82943), composed of two massive planets locked in 2:1 mean motion resonance.

Interests

X-ray Binaries, Exoplanets.

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Charalampos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
Departure Date
Female
Off

Papadaki

katerina papadaki
Education

Katerina Papadaki completed her BSc in Physics and her MSc in Advanced Physics at the University of Crete in 2019 and 2021 respectively. In 2021 she commenced her PhD in the Department of Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. George Tzagkatakis and Prof. Kostas Tassis.

Career

The last year of her undergraduate studies she collaborated with the research group of Prof. George Tsironis, in the project of chaotic timeseries prediction using Recurrent Neural Networks. Her master’s thesis with title “Modeling of Speech Signals using Recurrent Neural Networks”, was completed under the supervision of Dr. Yannis Pantazis. During the same period she also collaborated with Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou on the analysis of optopolarimetric observations with statistical and Machine Learning tools. The title of her PhD thesis is "Computational Intelligence for Multimodal Astrophysical Tomography" and it is part of the project "Polar", and it is part of the ongoing collaboration between FORTH and the Univ. of Cambridge under the auspices of GAPSTI.

Interests

Astrophysics, Non-Linear Dynamics, Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning

Email
Office
Signal Processing Lab, ICS-FORTH
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-1730
Affiliation
Name
Katerina
Supervisor
Tzagkarakis, Tassis
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2021
Female
On

Daoutis

Daoutis
Education

Charalampos Daoutis started his undergraduate studies in 2017 at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete and he graduated in 2021. In the same year he joined the MSc in Advanced Physics.

Career

In 2020 he started his undergraduate thesis in Astrophysics under the supervision of professor Andreas Zezas. The title of the thesis was "Galactic activity diagnostics based on WISE photometry Machine Learning Methods".

Interests

Observational Astrophysics, extragalactic Astrophysics, Machine learning methods in Astrophysics

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Charalampos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2021
Ending Year
2022
Departure Date
Female
Off

Konstantinou

Anna Konstantinou
Education

Anna Konstantinou obtained her BSc in Physics with specialization in "Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics" from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2018 and her MSc at the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete.  She is currently a PhD student at the University of Crete and IA-FORTH.

Career

At the Univ. of Athens she completed her undergraduate thesis, entitled "Spectroscopic study of Solar System bodies in optical wavelengths" (in greek) in order to detect molecular compounds in their atmospheres. After completing her Master Thesis entitled "Study of the impact of interstellar cloud shapes on CMB polarization foregrounds", she commenced her PhD on realistic simulations of the magnetic fields in galaxies.

Interests

Interstellar clouds, Magnetic fields, Galaxies, Astrobiology

Email
Office
230 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4236
Affiliation
Name
Anna
Supervisor
Ntormousi, Tassis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Private Sector
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
Ending Year
2026
Departure Date
Female
On
Starting Month
12

Chanlaridis

Chanlaridis Savvas
Education

Savvas Chanlaridis obtained his BSc in Physics in 2016 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) where he majored in Nuclear & Elementary Particle Physics. He then moved to the University of Bonn (Germany) from where he was awarded a MSc in Astrophysics in 2019. His master thesis was titled "Non-accreting Helium Stars as Progenitors of Thermonuclear Supernovae" and was performed under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Norbert Langer and Dr. John Antoniadis at the Argelander-Institute of Astronomy.

Career

Savvas Chanlaridis moved back to Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2020 as a guest researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Stergioulas where he studied the effect of stellar wind on the evolution of low-mass helium stars. In 2021 he joined the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete and the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH as a PhD student in order to work on the understanding of the mass spectrum of neutron stars under the supervision of Dr. John Antoniadis.

Interests

Theoretical Stellar Astrophysics, Compact Objects, Pulsar Astronomy, Stellar Transients, Nuclear Astrophysics, EoS of nuclear matter

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Savvas
Supervisor
Antoniadis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Kivos Analytics, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2021
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
Off

Papadaki

Katerina Papadaki
Education

Katerina Papadaki completed her BSc in Physics at the University of Crete in 2019 and continues her studies at the MSc programme Advanced Physics.

Career

The last year of her undergraduate studies she collaborated with the research group of Prof. George Tsironis, in the project of chaotic timeseries prediction using Recurrent Neural Networks. Her master’s thesis with title “Modeling of Speech Signals using Recurrent Neural Networks”, was completed under the supervision of Dr. Yannis Pantazis. Since December of 2020, she collaborates with Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou for the analysis of optopolarimetric observations with statistical and Machine Learning tools.

Interests

Astrophysics, Non-Linear Dynamics, Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning

Email
Office
109Β Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Katerina
Supervisor
Pantazis, Pavlidou
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Crete - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
Ending Year
2021
Departure Date
Female
On