Student

Student

Psarras

Psarras photo
Education

Konstantinos Psarras graduated from the Music high school of Serres and he currently is an undergraduate student in the Physics Department at the University of Crete.

Career

In the beginning of 2019,  under the supervision of Professor A. Zezas, in parallel with the physics coursework, he started studying topics related to estimates of the Star Formation Rate (SFR) in galaxies. Following this he commenced working on his undergraduate dissertation, on high-mass X-ray binaries in nearby galaxies.

Interests

High-mass X-ray binaries in nearby galaxies, Observational Astrophysics

Email
Affiliation
Name
Konstantinos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2019
Ending Year
2022
Departure Date
Female
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Droudakis

Droudakis
Education

Konstantinos Droudakis completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete and joined the MSc program of Advanced Physics in 2021.

Career

Since 2018 he is working with professor Andreas Zezas on studying and modeling X-Ray spectra from High Mass X-Ray Binaries and in the summers of 2019 and 2020 he was at Skinakas Observatory as Research Assistant. In 2021 he completed his undergraduate thesis with title "Spectral and Timing Analysis of Swift J005139.2-721704, a transient Be/X-Ray Pulsar".

Interests

Neutron Stars, High Mass X-Ray Binaries, X-Ray Spectroscopy.

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Konstantinos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Texas Tech University (USA) - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2021
Ending Year
2022
Departure Date
Female
Off

Droudakis

Droudakis
Education

Konstantinos Droudakis is an undergraduate student at the Physics Department of the University of Crete since 2014.
 

Career

Since 2018 he is working with professor Andreas Zezas on studying and modeling X-Ray spectra from High Mass X-Ray Binaries and in the summer of 2019 he was at Skinakas Observatory as Research Assistant.
 

Interests

Neutron Stars, High Mass X-Ray Binaries, X-Ray Spectroscopy

Email
Affiliation
Name
Konstantinos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2014
Ending Year
2021
Departure Date
Female
Off

Nix

Nix
Education

Alexia Nix graduated from the High School of Episkopi near Rethymno, and she is currently a fourth year undergraduate student at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete.

Career

At the end of 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Zezas, she commenced to study issues related to the calibration of the X-ray Luminosity and star formation rate for star forming galaxies as a function of redshift, in order to become familiar with operating programs that preform simulations. Later in the year she started working with Prof. Zezas on her undergraduate thesis.

Interests

Simulations of galaxy observations with the Athena X-ray space telescope.

Email
Affiliation
Name
Alexia
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Dept. of Physics, Uppsala University (Sweden) - MSc student
Last known position
The University of Iceland (Island) - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2018
Ending Year
2020
Departure Date
Female
On

Savathrakis

Savathrakis
Education

Giorgos Savathrakis graduated from the 3rd High School of Heraklion in 2016. He is currently a fourth year undergraduate student at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. He is also a member of the Students' Astronomy Group of the University of Crete.

Career

He participated as a high school student in the Students' Astronomy and Space Science contest where he reached the third phase of the contest for two consecutive years (2015,2016). At the end of 2018, he started working on his undergraduate thesis, under the supervision of Professor Andreas Zezas, in a matter regarding X-ray binary modelling.
 

Interests

X-ray binary modelling, Machine Learning methods in Astrophysics

Email
Affiliation
Name
Giorgos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Position at IA-FORTH
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Starting Year
2018
Ending Year
2020
Departure Date
Female
Off
Title of Dissertation
Estimation of photometric quantities from stellar parameters using machine learning methods

Maniadakis

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Education

Dimitris Maniadakis is an undergraduate student in Physics at the University of Crete. 

Career

Alongside his studies, he is working with Pablo Reig in the study of X-ray binary systems for his diploma thesis.

Interests

X-ray Binaries;Astrophysics; Cosmology. 

Email
Affiliation
Name
Dimitrios-Konstantinos
Supervisor
Reig
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
University of Padova (Italy) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2019
Ending Year
2020
Departure Date
Female
Off

Psarakis

Psarakis
Education

Harry Psarakis graduated from the 2nd High School of Heraklion and he is currently an undergraduate student at the Physics Department of the University of Crete.

Career

Along with his undergraduate studies, he is collaborating with the Dr. Pablo Reig to study the properties of high-mass X-ray Binaries using the optical spectra.
 

Interests

X-ray Binaries, Exoplanets, Cosmology.

Email
Affiliation
Name
Charalampos
Supervisor
Reig
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2019
Ending Year
2021
Departure Date
Female
Off

Triantafyllaki

Triantafyllaki
Education

Ms Kateriniovi Triantafyllaki is senior undergraduate student of the University of Crete and member of the student's astronomy group.

Career

Along with her studies, she has been an intern at Skinakas Observatory (2018) and at the Observatory of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (2019) where she worked under the supervision of Łukasz Stawarz on  intra-night luminosity variability of blazar sources. She is currently finishing her undergraduate thesis on X-ray binaries systems under the supervision of Dr. Pablo Reig.
 

Interests

X-ray binaries, accretion processes, blazars
 

Email
Affiliation
Name
Aikaterini-Niovi
Supervisor
Reig
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Aix-Marseille University (France) - MSc student
Last known position
Tartu Observatory (Esthonia) - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2018
Ending Year
2020
Departure Date
Female
On

Kyriazis

Kyriazis photo
Education

Kyriazis Antonios is a fourth year student at the Physics Department of the University of Crete.
 

Career

During the summer of 2019 he engaged in problems regarding inflation, the accelerated expansion of the universe right after it's birth, under the supervision of professors Nikos Tsamis and Richard Woodard. At the same time, he is simulating magnetic fields in galaxies with Dr. Evangelia Ntormousi and Prof. Konstantinos Tassis.
 

Interests

Early universe cosmology, magnetic fields in galaxies
 

Email
Affiliation
Name
Antonis
Supervisor
Tassis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Florida (USA) - PhD student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2018
Ending Year
2020
Departure Date
Female
Off