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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. |
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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. |
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High-mass X-ray binaries in nearby galaxies, Observational Astrophysics |
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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. |
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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". |
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Neutron Stars, High Mass X-Ray Binaries, X-Ray Spectroscopy. |
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232 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4239
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Konstantinos Droudakis is an undergraduate student at the Physics Department of the University of Crete since 2014. |
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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. |
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Neutron Stars, High Mass X-Ray Binaries, X-Ray Spectroscopy |
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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. |
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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. |
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Simulations of galaxy observations with the Athena X-ray space telescope. |
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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. |
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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. |
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X-ray binary modelling, Machine Learning methods in Astrophysics |
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Dimitris Maniadakis is an undergraduate student in Physics at the University of Crete. |
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Alongside his studies, he is working with Pablo Reig in the study of X-ray binary systems for his diploma thesis. |
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X-ray Binaries;Astrophysics; Cosmology. |
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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. |
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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. |
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X-ray Binaries, Exoplanets, Cosmology. |
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Ms Kateriniovi Triantafyllaki is senior undergraduate student of the University of Crete and member of the student's astronomy group. |
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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. |
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X-ray binaries, accretion processes, blazars |
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Kyriazis Antonios is a fourth year student at the Physics Department of the University of Crete. |
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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. |
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Early universe cosmology, magnetic fields in galaxies |
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