Student

Student

Grigoriou

StylianaGregoriou
Education

Styliana Gregoriou graduated from the High School of Agios Ioannis, Limassol, in 2021  with a grade of 19.25/20 ("Excellent"). In the same year, she started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In the summer of 2024, she completed her internship at Skinakas Observatory.

Interests

Cosmology, Extragalactic astrophysics

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Affiliation
Name
Styliana
Supervisor
Liodakis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
University of Lund (Sweden) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2025
Departure Date
Female
On

Barla

KalliopiBarla
Education

Kalliopi Barla graduated from the Highschool of Kastelli Pediados, Heraklion, in 2018 with a grade of 18,3/20,0. In the same year she started her undergraduate studies in the Physics Department of the University of Ioannina. During the spring semester of academic year 2021-22, she was an Erasmus studies student in the Faculty of Sciences of Universidad de Girona, in Catalonia, Spain.

Career

In October 2023, she started working on her senior thesis under the supervision of Prof. Nikolaos Chatzianastasiou, exploring possible effects of solar activity (using sunspot number as index) on stratospheric temperatures during the last 80 years.

Interests

Observational astrophysics,  evolution of galaxies, star formation, exoplanetary systems, astrobiology, ethics in modern physics. 

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Affiliation
Name
Kalliopi
Supervisor
Reig
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Ioannina - Undergraduate student
Student Category
Director
Off
Position at IA-FORTH
Practical Training at Skinakas Observatory
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
On

Polychronakis

AristeidisPolychronakis
Education

Aristeidis Polychronakis graduated from the 8th High School of Heraklion in 2020 with a grade of 18.3/20 ('Excellent’). The year after, he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete.

Career

In 2024, he started working on his senior thesis concerning testing the accuracy of magnetic field estimation methods in star-forming regions, using simulations of collapsing molecular clouds, under the supervision of Prof. Tassis. In the summer of 2024, he completed his internship at Skinakas Observatory.

Interests

Interstellar medium physics, magnetic fields, star-formation

Email
Affiliation
Name
Aristeidis
Supervisor
Tassis
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2025
Departure Date
Female
Off

Smpokos

EmmanouilSmpokos
Education

Emmanouil Smpokos graduated from the 4th High School of Heraklion in 2021 with a grade of 19.9/20 (“Excellent”). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In 2024 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH, when he started working on the topic of statistical properties of positional angles of radio sources in various radio surveys, under the supervision of Dr. Paul Kalas.

Interests

Exoplanets, large-scale structures , statistical analysis of the parameters of radio sources

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Affiliation
Name
Emmanouil
Supervisor
Kalas
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2025
Female
Off

Rompogiannakis

DimitriosRompogiannakis
Education

Dimitrios Rompogiannakis graduated from the 3rd High School of Heraklion in 2014 with a grade of 17.8/20 (‘Very Good’). In the same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

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.

Interests

Extragalactic astrophysics, Galaxy Catalogues, Galaxy Characterisation, Applications to Multimessenger Astrophysics

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Affiliation
Name
Dimitrios
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2025
Departure Date
Female
Off
Starting Month
10

Papatheodorou

ErrikosPapatheodorou
Education

Errikos Papatheodorou graduated from the 5th High School of Korydallos in 2018. In the same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In 2024 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH when he started working on his diploma thesis entitled "Galactic spectra classification using cross-correlation methods" under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Zezas.

Interests

Galactic spectra analysis, Machine learning with applications in astrophysics.

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Affiliation
Name
Errikos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
Off

Zoumpoulakis

OrestisZoumpoulakis
Education

Orestis Zoumpoulakis graduated from the High School of Makry-Gialos in 2021 with a grade of 19.7/20 (‘Excellent’). In the same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In 2024 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH when he started working on the topic of Stellar Population Inference under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Zezas.

Interests

Extragalactic astrophysics, star-formation, evolution of galaxies

Email
Affiliation
Name
Orestis
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2025
Departure Date
Female
Off

Zoumpoulakis

OrestisZoumpoulakis
Education

Orestis Zoumpoulakis graduated from the High School of Makry-Gialos in 2021 with a grade of 19.7/20 (‘Excellent’). In the same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete. He graduated in the fall of 2025 and he commenced his MSc in Advanced Physics.

Career

In 2024 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH when he started working on the topic of Stellar Population Inference under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Zezas.

Interests

Extragalactic astrophysics, star-formation, evolution of galaxies

Email
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Orestis
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2025
Female
Off
Starting Month
9

Vasilas

NikolasVasilas
Education

Nikolas Vasilas graduated from 2nd High School of Heraklion Crete in 2020 with a grade of 19.9/20 (‘Excellent’). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.

Career

In the year of 2016 he and the team of Science of his school participated in the ESA competition “ASTRO PI” and they proceeded to the next phases of the competition with two projects. In the summer of 2022 he started his bachelor thesis under the supervision of professor A. Zezas; in which he is studding X-ray Binaries utilizing Machine Learning techniques and algorithm. In the same summer he got accepted and attended the 2022 Summer School of Astrostatistics in Crete. In the summer of 2023 he completed his internship at the company JADBio – Gnosis DA as junior Data Scientist.

Interests

X-ray Binaries, Compact Objects, Machine Learning, Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Accretion Disks.

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Affiliation
Name
Nikolas
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
Off

Polioudakis

MichailPolioudakis
Education

Michail Polioudakis graduated from the Experimental High School of the University of Crete in Rethymno in 2019. The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete. He graduated in 2024 and joined the postgraduate programm "Advanced Physics" at the university of Crete in the fall of the same year.

Career

In February of 2024, he started working on his senior thesis under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis, titled "Study of the temperature radial dependence in X-ray illuminated accretion discs".

Interests

Cosmology, Active Galactic Nuclei, Theoretical Astrophysics, Extragalactic Astrophysics

Email
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Michail
Supervisor
Papadakis
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2024
Ending Year
2025
Departure Date
Female
Off
Starting Month
9