Student

Student

Markoudakis

GiannisMarkoudakis
Education

He graduated from the General High School of Atsipopoulo Rethymno in 2019, and at the same year he enrolled in the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete.

Career

In the fall of 2022, he started his bachelor thesis entitled "Measuring Galaxy Distances using Cross-Correlation Methods", to be later used for the SMILE project, under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Zezas and Dr. Carolina Casadio. In the summer of 2023 he completed his internship at Skinakas Observatory.

Interests

Observational Astrophysics, Cosmology, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Pre-Main-Sequence Stars, Machine Learning.

Email
Affiliation
Name
Giannis
Supervisor
Zezas, Casadio
Past Member
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Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2022
Ending Year
2023
Departure Date
Female
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Langis

LangisDimitriosAlkinoos
Education

Dimitrios Alkinoos Langis graduated from the 9th Lyceum of Athens in 2018. In September of the same year, he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. He graduated in 2023 and joined the postgraduate program "Advanced Physics" at the University of Crete.

Career

In February of 2023, he started working on his senior thesis under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis, titled "UV and optical cross correlation studies in AGN at different time-scales". The objective of his thesis was to quantitatively study the long timescale variations in Active Galactic Nuclei.

Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei, Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics, Theoretical Astrophysics

Email
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Dimitrios Alkinoos
Supervisor
Papadakis
Past Member
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Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
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Kalaitzidakis

Kalaitzidakis
Education

George Kalaitzidakis graduated from the Experimental High School of the University of Crete in Rethymno in 2018 with a grade of 19.5/20 (‘Excellent’). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete. He obtained his BSc in 2023 and commenced his MSc in Advanced Physics in the fall of 2023.

Career

In 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou, he participated in the “SMILE: Search for Milli-Lenses” project, and became an official member of the project in 2021. The same year he started working, under the supervision of Dr. Casadio Carolina, on his senior thesis concerning the study of a sample of compact radio loud sources using VLBI radio data in search of strong gravitational lens systems that could account for Dark Matter halo candidates. 

Interests

Extragalactic astrophysics, Active galactic nuclei, Strong gravitational lensing,  Radio and mm-VLBI interferometry

Email
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
George
Supervisor
Casadio
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
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Binas-Valavanis

Binas-Valavanis
Education

Vasilios Binas-Valavanis graduated from the high school of Kardamyli (Messinia) in 2019 with a grade of 19.8/20.0 ('Excellent'). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. He obtained his BSc in 2023 and his MSc in 2024. In January 2025 he started his PhD at the Univ. of Crete and IA-FORTH.

Career

He became a member of the Institute of Astrophysics in 2022 when he started working on his senior undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis to study the X-ray variability of Active Galactic Nuclei using Swift/BAT light curves. He is currently a PhD student.

Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei, Fourier analysis of variable phenomena, High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmology.

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Name
Vasileios
Supervisor
Papadakis
Past Member
Off
Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2025
Departure Date
Female
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Binas-Valavanis

Binas-Valavanis
Education

Vasilios Binas-Valavanis graduated from the high school of Kardamyli (Messinia) in 2019 with a grade of 19.8/20.0 ('Excellent'). The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. He obtained his BSc in 2023 and commenced his MSc studies at the same Department.

Career

He became a member of the Institute of Astrophysics in 2022 when he started working on his senior undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis to study the X-ray variability of Active Galactic Nuclei using Swift/BAT light curves. 

Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei, Fourier analysis of variable phenomena, High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmology.

Email
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Vasileios
Supervisor
Papadakis
Past Member
On
Student Category
Director
Off
Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
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Chaniotaki

EiriniChaniotaki
Education

Eirini Chaniotaki graduated from the 1st Hight School of Kalymnos in 2019 with a grade of 19.0/20.0(‘Excellent’). The same year, she started her studies in the University of Crete at the Department of Physics.

Career

During the summer of 2022 she participated in the physics summer school of the University of Ljubljana for bachelors and masters level students. At the beginning of 2023, she started working on her thesis regarding polarization in supernovae, under the supervision of Dr. John Antoniadis.

Interests

Observational Astrophysics, Supernovae, Stelar evolution, Galaxies, Microlensing

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Affiliation
Name
Eirini
Supervisor
Antoniadis
Past Member
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Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2023
Female
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Tzouvanou

Tzouvanou
Education

Anastasia started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete in 2018. She graduated in 2022 and commenced her MSc in Advanced Physics in 2023.

Career

During the summer of 2021 she worked as an intern at the Skinakas Observatory under the supervision of Dr. Reig. In 2022 she started working on her senior thesis with Dr. Reig studying the long term optical variability of Be/X-ray binaries. She also spend 5 months at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy as an intern where she worked on the project entitled: "Do all gaps in protoplanetary discs host planets?". In 2023 she started working for her master thesis studying the long-term polarimetric variability of Be/X-ray binaries in order to study the neutron star-disc connection.

Interests

Planet formation, stellar evolution, binary stars
 

Email
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Name
Anastasia
Supervisor
Reig
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany - PhD student
Student Category
Director
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Starting Year
2023
Ending Year
2024
Departure Date
Female
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