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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. |
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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. |
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Active Galactic Nuclei, Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics, Theoretical Astrophysics |
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308 Physics Bldg
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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. |
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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. |
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Extragalactic astrophysics, Active galactic nuclei, Strong gravitational lensing, Radio and mm-VLBI interferometry |
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308 Physics Bldg
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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. |
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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. |
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Active Galactic Nuclei, Fourier analysis of variable phenomena, High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmology. |
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232 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4239
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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. |
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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. |
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Active Galactic Nuclei, Fourier analysis of variable phenomena, High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmology. |
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308 Physics Bldg
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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. |
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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. |
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Observational Astrophysics, Supernovae, Stelar evolution, Galaxies, Microlensing |
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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. She graduated in July 2025 and commenced her MSc in Advanced Physics at the University of Crete. |
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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. |
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Observational Astrophysics, Supernovae, Stelar evolution, Galaxies, Microlensing |
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308 Physics Bldg
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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. |
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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. |
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Planet formation, stellar evolution, binary stars |
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308 Physics Bldg
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