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Anastasia Gourni graduated from the 2nd High School of Chalkida in 2019 with a grade of 18.8/20. In the same year, she started her undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics of the University of Crete. |
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In the summer of 2022, she attended a Physics Summer School organized by the University of Ljubljana for bachelor's and master's degree students. The following year, she started her senior thesis involving progenitor systems of SNe-Ia under the supervision of Dr. John Antoniadis. |
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Observational Astrophysics, Supernovae, Stellar evolution, Stellar systems, Variable Stars |
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Avinash obtained both his BSc in Physics (2016) and his MSc in Physics with specialization in Electronics (2018) from the University of Allahabad, India. |
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In 2018, he was an intern at RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory developing interest in Radio and AGN; In 2021 he joined as a Junior Research Fellow for the UC Berkeley SETI-Amity project to do Imaging using uGMRT funded by Breakthrough Listen Initiative; In 2022 he worked as a Senior Project Associate funded by ISRO for the ISRO-ARIES Collaboration on the Aditya-L1 Project(AL1SC); Since April 2023 he is at the Institute of Astrophysics (IA-FORTH) as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr Carolina Casadio in the SMILE group. |
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Radio Astronomy; VLBI; Dark Matter Halos; AGN; Big Data; |
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232 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4239
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Emmanouil Foukarakis graduated from the High school of New Alikarnassos in Heraklion Crete with a grade of 19.3/20 (‘Excellent’). In 2013, he joined the Department of Physics of the University of Crete as an undergraduate student from which he obtained his BSc in physics in January 2019. In 2022 was admitted in the MSc program of Advanced Physics. |
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Since 2023 he is a member of the project "ARGOS". For his MSc thesis he is working under the supervision of Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou in collaboration with Dr. John Antoniadis in the study of neutrino radio signatures with the "ARGOS" program. |
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High Energy Astrophysics, Theoretical Astrophysics, Neutrino detection |
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308 Physics Bldg
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Ioannis Orfanos studied physics at the University of Athens until 2022 when he graduated. Immediately after, in September 2022, he began his studies in the "Advanced Physics" postgraduate program at the University of Crete. |
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During his undergraduate studies, he completed his thesis, entitled "Gamma radiation absorption by GRBs via photon-photon reaction", under the supervision of Professor Apostolos Mastichiadis. |
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High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmology |
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308 Physics Bldg
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Giannis Volakakis graduated from the 3rd high school of Rethymno in 2017. The same year he started his undergraduate studies in the Physics Department of the University of Crete. He obtained his BSc in Physics in 2022 and was admitted in the MSc programm of Advanced Physics of the same Department. |
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Since 2023 he is a member o the project "ARGOS". For his MSc thesis, he is working on pulsar timing simulations for the ARGOS array under the supervision of Dr. John Antoniadis. |
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Astrophysics, Cosmology, binary systems, interferometry |
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308 Physics Bldg
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Charalambos Daoutis received his bachelor's degree in physics in 2021 and his Master's in Advanced Physics in the field of Astrophysics and Space Physics in 2022 from the University of Crete. In the fall of 2022 he was accepted as a PhD student at the Department of Physics. |
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During his undergraduate and postgraduate studies he studied the various mechanisms of galaxy activity. He developed diagnostics for galactic activity in the optical and infrared part of the spectrum, utilizing machine learning methods. He collaborates with Professor Andreas Zezas in the study of the evolution of galaxies and the application of machine learning methods in Astrophysics. In May 2022 he commenced a studentship at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University (USA). |
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Galactic Evolution and Activity, Observational Astrophysics, Machine Learning in Astrophysics, Diagnostic tools, Active Nuclei |
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230 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810 39-4236
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Theodora Zacharopoulou graduated from Sparta’s high school and obtained her BSc in Physics at the University of Patra in 2022. The same year she joined the MSc program of Advanced Physics at the University of Crete. |
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During her undergraduate studies she completed his senior thesis entitled “First photometry of the contact binary star NSVS 12092853 from TESS’’. |
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Astrophysics, Binary Stars, 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. |
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He became a member of the Institute when he started working on his senior 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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He graduated from the 2nd General High School of Ierapetra Lasithi in 2018, with a grade of 19.4/20 ("Excellent"), and at the same year he enrolled in the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete. |
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In the fall of 2022, he started his bachelor thesis on "Phase Transitions in Millisecond Pulsars" under the supervision of Dr. John Antoniadis, which was completed in 2024. |
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Black Holes, Cosmology, Theoretical Astrophysics, Neutron stars |
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