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Gkimisi

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Education

Katia Gkimisi graduated from the 1st High School of Agia Paraskevi, Athens and entered the undergraduate program in the Department of Physics, University of Crete in 2016. She completed her BSc in 2020 and she continued to the MSc program of Advanced Physics.
Career

In 2018 she started a project on intrinsically polarized stars, under the supervision of professor Konstantinos Tassis. She then commenced her undergraduate thesis, entitled "Detecting artefacts in Robopol images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" in which, with the help of PhD candidate Rafael Skalidis, she  analyzed data taken outside the mask of the RoboPol instrument.
Interests

Stellar polarization, Observational Astrophysics, ISM
Email
kgkimisi@physics.uoc.gr
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4239
Affiliation
Student
URL
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katia_Gkimisi
Name
Katia
Supervisor
Tassis
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3267-8612
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Bologna, Italy - Erasmus student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
Ending Year
2022
URL and Title of Dissertation
Measurement of the magnetic field in the polaris flare region using data from t…
Departure Date
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Markopoulioti

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Education

Lydia Markopoulioti completed her undergraduate studies in the Physics Department at the University of Crete in 2020 and joined the MSc program of Advanced Physics.
 
Career

In the third year of her undergraduate studies (2018), she started working on her diploma thesis, entitled "Classification of stars to normal and intrinsically polarized", under the supervision of Prof. Kostantinos Tassis. For her MSc project she is working on mid-infrared spectroscopy of luminous interacting galaxies under the supervision of Dr. Tanio Diaz Santos.
Interests

Interstellar medium, intrinsically polarized stars, Machine Learning methods in Astrophysics, Observational Astrophysics and polarimetry.
 
Email
lmarkopoulioti@physics.uoc.gr
Office
235β Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4231
Affiliation
Student
URL
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lydia_Markopoulioti
Name
Lydia
Supervisor
Diaz Santos
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=iuf3_iUAAAAJ
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6125-523X
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Madrid, Spain - Erasmus student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
Ending Year
2022
URL and Title of Dissertation
Studying the Spectra of Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs)
Departure Date
Female
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Savathrakis

Savathrakis
Education

Giorgos Savathrakis graduated from the 3rd High School of Heraklion in 2016. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete and joined the MSc program in "Advanced Physics" in 2020. He is also a member of the Students' Astronomy Group of the University of Crete.
Career

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).  His undergraduate thesis, under the supervision of Professor Andreas Zezas, was on X-ray binary population modelling.
 
Interests

X-ray binary modelling, Machine Learning methods in Astrophysics
Email
gsavathrakis@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Affiliation
Student
URL
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giorgos_Savathrakis
Name
Giorgos
Supervisor
Zezas
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete & ICS-FORTH (Greece) - MSc student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
Ending Year
2021
URL and Title of Dissertation
Identification of clusters in observational and mock galaxy catalogs
Departure Date
Female
Off

Karakonstantakis

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Education

Angelos Karakonstantakis completed his undergraduate studies at the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete,  and joined the MSc program of Advanced Physics in 2020.
Career

Angelos Karakonstantakis  is currently preparing his MSc thesis, modeling AGN's variability in X-rays, under the supervision of Prof. Iossif Papadakis.
Interests

His research interests are in extragalactic astrophysics with main emphasis on active galactic nuclei.
Email
a.karakonstantakis@physics.uoc.gr
Office
308 Physics Bldg
Telephone
2810 39-4319
Affiliation
Student
URL
https://www.camk.edu.pl/en/people/staff/karakonang/
Name
Angelos
Supervisor
Papadakis
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WcG0GzEAAAAJ
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2322-259X
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (Poland) - PhD student
Student Category
MSc Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
Ending Year
2021
URL and Title of Dissertation
Study of long term X-ray time lags in AGN
Departure Date
Female
Off

Kyritsis

Elias
Education

Elias Kyritsis obtained his BSc in Physics at the University of Crete in 2018 as well as his MSc in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Zezas. He  commenced his PhD in astrophysics in 2020.
Career

During the summer of 2019 he attended a research program at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) of ESA in the Netherlands. He is working with Prof. Andreas Zezas in topics related to observational astrophysics and machine learning.
Interests

High-energy astrophysics; Observational Astrophysics; High-Mass X-Ray Binaries; Machine learning methods in astrophysics.
Email
ekyritsis@physics.uoc.gr
Office
230 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4256
Affiliation
Student
URL
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elias_Kyritsis
Name
Elias
Supervisor
Zezas
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FzBJhecAAAAJ
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1497-1134
Past Member
Off
Student Category
PhD Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
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Tsouros

Alexandros Tsouros
Education

Alexandros Tsouros completed his BSc in Physics from the Univ. of Crete in 2019 as a valedictorian in his class. His undergraduate thesis was entitled "de Sitter versus Anti de Sitter flows and the (super) gravity landscape" and was performed under the supervision of Prof. E. Kiritsis. He then moved to Oxford University from where he was awarded an MSc in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics in June 2020.
Career

Alexandros Tsouros joined the Institute of Astrophysics as a PhD student in August 2020 to work under the supervision of Prof. V. Pavlidou. In 2021 he was awarded a fellowship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation towards the completion of his thesis entitled "Reconstructing the Magnetic Field of the Milky Way via Astrophysical Techniques and Numerical Simulations", being ranked 1st in Greece in the field of Natural Sciences In 2024 he received the "Eleftherios N. Economou Doctoral Student Research Award” from the Department of Physics.
Interests

Theoretical astrophysics, studying the magnetic field of our Galaxy.
Email
tsouros@physics.uoc.gr
Office
230 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4232
Affiliation
Student
URL
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandros-tsouros-73504819b/
Name
Alexandros
Supervisor
Pavlidou
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=xj6cnEkAAAAJ
ORCID
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0239-5793
Past Member
On
Moved to Institute
École Normale Supérieure Paris (France) - Postdoctoral Fellow
Student Category
PhD Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2020
Ending Year
2024
URL and Title of Dissertation
Reconstructing the Milky Way’s Local Magnetic Field  for the Inference of Ultra…
Departure Date
Female
Off

Avgoulas

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Affiliation
Student
Name
Konstantinos
Supervisor
Reig
Past Member
On
Student Category
Undergraduate Student
Director
Off
Starting Year
2019
Ending Year
2019
Departure Date
Female
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