Research Group

As a faculty at the University of Crete I have supervised a number of individuals, on projects related to extragalactic astrophysics. More information about Astrophysics in Crete is available at the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH, while for position openings check here.

A picture of several past and all present members of my group, as well as my supervisor - Crete, 29 May 2015.
From left to right: Tanio, Thodoris, Eleni, Phil, Laure, Vassilis, Marina, Alexandros.

  • Postdocs:
    • Paolo Bonfini (PhD 2013, Univ. of Crete, Greece): August 2018 - February 2020, currently Senior Data Scientist, ALMA Sistemi Srl, Greece
      Project: JWST study of the spectral energy distribution of galaxies
    • Marina Vika (PhD 2011, Univ. of St Andrews, UK) - with. E. Xilouris: November 2014 - December 2017, currently private sector, Greece
      Project: The UV to sub-mm Spectral Energy Distribution of local infrared selected galaxies
    • Laure Ciesla (PhD 2012, Univ. of Marseille, France): January 2013 - August 2015, currently tenured CNRS researcher at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France
      Project: The Infrared Spectral Energy Distribution of high-z AGN.
    • Eleni Vardoulaki (PhD 2010, Univ. of Oxford, UK): February 2012 - August 2015, currently public outreach officer at IAASARS/National Observatory of Athens, Greece
      Project: Radio-infrared properties of Luminous Infrared Galaxies.
    • Emmanouil Rovilos (PhD 2004, Univ. of Manchester, UK) - with. E. Xilouris: January - August 2014, currently Patent Examiner, UK
      Project: The UV to sub-mm Spectral Energy Distribution of local infrared selected galaxies
    • Tanio Díaz-Santos (PhD 2009, Univ. of Madrid, Spain): 2009-2011, currently tenured researcher at IA-FORTH, Greece
      Project: Mid-IR spectroscopy of Luminous Infrared Galaxies.
    • Elisabete da Cunha (PhD 2008, Univ. of Paris, France): 2008-2010, currently Principal Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia, Australia
      Project: Theoretical Modeling of the Spectral Energy Distribution of Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies
  • Graduate Students:
  • Undergraduate Students:
    • Maria Georganti (BSc 2016, Univ. of Athens): Fall 2016 - after an MSc at Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, currently Postdoctoral researcher at the Univ. of Southampton, UK
      Topic: UV & optical morphology of Luminous Infrared Galaxies
    • Christina Konstantopoulou (BSc 2016, Univ. of Patras): Fall 2016 - after an MSc at Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark, currently PhD student at Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
      Topic: UV & optical morphology of Luminous Infrared Galaxies
    • Nikos Pavelis (BSc 2013, Univ. of Crete): Fall 2012
      Topic: Dust properties of Far-IR selected galaxies
    • Manos Chatzopoulos (BSc 2007, Univ. of Crete): Summer 2007 - after a PhD at UT Austin (USA), currently an Associate Professor at Louisiana State Univ. (USA)
      Topic: Spitzer mid-infrared study of compact H II regions in the Magellanic Clouds
    • Vassilis Frogakis (BSc 2006, Univ. of Crete): Spring 2007 - currently high school teacher in Greece
      Topic: Analysis of mid-IR spectra of LIRGs
Prior to my arrival at the University of Crete I was involved in the supervision of the following students:

Collaborations

In the following I list some of the key people with whom I, as well as my group in Crete, have had common research projects over the past few years.