PERSONAL INFORMATION:

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• Born in Athens 17/5/1977

• Languages: Greek, English (Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English),

       Spanish (fluently), French (Certificat Pratique de Langue Française – 1e degré)

• Researcher ID: C-4731-2014

• ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9423-3723

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HIGHER EDUCATION:

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• 2009 Ph.D. in Astrophysics, University of Patras in collaboration with the National, Observatory of Athens

• 2005 M.Sc. in Theoretical, Computational Physics and Astrophysics, University of Patras

• 2003 Physics degree, University of Patras

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APPOINTMENTS: 

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• 2019-present: Associate Researcher, IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Greece.

• 2015-2019: Senior post-doc, Département d’ Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France.

• 2012-2015: Post-doctoral fellow, National Observatory of Athens, Greece.

• 2011-2012: Post-doctoral fellow, State Scholarship Foundation, Greece.

• 2009-2010: Post-doctoral researcher, National Observatory of Athens, Greece.
   

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

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• 2018: Student grant, ERASMUS+ (EU program for education) for the training of a master student.

• 2013: Collaboration grant, COST (European Collaboration in Science & Technology) within the frame of the "Black holes in a violent Universe" action.

• 2012-2015: Post-doctoral fellowship, within the framework of the Action «Supporting Post-doctoral Researchers» of the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning", co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Greek State, €150000.

• 2011-2012: Post-doctoral fellowship, from the “State Scholarship Foundation” of Greece.
   

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS

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• Member of the XXL consortium

• Member of the Athena collaboration

• Member of the X-Class collaboration

 

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

 

• Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)

• Member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS)

• Member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (HelAS)

 

OBSERVING EXPERIENCE:

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• 2019: 2.3m Aristarchos Telescope, Greece, P.I., observer, photometry.

      8 nights

• 2016-2017: 10.4m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS, La Palma, P.I., multi-slit spectroscopy of high-z clusters.
  33 hours

• 2014: 2.3m Aristarchos Telescope, Greece, P.I., observer, narrow-band photometry.
  5 nights

• 2013-2014: 4.2m William Herschel Telescope, La Palma, observer, multi-fibre spectroscopy.
  3 runs, 12 nights in total

• 2015-2008: San Pedro Martir 2.1m telescope, Mexico, observer, Spectroscopy of AGN galaxies and their neighbours.
  3 runs, 16 nights in total

• 2006: San Pedro Martir 0.8m telescope, Mexico, observer, Photometry of AGN galaxies and their neighbours.
  7 nights

• 2006: Cananea 2.1m telescope, Mexico, observer, Spectroscopy of AGN galaxies and their neighbours.
  6 nights
   

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OBSERVATIONAL DATA ANALYSIS EXPERIENCE:

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• Extensive experience in the reduction of optical MOS data (WHT and GTC data)

• Experience in X-ray spectral fitting using XSPEC

• Extensive experience in the reduction of optical spectroscopic data using IRAF

• Extensive experience in analysing XMM-Newton X-ray observations

• Extensive experience in FORTRAN programming

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ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

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• 2019: LOC member, Supermassive Black Holes environment and evolution, Corfu, Greece.

• 2017: Organizer, The XXL consortium meeting, St Jacut, France.

• 2016: LOC member of "Hot spots in the XMM sky" conference (Mykonos Island, Greece) 

• 2015: LOC member of "Demographics and environment of AGN from multi-wavelength survey" conference (Chania, Greece)

• 2014: Organizer of the XXL-AGN meeting in Athens.

• 2014: SOC member of the 5th Astrophysics Winter School of the National Observatory of Athens, "The Unification Model of Active Galactic Nuclei"

• 2012: LOC member of the "Half a century of X-ray Astronomy" conference (Mykonos, Greece)

 

TRAINING

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• 2018: Deep Learning training (CEA, France)

• 2015: Astrostatistics Winter School (Ecole de Physique de Houches, France)

• 2013: “Black Holes at all scales” Summer School (Ioannina, Greece)

 

SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS

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• 2019: Supervisor, undergraduate student, thesis, IAASARS.

      Anamaria Gkini, "Host galaxy differences between Seyfert I and Seyfert II"

• 2018: Supervisor, master student, Erasmus+ training programme, CEA/Saclay.
  E. Dringa, "X-ray AGN in high-redshift galaxy clusters"

• 2018: Supervisor, undergraduate student, 3-months internship, DUT mesures physiques - CEA/Saclay.
  C. Rascoussier, "Statistics of high-redshift cluster detections in X-rays"

• 2016: Supervisor, master thesis, Observatoire de Paris - CEA/Saclay.
  Michelle Tsirou, “The AGN contamination of X-ray galaxy clusters of the XXL survey”

• 2013-2015: Funding (partly) and mentoring, two Ph.D. students through my fellowship grant.

• 2012-2015: Lecturer, Observational Astronomy for master students, University of Thessaloniki, Greece

• 2004-2005: Lecturer, "Visitor centre for education" for primary and high school students, formed in the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the framework of the programme "Open Doors".
   

REFEREE IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS:

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• Referee for peer-reviewed scientific journal (MNRAS, 5 times).

• Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science
  
  

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