Georgios Vasilopoulos

Astrophysicist at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

This page contains a list of activities (e.g. Seminars and Journal cloub meeting) at the department of Physics at NKUA. Moreover, one may find a list of student projects incuding bachelor or master thesis anf short research projects.

Activities


List of weekly activities NKUA students are free to join.
  1. Astrophysical Seminars, weekly - Wednesdays at 18:00, hybrid [Link]
  2. Astro - Space Journal Club, Monthly [Link]
  3. Astro Fridays, informal talks with friendly environment, weekly around 17:00 [Link]
  4. HEA Journal Club, weekly journal club with coffee, Mondays 10-11:00

Thesis Projects


Thesis projects have a duration of 1 year, they are elective courses for undergraduate students and mandatory for master students at NKUA.

Ongoing

  • Artemis Chlorou (BSc thesis): Study of Quasi Periodic Erruptions in Active Galaxies (co-supervision with M. Petropoulou)

Completed

  • Marios Kouzis (MSc thesis): Spectral Studies of Super-Eddington Accreting Neutron Stars in the Magellanic Clouds
  • Semeli Peimanidi (BSc thesis): Polarization studies of accreting pulsars with IXPE
  • Vicky tsoukaladeli (BSc thesis): Modeling of color-magnitude diagrams of BeXRBs in the Magellanic Clouds
  • Smaragda Vidali (BSc thesis): Study of soft-excess in BeXRB spectra
  • Marios Kouzis (BSc thesis, co-supervision): Study of Star formation history and HMXB population in the Magellanic Clouds
  • Anastasioss Tzavellas (BSc thesis, co-supervision): Neural networks applied to spectral modeling of AGN emission
  • Sotiris Karaferias (BSc thesis, co-supervision): Study of torque models during super-Eddington outbursts from BeXRB pulsars

"Summer" Research Projects


Research projects have a duration of about 2 months and are non mandatory for undergrad students. If you are interesting in such a project you can sent me an email or look for anouncements at eclass.

List of Current and Past Projects

  • Nikolaos Diamantopoulos: Pulse profiles from accreting X-ray pulsars
  • Vasiliki Dretta: Study of non-radial pulsations of Be stars in BeXRBs with TESS
  • Xenia Tsigdinou (co-supervision): Hunting ULX candidates in eROSITA all sky survey
  • Smaragda Vidali (co-supervision): A study of spin-period equilibrium in X-ray pulsars