Throughout my career, I have been fortunate to find numerous opportunities to give back by sharing my knowledge and experience, providing others — especially younger generations — with valuable insights and practical guidance.
Stella Avgousti | Space Technologies, Applications and SeRvices – STAR, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Sep 2022 – present
Supervising MSc. thesis of Stella as she works on the characterization of massive stars through variability by leveraging the Gaia data.
Simos Vlassis | Institute of Astrophysics, FORTH
Jul – Sep 2024
Supervising Simos as an intern, while he worked on missing data imputation and machine-learning applications with Python, using Spitzer photometry for Red Supergiants in various galaxies.
Course: “Introduction to Python for Physicists” (F-254) | Physics Dept., University of Crete
Feb – Jul 2024
Teaching undergrads the basics of Python including data analysis, plotting, and various applications in Physics.
Astrostatistics in Crete workshop series
2019 – present
Teaching statistics and machine/deep-learning methods. The school targets about 30 graduate students and early postdocs as it is heavily based on hands-on experience. Working with Python and Jupyter notebooks to showcase examples and applications for Astronomy. [github repository, 2024 school]
Elias Kyritsis | Physics Dept., University of Crete
Dec 2019 – Mar 2020
Oct 2017 – Oct 2018
Co-supervising Elias (with Prof. A. Zezas) for his undergraduate thesis ”Spectroscopic Classification of 20 candidate High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud” (2018), as well as his MSc. thesis “Spectral classification of stars based on Machine Learning methods” (2020).
