Student projects

PhD research projects

• “A study on hadronic acceleration and the resulting electromagnetic and high-energy neutrino signals from active galaxies”
  Despina Karavola (2023 -)
  
• “Spectral and temporal signatures of leptohadronic radiation models for active galactic nuclei in the multi-messenger era”
  Stamatios I. Stathopoulos (2022-2025)
  

MSc research projects

To check the topics offered in the academic year 2025-2026, click here.

• “A systematic study of neutrino emission in the GRB proton synchrotron scenario” , Dimitrios Gkourmpatsis (10/2025 – )
  
• ” Synchrotron emission from anisotropic electron distributions”, Georgios Konstantis (10/2025 – )
  
• “Photon-photon pair production in the vicinity of reconnection layers”, Xanthos Argyropoulos (07/2025)
  
• “A study of broadband variability in the context of hybrid leptohadronic models for TeV blazars”, Margaritis Chatzis (07/2024)
  • M. Chatzis, S. I. Stathopoulos, M. Petropoulou, G. Vasilopoulos, “Searching for Hadronic Signatures in the Time Domain of Blazar Emission: The Case of Mrk 501”, 2024, Universe (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024Univ…10..392C/abstract)
    
• “Cosmic-ray production from blazar jets with minimum power requirements”, Anastasia Tsilimidou (07/2024)
  
• “Gamma-rays from Bethe-Heitler pair production in AGN?”, Despina Karavola (09/2022)
  • D. Karavola & M. Petropoulou, “A closer look at at the electromagnetic signatures of Bethe-Heitler pair production process in blazars” , 2024, JCAP (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024JCAP…07..006K/abstract)
    
• “Radiative Signatures of Baryon-loaded AGN jets”, Filippos Psarras (07/2022)
  • M. Petropoulou, F. Psarras, D. Giannios, “Hadronic signatures from magnetically dominated baryon-loaded AGN jets”, 2023, MNRAS (doi:10.1093/mnras/stac3190)
    
• “Connecting High-Energy Neutrino Emission with Hadronic X-ray Flares in Blazars”, Stamatios I. Stathopoulos (07/2021)
  • S. I. Stathopoulos, M. Petropoulou, G. Vasilopoulos et al., “High-energy neutrinos from X-rays flares of blazars frequently observed by the Swift X-Ray Telescope”, 2022, MNRAS (doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3404)

Bachelor thesis projects

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1. ONGOING
2. “Quasi-periodic eruptions in active galaxies”, A. Xlorou (expected date: 06/2026)
   • Co-supervision: G. Vasilopoulos
3. “Are there neutral pion bumps in the spectra of Gamma-Ray Bursts?”, M. Gkoni (expected date: 04/2026)
4. “Synchrotron cooling versus particle decay: a parametric study of steady-state muon and pion energy distributions” , M. Tsolaki
   
   COMPLETED
5. “SYNCHRO-CURVATURE RADIATION IN PULSAR MAGNETOSPHERES”, E. Oikonomou (10/2025)
6. “High-energy neutrino production from photon-photon muon pair interactions in astrophysics: reality or fantasy?“, A. Daioglou (10/2025)
7. “A theoretical study of spectral evolution in GRB 211211A“, K. Xyloportas (02/2025), Link
8. “Numerical approaches for Comptonization problems in astrophysical plasmas“, G. Konstantis (10/2024)
9. “A model for particle acceleration and radiation with application to non-thermal flares from Sgr A*“, M. Kalitsounaki (6/2024)
10. “A study of oscillations in the disk-corona system of compact accreting systems“, S. E. Kontokostas (06/2024)
11. “A parametric study of flux and color variability from Be decretion discs“, S. Kontogianni (02/2024)
    • Co-supervision: G. Vasilopoulos
      
12. “Neural networks applied to spectral modeling of AGN emission “, T. Tzavellas (12/2023)
    • Co-supervision: G. Vasilopoulos
      • A. Tzavellas, G. Vasilopoulos, M. Petropoulou, A. Mastichiadis, S. I. Stathopoulos, “Application of neural networks to synchro-Compton blazar emission models”, 2024, A&A (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348566)
        
13. “A library of temporal properties of X-ray afterglows Swift/XRT“, I. Dalamagka (03/2023)
    
14. “Beaming of γ-ray radiation of blazars“, O. Kefallinou (02/2023)
    
15. “Study of torque models during super-Eddington outbursts from BeXRB pulsars“, A. S. Karaferias (06/2022)
    • Co-supervision: G. Vasilopoulos
      • A. S. Karaferias, G. Vasilopoulos, M. Petropoulou et al., “Study of torque models during super-Eddington outbursts from BeXRB pulsars”, 2022, MNRAS (doi:10.1093/mnras/stac3208)
        
16. “Radio emission from colliding outflows in high-mass X-ray binaries with strongly magnetized neutron stars“, M. Chatzis (06/2022), University of Crete
    • M. Chatzis, M. Petropoulou, G. Vasilopoulos, “Radio emission from colliding outflows in high-mass X-ray binaries with strongly magnetized neutron stars”, 2021, MNRAS (doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3098)
      
17. “Non-thermal X-ray emission from wind-wind interaction in the binary system PSR J2032+4127/MT91 213“, T. I. Stasinos (05/2022)
    
18. “Synchrotron radiation from electrons and protons as explanation of radio emission from large-scale jet in M84“, C. Tsioutis (10/2021)
    
19. “Particle acceleration in compressing plasmoids and synchrotron radiation“, D. Karavola (10/2021)
    • “Radiative signatures of adiabatically compressing plasmoids in relativistic reconnection”, poster presentation, 15th Hel.A.S. Conference, 5 – 8 July 2021, Patras (virtual)