Biography:Vasiliki Pavlidou
Vasiliki Pavlidou | |
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| Nationality | Greek |
| Alma mater | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of Crete Caltech |
| Thesis | An Analytic Model of Environmental Effects on Cosmic Structure Formation and an Application to Cosmic Accretion Shock. (2005) |
Vasiliki Pavlidou is a Greek astrophysicst and Full Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete[1] and an Affiliated Faculty at the Institute of Astrophysics - Foundation for Research & Technology - Helas.[2] Since July 2023 she serves as an associate editor in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Astronomy & Astrophysics[3] Her research interests focus on cosmology, high energy physics and radio astronomy.[4]
Education
Pavlidou received her BSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1999. She continued her studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where she completed her doctoral thesis on astrophysics, and received her doctoral title in 2005.[5]
Research
From 2005 to 2008, Pavlidou held a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Cosmology at the University of Chicago.[6] From 2008 to 2011 she was awarded the Einstein scholarship at Caltech.[7][8] In 2010 she was elected as an Assistant Professor at the University of Crete but the appointment was delayed due to the financial crisis in Greece. In 2011-2012 she was visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy.[9] In 2012 she accepted a research position at the University of Crete.[5] In 2013 her appointment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Crete begun, and she was successively promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and Full Professor in 2023.[5]
Pavlidou has been the chair of the management panel of the RoboPol collaboration since 2012.[10]
Science communication
Pavlidou has promoted science communication by giving talks and presentations to the general public. She has been in the organizing committee of workshops targeting a specialist audience.[11] Vasiliki Pavlidou together with Konstantinos Tassis have developed an introductory astronomy mooc for the general public at the mathesis platform.[12]
Awards
- 1999 Theoretical Physics Fellowship Greek State Scholarships Foundation[13]
- 2002 Amelia Earhart Fellowship Zonta Foundation
- 2008 GLAST (Einstein) Fellowship NASA[8]
- 2014 Award for Women in Science (Greece) L’Oreal-UNESCO[14]
Selected publications
References
- ↑ "Pavlidou Vasiliki | Department of Physics". https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/v.pavlidou.
- ↑ https://www.ia.forth.gr/people/Pavlidou
- ↑ https://www.aanda.org/about-aa/editors-of-aa#Associate_Editors
- ↑ "Person Info | Institute of Astrophysics". https://www.ia.forth.gr/people/Pavlidou.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Παυλίδου Βασιλική | Τμήμα Φυσικής". https://www.physics.uoc.gr/el/faculty/v.pavlidou.
- ↑ "Physics Tree - Vasiliki Pavlidou". https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=367123.
- ↑ "Cosmic magnifying lens reveals inner jets of black holes" (in en). https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/859631.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "NASA - Meet the GLAST Fellows: Vasiliki Pavlidou" (in en). https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/pavlidou.html.
- ↑ "Welcome". http://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/jhs/Welcome.html.
- ↑ "RoboPol". https://robopol.physics.uoc.gr/team.
- ↑ "KICP Workshops & Events | KICP Workshops, 2008". https://kicp.uchicago.edu/events/kicp_workshops-2008.html#id_82.
- ↑ "Journey to the Universe - First Stop: The solar system". https://mathesis.cup.gr/courses/course-v1:Astronomy+Eur1.1+21F/about.
- ↑ "ΠΡΟΣΩΡΙΝΟΙ ΠΙΝΑΚΕΣ ΕΠΙΛΕΓΕΝΤΩΝ ΥΠΟΨΗΦΙΩΝ ΑΝΑ ΕΙΔΟΣ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΠΙΣΤ" (in el). Archived from the original on 4 Aug 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210804064712/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UZ6nLGd7qDAJ:https://www.iky.gr/iky-rss/item/download/621_766bda41e4811674f5494e90ce78e81e+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=gr.
- ↑ "Greek Astrophysicist Receives L'Oréal - UNESCO Award" (in en-US). 2014-12-04. https://greekreporter.com/2014/12/04/greek-astrophysicist-receives-loreal-unesco-award/.
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