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]
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]
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 that 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] and in 2012 she accepted a temporary research position at the University of Crete. [5] Her delayed appointment as an assistant professor at the University of Crete finally begun in 2013, 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]
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]
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