PhD Student
Ms. Anna Sinopoulou is a PhD candidate of the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A) and works in the Astroparticle Physics group of the Institute of Nuclear & Particle Physics, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”. Anna holds an integrated Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences from the National Technical University of Athens (2011-2016) and a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Physics and Applications from the National Technical University of Athens (2016-2018). During her MSc studies, she has also worked as an intern in the Erlangen’s Center for Astroparticle Physics (E.C.A.P) of the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg in Germany. Anna has a teaching experience as a laboratory assistant of the Nuclear and Particle Physics laboratory of N.T.U.A where she teaches “The Monte Carlo method” and “General Physics”.
Her major research interests are in the field of Particle and Astroparticle Physics. Anna during her first-degree thesis, has completed a study on “the possibility of detecting very high-energy neutrinos with the original GRBNeT self-test array”. During her MSc, she became a full member of the KM3NeT collaboration and has completed an “optimization study of the KM3NeT detector for detecting high-activity neutrinos”. During her internship at E.C.A.P. she has studied the photomultiplier response of detector KM3NeT-ORCA detector from the data taken from its first deployed detection unit. Anna is currently working on the data from the first deployed detection units of the KM3NeT-ARCA detector, in order to find and optimize requirements for selecting well reconstructed events and to find selection criteria to identify neutrino event candidates.
Spyros K. Peroulis was born in Athens in 1993. He received his BSc Diploma in 2019 from the Physics Department of the NKUA. In 2021, Spyros completed his MSc studies in NTUA and he is currently a PhD candidate. His research interest is focused on theoretical nuclear physics. Spyros joined INPP’s theoretical nuclear physics group in 2017 in order to work on his BSc thesis, after a two-year collaboration with “NUSTRAP” group at NKUA. Now, he is working on the structural evolution of the atomic nucleus as a function of the numbers of its constituent protons and neutrons with special interest to the investigation of the electromagnetic quadrupole transitions in the nuclear landscape.
Thesis and selected publications
“Proxy-SU(3) symmetry in atomic nuclei”, Diploma thesis, NKUA, 2019
“Electromagnetic transition probabilities in the context of nuclear algebraic models”, Master thesis, NTUA, 2021
“The islands of shape coexistence within the Elliott and the proxy-SU(3) Models”, A. Martinou, D. Bonatsos, T. J. Mertzimekis, K. E. Karakatsanis, I. E. Assimakis, S. K. Peroulis, S. Sarantopoulou and N. Minkov, European Physics Journal A,57,84(2021)
“Why nuclear forces favor the highest weight irreducible representations of the fermionic SU(3) symmetry”, Andriana Martinou, Dennis Bonatsos, K. E. Karakatsanis, S. Sarantopoulou, I. E. Assimakis, S. K. Peroulis and N. Minkov, The European Physical Journal A, 57, 83(2021)
“Proxy-SU(3) symmetry in the shell model basis”, Andriana Martinou, Dennis Bonatsos, N. Minkov, I. E. Assimakis, S. K. Peroulis, S. Sarantopoulou and J. Cseh, The European Physical Journal A, 56, 239 (2020)
“Synergy of nuclear data systematics and proxy-SU(3) in planning future experiments in the superheavies mass region”, S.K. Peroulis, S.B. Bofos, T.J. Mertzimekis, A. Martinou, and D. Bonatsos, to appear in HNPS: Advances in Nuclear Physics : Proceedings of the 27th Annual Symposium of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society (Athens, 2018), ed. T. Mertzimekis, G. Souliotis, and E. Styliaris. arXiv: 1811.04823 [nucl-th].
“Proxy-SU(3): A symmetry for heavy nuclei”, D. Bonatsos, I. E. Assimakis, N. Minkov, A. Martinou, S. K. Peroulis, S. Sarantopoulou, R. B. Cakirli, R. F. Casten, and K. Blaum, Bulg. J. Phys. 44 (2017) 385-397. “Shapes and Dynamics of Atomic Nuclei: Contemporary Aspects’’ (SDANCA17, Sofia 2017), ed. N. Minkov.
Ioannis (John) Madesis was born in Athens in 1986. He studied physics at the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He graduated in 2012 after presenting his Diploma thesis titled "Optical study of the ferroelastic Sb5O7I with the use of Raman spectroscopy (in Greek)". In October 2012 he was accepted in the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program "Microsystems and Nanodevices" of the Physics Department of NTUA. His M.Sc. thesis is titled "First-Principles computational study of the High-Temperature SuperConductor YBa2Cu3O7-x (in Greek) and focuses on computational Solid State physics. In October 2013 he enrolled in the School of Sciences and Engineering of the University of Crete as a Ph.D. student in Atomic Physics. One of the primary objectives for his Ph.D. thesis, was the construction of the L45 Atomic Physics beamline in the Tandem Laboratory, along with measuments regarding the statistical population of 1s2s2p states in electron capture to accelerated projectile He-like ions. He is currently completing his thesis.
Nelly Kladouri has studied Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (BSc).
In 2018 Nelly Kladouri successfully defended her MSc thesis, conducted in the XFR laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics at the NCSR Demokritos, entitled: “A technological study of a bronze pins collection of the geometric period from the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea” (MSc in Cultural Heritage Materials and Technologies-University of the Peloponnese). During her postgraduate studies, Nelly Kladouri was the recipient of the scholarship awarded to the top-scoring student, by the University of the Peloponnese (CultTech Scholarship Program).
Currently, Nelly Kladouri is a doctoral candidate of the University of Peloponnese, conducting metal analysis on votive finds from various sanctuaries of Arcadia, Greece dating between the 9th -7thc. B.C.E.. The detailed micro-XRF study of metal artefacts is conducted at the XRF laboratory of the INPP.
Her primary research interest focuses on the chemical analysis, characterization and provenance study of archaeological and historical metals.
She is a regular employee in the field of Conservation of Antiquities for the Greek Ministry of Culture.