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Vasiliki Pavlidou
Regular Research Staff, Director, Skinakas Observatory, Professor, Department of Physics
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Vasiliki Pavlidou
Regular Research Staff, Director, Skinakas Observatory, Professor, Department of Physics
✉️ pavlidou[at] physics.uoc.gr •
📞 +30-2810-394211 •
Office 212 Physics Building •
expertise: Milky Way environments, optopolarimetry, cosmic radiation, Galactic magnetic fields, astrobiology •
Vasiliki Pavidou obtained her BSc in Physics at the University of Thessaloniki in 1999 and her PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (USA) in 2005. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Cosmological Physics of the University of Chicago, an Einstein fellow at Caltech), and a postdoctoral scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy. Since 2013 she has served on the faculty of the University of Crete. She is the Director of the Skinakas Observatory. In 2014 she was the recipient of the “L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for women in science”. In June 2023 she was also elected Associate Editor in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. In 2024 she was awarded an ERC Synergy grant entitled “MW-Atlas” to create the first three-dimensional, comprehensive atlas of our Milky Way galaxy.
Research interests :
magnetic fields in the Milky Way and extragalactic environments, optopolarimetry , cosmic-ray and gamma-ray astrophysics, high-energy astrophysics and cosmic dangers to life, cosmology, radioastronomy, dark matter, dark energy, probing particle physics with astrophysics and cosmic rays.
