Curriculum Vitae

Academic background, skills, and experience

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Current Position

Postdoctoral Researcher January 2025 – Present

CEA Paris-Saclay, Astrophysics Department (DAp)

Designing and maintaining data analysis pipelines for large X-ray observational datasets. Building X-ray cluster and AGN catalogues for the FornaX Euclid deep field.

Education

Ph.D. in Astronomy October 2020 – August 2024

National Observatory of Athens (Greece) & University of Southampton (UK)

Thesis: "Semi-empirical models of X-ray AGN in galaxy clusters"
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher (BiD4BESt ITN, grant agreement No 860744, PI Francesco Shankar)

M.Sc. in Astronomy 2019 – 2020

University of Granada, Spain

Thesis: "Detectability and occurrences in CARMENES"

B.Sc. in Physics 2014 – 2019

University of Salamanca, Spain

Thesis: "Astronomical bounds of Primordial Black Holes"

Awards & Funding

ESO-Garching Visitor Programme 2024

European Southern Observatory, Garching

Awarded 3-month funding to study the radial distribution of ~80 clusters at intermediate redshift z ~ 0.2-0.8 and design a follow-up program to characterise AGN membership.

Marie Curie PhD Research Fellow 2020 – 2024

H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN "BiD4BESt"

Early Stage Researcher of the Innovative Training Network "Big Data analytics for Black hole Evolution Studies" (grant agreement No 860744).

Industry Experience

Data Scientist (Internship) May – July 2022

OmegaLambdaTec (OLT), Garching, Munich

Translated raw satellite imagery into structured datasets suitable for downstream modelling and analysis.

Data Scientist (Internship) January – March 2021

Prewarp (Remote)

Contributed to demand forecasting and price optimisation models using regression techniques on real sales data.

Collaborations

  • FornaX (2025–present) – X-ray cluster and AGN catalogue builder, ESA-datalabs moderator, LOC 2025
  • The 300 Project (2025–present) – AGN incidence in clusters
  • Euclid Consortium (2022–present) – SWG Clusters of Galaxies & Galaxy Evolution
  • BiD4BESt (2020–2024) – Big Data for Black Hole Evolution Studies
  • CARMENES (2019–2020) – Exoplanet detection via radial velocities

Technical Skills

Programming & Tools

  • Python (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Astropy)
  • Git, Bash, LaTeX
  • Google Earth Engine (basic)
  • Linux, Windows, macOS

Data & Analysis

  • Large-scale data wrangling
  • Statistical analysis
  • Simulation-based modelling
  • Regression & uncertainty analysis

Developed Software

  • Simulation-based pipelines for SMBH populations
  • 3D-to-2D projection tools for cosmological simulations
  • Satellite image preprocessing (Sentinel-2)

Soft Skills

  • Analytical thinking
  • Problem ownership
  • Clear communication
  • International collaboration

Languages

  • Spanish (native)
  • English (B2)

Student Supervision

Sylvain Heutier (MSc student)

Principal supervisors: Marguerite Pierre & François Lanusse

Scientific and technical assistance. Now a PhD student at the IAP.

Marios Kouzis (undergraduate)

Principal supervisor: Antonis Georgakakis

Co-supervision during 3-month research visit at NOA. Currently ESR student of TALES EU Doctoral Training Network.

Antonis Fokas (bachelor thesis)

Principal supervisor: Antonis Georgakakis

Co-supervision of bachelor thesis at NOA.

Outreach

Pilgrims of the Kosmos 2022 – Present

Podcast

Co-hosting a podcast talking with scientists at different career stages about their research journeys.

Centro Astronómico de Tiedra Summers 2019, 2021, 2022

Support Astronomer

Delivered live scientific presentations to large, non-technical audiences. Operated observation and planetarium equipment during public events.

Publications
  • September 2022: Article in "Astronomía" magazine on AGN (Spanish)
  • July 2022: HIPPARCHOS (Hellenic Astronomical Society), Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 17-21
  • December 2020: Outreach talk on exoplanet detection via radial velocities

Selected Presentations

Invited Talks

  • 2025/05 – Postdoc seminar, CEA Paris-Saclay
  • 2024/10 – UAM seminar, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • 2024/03 – ESO cheese & wine, ESO Garching
  • 2023/05 – Joy of Hydrosims, USM/LMU Munich
  • 2023/02 – IAC AGN talks, IAC Tenerife
  • 2023/02 – Theoretical physics and astronomy group, UGR Granada
  • 2022/11 – FAME, INAF Bologna
  • 2022/07 – AGN coffee, ESO Garching
  • 2022/06 – ESO lunch talk, ESO Garching
  • 2022/05 – Southampton Monday Seminar, University of Southampton
  • 2022/05 – Kaffeerunde, MPE Garching

Contributed Talks

  • 2025/07 – "Clustbusters: Chasing clusters in the FornaX Euclid-XMM Heritage Deep Field", Euclid France Annual meeting, Strasbourg
  • 2025/07 – "AGN contamination on cluster detection", Madonna di Campiglio
  • 2025/07 – "Brief introduction to ASTROMATCH", Madonna di Campiglio
  • 2025/07 – "Pipeline and source list of the central FornaX square degree", Madonna di Campiglio
  • 2024/02 – Final conference BiD4BESt, Southampton
  • 2023/06 – CAVITY 3rd annual meeting, Granada
  • 2023/01 – VI Meeting of AGN Research in Spain, Granada
  • 2022/07 – 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Athens (Symposium E1.7)
  • 2022/06 – EAS 2022, Valencia (Session S5e: X-ray surveys with Athena)

References

  • Dr. Antonis Georgakakis
    Research Director, National Observatory of Athens. PI of TALES.
  • Dr. Marguerite Pierre
    Permanent Researcher, CEA Paris-Saclay. PI of FornaX, XMM-XXL, XMM-LSS.
  • Prof. Francesco Shankar
    Professor of Astrophysics, University of Southampton. PI of BiD4BESt.

Last updated: October 2026