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Teaching

1) Postgraduate course on "Dynamical Astronomy" (spring semester), Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Taught as part of the Master’s program in Astrophysics during the 2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2023–2024, and 2024–2025 academic years.

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2) Postgraduate course on "Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy" (winter semester), Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. It will be offered as part of the Master’s program in Astrophysics during the 2025–2026 academic year.

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3) Postgraduate course on "Hamiltonian Chaos: From theory to computational aspects" (spring semester), Department of Applied Mathematics, Technical University of Madrid, Spain. It will be taught as part of the doctoral training program of the Department of Applied Mathematics during the 2025–2026 academic year.

Advising, Supervision and Mentoring

         

      Supervision of postdoctoral researchers and research collaborators:

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  •  Supervision (as Principal Investigator) of research collaborator Konstantinos Bakos and postdoctoral researcher Periklis Okalidis within the framework of the project “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Hamiltonian Dynamics”, Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Academy of Athens, Greece, 01/07/2024 – 31/12/2025 . This project was funded by the Sectoral Development Program (ΟΠΣ 5223471) of the  Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports, through the National Development Program (NDP) 2021-25. It  was conducted as part of project 200/1020, supported by the Research Committee of the Academy of Athens. 

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         Supervision of PhD theses:

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  • Aikaterini Maria Vergiopoulou, “Phase Space Geometry and Machine Learning in Dynamical Systems”, PhD thesis, Department of Applied Mathematics, Technical University of Madrid, Spain, expected completion 2029 (co-supervised with Makrina Agaoglou).

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         Supervision of MSc theses:

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  • Konstantinos Margetis, “The Mechanisms of the Escape of Exoplanets with P-Type Orbits”, MSc Programme in Astrophysics, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 2023.

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  • Rebecca (Becky) Crossley, “From Poincaré Maps to Lagrangian Descriptors: The Case of the Valley–Ridge Inflection Point Potential”, MSc thesis (Spring–Summer projects), School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK, 2020 (co-supervised with Makrina Agaoglou). This collaboration resulted in a peer-reviewed scientific publication (see Paper 19 in the list of refereed journal articles). Becky Crossley was awarded the Howell–Peregrine Prize for the best MSc thesis and was subsequently admitted to the DPhil programme in Mathematics at the University of Oxford, where she became an Oxford–Wolfson–Marriott Scholar at Wolfson College.

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        Supervision of Bachelor's projects (diploma theses):

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  • Andreas Kontogeorgos, “The Study of the Orbits of a 2D Rotating Galactic Bar Potential”, Bachelor’s project, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 2023.

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  • Yibin Geng,  "The Influence of a Pitchfork Bifurcation of the Critical Points of a Symmetric Caldera Potential Energy Surface on Dynamical Matching" (summer project)  and  "The bifurcations of the critical points and the role of the depth in a symmetric Caldera potential energy surface" (autumn project), School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK, 2020 (co-supervised with Makrina Agaoglou) . These projects resulted in two peer-reviewed journal publications (see Papers 18 and 20 in the list of refereed journal articles). Furthermore, he was accepted into the MSc programme in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing at the University of Oxford.

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  •  Douglas Haigh “The time evolution of the selectivity in a   symmetric             potential energy surface with a post-transition-state  bifurcation» (summer project), School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK,  2020 (co-supervised with Makrina Agaoglou) . This was published in a refereed journal paper (see paper 25 in the list of refereed journal publications).

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  • Zico Al-Ghabban "Harmonic Oscillators into molecular vibrations" (spring project), School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK, 2020 (co-supervised with Makrina Agaoglou).

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