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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 academic years 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, and 2024-2025.

Student Advising, Supervision and Mentoring

  • Supervision of a M.Sc thesis of Konstantinos Margetis “The Mechanisms of the escape of exoplanets with P-type orbits" (M.Sc program in Astrophysics) Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian  University of Athens, 2023.

  • Supervision of a M.Sc thesis in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK, 2020: Rebecca (Becky) Crossley “From Poincare Maps to Lagrangian Descriptors: The Case of the Valley Ridge Inflection Point Potential”. The collaboration resulted in a scientific paper  (see paper 19 in the list of refereed journal papers). In addition, Becky Crossley  was awarded the Howell-Peregrine Prize for the best MSc thesis and was accepted into the DPhil program in Mathematics at the University of Oxford, where she is an Oxford-Wolfson-Marriott Scholar at Wolfson College.

  • Supervision of a bachelor project of Andreas Kontogeorgos “The study of the orbits of a 2D rotating galactic bar potential” Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 2023.

  • Supervision of three bachelor projects in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK, 2020:
    1. Yibin Geng “The dynamical matching as a bifurcation effect in caldera potential  energy surfaces” that was published in two papers in refereed journals (see the papers 18 and 20 in the list of refereed journal papers). Moreover, Yibin Geng was accepted into the University of Oxford in the MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing.
    2. Douglas Haigh “The time evolution of the selectivity in a symmetric potential energy surface with a post-transition-state bifurcation», that was published in a paper in a refereed journal (see the paper 25 of the above list of the papers in refereed journals).
                                                                                          3. Zico Al-Ghabban "Harmonic Oscillators into molecular vibrations".

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