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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.

Student 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” (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 is being 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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  • Supervision of the PhD thesis by Aikaterini Maria Vergiopoulou, “Phase Space Geometry and Machine Learning in Dynamical Systems”, Department of Applied Mathematics, Technical University of Madrid, Spain, expected 2029.

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         Supervision of MSc theses:

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  • Supervision of the MSc thesis by Konstantinos Margetis, “The Mechanisms of the Escape of Exoplanets with P-Type Orbits” (MSc Program in Astrophysics), Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2023.

  • Supervision of an MSc thesis in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK (2020): Rebecca (Becky) Crossley, “From Poincaré 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 became an Oxford–Wolfson–Marriott Scholar at Wolfson College.

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        Supervision of Bachelor's projects (diploma theses):

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  • Supervision of the Bachelor's project by 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.

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  • Supervision of three Bachelor's projects at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK, 2020:

  1. Yibin Geng “The dynamical matching as a bifurcation effect in caldera potential  energy surfaces”. This was published in two refereed journal papers (see papers 18 and 20 in the list of refereed journal publications). 

    Furthermore, Yibin Geng was accepted into the MSc program in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing at the University of Oxford.

  2.  Douglas Haigh “The time evolution of the selectivity in a   symmetric             potential energy surface with a post-transition-state  bifurcation». This was published in a refereed journal paper (see paper 25 in the list of refereed journal publications).

  3. Zico Al-Ghabban "Harmonic Oscillators into molecular vibrations".

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