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Achilleas Porfyriadis
Biography
Achilleas Porfyriadis received his B.Sc. in Physics from MIT in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Harvard University in 2016. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2016-2019) and at Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative (2019-2022). He joined the Department of Physics at the University of Crete as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2022.
His research interests are in theoretical high energy and gravitational physics. Current topics include black holes, holographic dualities, and gravitational waves. The main goal of his research is to use gauge/gravity techniques to inform the study of astrophysical black holes and put holography on the astronomer’s map too. This comes at an auspicious time as LIGO/Virgo and the EHT are now observing black holes with gravitational and radio waves at a qualitatively new level of precision.
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