Porfyriadis Achilleas

Assistant Professor
Telephone: 
+30-2810-394203
Email: 
porfyriadis@physics.uoc.gr
Office: 
202 Physics Bldg.
CV: 

 

Education: 

Achilleas Porfyriadis received his B.Sc. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Harvard University in 2016. His academic genealogy tree is here.

Career: 

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. 

Interests: 

Theoretical high energy and gravitational physics. Current topics of interest include black holes, holographic dualities, and gravitational waves.

University of Crete - Department of Physics  - Voutes University Campus - GR-70013 Heraklion, Greece
phone: +30 2810 394300 - email: chair@physics.uoc.gr