Postdoctoral researchers

Dimitrios Kaltsas

Dimitrios Kaltsas's research interests focus on the study of equilibrium, stability, and dynamics of laboratory and astrophysical plasmas using Hamiltonian fluid dynamics, kinetic and hybrid models, and the use of neural networks and machine learning methods. He is particularly interested in the Hamiltonian construction of new hybrid fluid-kinetic models characterized by consistent conservation laws that find applications in the study of magnetic confinement of plasma in fusion reactors such as the tokamak and phenomena related to astrophysical plasma such as magnetic reconnection. He is also interested in the application of computational methods that obey conservation laws and deep learning methods to solve the differential equations arising in the above models. In parallel with his postdoctoral research at the Department of Physics of the University of Ioannina, he has taught a significant number of courses independently at the International Hellenic University and the Department of Physics of the Democritus University of Thrace from 2020 to 2024 and has participated in the supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate theses.

Apostolos Kuiroukidis

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Apostolos Kuiroukidis is a postdoctoral researcher in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, working with Emeritus Professor George Throumoulopoulos. His research focuses mainly on the theoretical studies of equilibrium and stability of magnetically confined laboratory plasmas.

Kostas Moraitis

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Kostas Moraitis is a postdoctoral researcher at UoI since 2019, working initially under individual fellowships from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and since 2023 to the ERC-funded 'WholeSun' project. His research interests include the understanding and the exploration of ways to forecast the activity of the Sun, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The focus of his research is on the physical quantity of magnetic helicity which describes the complexity of the magnetic field that is behind solar activity.

George Poulipoulis

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George Poulipoulis is a Research Associate at the University of Ioannina, Greece, where he has worked for the past 12 years. His former positions include an Intra-European Research Fellowship at ULB. He holds a PhD and an MSc from the University of Ioannina. His past collaborations include work with JET Culham in the UK, Julich Forschungzentrum in Germany, and the Max Planck IPP in Munich, Germany. He has participated in the JET Modelling and Analysis Group and the EFDA Integrated Tokamak Modelling Task Force. His research interests are focused on fusion plasma, numerical methods, mathematical methods, modelling, and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).

Eugene Zhuleku

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Eugene Zhuleku completed his Bachelor studies in physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2014. In 2016, he finished his Master studies in Astrophysics from the same university. He completed his PhD in 2021 from the University of Göttingen in Germany under the supervision of Professor Hardi Peter. His PhD focused on 3D MHD simulations of solar and stellar coronae. Currently, he works as a postdoc researcher at the University of Ioannina with Professor Vasilis Archontis. His research interest is 3D MHD numerical simulations of flux emergence and eruptive phenomena on the Sun such as flares, coronal mass ejections and jets.

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