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Started teaching at the “Basic Physics Laboratory III” (optics, waves and thermodynamics), during the 3rd semester of the Physics Degree, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR). Here is the site of the class.

In September 2025, the 1st POSYDON school took place at the the new SkAI Institute in Chicago, bringing together researchers, from all over the world, to explore binary population synthesis with this next-generation tool! I contributed as a lecturer on the topics and implementation the end fate of massive stars, their core collapse and supernovae, forming compact objects.

The study, in review in MNRAS and found on arXiV, using the POSYDON binary population-synthesis code fins that most stripped-envelope supernovae originate from stable mass-transfer in binaries rather than common-envelope channels, that their ejecta masses remain largely insensitive to metallicity, but that subtype fractions and progenitor ages vary significantly with metallicity.

I had the opportunity ot stay for a few weeks in Beijing  invited and visiting the group of supernova observers led by Ningchen Sun at the Nation Astronomical Observatory of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Also traveled at Lijiang at South China, where I attended and presented my results at the international conference of "Binary Stars in the New Era". I was Supported by the PIFI traveling visit fellow grant,

This study, done in collaboration with SN observers Ori Fox and Maria Drout, this study uses new POSYDON models to compare observed and predicted companions of stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe). The results show good agreement with binary-evolution predictions, favor inefficient accretion, and suggest that the most massive stripped stars may fail to explode.

Both Dimitris and me visiting the group of Vicky Kalogera's (Director of CIERA and one of the PI's of POSYDON)

Both Dimitris and me invited by MPA Scientific Director of Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (and my PhD supervisor) Selma de Mink for collaboration with the extended group and other visitors.