Assistant Professor
Telephone
+30-2810-394203
Email
porfyriadis@physics.uoc.gr
Office
202 Physics Bldg.
Webpage
https://users.physics.uoc.gr/~porfyriadis
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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.
