Profile
Marios Kalomenopoulos
My CV
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Education:
I went to a local high-school in Nea Smirni, my neighbourhood in Athens. Then I got my physics undergraduate degree from the National University of Athens.
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Qualifications:
Nationals Pan-hellenic exams for university entry.
I also had advanced qualifications for English and French, before finishing school.
After graduating from Athens University (Physics, undergraduate), I came to Edinburgh, where I did an MSc and now a PhD.
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Work History:
I was working as a part-time tutor while doing my undergraduate degree. Before my Master, I was working, as an intern, at “Democritos”, a research institute at Greece, and after the Master I was working at the university of Edinburgh as a teaching assistant.
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Current Job:
PhD student
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About Me:
Really like physics & maths and generally curious about how things work.
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I’m from Athens, Greece. I live in Edinburgh for the last ~4 years, doing an MSc there on Theoretical Physics, before starting my PhD in Cosmology/Astrophysics.
I really like swimming at the sea, so definitely miss the nice weather (and food), but I also like trekking, so it’s probably ok 😉
I like playing football (usually with other physicists), and on other stuff, I’m also interested in history and politics.
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The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) some years ago, opened a new window to the Universe. Using GWs signals we can study various aspects of fundamental cosmology and test General Relativity (the theory of gravity) in unexplored phenomena.
In my project, we study the effects of large scale structures in the universe to the waveforms of GWs, both analytically and by using state-of-the-art cosmological simulations. This can result in a better understanding of our detected signals, but also potentially give us useful information about the matter anisotropies in the universe.
(Sketch Image of the problem we want to solve – not to scale)
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My Typical Day:
Having trouble waking up early, so I’m usually late at work…
A usual day involves many hours sitting in front of a screen trying to make a code run or checking the science of other people. Then jump for meetings/seminars, where we discuss physics.
Lunch time!
More coding or problem solving with pen & paper.
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At the morning, I usually check emails and interesting papers from other scientists in the general field I’m working.
Then I work on my code or try to solve some mathematical problems to what we’re trying to study.
Usually around noon we have a group meeting, with other PhD students and our supervisor, where we discuss our progress or interesting papers we found.
Early lunch (for my standards), because the cantine stops serving at 13.30…
Then, depending on the day, we either have a seminar from a visiting scientist or I have to go help with teaching activities at the University. Otherwise, I return back to problem solving!
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What I'd do with the prize money:
Haven’t thought it thoroughly, but I was thinking maybe organising a physics “school” on some modern topics, for students, but done more interactively, with the lecturers being PhD students.
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Open-minded, curious, realaxed
What did you want to be after you left school?
Physics researcher
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Not really
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Pink Floyd, Ska-p
What's your favourite food?
Mousakas
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
A scientific breakthrough, travel around the world, build a huge collection of books
Tell us a joke.
Knock knock...
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