Mr Minas Karamanis
Position: PhD StudentE-mail: minas.karamanis(at port.ac.uk)Telephone: +44 (0)2392 845826Office: DS3.13Personal Website
Research interests: Cosmology, Large-Scale Structure of the Universe, Galaxy Surveys, Primordial Non-Gaussianity, Astrostatistics & Astroinformatics, Bayesian Inference, Machine Learning in Astronomy
Biography:
I’m a 2nd year PhD student studying the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe. My current project involves using data from galaxy surveys to investigate the exact nature of the primordial density perturbations that were generated by Ιnflation at the birth of our Cosmos. Upcoming galaxy surveys, like DESI, will provide measurements on the largest scales which can test whether the initial conditions in the Universe follow from the simplest inflationary models, or alternatively show signs of novel effects at the enormous energy scales of the first second of the history of the Universe.
Prior to that I was a postgraduate student in Theoretical Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge, where I read the Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. As an undergraduate student I studied Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
Qualifications: MASt in Applied Mathematics, BSc in PhysicsAchievements and recognition: Lilian Voudouri Foundation PG Scholarship 2017-2018
Roles and Collaborations: Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), Euclid Consortium, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
Teaching responsibilities: Introduction to Computational Physics (2019)
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