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Konstantinos Tassis is a Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece. He specializes in astrophysics, focusing on star formation, interstellar medium physics, and magnetohydrodynamics. His career includes postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy. He leads the PASIPHAE project, a major effort to map interstellar magnetic fields using starlight polarization.
- Education:
- BSc in Physics (1999) - University of Thessaloniki
- PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics (2005) - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Awards:
- ERC Consolidator Grant (2018)
His research explores magnetic fields' role in star formation, interstellar turbulence, and galactic dynamics. Key projects include the SALSA Legacy Program with SOFIA and collaborations like RoboPol for blazar monitoring.
Supervised students include Gina Panopoulou, Aris Tritsis, and Raphael Skalidis, with postdoctoral collaborators like Dmitry Blinov. His work bridges observational data (e.g., HAWC+/SOFIA) and numerical simulations to advance understanding of cosmic magnetic fields.
PASIPHAE aims to create 3D tomographic maps of the ISM using wide-field optical polarimetry. His lab contributes to instrumentation (WALOP-South) and data analysis methods for polarized light studies.
