Thanasis Giannakopoulos

Thanasis Giannakopoulos

Research Fellow

University of Nottingham

Welcome!

I am a research fellow at the University of Nottingham, presently in the School of Physics & Astronomy and previously in the School of Mathematical Sciences. I am a member of the Particle Cosmology group and the Nottingham Center of Gravity.

My main research is numerical simulations of gravitational systems. It combines theoretical knowledge of gravitation with numerical analysis, software development, and data analysis. Recently, I have been spending most of my time exploring numerical methods suitable for theories beyond general relativity and developing a code for gravitational collapse. In the past, my work was focused on the characteristic problem of general relativity, specifically its mathematical properties of hyperbolicity and well-posedness, as well as some of its applications.

Interests
  • Partial differential equations
  • Numerical simulations
  • Gravitational waves
  • Black holes
Education
  • PhD in Physics, 2022

    Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon

  • MSc in Theoretical Physics, 2017

    University of Amsterdam

  • BSc in Physics, 2015

    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Projects

The hyperbolicity of characteristic formulations
Investigating the hyperbolicity of the characteristic setup in general relativity and its impact in applications.
The hyperbolicity of characteristic formulations

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