Vasiliki Pavlidou

Vasiliki Pavlidou is a Greek astrophysicst and Full Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Crete and an Affiliated Faculty at the Institute of Astrophysics - Foundation for Research & Technology - Helas. Since July 2023 she serves as an associate editor in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Astronomy & Astrophysics Her research interests focus on cosmology, high energy physics and radio astronomy.

Education
Pavlidou received her BSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1999. She continued her studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where she completed her doctoral thesis on astrophysics, and received her doctoral title in 2005.

Research
From 2005 to 2008, Pavlidou held a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Cosmology at the University of Chicago. From 2008 to 2011 she was awarded the Einstein scholarship at Caltech. In 2010 she was elected as an assistant professor at the University of Crete, but that appointment was delayed due to the financial crisis in Greece. In 2011-2012 she was visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy and in 2012 she accepted a temporary research position at the University of Crete. Her delayed appointment as an assistant professor at the University of Crete finally begun in 2013, and she was successively promoted to associate professor in 2018 and Full Professor in 2023.

Pavlidou has been the chair of the management panel of the RoboPol collaboration since 2012.

Science communication
Pavlidou has promoted science communication by giving talks and presentations to the general public. She has been in the organizing committee of workshops targeting a specialist audience. Vasiliki Pavlidou together with Konstantinos Tassis have developed an introductory astronomy mooc for the general public at the mathesis platform.

Awards

 * 1999 Theoretical Physics Fellowship Greek State Scholarships Foundation
 * 2002 Amelia Earhart Fellowship Zonta Foundation
 * 2008 GLAST (Einstein) Fellowship NASA
 * 2014 Award for Women in Science (Greece) L’Oreal-UNESCO