Date of birth:	11- 07 - 1981
Place of birth:	Volos, Greece
Current address:	Department of Physics University of Thessaloniki GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Telephone:	+30 - 2310 - 998119
Fax:	+30 - 2310 - 998042
e-mail:	tsaknik@kelifos.physics.auth.gr

 

Education

1999 - 2003	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Physics Department Undergraduate Student in the Department of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Graduated with Grade: 7.53/10.
2003 - 2006	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Physics Department Graduate Student at the Graduate Studies Program on Computational Physics.
2007	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Physics Department PhD candidate under the Graduate Studies Program on Computational Physics, under the supervision of Prof. P. Argyrakis.

Languages

• Very good knowledge of English (Cambridge and Michigan Proficiency).
• Very good knowledge of French (Sorbonne I and II).

Computer Knowledge

• Experience in the usage of  the Unix/Linux and MS Windows /NT/2000/XP operating systems.
• Use of most general commercial packages (word processing, spreadsheets, mathematics, image processing applications).
• Extended programming experience in C, C++ and Mathematica.

Conferences  

Participation in Schools and Conferences

• 11th NEB Conference, New Developments in Gravity, University of Aegean, Mitilini - Greece 2004.
• WGV 2004, Workshop on Gravitational Waves, Albert Einstein Institute for Astrophysics, Golm - Germany 2004.
  
• HEP 2005, Workshop on Recent Advances in Particle Physics and Cosmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki - Greece 2005.
  
• MHD 2005, MHD Summer Program,Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles - Belgium 2005.
• New Perspectives in Numerical Relativity, Southampton - England 2005
• Cosmology and Gravitational Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki - Greece 2005

Participation in Research Projects

2005	Contract with the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.) for the project: Simulation of great scale gravitational astrophysical systems.
2006	Contract with the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.) for the project : Computational tools for simulations in Relativistic Hydrodynamics.

Teaching Experience  

Teaching Experience

2004	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Physics Department Teaching Assistant at the Undergraduate Course : Dynamics of solids and fluids.
2005	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Physics Department Teaching Assistant for one semester at the computer laboratory class for undergraduate students.