CURRICULUM VITAE CONTACT INFORMATION Ioannis Liodakis Room 245, Physics and Astronomy building, Stanford University 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, (+1)650-644-7912 email: [email protected] EDUCATION Defended thesis University of Crete: Ph.D. in Astrophysics April 2017 • Thesis advisor: V. Pavlidou • Research intership at Caltech, Marie Curie IRSES program, Apr-Sep 2016. • Research intership at Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Erasmus Placement program, Nov 2015 - Feb 2016. 2014 University of Patras: M.Sc. in Physics • with honors (Graduated top of class) 2012 University of Patras: B.Sc. in Physics • Research intership at Univ. of Trento, Erasmus Placement program, Mar-May 2011 • Visiting studentship at Univ. of Amsterdam, Erasmus Exchange program, Feb-Jul 2008 AWARDS • Best Young Researcher’s Award, University of Crete, July 2017. The University of Crete awards the best young researcher across all disciplines. • Best PhD Thesis Prize, Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S), March 2017. RESEARCH INTERESTS • Blazars: population models, modeling of radio light curves; Doppler factor estimation tech- niques; origin of EVPA rotations, jet acceleration models; correlated observations in TeV, GeV, X-rays, optical and radio wavebands. • Radio observations: variability properties of radio-loud sources; sources of error and uncer- tainty in radio observations; sub-pc structure of radio jets. • Optical polarimetry: blazars, X-ray binaries, white dwarfs, molecular clouds, gamma-ray loud narrow-line Seyfert galaxies. • Gamma-rays: population models of gamma-ray sources; origin of gamma-rays; origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background. • Cosmic-rays: population studies for ultra-high energy cosmic rays; cosmic-ray accelerators. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS • Postdoctoral fellowship, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University. TEACHING/OBSERVING EXPERIENCE Fall Semester 2016 University of Crete, Course: Physics laboratory I Teaching Assistant, led momentum and acceleration experiments Spring Semester 2015 University of Crete, Course: Physics laboratory I Teaching Assistant, led momentum and acceleration experiments Spring Semester 2013 University of Patras, Course: Computational Physics Teaching Assistant, led programming sections 2014-2017 Telescope Operator/Observer Skinakas Observatory (90 nights of observations on the 1.3 meter telescope) 1 ORGANIZATIONS 2016 - Junior Member, European Astronomical Society 2013 - Junior Member, The Hellenic Astronomical Society 2005 - Member, Amateur Astronomical Society “Orion” UNDERGRADUATE/MASTER’S STUDENT MENTORING 2016 - University of Crete, Master’s thesis of K. Kokolakis Co-Supervisor, Thesis title: “Unidentified γ-ray sources: polarization as a association method” 2016 - University of Crete, undergraduate thesis of A. Lalakos Co-Supervisor, Thesis title: “The contribution of blazars to the isotropic γ-ray background” 2015 - 2016 University of Crete, undergraduate thesis of K. Kokolakis Co-Supervisor, Thesis title: “Two populations of accelerators for ultra-high energy cosmic rays” 2015, 2016 Skinakas Observatory Student Internship Program Instructor, responsible for the training seminars. Co-supervisor of the internship project: “Magnitude calibration using standard stars” . FIRST AUTHOR PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS 1. I. Liodakis, V. Pavlidou, E. Angelakis, et al., “Scale invariant jets: from blazars to micro- quasars” 2017, Astrophysical Journal submitted: AAS06549 2. I. Liodakis, A. Zezas, T. Hovatta, E. Angelakis & V. Pavlidou, “Reconciling inverse- Compton Doppler factors with variability Doppler factors in blazar jets” 2016, A&A 602, 8, arXiv:1503.04780. 3. I. Liodakis, V. Pavlidou, T. Hovatta, et al., “Bimodal radio variability in OVRO-40m- monitored blazars” 2016, MNRAS 467, 4565-4576, arXiv:1702.05493. 4. I. Liodakis, N. Marchili, E. Angelakis, et al., “F-GAMMA: Variability Doppler factors of blazars from multiwavelength monitoring” 2017, MNRAS 466, 4625-4632, arXiv:1701.01452. 5. I. Liodakis, D. Blinov, I. Papadakis & V. Pavlidou, “Estimating the distribution of rest- frame timescales for blazar jets: a statistical approach ” 2017, MNRAS, 465, 4783-4794, arXiv:1511.00434. 6. I. Liodakis, V. Pavlidou & E. Angelakis, “Detecting the elusive blazar Counter-jets” 2017, MNRAS, 465, 180-191, arXiv:1610.06561. 7. I. Liodakis & V. Pavlidou, “Population statistics of beamed sources. II: Evaluation of Doppler factor Estimates” 2015, MNRAS, 454, 1767-1777, arXiv:1412.2638. 8. I. Liodakis & V. Pavlidou, “Population statistics of beamed sources. I: A new model for blazars” 2015, MNRAS, 451, 2434-2446, arXiv:1412.2634. Total number of publications: 16, Number of citations: 117, h-index: 6 Astronomer’s telegrams: 5, Conference oral/poster contribution: 7 REFERENCES Prof. V. Pavlidou, Physics Department, University of Crete, University Campus, Heraklion, Crete Greece, email: [email protected], phone: (+30) 2810-394211 Prof. I. Papadakis, Department Chair, Physics Department, University of Crete, University Campus Heraklion, Crete, Greece email: [email protected], phone: (+30) 2810-394213 Prof. A. Readhead, Caltech, Division of Physics, Mathematics & Astronomy, 222 Cahill, Caltech University Campus, Pasadena, L.A., USA. email: [email protected], phone: (+1) 626-3954972 2.