Dr. rer. nat. Pavlos Koseoglou

ACADEMIC HISTORY
Nov 2025 - now Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
May 2024 - Nov 2025 Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Physics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Nov 2020 - Sept 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher
Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher
Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019 Research Assistant
Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019 Research Assistant
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung /
FAIR - Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe
Sept 2012 - Nov 2014 Undergraduate Research Assistant
Radiation Physics Group, Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011 Medical physicist - Internship
Theageneio Anti-Cancer Hospital

EDUCATION
Feb 2019 PhD in Nuclear Physics
Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Norbert Pietralla
Dissertation’s title: Lifetime measurements in the neutron-rich 148 Ce nuclide at the low-Z boundary of the N = 90 shape-phase transition
Nov 2014 Degree in Physics
Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Metaxia Manolopoulou
Thesis’ title: Neutron spectrum determination in a sub-critical assembly using the multi-disc neutron activation technique

GRANTS
May 2024 Walter Benjamin Programme Fellowship
Awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to conduct research
at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens for the project:
Evolution of deformation in neutron-rich Er and Yb isotopes

April 2017

HGS-HIRe Abroad Grant
Awarded by the Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research
”HGS-HIRe for FAIR” for a research visit at the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan

SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE
Experimental nuclear structure techniques:
- fast-timing lifetime measurements of short lived states,
- in-beam measurements using radioactive and stable beams,
- decay spectroscopy,
- Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence measurements,
- neutron activation analysis,
- HPGe detectors’ characterization,
- environmental radiation measurements.
Member of international collaborations such as NUSTAR, DESPEC, ν-Ball,
EXILL&FATIMA, R3B-NeuLAND-SAMURAI, Nuclear Photonics and SEASTAR.
Participation in experiments at international research facilities all over the world,
e.g. at GSI/FAIR, RIKEN, INFN-LNL, ILL, S-DALINAC, GANIL, IFIN-HH, HIγS and ALTO.