Sotiria Fotopoulou

Astrophysicist. Data enthusiast.

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Data-Intensive AstroNomical Analysis [D.I.AN.A.]

I lead the D.I.AN.A group at the University of Bristol. In the past, I co-lead the AGN Work Package in Euclid (2019-2025).

My group uses large multiwavelength datasets to understand the impact of supermassive black holes in the evolution of galaxies. We develop automated methods for creating high-fidelity multiwavelength datasets, harness machine-learning methods for object classification & physical parameter estimation, and explore the impact of AGN in galaxy evolution through the statistical analysis of large datasets.

Use the links below to learn more.

Data
Machine learning
Supermassive black holes
Euclid

Public Codes

ADS-megalib [GitHub]

Merge all of your NASA/ADS libraries into one!

  • Export a combination of stored libraries into a single .bib file

  • Create merged libraries on your ads account

Star - Galaxy - QSO classification [GitHub]

Unsupervised machine-learning classification - application of HDBSCAN

Astro-PostgreSQL Docker image [GitHub]

Run a PostgreSQL deamon through docker, including the pg_sphere and pg_healpix extensions.

  • pg_sphere provides astronomy related definitions such as points, coordinates, etc

  • pg_healpix provides access to tessellation ID of sky coordinates.

AstronomicAL [GitHub]

An interactive dashboard for visualisation, integration and classification of data using Active Learning presented in Stevens et al., 2021

INSPEC-Z [GitHub]

Interactive visualisation and verification of 1D spectra with matplotlib.

  • Convenience functionality for managing large surveys, e.g. filtering, flag homogenisation

  • Simple conda installation and docker image (only for Mac OS)

 

Self-hosted AI [GITHUB]

Run LLMs with additional context locally, server them your peers, maintain privacy.

Education

Dr. Rer. Nat., International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) and Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany [2009-2012]

M.Sc. Physics with Specialization in Astrophysics University of Athens, Greece [2007-2009]

B.Sc. Physics with Specialization in Astrophysics University of Athens, Greece [2002-2007]

Research

University of Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Lecturer [2023-NOW]

  • Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow [2019-2023]

Durham University, United kingdom

  • Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow [2017-2019]

University of Geneva, Switzerland

  • Postdoc [2013-2017]

Interested in working on a project with me?

Explore opportunities here, or get in touch.