about me

Dr Eleni Vardoulaki is an astrophysicist with a doctorate, DPhil, from the University of Oxford, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg. Born in Athens Greece, travelled the world and lived in 4 countries (UK, Portugal, Greece, Germany) as part of her studies and academic career. She is member of three large international collaborations, COSMOS, EMU, and MeerKAT-MIGHTEE. She is also the chair of the working group Radio Galaxy Zoo 2 – EMU. Her research is oriented around active galaxies and their relation to their environment, and how galaxies grow and evolve throughout the Universe. She is a passionate science communicator with her YouTube channel Rogue Astrophysics (founded 9/2017) and with articles written for the general public (a8inea.com & scinews.eu). She is a TEDx speaker, and also the founder (9/2018) and manager (9/2018-6/2020) of Astronomy on Tap Bonn. Astronomy on Tap Bonn is one of the numerous satellites around the world of the Astronomy on Tap events established in New York in 2013. In September 2020 she moved to Jena in east Germany, and launched Astronomy on Tap Jena online, due to the covid-19 pandemic.

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