Mr. Theodoros Papanikolaou completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Patras, Greece in 2016. Afterwards, he followed Master studies in Paris in École Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne Université from where he graduated in 2018. Then, he contacted his PhD research studies at the Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie of the Université de Paris and defended his PhD on September 2021. The topic of his PhD was focused on studying aspects of the early universe with primordial black holes.

HEP Inspire website: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1758381

International collaborations: Laser Inferometer Space Antenna (LISA)

His research interests are focused on studying aspects of early universe cosmology through the portal of primordial black holes and gravitational waves and in particular the periods of inflation, reheating and big bang nucleosynthesis as well as theoretical models related to the physical interpretation of dark matter and dark energy.