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Dimitrios Giannios

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Dimitrios Giannios
PHYS 325
(765) 494-5194

Educational and Professional History

Time Position
2022 - Professor, Physics Department, Purdue University
2018 - 2022 Associate Professor, Physics Department, Purdue University
2012 - 2018 Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Purdue University
2011 - 2012 Associate Research Scholar, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, USA
2008 - 2011 Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Fellow, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, USA
2005 - 2008 Postdoc, MPI for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
2002 - 2005 Ph.D. Physics, University of Crete, Greece
2000 - 2002 M.Sc. Physics, University of Crete, Greece
1996 - 2000 B.Sc. Physics, University of Patras, Greece

Research Interests

High-energy astrophysics, gravity:

  • Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources
  • Theoretical study of the physics of relativistic jets (jets from galactic centers, from compact objects in binary systems and gamma-ray bursts)
  • Acceleration and composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, associated neutrino emission
  • The nature of the central engine of gamma-ray bursts


Selected Publications (as of 2018)

  1. "Off-axis short GRBs from structured jets as counterparts to GW events", Kathirgamaraju, A., Barniol Duran, R., & Giannios, D., 2018, MNRAS Letters, 473, L121
  2. "Collapsar Gamma-Ray Bursts: how the luminosity function dictates the duration distribution", Petropoulou, M., Barniol Duran, R. & Giannios, D., 2017, MNRAS, 472, 2722
  3. "Three-dimensional simulations of AGN jets: magnetic kink instability versus conical shocks", Barniol-Duran, R., Tchekhovskoy, A. & Giannios, D., MNRAS, 469; 4957
  4. "Radio Emission from Sgr A*: Pulsar Transits Through the Accretion Disc", Christie, I. M., Petropoulou, M., Mimica, P., & Giannios, D., 2017, MNRAS Letters, 468, L26
  5. "Plasmoids in relativistic reconnection, from birth to adulthood: first they grow, then they go", Sironi, L., Giannios, D. & Petropoulou, M., 2016, MNRAS, 462, 48 
  6. "GRB off-axis afterglows and the emission from the accompanying supernovae", Kathirgamaraju, A., Barniol-Duran, R. & Giannios, D., 2016, MNRAS, 461, 1568
  7. "Flares from Galactic centre pulsars: a new class of X-ray transients?", Giannios, D., & Lorimer D, 2016, MNRAS Letters, 459, L95
  8. "Jets shine through shocks or magnetic reconnection?", Sironi, L., Petropoulou, M & Giannios, D., 2015, MNRAS, 450, 183
  9. "Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Pair Plasmas and Its Astrophysical Applications", Kagan, D. Sironi, L., Cerutti, B. & Giannios, D., 2015, Space Science Reviews, 191, 545
  10. "Magnetic flux of progenitor stars sets gamma-ray burst luminosity and variability", Tchekhovskoy, A. & Giannios, D., 2015, MNRAS, 447, 327
  11. "Black-hole jets without large-scale net magnetic flux", Parfrey, K., Giannios, D., & Beloborodov, A., 2015, MNRAS Letters, 446, L61
  12. "Testing the neutrino annihilation model for launching GRB jets", Leng, M. & Giannios, D., 2014, MNRAS Letters, 445, L1
  13. "Relativistic Pair Beams from TeV Blazars: A Source of Reprocessed GeV Emission rather than IGM Heating", Sironi, L., & Giannios, D., ApJ, 2014, ApJ, 787, 49
  14. "A Late-time Flattening of Light Curves in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows", Sironi, L., & Giannios, D., 2013, ApJ, 778, 107
  15. "Reconnection-driven plasmoids in blazars: fast flares on a slow envelope", Giannios, D., 2013, MNRAS, 431, 355
  16. “Optical and X-ray transients from planet-star mergers” Metzger, B. D., Giannios, D., & Spiegel, D. S. 2012, MNRAS, 425, 2778
  17. “The peak energy of dissipative GRB photospheres” Giannios, D. 2012, MNRAS, 422, 3092
  18. “Afterglow Model for the Radio Emission from the Jetted Tidal Disruption Candidate Swift J1644+57” Metzger, B. D., Giannios, D., & Mimica, P., 2012, MNRAS, 420, 3528
  19. “GRB afterglow light curves from realistic density profiles”, Mimica, P., & Giannios, D. , 2011, MNRAS, 418, 583
  20. “A relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star”, Bloom, J. S., Giannios, D., et al., 2011, Science, 333, 203
  21. “Radio transients by stellar tidal disruption by massive black holes”, Giannios, D., & Metzger, B. D., 2011, MNRAS, 416, 2102
  22. “Heavy nuclei synthesized in gamma-ray burst outflows as source of UHECRs”, Metzger, B. D., Giannios, D., & Horiuchi, S. 2011, MNRAS, 415, 2495
  23. “The Proto-Magnetar Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts”, Metzger, B. D., Giannios, D., Thompson, T. A., Bucciantini, N., & Quataert, E. 2011, MNRAS, 413, 2031
  24. “UHECRs from magnetic reconnection in relativistic jets”, Giannios, D. 2010, MNRAS, 408, L46
  25. “Superflares from magnetars revealing the GRB central engine”, Giannios, D. 2010, MNRAS, 403, L51
  26. “Fast TeV variability from misaligned minijets in the jet of M87”, Giannios, D., Uzdensky, D. A., & Begelman, M. C. 2010, MNRAS, 402, 1649
  27. “Fast TeV variability in blazars: jets in a jet”, Giannios, D., Uzdensky, D. A., & Begelman, M. C. 2009, MNRAS, 395, L29
  28. “Deceleration of arbitrarily magnetized GRB ejecta: the complete evolution”, Mimica, P., Giannios, D., & Aloy, M. A. 2009, A&A, 494, 879
  29. "Prompt GRB emission from gradual energy dissipation", Giannios, D. 2008, A&A, 480, 305
  30. "On the existence of reverse shock in magnetized GRB ejecta", Giannios, D., Mimica, P., & Aloy, M. A. 2008, A&A, 478, 747
  31. "Spectral and timing properties of a dissipative γ-ray burst photosphere", Giannios, D., & Spruit, H. C. 2007, A&A, 469, 1
  32. "Prompt emission spectra from the photosphere of a GRB", Giannios, D. 2006, A&A, 457, 763
  33. "Flares in GRB afterglows from delayed magnetic dissipation", Giannios, D. 2006, A&A, 455, L5
  34. "The role of kink instability in magnetically driven jets", Giannios, D., & Spruit, H. C., 2006, A&A, 450, 887
  35. "Spectra of black-hole binaries in the low/hard state: from radio to X-rays", Giannios, D. 2005, A&A, 437, 1007
  36. "Spherically symmetric, static spacetimes in a tensor-vector-scalar theory", Giannios, D. 2005, PhRvD, 71, 3511
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