# Vasileios Tsiolis

> Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University | Senior Software Engineer @descartesunderwriting

Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vasileios

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Descartes Underwriting
Jan 2023 – Present | Paris, Île-de-France, France

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Princeton University
Jan 2017 – Present | Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Advised by Prof. Anatoly Spitkovsky

Thesis related topics: Particle heating and acceleration in shocks, Cosmic ray streaming instabilities, Particle-in-Cell simulations

Acquired experience:
1. Improved my computational skills in numerical analysis and simulations. (Fortran, C, C++)
2. Developed sophisticated visualization tools for two-dimensional field animations. (Numpy, Matplotlib, Numba)
3. Analytic modeling of particle motion in prescribed electromagnetic fields present at shocks. (MHD, kinetic theory)

### Teaching Assistant @ Princeton University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023
Teaching assistant for the undergraduate course "AST-204 Topics in Modern Astrophysics". 
Leading problem-solving sessions on the following topics: Planetary motion, Measuring distances in Astronomy, Stellar evolution, Cosmology, Python fundamentals

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Worked under the supervision of Prof. Ilya Dodin on developing the formalism for structure formation in vector-wave turbulence as instability of effective quantum-like plasma.

### Teaching Assistant @ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Greece
Served as a teaching assistant, evaluating the homework of undergraduate students in the following courses:
Single Variable Calculus, Multi-Variable Calculus, Electricity & Magnetism, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Numerical Analysics


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Astrophysics
Princeton University

### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Physics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

### Astronomy and Astrophysics
Radboud University

### Bachelor courses in Physics
edX

### Physics
WorldScienceU


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vassilis-tsiolis-40595080

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Last updated: 2026-03-30