Konstantinos Kolokythas

Dr Konstantinos Kolokythas is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow jointly at Rhodes University and the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), leading the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey (MGCLS) diffuse radio emission catalogue project and the DR2 of the MGCLS products (https://mgcls.sarao.ac.za/). He obtained his PhD in 2015 from the University of Birmingham (UK), studying radio properties and the evolution of nearby galaxy groups using the Complete Local-Volume Groups Sample (CLoGS; https://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~ejos/CLoGS.html). Then, became a Postdoctoral Researcher at IUCAA (Pune, India) working closely with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). In 2020, he joined as an NRF Postdoctoral Fellow at North-West University in South Africa. His research is focused on both galaxy groups and clusters, and in particular, on the evolution of nearby galaxy groups using multi-band observations, having an interest in the evolution of radio jets, their impact on the intra-group medium (AGN feedback) and the relation of active galactic nuclei and environmental properties of galaxy groups in the local Universe. In galaxy clusters, his main focus is their evolution and formation history, as revealed by the diffuse radio emission they exhibit, using MeerKAT observations.