About us
Behind Galileo’s Voyage is our founder and director Dr Maria Pavlidou. She is a physicist and musician with over thirty years teaching experience in secondary and higher education.
Maria cares immensely about young people and believes that education is the most important gift that can be offered to them to help build their future. She belongs to the third generation of teachers in her family, keeping a strong tradition of values that revolve around education.
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Mia Hadjiloucas joined Galileo’s Voyage in 2024. She is a 3rd year undergraduate Biology student at Imperial, with a great passion for biology. She aims to nurture a genuine curiosity about the natural world. Through her teaching experience, she has been able to cater to students of many different abilities and is a firm believer in making science accessible to all, by making sessions engaging and simplifying complex ideas.
Alice Hadjiloucas joined Galileo’s Voyage in 2025. She is a Masters graduate in Physics from Imperial, who is passionate about inspiring curiosity in the physical sciences. Alice’s approach to teaching is to break concepts down, starting simply and building up in complexity, ensuring the student grasps concepts fully and thus opening the door to a deeper understanding of the fascinating physical sciences that govern our world.
