SEPTEMBER  2022 - TOPICS

Short News EAS Membership Helas Annual Membership Fee Job Opportunities in Greece Opening of the Director position at IA-FORTH ESA Research Fellowships Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece About this Newsletter

1. Short News

We would like to congratulate Dr. Emmanouil Angelakis who was recently elected as Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits. We would like to congratulate Dr. Flora Stanley who has recently moved to a postdoctoral researcher position at IRAM in Grenoble (France). The Society extends its best wishes for further success in her professional pursuits. We would like to congratulate Mr. Georgios Chouliaras, a junior member of our Society, who was recently awarded a competitive PhD fellowship by the Royal Astronomical Society to support his PhD research entitled "Revisiting the nature of solar jets". The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his academic career. We would like to congratulate Dr. Spyros Basilakos, who was recently elected for his second term as the Director of IAASARS/NOA. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his academic career. A European consortium of scientists, led by the FORTH Institute of Astrophysics, has succeeded in securing €3 million in European funding, to design a new state-of-the-art radio telescope (ARGOS) and to develop cutting-edge technologies for the analysis of astronomical data. We would like to congratulate Dr. J. Antoniadis, ARGOS' principal investigator, and all members of the team, for their success. For more information, please visit the FORTH news webpage.

2. EAS Membership

We would like to remind all our members that the European Astronomical Society (EAS) is offering free membership to all junior and ordinary members of HelAS, as well as members of all EAS affiliated societies. As a result, with just the HelAS annual membership fee, one may also receive all EAS member benefits, presented here. As of today 211 Ordinary/Junior members of HelAS, listed here, have become members of EAS. Once a year we have the possibility to update this list so new members of HelAS, as well as old members who did not take advantage of this opportunity can benefit from the EAS membership. EAS may use the members’ data for EAS-only matters, such as sending e-mails with various information, as well as the EAS newsletter, logging on the EAS website, etc. The EAS will never sell or otherwise make available the members’ data to commercial or non-commercial third parties. Members that leave the EAS can request that their data be erased from the EAS database. All members of HelAS who are not already EAS members and wish to join may send an e-mail to president@helas.gr with the following sentence as the Subject line. “I am an Ordinary/Junior member of HelAS and I wish to join EAS for free!” The e-mail must be received by September 30, 2022.

3. Helas Annual Membership Fee

This is a kind reminder for those who were not able to meet the deadline (31/08/2022) for their annual membership fee payment. Please proceed with the payment as soon as possible via direct bank transfer or with credit card as described on the Society's webpage.

4. Job Opportunities in Greece

The Dept. of Physics of the University of Athens welcomes applications for one (1) Assistant Professor in "Observational Astrophysics". Interested parties are invited to submit their applications with all the required supporting documents electronically, through the information system "APELLA", (code APP28666) at the web address https://apella.minedu.gov.gr. The deadline for submission of applications is September 23, 2022. For more information check the corresponding FEK here. One (1) promotion-opened position with academic subject "Observational Astrophysics" at the level of Senior Researcher (Researcher B) has opened at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications, and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens. Interested parties are invited to submit all the required supporting documents electronically through the information system "APELLA", (code APP28894) at the web address https://apella.minedu.gov.gr. The deadline for submission of applications is October 7, 2022.

5. Opening of the Director position at IA-FORTH

The position of the Director of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (IA-FORTH) has opened. The application deadline is September 30, 2022. More information on the application process is available here.

6. ESA Research Fellowships announcement, deadline 19 September 2022

We are pleased to inform you about the opening of the call for European Space Agency's Research Fellowships in Space Science with an application deadline on 19 September 2022. For more information on the Research Fellowship Program and on how to apply, please visit this website.

7. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece

Alvio@80 Conference in honor of Alvio Renzini 5-10 September 2022, Kolymbari, Island of Crete. 12th Panhellenic Conference of Amateur Astronomy 14-16 October 2022, Patras

8. About this Newsletter

This Newsletter was sent to all members of Hel.A.S. who have e-mail access. The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around October 1, 2022.  Please send your announcements (e.g., appointments / departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before September 25, 2022. If you do not wish to receive future issues of this Newsletter or the e-mail address to which it was sent is not your preferred one, please inform the Secretary of Hel.A.S. at secretary@helas.gr.