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Κατάλογος Ελλήνων Διδακτόρων Αστρονομίας |
Μιχαλιτσιάνος Ανδρέας |
Θέση: |
Ερευνητής, NASA/GSFC |
PhD: |
1972, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο |
Τίτλος: |
Magnetohydrodynamic processes in the active solar atmosphere |
Supervisor(s): |
Worrall Gordon - Durrant Christopher |
Βιογραφικό: |
Dr. Andreas -Andy- Gerasimos Michalitsianos (Greek: Ανδρέας Γεράσιμος Μιχαλιτσιάνος) (May 22, 1947 – October 29, 1997) was a Greek-American astronomer and a NASA astrophysicist, also known and published as Andrew G. Michalitsianos.
Born in Alexandria, Egypt on May 22, 1947, Andreas grew up with his mother, who spoke little English and briefly, with his father. He moved with his family to New York City in 1949 and lived in the Queens borough before going to college. Michalitsianos father, Gerasimos Andreas, was a sea captain of a Greek tanker, the SS Foundation Star (formerly SS Lampas), but the ship was caught up in a hurricane and sunk in September 1952 off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia and Michalitsianos father died of pneumonia shortly after rescue. Andreas showed an early interest in astronomy and physics from an early age, winning a science contest in 1959 and serving as president of the Junior Astronomy Club in NYC where his accomplishments included leading a South American eclipse expedition. He graduated from Newtown High School in 1965 and then earned his bachelors degree in physics from the University of Arizona at Tucson in 1969, working at the nearby Kitt Peak National Observatory as a student employee in the Space Division to help pay off his college debts. His duties at Kitt Peak included the initial tests of a remotely controlled telescope.
Andreas then received a scholarship and earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics from University of Cambridge, Churchill College in 1976 while doing research on a theoretical topic in solar physics. He would later work as a junior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology and then as an astrophysicist at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center from the 1970s until his death. Michalitsianos was involved with such projects as the Hubble Space Telescope and was the Deputy Project Manager of the Observatory Branch for Goddards highly successful International Ultraviolet Explorer, in which he won several awards for his contributions. Michalitsianos eventually went on to become Chief of the Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics at the Goddard Space Flight Center in early 1997, and was renowned for his breakthrough research on symbiotic stars. His many awards included the NASA Meritorious Achievement Award.
Michalitsianos died on October 29, 1997 in Baltimore, Maryland after a long struggle with a brain tumor. Until his last days he was hard at work rejuvenating the Laboratory of which he had recently taken command, and on a proposal for a spacecraft to monitor temporal changes in the ultraviolet and X-ray spectra of stars and active galaxies. He is survived by a wife, two daughters, a sister, and one son.
A landbased robotic telescope on the island of Cefalonia in western Greece is named in his honor. The Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos telescope, located within a former Hellenic Air Force communications station, has been utilized by Greek universities and The Eudoxos Project to advance Greek secondary education in introductory astronomy and physics laboratories for high school students. |
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Μιχαλοδημητράκης Ματθαίος |
Θέση: |
Καθηγητής ΑΕΙ/ΤΕΙ, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης |
PhD: |
1974, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, Ελλάδα |
Τίτλος: |
Μελέτη της κινήσεως στο πεδίον βαρύτητας περιστροφόμενης ράβδου |
Supervisor(s): |
Χατζηδημητρίου Ιωάννης |
Βιογραφικό: |
Matthaios Michalodimitrakis was born in Florina in 1943 and graduated from the Department of Physics of the University of Thessaloniki in 1967. In 1968 he was appointed assistant in the A’ Laboratory of Physics and in 1969 he moved to the Theoretical Mechanics Studiorum. In 1970 he obtained his Master degree in Electronic Physics and in 1974 he completed his PhD thesis. In 1975 he was hired as chief assistant at the Department of Physics becoming a Docent in 1980. In 1982 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor and in 1983 he was promoted to Associate Professor. He died in a car accident on May 31, 1990.
Prof. Michalodimitrakis published 32 papers in refereed scientific journals, mainly on the computation of periodic orbits in the 3- and 4-body problems, in the Hill’s problem and in various galactic models. He supervised two PhD students. He wrote a book on Special Relativity and two books on the methodology of problem solving in Newtonian and Analytical Dynamics. |
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Μόσχου Σοφία-Παρασκευή |
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Μούντριχας Γεώργιος |
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Μουσάς Ξενοφών |
Θέση: |
Καθηγητής ΑΕΙ/ΤΕΙ, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών |
PhD: |
1977, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Ελλάδα |
Τίτλος: |
Μελέτη της Διαμόρφωσης της Κοσμικής Ακτινοβολίας και Δομή του Μεσοπλανητικού Διαστήματος κατά το Γεγονός του Αυγούστου 1972 |
Supervisor(s): |
Αποστολάκης Αλκιβιάδης - Καρούμπαλος Κωνσταντίνος |
Βιογραφικό: |
Professor Emeritus of Space Physics at the University of
Athens (since 1996). He was born in Athens, Greece, on
the 6th of March, 1947. He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics
from the University of Athens (1971) and his Ph.D. in
Cosmic Rays and Space Physics from the same
University in 1977. He worked for four years as scientific
collaborator at the University of Athens (1971-1974), as a
Research Fellow (1974-1975) and as Research Assistant
(1975-1977) at the Imperial College, U.K., as Assistant
(1978), Chief Assistant (1979), Lecturer (1982) and
Assistant Professor of Space Physics (1986) at the
Department of Physics of the University of Athens,
Greece. He joined for three months each year as visiting
Research Fellow the Imperial College (1978-1995), and the University of Mexico as Visiting professor for 3 monthly periods. He has been elected Director of the Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Department of Physics of the University of Athens (2004), Director of the Laboratory of Astrophysics (two periods of two years), Member of the senate of the University of Athens (one year), deputy Chairman of the Department of Physics (two years), head of the Space Physics Group, head of the career’s office of the Department of Physics. He has been awarded with the American Geophysical Union "Excellence in refereeing" in Space Physics, Geophysical Research Letters, 2001. His scientific interests include Space physics (STEREO mission -NASA, Ulysses mission, the heliosphere in 3 D, Cosmic ray modulation and the heliosphere, co-investigator WAVES experiments on-board both spacecraft of the STEREO NASA mission and team member of WIND/waves experiment, NASA), Magnetospheric studies (Mars ionosphere and magnetosphere), Solar physics (ARTEMIS IV Digital Radio Spectrograph, 7 m diameter, at Thermopylae, Greece, a French-Greek collaboration, Non-linear RLC model of the solar cycle), Stellar winds/astrophysical flows, Plasma Physics, Space physics, History of Astronomy. He has been reviewer of the European Science Foundation. He was among the scientists who constructed and operate the Franco-Hellenic solar radio spectrograph ARTEMIS (at Thermopylae), which observes the Sun in radio frequencies ranging from 20 to 650 MHz, receiving 110 spectra every second. His scientific group participates in several experiments on board various spacecrafts (Ulysses, Wind, STEREO I & II). He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), of the American Geophysical Union, of the Hellenic Physical Society and a founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). He has been member of the Administrative Council of Hel.A.S. and editor of the magazine of this Society (Hipparchos). He has published more than 58 articles in international journals, several chapters or articles in books, several book reviews and a large number of articles in popular science magazines (in Greek). He has great interest to outreach and science popularization. He studies the oldest known astronomical instrument, that has Hipparchos mathematical signature, the Antikythera Mechanism, an analogue computer of the 2nd century BC, with marvellous functions that predicts eclipses and Lunar motions with a good approximation of Keplers 2nd law. He has created many exhibitions and has delivered many public lectures concerning this device in several countries (in Museums, Planetaria, UNESCO and The Library of Alexandria). Main Textbooks: 1) Space Physics, Greek Open University, Patras, 2003, 2) Notes for the students: Space physics (with one co-author), 3) Introduction to Astrophysics (six co-authors), 4) Laboratory Exercises in Astrophysics (10 co- authors), University of Athens. |
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Μουστάκας Λεωνίδας |
Θέση: |
Ερευνητής, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PhD: |
1998, Dept. of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, ΗΠΑ |
Τίτλος: |
Galaxy evolution from deep optical and near-infrared surveys |
Supervisor(s): |
Davis Marc |
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Μουσχοβίας Τηλέμαχος |
Θέση: |
Καθηγητής ΑΕΙ/ΤΕΙ, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
PhD: |
1975, Dept. of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, ΗΠΑ |
Τίτλος: |
Static equilibria of the interstellar gas in the presence of magnetic and gravitational fields |
Supervisor(s): |
Field George |
Βιογραφικό: |
Professor Mouschovias received his bachelor degree in physics from Yale University in 1968, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. He joined the University of Illinois as an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in 1977.
The long-term goal of Professor Mouschovias research has been to decipher the role of cosmic magnetic fields in the formation of stars. He and his graduate students have made seminal contributions in the field, including the resolution of the angular momentum problem (through magnetic braking) and of the central role of ambipolar diffusion in the fragmentation of molecular clouds and star formation, including the determination of the protostellar "initial mass function". His research group made pioneering contributions to our understanding the role of interstellar dust in star formation, not only in determining the degree of ionization in evolving molecular clouds, but also in directly (through collisions) or indirectly (through induced electric fields) coupling the magnetic field to the predominantly neutral matter. |
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Μουτσούλας Μιχαήλ |
Θέση: |
Καθηγητής ΑΕΙ/ΤΕΙ, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών |
PhD: |
1967, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο |
Τίτλος: |
Physical libration of the moon |
Supervisor(s): |
Kopal Zdenek |
Βιογραφικό: |
Michael D. Moutsoulas (1936-1995)
Professor of the Department of Geology, University of Athens, Greece (born 1936). He got his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, U.K. He had worked as Researcher at the University of Manchester, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Athens, Greece (1972-1982), Director of the Space Center of the Civil Aviation of Greece, and as member of many scientific groups of COSPAR and NASA. He has been vice-director of the scientific journals “Astrophysics and Space Science” and “The Moon and the Planets”. He had published many papers on Celestial Mechanics and Telemetry. |
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Μπαγετάκος Ιώαννης |
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Μπαλάσης Γεώργιος |
Θέση: |
Ερευνητής, Εθνικό Αστεροσκοπείο Αθηνών |
PhD: |
2001, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Ελλάδα |
Τίτλος: |
Δόμηση προτύπου κατανομής των ηλεκτρικών ιδιοτήτων στερεού τομέα μέσω αποδόμησης του κυματικού τανυστή της ηλεκτρομαγνητικής εμπέδησης |
Supervisor(s): |
Ευταξίας Κωνσταντίνος |
Βιογραφικό: |
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Μπαλταγιάννης Αγαμέμνων |
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Μπάμιας Ιωάννης |
Θέση: |
Καθηγητής Δευτεροβάθμιας |
PhD: |
1990, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Ελλάδα |
Τίτλος: |
Τροχιές σωματίων και εξαγωγή ενέργειας από μελανές οπές Kerr |
Supervisor(s): |
Κοντόπουλος Γεώργιος |
Βιογραφικό: |
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Μπαμπασίδης Γεώργιος |
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Μπάνος Κοσμάς |
Θέση: |
Ερευνητής, Εθνικό Αστεροσκοπείο Αθηνών |
PhD: |
1969, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Ελλάδα |
Τίτλος: |
Συμβολή εις την μελέτην της ατμόσφαιρας του Διός |
Supervisor(s): |
Κωτσάκης Δημήτριος |
Βιογραφικό: |
Banos Cosmas: Researcher (retired), Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens, Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece, on the 22nd of October, 1933. He received the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece, and his Ph.D. from the same University. He was interested scientifically mainly on the Physics of the solar Planets. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). |
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Μπάνος Γεώργιος |
Θέση: |
Καθηγητής ΑΕΙ/ΤΕΙ, Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων |
PhD: |
1969, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Ελλάδα |
Τίτλος: |
Συμβολή εις την μελέτης του στροβιλισμού εντός της Ηλιακής φωτόσφαιρας |
Supervisor(s): |
Κωτσάκης Δημήτριος |
Βιογραφικό: |
Banos George (1932-2014)
Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece, on June 10, 1932 and passed away on October 28, 2014. He received the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the same University under the supervision of Prof. Kotsakis, in 1968. He had worked as Assistant and Chief Assistant at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National Observatory of Athens, from 1959 until 1974 when he became a Professor at the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Ioannina. He also served as Rector of the University of Ioannina from 1979-1980. His scientific interest were the area of Solar Physics. |
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Μπαρμπάνης Βασίλειος |
Θέση: |
Καθηγητής ΑΕΙ/ΤΕΙ, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης |
PhD: |
1962, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, Ελλάδα |
Τίτλος: |
Εφαρμογή του Τρίτου Ολοκληρώματος εις την Κατανομήν των Αστρικών Ταχυτήτων |
Supervisor(s): |
Κοντόπουλος Γεώργιος |
Βιογραφικό: |
Barbanis Vassilios, (1926-2006)
Professor (Emeritus), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece, on the 26th of October, 1926. He received the B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece (1953) and the Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Thessaloniki (1953). He worked at the Department of Physics at the same University and reached the position of the Docent (1968). He has been elected as Professor of Astronomy of the University of Patras, Greece (1969-1979) and, finally, he was elected as Professor of Astronomy at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece. For one year (1955-56) he has worked as Research Associate at the Department of Astronomy of the Columbia University of N.Y., U.S.A. His scientific interests included the Dynamics of Stellar systems, stellar paths in galactic models and the chaotic behaviour of dynamical systems with two and three degrees of freedom. He had published many papers in refereed scientific journals and proceedings of international meetings as well as 6 textbooks and one scientific book. |
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Μπαρμπάτση Αικατερίνη |
Θέση: |
Ερευνητής, Εθνικό Αστεροσκοπείο Αθηνών |
PhD: |
1988, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Ελλάδα |
Τίτλος: |
Μελέτη της συμπεριφοράς της περιοχής Ε της Ιονόσφαιρας σε συνδυασμό με τις μεταβολές του συστήματος κυκλικών ιονοσφαιρικών ρευμάτων |
Supervisor(s): |
Καρούμπαλος Κωνσταντίνος - Κουρής Σταμάτιος |
Βιογραφικό: |
Dr. Barbatsi worked as a researcher at the Ionospheric Institute of the National Observatory of Athens from 1972 until her retirement in 1996. |
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Μπάτζιου Ειρήνη |
Θέση: |
Μεταδιδάκτορας, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
PhD: |
2023, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Technical University of Munich, Γερμανία |
Τίτλος: |
Neutron Star Formation in Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs |
Supervisor(s): |
Janka Hans-Thomas |
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Μπεκιάρης Γιώργος |
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Μπελεχάκη Άννα |
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