March 2025 - TOPICS

Short News New A&A Policy on Paper Length Job opportunities Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece About this Newsletter

1. Short News

The Society would like to congratulate Dr. Ioannis Antoniadis who was recently promoted to Senior Researcher (Researcher B) at the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH. The Society extends its best wishes for further successes in his professional pursuits. The Royal Astronomical Society awarded its prestigious 2025 Group Achievement Award to the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA).  Ioannis (John) Antoniadis, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics (IA), and Maria Charisi, an Assistant Professor at Washington State University (USA) and Research Fellow at IA, are among the members of EPTA who are sharing this award. The Society would like to congratulate Maria and John on this important recognition, and extends its best wishes for further successes in their career. We would like to congratulate George Xystouris for successfully completing his PhD thesis at the University of Lancaster (UK) under the supervision of Dr. Chris Arridge and Dr. Sarah Badman. The thesis was entitled "Creation and distribution of cold plasma in gas giants’ magnetospheres through in situ and remote observations". The Society extends its best wishes to Dr. Xystouris for further successes in his professional pursuits.

2. New A&A Policy on Paper Length

The A&A Board of Directors, together with the A&A Editors, has recently decided to implement publication costs for papers exceeding a size limit, effective for papers submitted to A&A from 2 April 2025. Any authors wishing to exceed the page cap for their regular paper (main body or appendices) or Letter (appendices only) will need to pay a page charge that supports the additional costs associated with the longer format. Page charges will be tiered, reflecting the additional support already provided by sponsoring countries and subscribing institutions. For more details, follow this link.

3. Job Opportunities

11 PhD positions on the feeding and feedback cycle of supermassive black holes are available at 10 astronomy groups across Europe from September 2025 as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Doctorate Network TALES (Time-domain Analysis to study the Life-cycle and Evolution of Supermassive black holes). Details and application information can be found at the links below: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/280409 https://www.star.bris.ac.uk/TALES/ or via email to Antonis Georgakakis (age@noa.gr).

4. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece

UniverseAI: Exploring the Universe with Artificial Intelligence June 2-6, 2025, Amphitheater G. Karabatzos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece 2025 Summer School for Astrostatistics in Crete 16-20 June, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion 17th Hel.A.S. Conference 30 June - 2 July 2025, Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras, Greece Extragalactic Jets in Crete 2025 25 - 29 August 2025, Heraklion, Crete

5. About this Newsletter

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