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Greeks with a PhD in Astronomy |
Gkioulidou Matina |
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Gkogkou Athanasia |
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Gkolias Ioannis |
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Postdoc, University of Thessaloniki |
PhD: |
2017, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome, Italy |
Thesis: |
Modelling of Resonances in Small Body Orbital and Rotational Dynamics |
Supervisor(s): |
Pucacco Giuseppe - Celletti Alessandra |
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Gkouvelis Leonardos |
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Glampedakis Kostas |
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Researcher, University of Murcia |
PhD: |
2001, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cardiff University, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Aspects of wave and particle dynamics in the field of a rotating black hole |
Supervisor(s): |
Sathyaprakash B.S. |
Biography: |
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Gonidakis Ioannis |
Position: |
Private Sector, Business Analyst, Afiniti.com |
PhD: |
2004, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
43 Ghz SiO maser emission around the Mira variable Tx cam |
Supervisor(s): |
Diamond Phil |
Biography: |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioannisgonidakis/ |
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Gontikakis Constantinos |
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Goudis Christos |
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Faculty, University of Patras |
PhD: |
1974, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Radio and optical structure of HII regions |
Supervisor(s): |
Meaburn John |
Biography: |
Professor (retired), University of Patras, Greece (1981-2014), and Director, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens, Greece (2001-2011). He was born in Piraeus, Greece, on 15th of April 1947. He got his B.Sc. in physics from the University of Athens, Greece (1969), the M.Sc. from the University of Manchester, U.K. (1972) and his Ph.D. from the same University. He worked as a Researcher at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Manchester (1974-1979) and at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (1979-1981). He has published many special volumes as well as 13 textbooks on Astrophysics and many books on popular Astronomy. |
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Gouliermis Dimitrios |
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Gourgouliatos Konstantinos |
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Faculty, University of Patras |
PhD: |
2009, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics |
Supervisor(s): |
Lynden-Bell Donald |
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Gousidou-Koutita Maria |
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Faculty, University of Thessaloniki |
PhD: |
1980, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Elliptic restricted problem fo three bodies, with applications to the dynamics of lunar satellites |
Supervisor(s): |
Kopal Zdenek |
Biography: |
Born in Thessalonki, she graduated from the Dept. of Mathematics of Aristotle University in 1974.
She was employed as Assistant to the Dept. of Mathematics, assigned to the operation of the mainframe University Computer and the innovative administrative applications of Information Systems.
On a sabbatical 1977-1980, and with the support of British Council she conducted post graduate study and research in the Dept of Astronomy of Manchester University. She was awarded the PhD Doctorate, by the supervision of Prof. Zdenek Kopal, of Victoria University of Manchester in Mathematical Astronomy in 1980. She continued her service at the Dept. of Mathematics of Aristotle University in the Section of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis, as Lecturer, as Assistant Professor after 1990, and as Associate Professor in 2006-2007.
She was occupied with research and applications of Numerical Analysis and Computers in Celestial Mechanics and with teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics.
She is a member of Greek Mathematical Society, of the Greek Astronomical Society, and regular reviewer to the Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, and recently to the periodical Planetary and Space Science.
She published numerous papers in international scientific periodicals and conferences, and she supervised two (Ph.D.) Doctorate Dissertations and numerous Diploma projects (M.Sc.) of postgraduate students. She was examiner to many Doctorate Dissertations (Ph.D.), and Diploma projects (M.Sc.).
She authored scientific textbooks for the undergraduate courses; entitled “Advanced Applied Mathematics and Numerical Methods” (1984), “Numerical Analysis” (2004), “Computational Mathematics” (2014), “teaching notes of Computational Mathematics I” (1992) and “teaching notes of Computational Mathematics II” (1993), and for postgraduate courses; “Numerical Methods with Applications to Control Theory” (2006), “Numerical Methods with Applications to the Ordinary (ODE) and Partial Differential Equations (PDE)” (2009). |
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Graikou Eleni |
Position: |
Postdoc, Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy |
PhD: |
2019, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Unversity of Bonn, Germany |
Thesis: |
High precision timing |
Supervisor(s): |
Kramer Michael |
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Grammenos Theofanes |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Thessaly |
PhD: |
1994, Dept. of Physics, Univerisity of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
Non-adiabatic gravitational collapse in the General Theory of Relativity |
Supervisor(s): |
Christodoulakis Theodosios |
Biography: |
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Grigorelis Floros |
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Grigoriadou Simela |
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Grousouzakou Evangelia |
Position: |
High School Teacher |
PhD: |
2000, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
A study of the distribution of periodic orbits in disturbed hamiltonian systems of two degrees of freedom |
Supervisor(s): |
Contopoulos George |
Biography: |
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Hadjiavgousti Despina |
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Hadjidemetriou John |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Thessaloniki |
PhD: |
1965, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Two-body problem with variable mass |
Supervisor(s): |
Kopal Zdenek |
Biography: |
John D. Hadjidemetriou was born in Thessaloniki in 1937. He got his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki in 1959 and his Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Manchester in 1965, under the guidance of Prof. Z. Kopal. In 1970, he was elected full Professor of Theoretical Mechanics at the Physics Department of the University of Thessaloniki, at the age of 33. He continuously served the department over a period of 42 years.
John’s Ph.D. Thesis “The two body problem with variable mass” (and his first paper in Icarus 2, 440, 1963), has been recognized as a fundamental contribution in the field and is still cited in the literature. Since then he continued working on Celestial Mechanics, in particular on families of resonant periodic orbits in the restricted and general three-body problems and on the stability of planetary, asteroid and satellite motion. He always stressed that “periodicorbits consist the backbone of the topology of phase space”. John also became famous for his method of constructing a symplectic map that preserves the location and stability of periodic orbits in resonances, which became known as “Hadjidemetriou’s map”.
In later years he worked on the interpretation of the phenomenon known as stable chaos and on the dynamics and stability of exo-planetary systems. He associated the resonant planetary dynamics with families of periodic orbits and he computed these families for various cases. He also showed that the introduction of dissipative forces makes the periodic orbits “attractors” and a planetary system migrates along the families, verifying, in such a way, the work on planetary migration published previously by other researchers. In this framework he showed the possibility of the transition from a 1/1 resonant planetary motion to a satellite motion. The last paper he co-authored, entitled “Multiplanet destabilization and escape in post-main- sequence systems”, appeared recently in MNRAS (430, 3383, 2013) and was based on the theory he developed in his first paper.
John played a key role in the development of Celestial Mechanics in Greece. He supervised 7 Ph.D. Theses in this field and acted as coordinator or principal investigator in three EU-funded research projects. He retired in 2005 and, since then, he remained active both in teaching and in research, as Professor Emeritus of the University of Thessaloniki. His numerous students organized a Conference in his honor in the summer of 2008, in Litohoro, Greece, which was attended by about 70 participants from 16 countries.
John was a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens. He was also an elected member of Commission’s 7 SOC from 1979 to1991 and served as President of the Commission for the 2000–2003 term. He was a member of the Celestial Mechanics Institute and Associate Editor of the field’s leading journal, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astron- omy, for twenty years. He was a founding member of the European Astronomical Society and the first vice-president of the Hellenic Astronomical Societiy.
John really excelled in teaching, not only within his duties in the University of Thessaloniki but in international schools as well. He was an active member of the Cortina and Ramsau/Bad Hofgastein meetings as well as of the Greek Non-linear Dynamics annual schools. He wrote a two-volume book on Theoretical Mechanics, in Greek, which is still adopted by many Greek Universities.
John Hadjidemetriou passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 21, 2013, in Thessaloniki, Greece. |
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Hadjifotinou Aekaterini |
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Hadjopoulos Anastasios |
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