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Greeks with a PhD in Astronomy |
Derlopa Sofia |
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Detsis Emmanouil |
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Diakogiannis Foivos |
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Dialetis Dimitrios |
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Faculty, University of Athens |
PhD: |
1985, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
Study of the motions near sunspots in the solar chromosphere (Evershed phenomenon) |
Supervisor(s): |
Alissandrakis Constantine - Contopoulos George |
Biography: |
Professor Emeritus, at the Department of History and
Philosophy of Science, University of Athens, Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece, on the 4th of August,
1946. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of
Athens, Greece (1970), the M.Sc. from the University of Paris
VI, France (1972) and his Ph.D. from the University of Athens,
Greece (1985). He has worked as Director of the Institute for
Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National
Observatory of Athens (NOA), as Researcher of the
Astronomical Institute of NOA as Researcher of the Institute
of Ionospheric and Space Physics of the NOA. His scientific
interests include History of Science, Historical Information Science, Digital Image Processing, Data Analysis and Solar and Space Physics. He has published more than 55 scientific papers in international refereed journals and in international conferences and special volumes as well as 2 textbooks and other books on the History and Philosophy os Science. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), of the S.F.S.A. and former member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). |
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Dialynas Konstantinos |
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Postdoc, Academy of Athens |
PhD: |
2010, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
The Saturnian magnetosphere as revealed by Cassini/MIMI measurements: Energetic ion spectral analysis and global ENA imaging |
Supervisor(s): |
Moussas Xenophon - Krimigis Stamatios |
Biography: |
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Dimitrakopoulou Kalliopi |
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Dimitrakoudis Stavros |
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Dimitriadis Georgios |
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Dimitropoulou Michaila |
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Dimopoulos Konstantinos |
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Dionatos Odysseas |
Position: |
Researcher, University of Vienna |
PhD: |
2009, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
Jets and outflows from type 0 protostars: An observational study in the mid-infrared and the submilimeter |
Supervisor(s): |
Tsinganos Kanaris - Nisini Brunella |
Biography: |
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Dionysiou Demetrios |
Position: |
Faculty, National Air Force Academy |
PhD: |
1973, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
The N-body problem in the 2 and 2½ post-Newtonian approximation |
Supervisor(s): |
Contopoulos George |
Biography: |
Emeritus Professor of Advanced Mathematics, National Air Force Academy, Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece, on the 11th of September, 1939. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece (1963), a Special B.Sc. Degree in Mathematics from the University of London, U.K. (1969) and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Athens (1973). Prior to becoming a Professor at the Air Force Academy he had worked as a high-school teacher of Mathematics as well as Assistant and Chief-Assistant at the Laboratory of Astronomy, University of Athens, Greece. His scientific interests included Applied Mathematics, Relativity, Astrophysics, Geophysics and Celestial Mechanics. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in international refereed journals and in international conferences as well as more than 10 textbooks and 15 other books. |
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Dionysopoulou Kyriaki |
Position: |
Postdoc, University of Southampton |
PhD: |
2013, Dept. of Physics, University of Potsdam, Germany |
Thesis: |
General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in Compact Objects |
Supervisor(s): |
Schutz Bernard - Rezzola Luciano |
Biography: |
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Diplas Athanassios |
Position: |
Private Sector |
PhD: |
1992, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA |
Thesis: |
A study of the neutral hydrogen distribution of the Milky Way through 21 cm emission and Lyman alpha absorption |
Supervisor(s): |
Savage Blair |
Biography: |
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Douskos Christos |
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Drazinos Petros |
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Drillia Georgia-Athanasia |
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Economidis Symeon |
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Economou Thanasis |
Position: |
Researcher, University of Chicago |
PhD: |
1964, Dept. of Physics, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic |
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Biography: |
He was born in Ziakas, Greece on the 6th of May, 1937. He received an M.S. in Nuclear Physics (1961) from the Charles University, Prague and a Postgraduate Degree (1964) from the Institute of Plasma Physics in Prague, then Czechoslovakia. He moved to the University of Chicago, U.S.A. working at the Laboratory for Astrophysics, while in 1981 he joined the Enrico Fermi Laboratory of the same University (1981) as Senior Research Associate and later as Senior Scientist. He has worked on Chemical analyses of planetary bodies by Alpha Backscattering technique (with A. Turkevich - Surveyor Alpha backscattering experiment 1967-68), in Instrument development for Viking missions, in penetrator missions to comets and asteroids. Also, he worked as coinvestigator on the Alpha-X experiment onboard the Soviet Phobos 1 and 2 spacecrafts in 1986-89 and on the Alpha-Proton-X-ray for the Russian Mars-96 missions to Mars. He was the Principal Investigator for the X-ray mode of this experiment and Co-Principal Investigator on the APX Spectrometer on NASAs Mars Pathfinder mission in 1993 - 1997 and the Principal Investigator for the X-ray mode of the APXS experiment on the Pathfinder Mission. He was a Member of Program Science Group for the Pathfinder mission, Team member of Mineralogy/Geochemistry Science Operation Group for the Pathfinder and a Member of many NASA mission evaluation teams (1970 - present). He also worked on the Analysis of Mars Pathfinder APXS data. In generally, he has been building instruments for interplanetary spacecraft since the mid-1960s. His areas of expertise are Chemical Analysis, Mars Rovers and Robotic Spacecraft Instrumentation. He is associated with three of NASA’s robotic missions: the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Cassini mission to Mars, and the now-complete Stardust mission to Comet Wild-2, which has been redirected to a second cometary target. He also built the Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer that successfully performed the first chemical analysis of Martian rocks aboard the Mars Pathfinder rover in 1997. Working in the laboratory of Anthony Turkevich, he contributed to the alpha backscattering experiment of three robotic Surveyor space probes that landed on the moon in 1967-68. With Turkevich during the 1970s and 1980s, he also conducted basic nuclear physics research on
the subatomic structure of matter using the most advanced particle accelerators at Los Alamos, Argonne and Fermi National Accelerator laboratories. During the 1990s they performed an important double beta decay experiment of Uranium-238 to Plutonium-238, suggesting for the first time that neutrinos consist of a small quantity of mass. He has published more than 90 papers in scientific refereed journals. He has been presented with the NASA award for the APXS on the Pathfinder Mission and with the National Air and Space Museum 1998 Achievement Trophy for the Pathfinder Team. He is a Member AAAS, of the American Geophysical Union, of the European Geophysical Society and of the LAMPF users group. |
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Efstathiou Andreas |
Position: |
Faculty, European University Cyprus |
PhD: |
1989, Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Radiative transfer in axisymmetric dust clouds |
Supervisor(s): |
Rowan-Robinson Michael |
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