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Greeks with a PhD in Astronomy |
Abbot William |
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Faculty, University of Athens |
PhD: |
1946, Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
The secondary maxima of Cepheids |
Supervisor(s): |
Plakidis Stavros |
Biography: |
Abbott William (1906-2001)
Honorary Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Athens, Greece (born 1906). He got his Physics degree from the University of Athens, Greece (1927-1932) and his Ph.D. from the same University (1946). He had worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska, U.S.A. He had published 7 papers on the Cepheid variable stars and textbooks. He had been honored with a literature award from the National Academy of Athens, Greece. |
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Achilleos Nicholas |
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Faculty, University College London |
PhD: |
1992, School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University, Australia |
Thesis: |
Atmospheres and Accretion Halos of Magnetic White Dwarfs |
Supervisor(s): |
Wickramasinghe Dayal |
Biography: |
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/star/people/nachilleos.html |
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Adamopoulos George |
Position: |
Researcher, National Observatory of Athens |
PhD: |
1946, Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
The Moon and the weather |
Supervisor(s): |
Plakidis Stavros |
Biography: |
George Adamopoulos was born in 1899 at the village of Kranidi in Peloponnese and passed away in 1977 in Athens. He obtained his BSc in Physics as well as his PhD from the University of Athens. His thesis, entitled "The Moon and the weather", was completed under the supervision of Prof. Plakidis in 1945. His whole research career was at the National Observatory of Athens where he was responsible for the operation of the equatorial telescope. He performed a wealth of observations of variable stars, comets, and planets of our solar system. |
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Agapitou Vassiliki |
Position: |
Private Sector |
PhD: |
2000, Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Magnetic Fields and Outflows in Viscous Accretion Discs around Young Stars |
Supervisor(s): |
Papaloizou John |
Biography: |
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Agathos Michalis |
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Akras Stavros |
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Akylas Athanasios |
Position: |
Researcher, National Observatory of Athens |
PhD: |
2006, Deparment of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
A study of the absorption in Active Galactic Nuclei with X-ray observations |
Supervisor(s): |
Mastichiadis Apostolos - Georgantopoulos Ioannis |
Biography: |
https://www.astro.noa.gr/en/staff/research-personnel/akylas-athanassios/ |
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Alevizos Aristides |
Position: |
High School Teacher, University of Athens |
PhD: |
2003, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
Studing of energetic particles in heliosphere using Ulysses spacecraft data |
Supervisor(s): |
Moussas Xenophon |
Biography: |
High School Professor of Physics. He was born in Athens, Greece on the 1st of July, 1950. He obtained the B.Sc. in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1976) and the Ph.D. in Space Physics from the University of Athens, Greece (2003). His scientific interest is in Space Physics and he has published about 15 papers in scientific Journals and proceedings. |
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Alexakis Alexandros |
Position: |
Researcher, Ecole Normale Superieure |
PhD: |
2004, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, USA |
Thesis: |
On the generation of gravity waves in astrophysical environments |
Supervisor(s): |
Rosner Robert |
Biography: |
http://www.lps.ens.fr/~alexakis/ |
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Alikakos Ioannis |
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Alissandrakis Constantinos |
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Faculty, University of Ioannina |
PhD: |
1977, Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland - College Park, USA |
Thesis: |
The 6 centimeter wavelength observations of solar active regions and bursts with 6 arc-seconds resolution |
Supervisor(s): |
Kundu Mukul R. |
Biography: |
Professor of Astrophysics Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina. He was born in Athens, Greece, on the 27th of August, 1948. He received the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece (1971) and the Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Maryland, U.S.A. (1977). He worked as senior assistant, Univ. of Athens (1978-1982), as a Lecturer (1982-1986) and Assistant Professor (1986 -1994) at the Department of Physics of the University of Athens, Greece, before elected to his present position. He has served as Director, Section of AstroGeophysics, Univ. of Ioannina (1997-1999) and as Director, Laboratory of Astrophysics, University of Ioannina (1995-1999 and 2005- 2007). His scientific interests are in Solar Physics, Solar magnetic fields and Radio Astronomy and Plasma Physics. He has served as Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (1991-2009) and he has been twice elected Member of the European Parliament (1999-2005) and in 2007 he has been elected and serves as a Member of the Greek Parliament. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), of the American Astronomical Society and its Solar Physics Division, the Société Française d’ Astronomie et d’ Astrophysique (SFSA) and the Hellenic Union of Physicists. He has served as a Board Member of the Solar Physics Section of the European Physical Society (1994-1999), of the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (1996-1999), as a Member of the Greek National Committee for Astronomy (1994-1999), as the National representative of Greece at the board of the Joint Organization for Solar Observations (JOSO, 1995-1999). He is married to Georgia Ladogianni and he has a son. |
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Amarantidis Stergios |
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Amvrosiadis Aristeidis |
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Anagnos Theodoros |
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Anagnostopoulos Georgios |
Position: |
Faculty, Democritus University of Thrace |
PhD: |
1985, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece |
Thesis: |
The origin of energetic ions (E>=30keV) in the region of the magnetohydrodynamic shock of the Earth |
Supervisor(s): |
Sarris Emmanuel |
Biography: |
Professor at the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Polytechnic School, Demokritos
University of Thrace, (since 1999) and Priest in the
Orthodox Church of Greece (Metropolis of Xanthi). He was
born in Athens, Greece, on the 14th of May, 1954. He
obtained the B.Sc. degree in Physics (University of Athens,
1977), a degree in Theology (University of Thessaloniki,
1993) and a Ph.D. in Space Physics (Demokritos University
of Thrace, 1985). His scientific interests include Space
Physics, and Philosophy of Sciences and Environment. He
has published more than 40 papers in refereed scientific journals, more than 20 papers in conference proceedings and he has made more than 160 presentations, most of them included in conferense abstrack books. For scientific collaboration, he has visited Imperial College, Johns Hopkins University, Russian Academy and other institutions. He has been named as “Distinguished Ulysses Scientist” (NASA JPL report 400-1133 01/04 “The people behind the Mission”). In 2004, he has been approved as a guest investigator in DEMETER mission (Detection of ElectroMagnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions) and since then he combined space research with earthquake prediction research (Van Allen belt electron precipitation preceding earthquakes). He is a member of the American Geophysical Society (A.G.U.), of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.), of the Union of Greek Physicists and of the Hellenic Union of Theologians. |
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Anastasiadis Anastasios |
Position: |
Researcher, National Observatory of Athens |
PhD: |
1994, Dept. of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
Thesis: |
Particle Accelaration by Randomly Moving Shock Waves |
Supervisor(s): |
Vlahos Loukas |
Biography: |
Anastasios Anastasiadis obtained his BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1986 and his PhD in Astrophysics from the same University in 1994.
He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) in Germany (1991-1992) and worked as a Research Assistant at the Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1995-1998). He joined the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) in September 1998 as an Associate Researcher. In January 2002 he was promoted to Senior Researcher. He is currently Research Director, at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications & Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens (since December 2007) and member of the Space Research & Technology Group |
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Anastasiou Magdalini |
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Anastasopoulou Konstantina |
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Andredakis Ioannis |
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Andriopoulou Maria |
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