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Greeks with a PhD in Astronomy |
Angelakis Emmanouil |
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Private Sector, Deutsche Telekom Service GmbH |
PhD: |
2007, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Bonn, Germany |
Thesis: |
Multi-frequency study of the NVSS foreground sources in the cosmic background imager fields |
Supervisor(s): |
Kraus Alexander - Klein Uli |
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Angelopoulos Vassilis |
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Faculty, University of California, Los Angeles |
PhD: |
1993, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Transport phenomena in the Earths plasma sheet |
Supervisor(s): |
Kennel Charles |
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Antiochos Spiro |
Position: |
Researcher, NASA/GSFC |
PhD: |
1977, Dept. of Physics, Stanford University, USA |
Thesis: |
Thermal instability in post-flare plasmas |
Supervisor(s): |
Sturrock Peter |
Biography: |
Astrophysicist NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
U.S.A. He was born in the island of Zakynthos, Greece
on the 29th of October, 1949. He obtained his B.Sc. in
Physics (Honors) from the McGill University (1970) and
the Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Stanford
University (1976). He worked as Skylab Postdoctoral
Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (10/1976 - 05/1978), as Research Associate
at the Institute for Plasma Research, Stanford
University (05/1978 - 04/1980), as Senior Research
Associate at the Center for Space Science and
Astrophysics, Stanford University (04/1980 -
06/1985),as Astrophysicist at the Space Science
Division, Naval Research Laboratory (06/1985 - 12/2007), as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan (01/2003 - present) and as Astrophysicist, at the Heliophysics Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (01/2008 – present). His scientific interests include Solar physics and Plasma physics. He has over 150 publications in the refereed archival literature and over 3,000 citations. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Astronomical Society, the American Physical Society, and the International Astronomical Union. He was associate editor of JGR- Space Physics. He has served on many committees of professional societies and on advisory/review committees to NASA and the NSF, including Chair of the Solar Physics Division (SPD) of the American Astronomical Society, Chair of the NASA Solar Management and Operations Working Group, Chair of the SOLAR-B Science Working Group, Chair of the NSF committee that reviewed the High Altitude Observatory, Chair of the AURA committee that reviewed the director of the National Solar Observatory, and Chair (two terms) of the Targeted Research and Technology (TR&T) Steering Committee. He has served on the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council, on the Joint Science Definition Team for the NASA/ESA Orbiter/Sentinels mission, and on the Board of Advisors for the New Jersey Institute of Technology Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research. For his pioneering science contributions to solar physics, he was awarded the George Ellery Hale Prize in 2005, the highest honor given by the American Astronomical Society for work in solar physics. He was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2005 and he was awarded the E. O. Hulburt award in 2006 by the Naval Research Laboratory, the highest honor given by the Laboratory for basic research. He was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2007 and Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008.
https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/spiro.antiochos |
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Antonacopoulos Gregorios |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Patras |
PhD: |
1965, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
A study of the restricted three body problem within a medium with friction and its application to the morphological evolution of the solar system |
Supervisor(s): |
Contopoulos George |
Biography: |
Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, University of Patras, Greece. He was born in Pyrgos, Ilias, Greece, on the 10th of December, 1934. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece (1959) and his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the same University (1965). He worked as Assistant and Head Assistant at the University of Athens before moving as Researcher at the Astronomical Institute (now Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics) of the National Observatory of Athens. He moved as an Assistant Professor at the University of Patras, where he later became Professor of Astronomy. His scientific interests included Celestial Mechanics and Theoretical Astrophysics and he has published several papers and textbooks. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and he has been founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). |
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Antoniadis John |
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Antoniadou Kyriaki |
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Antoniou Antonios |
Position: |
High School Teacher, University of Peloponnese |
PhD: |
2007, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
Hyper-ionization phenomena in the coronal and post-coronal regions in the Oe stellar envelopes |
Supervisor(s): |
Danezis Manos |
Biography: |
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Antoniou Ioannis |
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Antoniou Vallia |
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Antonopoulou Evgenia |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Athens |
PhD: |
1981, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
Thesis: |
Binary systems in the infrared |
Supervisor(s): |
Williams Peredur - Emerson David |
Biography: |
Assistant Professor (retired) Dept. of Physics Univ. of Athens. She was born in Pyrgos, Ilias, Greece. She received her B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece (1972), the M.Sc. in Meteorology from the same Department (1974) and the Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. (1981). She has worked at first for a year as a high school teacher of Physics and since 1973 she belongs to the staff of the Department of Physics of the University of Athens as a Teaching Assistant at the Laboratory of Astronomy (1973-1982) and as a Lecturer (1982-1986). Her scientific interests include Observational Astrophysics; Ground based and satellite photometry and Spectroscopy of Binary systems and the Sun. |
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Antonopoulou Danai |
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Apostolatos Theocharis |
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Apostolopoulos Pantelis |
Position: |
Private Sector |
PhD: |
2003, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
Higher order symmetries in General Relativity |
Supervisor(s): |
Tsamparlis Michael |
Biography: |
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Archontis Vasilis |
Position: |
Researcher, University of Ioannina |
PhD: |
2000, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
Thesis: |
The creation and evolution of magnetic fields in the Sun and the interior of stars |
Supervisor(s): |
Nordlund Aake |
Biography: |
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Argyrakos Ioannis |
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Faculty, National Technical University of Athens |
PhD: |
1945, Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
Study of the Fenon 55 pendulum of the National Observatory of Athens |
Supervisor(s): |
Plakidis Stavros |
Biography: |
He was born in Athens in 1916 and passed away in 1990. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics and his PhD in Astronomy (under the supervision of Prof. Plakidis) from the Univ. of Athens. After his PhD spent time as a postdoctoral researcher in France. He was assistant at the docent at the astronomy laboratory of the the Univ. of Athens (1941-1948). In 1949 he was elected extra-ordinary professor and in 1961 Full Professor at the National Technical Univ. of Athens in the Chair of General Astronomy and Geodesy. He served as alternate minister of transport and telecommunications in 1974. |
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Argyriou Ioannis |
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Arka Ioanna |
Position: |
Private Sector |
PhD: |
2011, Dept. of Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
Thesis: |
Non-linear waves in the laboratory and in astrophysics |
Supervisor(s): |
Kirk John |
Biography: |
http://www.ioanna-arka.de/ |
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Armatas Spyros |
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Asteriadis Georgios |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Thessaloniki |
PhD: |
1975, Dept. of Physics, Univesity of Heidelberg, Germany |
Thesis: |
Determination of precession and galactic rotation from the proper motions of the AGK3 |
Supervisor(s): |
Fricke Walter |
Biography: |
Professor Emeritus, Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Polytechnic School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, on the 30th of May 1941. He received the B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki (1964) and the Dr. Rer. Nat. from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1975). His scientific interests include the Observational and Geodetical Astronomy, the Geodesy and the Meteorology. |
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Athanasiadis Dimitris |
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