Kourakis Ioannis
Position: Faculty, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE PhD: 2002, Dept. of Physics, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Thesis: Kinetic theory for a test-particle weakly coupled to a heat-bath. Application in magne- tized plasmas Supervisor(s): Grecos Alkis - Brenig Leon Biography:
Kouretsis Alexandros
Position: Private Sector PhD: 2014, Dept. of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Thesis: Evolution and effect of electromagnetic fields in curved spaces. Supervisor(s): Tsagas Christos Biography:
Kourniotis Michalis
Position: Postdoc, Czech Academy of Sciences PhD: 2017, Dept. of Physics, Univerisity of Athens, Greece Thesis: Properties of massive stars in the Local Group Supervisor(s): Hatzidimitriou Despina - Bonanos Alceste Biography:
Kouroumpatzakis Konstantinos
Position: Postdoc, Czech Academy of Sciences PhD: 2021, Dept. of Physics, University of Crete, Greece Thesis: Measuring star-formation rates in galaxies and their correlation with X-ray emission Supervisor(s): Zezas Andreas Biography:
Koushiappas Savvas
Position: Faculty, Brown University PhD: 2004, Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University, USA Thesis: From supermassive black holes to supersymmetric dark matter Supervisor(s): Walker Terry Biography:
Koutoulaki Maria Kalliopi
Position: Faculty, University of Leeds PhD: 2019, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland Thesis: A closer look at protoplanetary discs: the inner few au probed with spectroscopy and optical interferometry Supervisor(s): Ray Tom - Coffey Deirdre Biography:
Koutoulidis Lazaros
Position: Postdoc, National Observatory of Athens PhD: 2014, Dept. of Physics, University of Patras, Greece Thesis: Study of X-ray active galactic nuclei clustering Supervisor(s): Christopoulou Eleftheria-Panagiota - Plionis Manolis Biography:
Koutroumpa Dimitra
Position: Researcher, Université De Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines PhD: 2007, Astrophysics, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University - Paris VI, France Thesis: X-ray and UV gas emission and charge-exchange phenomena in the heliosphere : application to various astrophysical systems Supervisor(s): Lallement Rosine Biography:
Koutsantoniou Elpida
Position: Postdoc, University of Athens PhD: 2023, Department of Physics, Univeristy of Athens, Greece Thesis: Black holes, radiation, and accretion disks Supervisor(s): Contopoulos Ioannis Biography:
Koutsokosta Dimitra
Position: Private Sector PhD: 2014, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: Study of ultra high energy cosmic rays Supervisor(s): Geranios Athanasios Biography:
Kouveliotou Chryssa
Position: Faculty, The George Washington University PhD: 1981, Astrophysics, Technical University of Munich, Germany Thesis: Observations of fast, transient gamma-ray phenomena Supervisor(s): Pinkau Klaus Biography:
Kovlakas Konstantinos
Position: Postdoc, Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) PhD: 2020, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece Thesis: Populations of ultraluminous X-ray sources in nearby galaxies Supervisor(s): Zezas Andreas Biography:
Krimigis Stamatios
Position: Researcher, Academy of Athens PhD: 1965, Dept. of Physics, University of Iowa, USA Thesis: An interplanetary diffusion model for the time behavior of intensity in a solar cosmic ray event Supervisor(s): van Allen James Biography: Academician, Academy of Athens, Greece, Head (Emeritus) of the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University (APL/JHU), U.S.A. He was born in Brontados, Chios, Greece, on the 10th of September 1938. He received the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Minesota, U.S.A. (1961), the M.Sc. from the University of Iowa (1963) and the Ph.D. from the same University in 1965. Krimigis and his supervisor Prof. J. A. Van Allen use for the first time a solid detector in space and they discover alpha particles in the radiation belts. As Head of the JHU/APL he directed the activities of about 500 scientists, engineers, and other technical and supporting staff in the design, construction, test, and launch into space of entire satellites, and of consructing scientific instruments that perform measurements on a large variety of earth-orbiting and interplanetary missions. He served on the faculty of the Physics and Astronomy Dept. at Iowa (1965-68) before joining APL in 1968. He headed the Space Physics and Instrumentation Group, became Chief Scientist in 1980, and Head of the Space Department in 1991. His research interests include the earths environment, its magnetosphere, the sun, the interplanetary medium, and the magnetospheres of the planets and other astrophysical objects and he has published more than 330 papers in journals and books on these subjects. He has been Principal Investigator or Co- Investigator on several NASA spacecraft, including the Low Energy Charged Particle (LECP) Experiment on Voyagers 1 and 2, and the Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explores (AMPTE), a collaborative U.S.-German-U.K. program that created the first man-made comet in space on December 27, 1984. Together with five other scientists, he was invited to the White House to brief President Reagan on both of these projects on March 26, 1986. He was one of the groups of American intellectuals from World of Arts, Sciences, and Politics invited to meet with President Gorbachev during his first visit to Washington, D.C. in December, 1987. He also participated in a briefing of President Bush in the Oval Office on July 7, 1990, following the successful Voyager encounter with Neptune. He was a Principal Investigator for the 1997 Cassini mission to Saturn and Titan, and a Co-Investigator on the Galileo, Ulysses, ACE and MESSENGER missions. He spearheaded the establishment of NASAs Discovery program for low-cost planetary missions. Together with two other colleagues, he was recognized for "Laurels" in Space for the NEAR achievement by the Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine in 1997. He has been elected recently as full member of the Academy of Athens, Greece (2004) and he was Vice-Chairman of the Greek National Astronomical Committee (2005-2007). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the AGU and recently (2005) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and he has been awarded twice (1981, 1986) the NASAs Exceptional Scientific Achievement; the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1981 and again in 1986, some thirty NASA Group Achievement Awards for Voyager, AMPTE, Galileo, Ulysses, Cassini, and ACE, has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Space Science Board, Chairman of the Boards Committee on Solar and Space Physics, a member of NASA’s Space Science and Applications Advisory Committee, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Physical Society, member of the International Academy of Astronautics, corresponding member of the Athens Academy. He received the International Academy of Astronautics Basic Sciences Award and the AHEPA Academy Prize, both in 1994. He has participated as member or Chairman in many national and the international conferences in space science and space systems management, has delivered more than 1,000 talks on these topics, and has lectured in several countries all over the world. The International Astronautical Union in 1999 named asteroid "8323 Krimigis", (previously 1979 UH) in his honor. The President of the Hellenic Republic has awarded him the Gold Cross "Commandeur de l’ Ordre du Phoénix" in 1997. Also, the American Hellenic Institute has honored Dr. Krimigis with its "Hellenic Heritage Achievement Award" in Washington in 1998. In 2002 he received the “Cospar Space Science Award, the highest distinction by the world space community and recently with the “Homeric Award”.
Kritikos Anthony
Position: High School Teacher PhD: 2006, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: Investigation and classification of the five-dimensional gravity solutions Supervisor(s): Constantopoulos John Biography:
Krommidas Philippos
Position: Faculty, University of Ioannina PhD: 1982, Dept. of Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria Thesis: Statistical processing of two radio catalogues Supervisor(s): Pfleiderer Joerg Biography: Lecturer (retired), Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece. He was born in Ioannina, Greece, on the 4th of September, 1944. He obtained the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Thessaloniki (1969), the M.Sc. from the University of Sussex U.K. (1977) and the Ph.D. from the Innsbruck University, Austria (1982) He was mainly interested in Cosmology and Stellar Dynamics and in Radiogalaxies.
Kuiroukidis Apostolos
Position: Postdoc, TEI of Serres PhD: 1999, Dept. of Physics, University of Thessalonikis, Greece Thesis: Classical and quantum cosmic and bosonic strings with generalized action. A Gauss-Bonnet study of their solutions and their physical phenomena Supervisor(s): Papadopoulos Demetrios Biography:
Kylafis Nikolaos
Position: Faculty, University of Crete PhD: 1978, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Thesis: X and UV radiation from accreting non-magnetic degenerate dwarfs Supervisor(s): Lamb Donald Biography: Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece. He was born in Nea Avorani, Trihonidos, Greece, on the 1st of January, 1949. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Patras, Greece (1971), the M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A. (1973) and the Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. (1978). He has worked as Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (01 – 08/1979) and as Research Fellow, Caltech, (09/1979 – 08/1981). He became Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (09/1981 – 06/1984), Assistant Professor at Columbia University (07/1984 – 06/1985), Assistant Professor (1985 –1989) Associate Professor (1989 – 1997) and Professor (1997-2016) at the University of Crete, Greece. He retired in 2016 and became Emeritus Professor. Since 1989 he is also a Researcher at the Foundation for Research and Technology, Crete, Greece. His scientific interests include X-ray Astronomy (Accretion onto White Dwarfs, Neutron stars, and Black Holes), Optical / Infrared Astronomy (galaxies, Interstellar Medium) and Radio Astronomy (Masers, polarization) and he has published more than 48 scientific papers in refereed journals and the textbook “Electromagnetism” (in Greek), commissioned by the Hellenic Open University. He has been elected and served as Associate Chairman (1997 – 1999) and Chairman (1999 – 2003) of the Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece. He served as Chairman of the Department of Physics from 1999 to 2003, as well as Dean of the School of Sciences from September 2008 to May 2013. From 2012 to 2016 he was a member of the Council of the University of Crete.
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