Period: 1975 - 1979

Mouschovias Telemachos
Position: Faculty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD: 1975, Dept. of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, USA Thesis: Static equilibria of the interstellar gas in the presence of magnetic and gravitational fields Supervisor(s): Field George Biography: Professor Mouschovias received his bachelor degree in physics from Yale University in 1968, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. He joined the University of Illinois as an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in 1977. The long-term goal of Professor Mouschovias research has been to decipher the role of cosmic magnetic fields in the formation of stars. He and his graduate students have made seminal contributions in the field, including the resolution of the angular momentum problem (through magnetic braking) and of the central role of ambipolar diffusion in the fragmentation of molecular clouds and star formation, including the determination of the protostellar "initial mass function". His research group made pioneering contributions to our understanding the role of interstellar dust in star formation, not only in determining the degree of ionization in evolving molecular clouds, but also in directly (through collisions) or indirectly (through induced electric fields) coupling the magnetic field to the predominantly neutral matter.
Moussas Xenophon
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1977, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: A study of the cosmic rays and the sttructure of the interplanetary space during the August 1972 event Supervisor(s): Apostolakis Alcibiades - Caroubalos Constantin Biography: Professor Emeritus of Space Physics at the University of Athens (since 1996). He was born in Athens, Greece, on the 6th of March, 1947. He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens (1971) and his Ph.D. in Cosmic Rays and Space Physics from the same University in 1977. He worked for four years as scientific collaborator at the University of Athens (1971-1974), as a Research Fellow (1974-1975) and as Research Assistant (1975-1977) at the Imperial College, U.K., as Assistant (1978), Chief Assistant (1979), Lecturer (1982) and Assistant Professor of Space Physics (1986) at the Department of Physics of the University of Athens, Greece. He joined for three months each year as visiting Research Fellow the Imperial College (1978-1995), and the University of Mexico as Visiting professor for 3 monthly periods. He has been elected Director of the Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Department of Physics of the University of Athens (2004), Director of the Laboratory of Astrophysics (two periods of two years), Member of the senate of the University of Athens (one year), deputy Chairman of the Department of Physics (two years), head of the Space Physics Group, head of the career’s office of the Department of Physics. He has been awarded with the American Geophysical Union "Excellence in refereeing" in Space Physics, Geophysical Research Letters, 2001. His scientific interests include Space physics (STEREO mission -NASA, Ulysses mission, the heliosphere in 3 D, Cosmic ray modulation and the heliosphere, co-investigator WAVES experiments on-board both spacecraft of the STEREO NASA mission and team member of WIND/waves experiment, NASA), Magnetospheric studies (Mars ionosphere and magnetosphere), Solar physics (ARTEMIS IV Digital Radio Spectrograph, 7 m diameter, at Thermopylae, Greece, a French-Greek collaboration, Non-linear RLC model of the solar cycle), Stellar winds/astrophysical flows, Plasma Physics, Space physics, History of Astronomy. He has been reviewer of the European Science Foundation. He was among the scientists who constructed and operate the Franco-Hellenic solar radio spectrograph ARTEMIS (at Thermopylae), which observes the Sun in radio frequencies ranging from 20 to 650 MHz, receiving 110 spectra every second. His scientific group participates in several experiments on board various spacecrafts (Ulysses, Wind, STEREO I & II). He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), of the American Geophysical Union, of the Hellenic Physical Society and a founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). He has been member of the Administrative Council of Hel.A.S. and editor of the magazine of this Society (Hipparchos). He has published more than 58 articles in international journals, several chapters or articles in books, several book reviews and a large number of articles in popular science magazines (in Greek). He has great interest to outreach and science popularization. He studies the oldest known astronomical instrument, that has Hipparchos mathematical signature, the Antikythera Mechanism, an analogue computer of the 2nd century BC, with marvellous functions that predicts eclipses and Lunar motions with a good approximation of Keplers 2nd law. He has created many exhibitions and has delivered many public lectures concerning this device in several countries (in Museums, Planetaria, UNESCO and The Library of Alexandria). Main Textbooks: 1) Space Physics, Greek Open University, Patras, 2003, 2) Notes for the students: Space physics (with one co-author), 3) Introduction to Astrophysics (six co-authors), 4) Laboratory Exercises in Astrophysics (10 co- authors), University of Athens.
Niarchos Panagiotis
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1977, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Thesis: Analysis of the light changes of the eclipsing system AK Herculis in the frequency domain. Supervisor(s): Kopal Zdenek Biography: Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, University of Athens, Greece. He was born in Arfara Messinias, Greece. He received the B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens, the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. in Astronomy, both from the Victoria University of Manchester, U.K. He has worked at the University of Athens, as Assistant and Chief Assistant of the Laboratory of Astronomy. In 1982 he became Lecturer, in 1986 Assistant Professor and Associate Professor (1995-2008) at the Department of Physics of the same University. His scientific interests are centred to the Observational Astrophysics and especially to the observations and the theoretical studies of the Close Binary Stars (Eclipsing binaries, Degenerate Binary systems, Symbiotic binaries) and Pulsating stars. He has published more than 100 scientific papers on these subjects in international refereed journals and Bulletins of Variable star Observations. Also, he has presented more than 140 papers in international and Greek conferences. He has authored or co-authored textbooks and laboratory manuals and edited the proceedings of two international symposia on Binary Stars. He is the Co-editor of the Bulletin on Bibliography of Close Binary Stars, Commission 42 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), member of the Organizing Committee of Commission 42 of the IAU (2006-2012) and referee to scientific journals and to scientific programs submitted in Greece and Czech Republic. He has served as Vice-Chairman of the Department of Physics, University of Athens, as Head of the Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics of the same University, and Director of the Laboratory of Astronomy of the same Department. Currently, he is the Head of the Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics and Director of the Gerostathopouleio Observatory of the University of Athens. He is a member of the IAU, Associate member of GAIA (ESA) working groups on photometry, radial velocities and double and multiple star systems, Member of the European Network of Excellence in Astroseismology and a founding member and Treasurer (1998-2002) of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.).
Papagiannopoulos Theodoros
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1977, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: Stellar orbits near resonances Supervisor(s): Contopoulos George Biography: Assistant Professor (retired), University of Athens, Greece. He was born in Athens on the 25th of March, 1945. He received the B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens (1969) and the Ph.D. from the same University in 1977. His scientific interests are with Dynamaical Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Non Linear Dynamical Systems. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and of the Hellenic Societies of Physics and Mathematics.
Papamastorakis Ioannis
Position: Faculty, University of Crete PhD: 1975, Dept. of Physics, Technichal University of Munich, Germany Thesis: A possibility to distinguish between ionospheric and magnetospheric origin of magnetic perturbations near the magnetic equator Supervisor(s): Lust Reimar - Haerendel Gerhard Biography: Professor Emeritus, of Observational Astrophysics, University of Crete, Greece. He was born in Anno Viannos, Heraklion, Crete on the 27th of November, 1942. He received the B.Sc. in Physics (1968) and the Dr.Rer.Nat. (1975) both from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen. He worked as Researcher at the Max Planck Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) before moving to the University of Crete in 1980, first as Visiting Lecturer and then (1984) as Assistant Professor. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1990 and to Professor in 2005. He retired and was elected Emeritus Professor in 2009. He served as the first Director of Skinakas Observatory, which he founded together with Gerhard Haerendel (MPE), from 1984 until his retirement. Since 2001 he is the Scientific Director of the Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series that take place every July at FORTH. Scientifically, he is interested in Space Physics and Observational Astrophysics.
Papathanasoglou Dimitrios
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1976, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: A contribution to the study of the quality of the solar image Supervisor(s): Contopoulos George Biography: Assistant Professor (Retired) of Astronomy at the Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece. He was born in Athens on the 21st of December, 1941 and passed away in July 2023. He received the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens (1968) and the Ph.D. in 1976 from the same University. His scientific interests include Solar Physics and Applied Optics and he has organized the Laboratory of Applied Optics of the Physics Department. He was a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and of the Hellenic Physics Union.
Papathanassiou Maria
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1978, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: The cosmology and cosmogony in ancient Greece during the 2nd milenium BC Supervisor(s): Moutsoulas Michael Biography:
Pinotsis Antonios
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1979, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: Isochrones of open clusters with a variable gravitational constant Supervisor(s): Laskarides Paul - Contopoulos George Biography: Associate Professor (retired) at the Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece (since 1986). He was born in Symi, Dodecanisos, Greece in 1945. He received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece (1970), an M.Sc. in Meteorology (1980) and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics (1981) from the same Department. He worked as a high school teacher of Physics (1971-1973) and in 1973 he joined to the staff of the Department of Physics of University of Athens. His scientific interests include theoretical Astrophysics, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, non-linear Dynamical Systems and Chaos, and History of Astronomy and Mathematics. He has published about 50 scientific papers in international and Greek journals as well as 4 textbooks. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the Union of Greek Physics and a founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.).
Rovithis Petros
Position: Researcher PhD: 1975, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: A contribution to the problem of solar differential rotation using sunspots Supervisor(s): Kotsakis Demetrios - Banos George Biography: Dr. Rovithis was born in Crete, Greece, on January 2, 1938 and passed away in Athens on March 11, 2020. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Athens University, Greece, (1963), and his Ph.D., from the same University (1976). He joined for three months as Visiting Research Fellow the Univ. of Manchester and the Haute Province Observatory. He has worked as Assistant at the Univ. of Athens, Greece (1960-1963), Astronomer at the Athens Planetarium of Eugenides Foundation (1967-1971), Assistant and Chief Assistant of the Astronomical Institute, of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Researcher, Chief Researcher of the same Institute, and in charge of the Kryonerion Station of NOA (1994-2001). He retired in 2001 and became Emeritus Chief Researcher, at then Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. His areas of expertise and research interests included Observational Astrophysics and in particular the sun, diffuse nebulae, SN remnants, photometric and spectroscopic observations of variable stars such as CVs, eclipsing binaries and symbiotic stars. On these subjects he has published many scientific papers as well as 5 monographs and a large number of popular articles in Greek. He was also interested in the history of the astronomy and has written 8 popular books on various subjects. He has been permanent fellow in two popular scientific journals, of the encyclopaedia YDRIA. Moreover, for many years he was presenting all important observational events during the year in the Journal Uranus, published by the Society for Space and Astronomy at Volos, in which he was also an honorary member. He was member of IAU and founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society.
Rovithis-Livaniou Heleni
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1976, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Thesis: Fourier analysis of the light changes of distorted eclipsing systems - photometric perturbations for total-transit and partial eclipses Supervisor(s): Kopal Zdenek Biography: Assistant Professor (retired), Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece, (since 1986). She was born in Serifos, Cyclades, Greece. She received her B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece (1969), her M.Sc. (1974), and her Ph.D. (1976), both from the Victoria University of Manchester. She has worked as Teaching Assistant in the Astronomical Laboratory at the University of Patras. (1970- 1973) and at the University of Athens (1974-1978) and as Chief Assistant in the latter (1978-1982). She became Lecturer in 1982 and Assistant Professor in 1986 at the Department of Physics of the University of Athens. Her scientific and research interests are both theoretical and observational. The first include Stellar Structure and Evolution of Binary Stars, and the latter ground based and satellite Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations of various types of variable stars, like eclipsing binaries, CVs, symbiotics, pulsating. On these subjects she has published about 230 papers. Moreover, she has published, in Greek, 20 scientific and a number of popular articles, while she is interested in the History and Education of Astronomy. Moreover, she has authored or co-authored Lecture Notes and Laboratory Exercises and edited the Proceedings of an International Astronomical Meeting.
Sarris Eleftherios
Position: Researcher, National Observatory of Athens PhD: 1977, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: Families of periodic orbits and new integrals of motions in the elliptic three body problem Supervisor(s): Contopoulos George Biography: Researcher (retired), Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens, Greece. He was born in Paris, France on the 26th of July, 1934. He received the B.Sc. in Mathematics (1962) and the Ph.D. (1977), both from the University of Athens. He has worked as a high-school Professor of Mathematics (1962-66) and as Assistant at the Laboratory of Astronomy of the University of Athens (1966-71). His scientific interests include the Clestial Mechanics, the Planets, the Sun and the stellar Clusters. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and a founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.).
Seiradakis John-Hugh
Position: Faculty, University of Thessaloniki PhD: 1975, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Thesis: Low latitude pulsar survey at 408 MHz. Supervisor(s): Davies John Biography: Professor Emeritus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1948-2020). He was born in Chania, Crete, Greece on March 5, 1948 and passed away on May 2, 2020. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece (1971), his M.Sc. in Radio Astronomy from the Victoria University of Manchester, U.K. (1973) and his Ph.D. in the same field from the same University (1975). He worked in numerous Institutes and Universities: at the Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany (07/1975-12/1976, 02/1979–04/1979, 09/1982–04/1984 Alexander von Humboldt scholarship, 05/1984–08/1985 and 09/1991- 07/1992 on sabbatical from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), at the Universität Hamburg, Germany (02/1978–01/1979) and at the University of California, San Diego, U.S.A. (09/1979–06/1982). He joined the Dept. of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece as an Associate Professor in July 1985 and was promoted to Professor in May 1996. He retired and became Emeritus Professor in 2015. He has served as Director of the Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Department of Physics, University of Thessaloniki (1989-1990, 2001-2002, 2008- 2009), member of the Council of the Department of Physics and Chairman or member in several Committees at the same University. He is a founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.) where he has served as Secretary (1994-1998) and as President (1998-2002). He has served as Member (1986-1990) and as Chairman (2001-2005) of the Greek National Committee for Astronomy. Since 1992 he has served as an Expert Evaluator in European and National Programme Committees and as Referee in International Journals, while he has served as a Member of the Time Allocation Committee of the 100m radio telescope of the MPIfR, Bonn, Germany at Effelsberg (1993-1997). His scientific interests include Neutron Stars (Pulsars), Neutral Hydrogen modeling in nearby galaxies, the Centre of our Galaxy, Flare Stars, Lunar Transient Phenomena and Archaeoastronomy. He has published more that 74 scientific papers in refereed journals, and more than 80 papers in conference proceedings and special volumes as well as three University-level Textbooks. He has also represented Greece in large European networks (OPTICON, ILIAS, CRAF, etc). In December 2005, the highest EU prize Descartes was awarded to the Neutron Stars research network, “PULSE”, in which he is a one of the founding members. He was member of the Hellenic Physical Society, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), as well as a Founding Member of the European Astronomical Society. https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Γιάννης_Χ._Σειραδάκης https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hugh_Seiradakis
Terzides Charalambos
Position: Faculty, ΤΕΙ Θεσσαλονίκης PhD: 1978, Dept. of Physics, University of Bonn, Germany Thesis: Spiral density waves and galactic halos Supervisor(s): Contopoulos George Biography:
Tsikoudi Vassiliki
Position: Faculty, University of Ioannina PhD: 1977, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, USA Thesis: Photometric study of the structure of lenticular galaxies. Supervisor(s): de Vaucouleurs Gerard Biography:
Vaiopoulos Dimitrios
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1976, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: Stellar Evolution with Variable gravitational constant Supervisor(s): Laskarides Paul - Contopoulos George Biography: Dimitrios Vaiopoulos (1941-2019( was Emeritus Professor at the Department of Geology, University of Athens, Greece. He was born in Karditsa, Thessaly, Greece on the 5th of May, 1941. He received his B.Sc. from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Athens, Greece (1968) and his Ph.D. from the Physics Department of the same University (1977). He has held the position of Assistant and Head Assistant at the Laboratory of Astronomy, Department of Physics, University of Athens (1968 – 1980). His research interests included the construction of mathematical models in astronomy, astrophysics, geology, physicogeography and dynamic systems, the latter mainly including the motion of heavenly bodies, as well as for the processing of data from remote sensing. He completed more than 125 research projects that have been published in peer reviewed Greek and International journals or have been presented in Greek and international meetings. He had been the author of 6 scientific publications and of many scientific articles in printed or electronic form in the areas of mathematical geography, informatics, applications in space science and technology, geomathematics and statistics. He was a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.).
Ventura Joseph
Position: Faculty, University of Crete PhD: 1975, Dept. of Physics, City University of New York, USA Thesis: Dielectric properties of the magnetic surface of neutron stars Supervisor(s): Canuto Vittorio Biography: Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece on March 7, 1938 and passed away in Heraklion on October 5, 2020. He obtained his Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1962), his M.Sc. in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (1966) and his Ph.D. in Physics from the City University of New York, U.S.A. (1975). He worked as Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and the University of Tubingen, Germany (1976–1980) before joining the Department of Physics of the University of Crete, Greece as Professor (in 1980). He was a Visitor Research Fellow at the Institute d’ Astrophysique Paris and at the Universitat Tubingen (1981-83) His scientific interests include theoretical Physics and Theoretical Astrophysics. He has published many scientific papers in refereed journals as well as conference proceedings and special volumes. He has written a book on the plasma in the magnetospheres and other textbooks. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.) and of the European Physical Society. He has served as a Vice- Chairman of the National Committee for Astronomy (1990- 1992) and as a national representative on the board of the “Astronomy and Astrophysics” journal (2000 – 2005).
Vlahos Loukas
Position: Faculty, University of Thessaloniki PhD: 1979, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Thesis: Plasma properties and radiation signatures of current driven active region loops on the sun Supervisor(s): Kundu Mukul Biography: Professor (retired), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He was born in Levadia, Greece on the 22nd of April, 1949. He received the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Thessaloniki (1973), the M.Sc. in Astrophysics from the University of Maryland, U.S.A. (1976) and the Ph.D. in Astrophysics-Space physics from the same University in 1979. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in APL, U.S.A., as Research Professor University of Maryland, U.S.A. and as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Thessaloniki before elected in the present position. His research interests are in High Energy Astrophysics, Solar Physics and Plasma Physics and he has published more than 100 scientific papers in refereed journals and more than 40 papers in conference proceedings and special volumes / books. He has published two textbooks (“Introduction to plasma Physics” and “Differential Multivariable Calculus”). He is a member of the European Physics Society (E.P.S.) and of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.).
Xanthopoulos Basilis
Position: Faculty, University of Crete PhD: 1978, Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago, USA Thesis: Exact vacuum solutions of Einsteins equation from linearized solutions. Supervisor(s): Geroch Robert Biography: Basilis Xanthopoulos was a greek theoretical physicist, who made several fundamental contributions in General Relativity and Gravitational Physics until his premature death on November 27, 1990. He was born in Drama, Greece, on April 8, 1951 and studied Mathematics at the University of Thessaloniki. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Chicago (USA) where, in 1978, he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Robert Geroch. He taught and worked as a researcher at Montana State University and at the University of Syracuse (USA) and he was a visitor at Harvard University as well as at the Max Planck Institute of Astrphysics in Germany. He returned to Greece as Chief Assistant at the University of Thessaloniki (1979-1982) before joining the Department of Physics of the University of Crete as an Assistant Professor (1982-1983), Associate Professor (1983-1987), and Professor (1987-1990). He served as the Chairman of the Department of Physics from 1987 until the time of his death. A dedicated page on the life and work of Basilis Xanthopoulos is available in Greek at: https://xanthopoulos.physics.uoc.gr Basilis was one of the closest collaborators of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Nobel Prize in Physics 1983). They published together many important papers on black holes, colliding gravitational waves, space time perturbations, and other topics in General Relativity.
Zafiropoulos Basileios
Position: Faculty, University of Patras PhD: 1979, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Thesis: Flare stars observations at two frequencies.. Supervisor(s): Kopal Zdenek Biography: Assistant Professor (retired), Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece. He was born in Patras, Greece on the 28th of November, 1947. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Patras (1973), the M.Sc. from the University of Manchester, U.K. (1979) and the Ph.D. from the same University (1981). His scientific interest is the Dynamical Astronomy (especially in the movements of binary stars and satellites) and he has published scientific papers in international refereed journals and in international conferences as well as 3 textbooks and a special calendar.
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