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Greeks with a PhD in Astronomy |
Stampoulis Vasileios |
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Stanley Flora |
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Stathopoulos Dimitrios |
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Stathopoulou Maria |
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Faculty, University of Athens |
PhD: |
1990, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
A study of the asymmetry in the solar spectral lines |
Supervisor(s): |
Contopoulos George - Laskarides Paul |
Biography: |
Lecturer (Retired), Physics Department, University of Athens, Greece. She was born in Athens, Greece and obtained her B.Sc. in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1972) and her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the Department of Physics of the University of Athens, Greece. She has worked as scientific collaborator in a research program at National Research Foundation (1973-1975) and as Laboratory Assistant at the Laboratory of Astronomy of the University of Athens (1975-1991). Her scientific interests include Solar Physics, Solar and Stellar Spectroscopy, Applied Optics, History and Philosophy of Astronomy. |
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Stavridis Adamantios |
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Stavropoulos Ioannis |
Position: |
Private Sector |
PhD: |
2010, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
Orbit distribution in selfconsistent gravitational systems |
Supervisor(s): |
Contopoulos George |
Biography: |
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Stavropoulos Athanasios |
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Stergioulas Nikolaos |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Thessaloniki |
PhD: |
1996, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA |
Thesis: |
The structure and stability of rotating relativistic stars |
Supervisor(s): |
Friedman John |
Biography: |
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Strantzalis Achilles |
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Svolopoulos Sotirios |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Athens |
PhD: |
1959, Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece |
Thesis: |
A contribution on the study of classical Cepheids |
Supervisor(s): |
Plakidis Stavros - Kron Gerald |
Biography: |
Emeritus Professor, University of Athens, Greece.
He was born in Piraeus, Greece on the 4th of June, 1920 and passed away on July 16, 2018. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece (1943) and continued his BSc studies at the University of Exester (1951). He performed the research for his thesis dissertation on the Classical Cepheids at Lick Observatory under the supervisor of Prof. Gerald E. Kron and was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Athens, Greece in 1959. He worked as Laboratory assistant at the National Observatory of Athens (1945-53), as Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (1954-55) under the supervision of Prof. Frank B. Wood, at the Lick Observatory (1956-1960), at the University of Texas (1960-62) and at the University of Arizona (1962-63) under the supervision of Prof. Harold L. Johnson, as well as in Basel (1964-65) and in Hamburg, Germany (1965). He was named Docent of Astronomy at the University of Athens, Greece (1966) and worked at the same year as an Astronomer at the National Observatory of Athens before being elected as Professor of Astronomy at the University of Ioannina, Greece, where he worked for six years (1967-73). He became a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Athens in 1973. He retired and became Emeritus Professor in 1986. He has served as Chairman of the Mathematics Department of the University of Ioannina, Director of the Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics as well Director of the Laboratory of Astrophysics at the Department of Physics, Univerisity of Athens. His scientific interests include the Galaxy (Rotation, Stellar Fields and Open Clusters), UBV, RGV and multicolor stellar photometry, Absolute Luminosity of Cepheid, Ecliptic Binaries, Stellar Spectroscopy and Spectrophotometry of Be-stars. He has published many scientific papers in referreed journals and two textbooks in Astrophysics. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and a foundin member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). |
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Symeonidis Myrto |
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Syntelis Petros |
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Sypsas Spyros |
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Tanidis Konstantinos |
Position: |
Postdoc, Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics |
PhD: |
2020, Dept. of Physics, University of Torino, Italy |
Thesis: |
Developing a unified pipeline for large-scale structure data analysis with angular power spectra |
Supervisor(s): |
Camera Stefano |
Biography: |
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Konstantinos-Tanidis |
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Tanoglidis Dimitrios |
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Taramopoulos Athanasios |
Position: |
High School Teacher |
PhD: |
1995, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
Thesis: |
VLBA study of neutral gas in absorption against the nuclei of radio galaxies |
Supervisor(s): |
Briggs Frank |
Biography: |
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Tasitsiomi Argyro |
Position: |
Private Sector, ThoughtWorks |
PhD: |
2005, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Chicago, USA |
Thesis: |
Lyman-α radiative transfer in cosmological simulations and application to a z≃ 8 Ly-α emitter |
Supervisor(s): |
Kravtsov Andrey |
Biography: |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/argyrotasitsiomi/ |
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Tassis Konstantinos |
Position: |
Faculty, University of Crete |
PhD: |
2005, Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
Thesis: |
Protostar formation in magnetic clouds: The phase beyond ion detachment |
Supervisor(s): |
Mouschovias Telemachos |
Biography: |
Kostas Tassis obtained his BSc in Physics at the University of Thessaloniki in 1999 and his PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (USA) in 2005. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Chicago (2005 - 2008) and at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (a NASA lab run by Caltech) (2008-2011). He was elected as an Assistant Professort at the University of Crete in 2011, and he joined the Department of Physics in the fall of 2012. Between 2011 and 2012 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, Germany. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2018 and to a Professor in 2023. |
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Terzian Yervant |
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Faculty, Cornell University |
PhD: |
1965, Dept. of Astronomy, Indiana University Bloomington, USA |
Thesis: |
Radio emission from HII regions |
Supervisor(s): |
Menon Thuppalay |
Biography: |
The Tish Professor in Physical Sciences,
Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca,
N.Y., U.S.A. (since 1999) and Director, NASA New York
State Space Grant, Cornell University (since 1996). Prof Terzian was born in Alexandria, Egypt from an Armenian father and a greek mother in 1939 and he passed away in Ithaca NY on November 25, 2019. Yervant Terzian
received the B.Sc. in Physics Mathematics from the
American University in Cairo (1960), the M.Sc. in
Astronomy (1963) and the Ph.D. in Astronomy (1965)
from the Indiana University, as well as four Honorary
D.Sc. from the Indiana University (1989), the Yerevan
State University, Armenia (1994), the University of
Thessaloniki, Greece (1997) and the Union College,
New York (1999). He has been Research Associate,
Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico), Cornell University (1965-1967), Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University (1967-1972), Assistant Director, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University (1968-1974), Associate Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University (1972-1977), Visiting Professor of Astronomy, University of Montreal, Canada (1973-1974), and University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1974 Feb-July), Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University (1977), Chairman, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University (1979-1999), Acting Director, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University (1979-80, 1992-93), Prof. Graduate Field of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (1986), Field of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University (since 1991), Director, Pew Undergraduate Science Education Program, New York State Cluster of Colleges and Universities (1988-1999), James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences, Cornell University (1990-1999) and Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego (1999-2000), Member, Committee on Radio Astronomy, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, (1969-1976). He has served as Chairman or member in various committees and councils of the University of Cornell. Also, he has been Vice-Chairman, New York Astronomical Corporation (1969-1978), Member, Radio Astronomy Advisory Committee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1973-1993), Member, Committee on Radio Frequencies, U. S. National Academy of Sciences (1974-1976), Vice President, New York Astronomical Society (1974-1978), Harlow Shapley Lecturer for the American Astronomical Society (1974- ), Chairman, International Astronomical Union, Working Group on Astronomy From the Moon (1993-1999), Associate Editor/Scientific Editor, The Astrophysical Journal (1989 - 1998) and member of Chairman to numerous other scientific Boards or Advisory Committees. He has been awarded with the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award, Cornell University (1984), the Dicran H. Kabakjian Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science, North American (1985) the Distinguished Alumni Award, American University in Cairo (2005). He has been Honored at the Wall of Inspiration, Ithaca Science Center (2002) and with the Establishment of ‘The Yervant Terzian Cornell University Endowed Scholarships’ (1999). He has been Chairman, Committee on Astronomy in Greece for the 21st Century (1998), and Chairman, US Square Kilometer Array Consortium (2002- ). Distinguished Alumni Award, American University in Cairo (2005), Chairman, Ministry of Development Evaluation of Greek Research Institutes, Athens (2005). He is a member of the IAU, the International Scientific Radio Union; Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society; Astronomical Society of New York; Historical Astronomy Division, A.A.S.; Society for Scientific Exploration; Hel.A.S., Armenian Astronomical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published more than 230 scientific papers in refereed journals in conference proceedings and special volumes / books. He has also published six books on the Interstellar Ionized Hydrogen, on the Planetary Nebulae, on Flare Stars, on Cosmology and Astrophysics, on Active Galactic Nuclei And Related Phenomena and on Carl Sagans Universe.
A short biographical documentary on Prof. Terzian is available at https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/14723 |
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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: |
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