Period: 1980 - 1984

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.
Avgoloupis Stavros
Position: Faculty, University of Thessaloniki PhD: 1984, Dept. of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Thesis: Contribution to the study of the long duration activity of the flare star EV Lac Supervisor(s): Mavridis Lyssimachos Biography: Professor Emeritus, Department of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He was born in Megali Panagia, Chalkidiki, Greece, on the 8th of April, 1949. He received the B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1972) and the Ph.D. from the same Department (1984). He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the Union of Greek Mathematicians, the Union of Greek Physicists and founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). His main scientific interest is the Observational Astronomy and he has published more than 47 scientific papers in refereed journals and 27 in conference proceedings and special volumes/books. He has written two textbooks: “Observational Astronomy” and “Differential Calculus of functions of one variable” and three other books: “Astronomical Planisphere & “An introduction to the night sky”, “Aratos of Soli, Phaenomena”,”Near Space Environment of the Earth, History, Technology and Science of Astronomy”.
Caranicolas Nicolaos
Position: Faculty, University of Thessaloniki PhD: 1981, Dept. of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Thesis: A study of the stellar orbits in nearly axially symmetric systems Supervisor(s): Barbanis Vassilios Biography: Nicolaos Caranicolas was born in Komotini, Greece, on the 12th of April, 1948. He received his B.Sc. in Physics in 1971 as well as a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1977, from the University of Thessaloniki. He completed his Ph.D. in 1982 and joined the faculty of the Department of Physics. His research interests were on Dynamical Astronomy. He retired as an Associate Professor in 2015.
Danezis Emmanouil
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1984, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: A study of Be stars: the case of AX Mon Supervisor(s): Svolopoulos Sotirios - Doazan Vera Biography: Assistant Professor (retired), Department of Physics, University of Athens (since 1988). He was born in Piraeus, Greece, on the 16th of October, 1949. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece (1974) and his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the Physics Department of the same University (1983). His scientific interests include Spectroscopic studies of hot emission stars in the optical range of the electromagnetic spectrum and in the ultraviolet (UV) through IUE HST data, spectroscopic study of Active Galactic Nuclei in the optical and the ultraviolet range, stellar atmospheres, binary systems and History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences. He has published more than 110 scientific papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in Greece and abroad. He has worked in the Observatory of Paris (France), Haute Provence (France), Trieste (Italy), Konkoly (Hungary), Belgrade (Serbia) and Cryoneri (Greece).He has exhibited a rich writing work with more than fourteen books in Physics and Astronomy (among them: Counting the uncountable time - Time in Astronomy”, 1994, Astrology, Science or Religion?”, 1994, “The Odyssey of Calendars" volumes A and B”, “ Looking for the roots of knowledge” 1995, “Astronomy and Tradition” 1995, “Straman- The story of the sky” 1996, “The Universe I loved - Introduction in Astrophysics” volumes A and B 1998, "In the trace of ICHTHYS - Astronomy, History, Philosophy", 2000, "Cosmology of the mind - Introduction in cosmology", 2003, “The circle of Time- Astronomy and Ancient Religions” 2004, “Modern Physics and New Civilization” (2005). The book "Cosmology of the mind - Introduction in cosmology" was awarded the “Aronis prize” of the University of Athens (2004). Also he has published 6 University textbooks, 2 scientific supervision of books, 12 statistical studies and Gallop Polls, 150 scientific articles in newspapers. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the European Astronomical Union (E.A.S.), the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.), the Hellenic Union of Physicists, the Hellenic Union of Mathematics, the Foundation of "Preserving Language Heritage" and the Foundation of “Historical Studies of Ancient Greek Mathematics”.
Dara Heleni
Position: Researcher PhD: 1982, Dept. of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece Thesis: Solar chromospheric surges Supervisor(s): Banos George - Kleczek Josip Biography: Researcher Emeritus, Research Centre for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics (R.C.A.A.M) of the Academy of Athens, Greece (since 2009). She was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and graduated from Pierce College in 1966. She received her B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens (1971), the M.Sc. in Meteorology from the same University (1973) and her Ph.D. from the University of Ioannina, Greece (1982). She has received two years of training in "Communication and Grouping Process” in the Athenian Institute for Anthropos (1997-2000) and a post graduate degree on the “Mental Health Promotion” (2006-2008) from the University of Athens. She worked as Research Assistant (1973–1992), Senior Researcher (1992-2002), Research Director (2002-2008) and Director of the R.C.A.A.M (2008). Her scientific interests are focused on Solar Physics, in specific small-scale magnetic fields, solar prominences, transition region dynamics and coronal loops. She has been the Representative of Greece to the Joint Organization for Solar Observations (JOSO, 1994-2005), elected member of the European Solar Physics Section (SPS) of the Joint Astrophysics Division (JAD) of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) and the European Physical Society (EPS) (2005-2008) and Member of the Greek working group for ESA (since 2005). She is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), of the European Astronomical Union (E.A.S.), of the Societe Francaise des Specialistes d’ Astronomie (S.F.S.A.), of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.), of the Hellenic Union of Physicists and of the Hellenic Society on the History of the Science and Technology. She has worked for the public outreach of Astronomy organizing seminars and speeches at the Academy of Athens and has edited four video-tapes for “Astronomy”, accompanied by an introductory booklet (Lambrakis Foundation).
Gousidou-Koutita Maria
Position: Faculty, University of Thessaloniki PhD: 1980, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Thesis: Elliptic restricted problem fo three bodies, with applications to the dynamics of lunar satellites Supervisor(s): Kopal Zdenek Biography: Born in Thessalonki, she graduated from the Dept. of Mathematics of Aristotle University in 1974. She was employed as Assistant to the Dept. of Mathematics, assigned to the operation of the mainframe University Computer and the innovative administrative applications of Information Systems. On a sabbatical 1977-1980, and with the support of British Council she conducted post graduate study and research in the Dept of Astronomy of Manchester University. She was awarded the PhD Doctorate, by the supervision of Prof. Zdenek Kopal, of Victoria University of Manchester in Mathematical Astronomy in 1980. She continued her service at the Dept. of Mathematics of Aristotle University in the Section of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis, as Lecturer, as Assistant Professor after 1990, and as Associate Professor in 2006-2007. She was occupied with research and applications of Numerical Analysis and Computers in Celestial Mechanics and with teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics. She is a member of Greek Mathematical Society, of the Greek Astronomical Society, and regular reviewer to the Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, and recently to the periodical Planetary and Space Science. She published numerous papers in international scientific periodicals and conferences, and she supervised two (Ph.D.) Doctorate Dissertations and numerous Diploma projects (M.Sc.) of postgraduate students. She was examiner to many Doctorate Dissertations (Ph.D.), and Diploma projects (M.Sc.). She authored scientific textbooks for the undergraduate courses; entitled “Advanced Applied Mathematics and Numerical Methods” (1984), “Numerical Analysis” (2004), “Computational Mathematics” (2014), “teaching notes of Computational Mathematics I” (1992) and “teaching notes of Computational Mathematics II” (1993), and for postgraduate courses; “Numerical Methods with Applications to Control Theory” (2006), “Numerical Methods with Applications to the Ordinary (ODE) and Partial Differential Equations (PDE)” (2009).
Hizanidis Kyriakos
Position: Faculty, National Technical University PhD: 1982, Dept. of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Thesis: Lagrangian formulation of neoclassical transport theory Supervisor(s): Bers Abraham Biography: https://www.ece.ntua.gr/en/staff/44
Ichtiaroglou Simos
Position: Faculty, University of Thessaloniki PhD: 1982, Dept. of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Thesis: A study of periodic motions on a plane of two point masses and a spheroid Supervisor(s): Hadjidemetriou John Biography: Ichtiaroglou Simos, (1950-2007). He passed away while an Associate Professor, at the Dept. of Physics, of the Univ. of Thessaloniki. He received the B.Sc. in Physics (1972), the M.Sc. in Radioelectrology (1978) and the Ph.D. in Physics from the same University (1982). His scientific interests included the Hamiltonian systems and on the Integrability. He was a member of the Hellenic Physical Union and a founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). He is survived by his wife Freideriki Stasinopoulou and their two daughters.
Kapranidis Stelios
Position: Faculty, The University of South Carolina PhD: 1982, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington, USA Thesis: The structure of very cool, helium-rich, white dwarf atmospheres Supervisor(s): Böhm Karl-Heinz Biography: https://www.usca.edu/about/directories/person/stelios-kapranidis
Kazanas Demosthenes
Position: Researcher, NASA/GSFC PhD: 1980, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, USA Thesis: Neutrino mediated shocks in supernovae Supervisor(s): Schramm David Biography: Researcher, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, U.S.A. He was born in Kavala Greece, on the 1st of May, 1950. He received the B.Sc. in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1973), the M.Sc. from the University of Chicago and the Ph.D. (1978) from the same University. He has been NAS/NRC fellow and Research Associate at the University of Maryland. He has been honored with the 3rd prize of the Gravity Foundation for the best essay in Gravity (1976). His scientific interests include Cosmology, Quasar Physics and High Energy Astrophysics and he has published many scientific papers on these matters; in one of them, he showed that the dynamics of scalar fields in the early Universe could change its expansion rate in a way that could resolve the so called Horizon problem, in a process currently known as Cosmological Inflation. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), of the American Astronomical Society, of the American Physics Society and a founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). In 2000 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens, Greece.
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:
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.
Liritzis Ioannis
Position: Faculty, University of the Aegean PhD: 1980, Dept. of Physics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Thesis: Thermoluminescence and ²³⁴U/²³⁰Th dating investigations of Hellenic materials Supervisor(s): Galloway Robert Biography: Professor, Department of the Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. Director (& Founder) of the Laboratory of Archaeometry, Membre Correspondant de l’ Academie des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres, Dijon, France, and, Academician of the European Academy of Sciences & Arts, Saltzburg (Branch IV Natural Sciences). Born in Delphi, Greece, on the 2nd of November, 1953, he received the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Patras, Greece (1975) and the Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1979. He has done post doc work in Cambridge (UK), Harwell Atomic Center Establishment (UK), MacMaster Univ., Oxford Univ., and Edinburgh University and as a visiting professor in Bordeaux III, France. He has worked as a researcher on ancient monuments at the Ministry of Culture, Greece and ten years as a senior Researcher at the Research Center of Astronomy and Applied Mathematics of the Academy of Athens, Greece. His scientific interests include Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy, History of Astronomy & Science, Geophysics, Nuclear Physics, Dosimetry and Archaeometry, and he has published more than 200 papers on these subjects, with over 80 in astronomy and related fields, and 8 Books (three in English). He serves as Editor or Editor-in-Chief or Member of Editorial Board of 11 International Journals. He founded and is Editor- in-Chief of the Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry International Journal. He has been a member of Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). He is a member of many International & National Scientific Societies such as, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), The Royal Astronomical Society, The Institute of Physics, U.K., and The European Society of Astronomy in Culture.
Paleologou Efthimios
Position: Researcher, University of Crete PhD: 1983, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Thesis: Ambipolar diffusion in interstellar clouds: one-dimensional, isothermal collapse Supervisor(s): Mouschovias Telemachos Biography: Efthymios Paleologou received his BSc in Physics from the University of Thessaloniki in 1976 and his PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in 1983. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1985- 1988). In 1988 he moved to the University of Crete where he accepted a research/teaching position until 1991. He has been a researcher at IESL/FORTH between 1991-1997 and at the Department of Physics from 1997-1999. In 2002 he was appointed to a permanent position as research support specialst. He retired in 2020.
Papadopoulos Demetrios
Position: Faculty, University of Thessaloniki PhD: 1982, Dept. of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Thesis: A contribution to the perturbations of the spacetime around a Schwarzchild black hole Supervisor(s): Persides Sotirios Biography: Professor (retired), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was born in Athens, Greece on the 26th of May, 1947 and got his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki (1970) and his Ph.D. in General Relativity from the same University (1982). He has been Research Associate at the Department of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1973-1979), Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Ohio,USA. (1979-1982), as well as Lecturer (1982-1985), Assistant Professor (1985-1992) and Associate professor (1992-2007) at the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has been honored with the Belgium, FNRS scholarship (1989-90). He has published more than 60 scientific papers in refereed international journals and four books in Greek on “Differential equations”, “Differential Geometry with Applications in Physics”, “Vector analysis and calculus” and “General Astronomy”. He is a member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.).
Papaelias Philip
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1984, Τμήμα Φυσικής, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: A study of the mechanisms leading to the reduction of the cross section of atom antiatom anihilation and the behaviour of comets from antimater in the Supervisor(s): Apostolakis Alcibiades Biography: Assistant Professor (retired), Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece. He was born in Souez of Egypt on the 18th of July, 1947. He received the B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece in 1972, the M.Sc. in Meteorology (1976) and the Ph.D. in Physics (1984) from the same University. He has worked as Assistant of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory of the same University. His scientific interests include High Energy Physics and Astrophysics. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.)
Pavlos Georgios
Position: Faculty, Democritus University of Thrace PhD: 1983, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thrace, Greece Thesis: Magnetic substructures of charged particles in the magnetised plasma of the Earth Supervisor(s): Sarris Emmanuel Biography:
Piteri Sophia
Position: High School Teacher PhD: 1980, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Univeristy of Manchester, United Kingdom Thesis: Photogrammetric analysis of panoramic photography and its application to lunar mapping Supervisor(s): Kopal Zdenek - Darrington M.G. Biography:
Sinachopoulos Dimitrios
Position: Researcher, National Observatory of Athens PhD: 1983, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Vienna, Austria Thesis: Photometric measurements of visual double stars and calculation of the absolute brightness of the dwarf stars of the spectral type Supervisor(s): Rakos Karl Biography: Dimitris Sinachopoulos obtained his BSc in Mathematics from the University of Athens in 1975 and his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Vienna (Austria) in 1983. From 1984 to 1988, he was Postdoctoral Researcher at Sternwarte Bonn (Observatory of the University of Bonn, Germany). From 1989 to 1992, he was TMR researcher (Marie Curie fellow) at the Royal Observatory of Belgium. During 1992-1998, he worked as researcher at the Royal Observatory of Belgium and in 2002, as guest researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics (Potsdam, Germany). Since 1990, he has been Guest Professor at the Observatoire de Bordeaux (France), South Africa University (South Africa) and Brazil University of Sao Paolo (Brazil). Since 1985, he has also been visiting observer at Chile, Canary Islands, Southern Spain, France and South Africa. He joined as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Astronomy of the National Observatory of Athens, from where he retired in 2018.
Theodossiou Efstratios
Position: Faculty, University of Athens PhD: 1984, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens, Greece Thesis: Mean effective temperatures of eatly spectral type stars Supervisor(s): Contopoulos George - Kontizas Evangelos Biography: Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Astronomy and Physical Science (retired). He was born in Athens, Greece on the 12th of March, 1949. He got his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1972) and his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the Physics Department of the University of Athens, Greece (1983). He has worked as Laboratory Assistant, Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Athens. His scientific interests include History and Philosophy of Astronomy and Physical Sciences, Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics, Satellite spectrophotometry of Be and variable stars. He has published 43 scientific papers in refereed journals (14 in Astrophysics and 29 in History and Philosophy of Astronomy), 18 papers in the British Sundial Society Bulletin (BSB) and North American Sundial Society Bulletin (NASS) and 147 papers in conference proceedings in Greece and abroad (65 in Astrophysics and 82 in History and Philosophy of Astronomy). In addition, he has exhibited a rich writing work with more than fourteen books in Physics and Astronomy, titled: On Stars and their myths–An Introduction in Uranography (1991), Measuring the Timeless-time– Time in Astronomy (1994), Astrology, Science or Religion? (1994), The Odyssey of Calendars vol. I. Looking for the roots of knowledge (1995), The Odyssey of Calendars vol. II. Astronomy and Tradition (1995), Straman-The tale of the Heavens (1997), The Universe I loved–An Introduction in Astrophysics, vol. I & II. (1998), In the trace of ICHTHYS–Astronomy, History, Philosophy (2000), Cosmology of the Mind–An Introduction in Cosmology (2003), The cycle of the Time–Astronomy and Mysterious religions (2004), The future of our Past-Science and New Civilization (2005), The dethronement of the Earth–The dispute between geocentric and heliocentric systems (2007), The Philosophy of Physics–From Cartesius to the Theory of Everything (2008). The book Cosmology of the Mind–An introduction in Cosmology (2003) was awarded with the “Aronis Prize” of the University of Athens (23 December, 2004). Also, he has written 6 Textbooks. For the last four years, in association with the Assistant Professor E. Danezis, he has been creator, presenter and scientific supervisor of the scientific television series “The Universe I Loved”, which already counts more than 100 episodes. He has been awarded the "Hellenic- American University prize" in the 1st International Science Film Festival, for this television series. He has been honored by the Hellenic Union of Physicists for all of his scientific and educational activities. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the European Astronomical Union (E.A.S.), the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S, founding member), the Hellenic Union of Physicists, the Hellenic Union of Mathematics, the Foundation of "Preserving Language Heritage" and the Foundation of “Historical Studies of Ancient Greek Mathematics.
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