Personnel
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Academician Prof. George Contopoulos  Tel. (+30) 210 6597601 Email: gcontop@academyofathens.gr |
| Acting Director | Research on | |
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Panos A. Patsis Research Director Tel. (+30) 210 6597169 Email: patsis@academyofathens.gr |
Galactic Dynamics, Galactic Morphology, SPH-Hydrodynamics, Near Infrared Observations of Disk Galaxies, Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos |
| Researchers | Research on | |
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Ioannis Contopoulos Research Director Tel. (+30) 210 6597167 Email: icontop@academyofathens.gr |
Magnetohydrodynamics |
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Spyros Basilakos
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Nature of Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe |
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Manolis Georgoulis |
Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Self Organization Space Weather |
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Constantinos Gontikakis Research Director Tel. (+30) 210 6597246 Email: cgontik@academyofathens.gr |
Solar Physics, Particles Acceleration, Solar Flares, Spectroscopy |
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Mirella Harsoula |
Galactic Dynamics, Hamiltonian Dynamics, Nonlinear Phenomena |
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Antonios Tsokaros Senior Researcher Tel. (+30) 210 6597 Email: atsokaros@academyofathens.gr |
Computational Astrophysics, Relativity |
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Matthaios Katsanikas |
Dynamical Astronomy, Hamiltonian Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Reaction Dynamics |
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Antonios Nathanail |
Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
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Athanasios C. Tzemos |
Dynamical systems in Astronomy and Quantum Mechanics. Quantum Information Theory. |
| Post-Doc Fellows and Collaborators | ||
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Konstantinos Bakos Email:konstantinosbakos@protonmail.com |
Data Science, Particle Swarm Optimization in Hamiltonian dynamics |
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Periklis Okalidis Email:peris.okalides@gmail.com |
Galactic Dynamics |
| Visiting Professors/Scientists | ||
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Sofia Carvalho | Cosmology |
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Padelis Papadopoulos |
Astrochemistry, Cosmic ray acceleration in supernova, Galaxy evolution numerical models (theory), Radiation Physics: Photon and Cosmic-ray dominated places in Space, Radio receivers: characterization and testing, Spaceborne projects: Herschel Space Observatory |
| Scientific Collaborators | Research on | |
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Eleni Dara |
Solar Physics |
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Christos Efthymiopoulos Email:efthim@academyofathens.gr |
Hamiltonian perturbation theory, Analytical & numerical methods in nonlinear dynamical systems, Galactic Dynamics - Celestial Mechanics, Dynamical systems in quantum mechanics and field theory, Systems of many degrees of freedom. |
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Vassilis Tritakis Research Director Emeritus Former Acting Director Tel. (+30) 210 6597507 |
Sun Earth Connection |
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Theodosis Zachariadis Research Director Emeritus |
Solar Physics |
| PhD Students | Research on | |
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Eleni Antonopoulou |
High Energy Astrophysics |
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Ioannis Dimitropoulos |
High Energy Astrophysics |
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Myrto Koletti
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Solar Physics |
| MSc Students | Research on | |
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Aggelos Michailidis |
Solar Physics |
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Foivos Zanias |
Quantum Dynamical Systems |
Past Post-Doctoral Fellows and Collaborators |
Research on |
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Supervisor: G. Contopoulos |
Relativistic Astrophysics |
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Supervisor: P. Patsis Email: mrsotiris2000@yahoo.gr |
Galactic Dynamics |
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Helen Christodoulidi Supervisor: C. Efthymiopoulos Tel. (+30) 210 6597513 |
Dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom, nonlinear oscillator chains, Statistical Mechanics |
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Kostas Florios Supervisors: I. Contopoulos and V. Tritakis
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Machine Learning and Statistics |
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George Lukes-Gerakopoulos Supervisor: G. Contopoulos |
Chaos in Classical Mechanics and in General Theory of Relativity Succesfully presented his Ph.D. thesis on 23 Jun 2010. |
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Constantinos Kalapotharakos Supervisors: I. Contopoulos and P. Patsis |
Galactic Dynamics, Chaos, Magnetohydrodynamics Now at Goddard NASA |
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Edoardo Legnaro Early Stage Researcher (Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network Stardust-R) Email: legnaro@academyofathens.gr |
Satellite and Space Debris Dynamics |
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Spiros Kitsionas Supervisor: P. Patsis Email: skitsionas@googlemail.com |
Galactic Hydrodynamics |
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Ioannis Kontogiannis Supervisors: M. Georgoulis and C. Gontikakis
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Solar and Space Physics |
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Kostas Moraitis Supervisor: M. Georgoulis |
Solar and Space Physics |
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Rocio Paez Supervisor: C. Efthymiopoulos |
Non-linear Hamiltonian Dynamics (Perturbation theory, Astrodynamics, Galactic Dynamics, Celestial Mechanics) |
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Konstantinos Themelis Supervisor: M. Georgoulis |
Statistical Signal Processing and Probabilistic Machine Learning |
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Athanassia Tsatsi Supervisor: P. Patsis |
Galactic Dynamics |
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Kostas Tziotziou Supervisor: M. Georgoulis |
Solar and Space Physics |
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Manolis Zoulias Tel. (+30) 210 6597511 Email: mzoulias@academyofathens.gr |
Information, Networking, Web Development, Public Outreach |
Past PhD Students |
Research on |
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Giorgos Anastasiou |
Aspects of Bigravity: Black Holes & Cosmology |
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Veera Boonyasait Supervisor: P. Patsis | Galactic Dynamics University of Florida, Gainseville Successfully presented his PhD thesis in 2003 |
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Leonardo Chaves Velasquez |
Dynamics of Spiral Galaxies Succesfully presented his Ph.D. thesis in 2019. |
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Nikos Delis Supervisor: C. Efthymiopoulos Email: delnikle@gmail.com |
Stochasticity in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems |
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Elpida Koutsantoniou |
Magnetohydrodynamics |
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Ioanna Patsou Supevisor: M. Georgoulis | Eruptive Activity and Heating of Solar Active Regions |
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Athina Pouri Supervisor: S. Basilakos Email: ath.pouri@gmail.com |
Measurement of the Expansion Rate of the Universe by means of Extragalactic High Energy Sources Succesfully presented her Ph.D. thesis on Sep 2016. |
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Ioannis Stavropoulos Supervisor: G. Contopoulos |
Chaos in N-body Galactic Models Succesfully presented his Ph.D. thesis on 10 Dec 2010. |
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Petros Syntelis Supervisor: C. Gontikakis |
Magnetic flux emergence in the Sun, Solar jets and Coronal Mass Ejections Succesfully presented his Ph.D. thesis on May 2016. |
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Liana Tsigaridi Supervisor: P. Patsis |
Nonlinear Phenomena in Response Models of Galactic Disks Succesfully presented her Ph.D. thesis on 1 Jul 2016. |
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Panagiotis Tsoutsis Supervisor: C. Efthymiopoulos |
Orbits and Waves Investigation of Gravitational Systems Succesfully presented his Ph.D. thesis on 2 Nov 2010. |
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Konstantina Zouloumi |
Galactic Dynamics Succesfully presented her Ph.D. thesis on July 2024 |
| Past MSc Students | Research on |
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Maria Eirini Chrysafeli Supervisor: P. Patsis Email: quasarsandblazars@gmail.com |
Discrete Fourier Transforms of Galactic Models Succesfully presented her M. Sc. thesis on 12 Oct 2016. |
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Katerina Dima |
Kinematic methods for locating corotation in galactic disks Succesfully presented her M. Sc. thesis on 24 Jun 2016. |
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Konstantinos Margetis |
Dynamical Astronomy |
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Evangelia Samara |
Solar Physics |
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Stavros Pastras |
Galactic Dynamics Succesfully presented his M. Sc. thesis on 17 Mar 2022.
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| Past BSc Students | Research on | |
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Xenophon Karyophyllis |
Bohmian Quantum Mechanics |
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Andreas Kontogiorgis |
Galactic Dynamics |