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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Christos Efthymiopoulos |
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. |
| Ioannis Contopoulos Senior Researcher Tel. (+30) 210 6597167 Email: icontop@academyofathens.gr |
Magnetohydrodynamics | |
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Spyros Basilakos Senior Researcher Tel. (+30) 210 6597248 Email: svasil@academyofathens.gr |
Nature of Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe |
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Constantinos Gontikakis Senior Researcher Tel. (+30) 210 6597246 Email: cgontik@academyofathens.gr |
Solar Physics, Particles Acceleration, Solar Flares, Spectroscopy |
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Elias Vagenas Associate Researcher Tel. (+30) 210 6597646 Email: evagenas@academyofathens.gr |
General Relativity, Black Hole Physics, Cosmology, Quantum Gravity |
Manolis Georgoulis |
Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Self Organization Space Weather | |
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Mirella Harsoula |
Galactic Dynamics, Hamiltonian Dynamics, Nonlinear Phenomena |
| Research Associates | Research on | |
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Constantinos Kalapotharakos Tel. (+30) 210 6597145 Email: ckalapot@phys.uoa.gr |
Galactic Dynamics, Chaos |
Post-doctoral Fellows |
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Sofia Carvalho | Cosmology (Collaborating with S. Basilakos) |
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George Lukes-Gerakopoulos Tel. (+30) 210 6597147 Email: gglukes@gmail.com |
Chaos in Classical Mechanics and in General Theory of Relativity Succesfully presented his thesis on 23 Jun 2010. |
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Ioannis Stavropoulos Tel. (+30) 210 6597147 Email: istavrop@phys.uoa.gr |
Chaos in N-body Galactic Models Succesfully presented his thesis on 10 Dec 2010. |
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Panagiotis Tsoutsis Tel. (+30) 210 6597147 Email: ptsoutsi@phys.uoa.gr |
Orbits and Waves Investigation of Gravitational Systems Succesfully presented his thesis on 2 Nov 2010. |
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Vassilis Tritakis Research Director Emeritus Former Acting Director Tel. (+30) 210 6597507 Email: vas@academyofathens.gr |
Sun Earth Connection |
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Eleni Dara |
Solar Physics |
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Theodosis Zachariadis Research Director Emeritus Tel. (+30) 210 6597143 Email: tzachar@academyofathens.gr |
Solar Physics |
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Georgia Aggelopoulou Tel. (+30) 210 6597648 Email: gaggelop@academyofathens.gr |
Administration |
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Manolis Zoulias Tel. (+30) 210 6597511 Email: mzoulias@academyofathens.gr |
IT, Networking, Web Development, Public Outreach |
|   | PhD Students | Research on |
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Nikos Delis Tel. (+30) 210 6597147 Email: ndelis@ |
Stochasticity in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems |
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Matthew Katsanikas |
The structure of Phase Space in Hamiltonian systems of 3 degrees of freedom |
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Athina Pouri Tel. (+30) 210 6597147 Email: |
Measurement of the Expansion Rate of the Universe by means of Extragalactic High Energy Sources |
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Liana Tsigaridi Tel. (+30) 210 6597147 Email: liana@academyofathens.gr |
Nonlinear Phenomena in Response Models of Galactic Disks |
MSc Students |
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Sotiris Chatzopoulos Tel. (+30) 210 6597147 Email: mrsotiris2000@yahoo.gr |
Automatic Classification of Orbits |
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Ioanna Patsou Tel. (+30) 210 6597147 Email: |
Eruptive Activity and Heating of Solar Active Regions |























