Papadakis Iossif

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Deputy Director of the Institute of Astrophysics
Researcher of the Institute of Astrophysics
Affiliated Faculty
Professor of Department of Physics , UnIversity of Crete

E-mail : jhep@ia.forth.gr
Phone : (+30) 2810 39-4213
Office : 211, Physics Bldg
Education :

Iossif Papadakis received his BSc in Physics from the University of Athens in 1989 and his PhD in Astrophysics from the Queen Mary & Westfield College of the University of London (UK) in 1992. His academic genealogy tree is here.

Career :

He was a research fellow at the Physics Department of the University of Southampton between 1993 - 1994 and 1997. He then moved to University of Crete, where he worked as a research associate until 2001, when he accepted a position of researcher at IESL FORTH. In 2003 he commenced his appointment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, he was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2009 and to a Professor in 2014. He served as the Chairman of the Department of Physics and from November 2015 until August 2019. He has also served as Director of the Skinakas Observatory between the retirement of Ioannis Papamastorakis and the foundation of IA-FORTH. Since June of 2026 he is serving as IA Deputy Director. 

Interests :

Extragalactic Astrophysics, with main emphasis on active galaxies related studies, in particular in the X-rays.