Professor Emeritus

He spend 5 years (1979-1984) at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh before moving to the Institute of Astronomy at the Univ. of Cambridge, where in 2000 he became Professor of Experimental Philosophy, FRS. He has been Scientific Coordinator of Opticon, the EC Optical Infrared Coordination Committee for Astronomy and more recently the Opticon-Radionet-Pilot. He is the UK PI of the Gaia data processing and analysis consortium; Co-PI of the Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey. For his research he was also awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. Professor Gilmore has received numerous awards and recognitions for his contributions to astrophysics including: Fellow of the Royal Society (2013), Fellow of Academia Europaea and Institute of Physics, Honorary Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society NZ (2016), recipient of the Chalonge Medal (2013) and the De Vega medal (2015). As of 2023 he is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Philosophy.

In 2023 he was elected as lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH.

He joined California Institute of Technology as a Research Fellow (1974-75) continuing as Senior Research Fellow (1976-79) and then  Research Associate, 1979-81. He became  Professor of Radio Astronomy in 1981 and Professor of Astronomy from1990 to 2000. He was Rawn Professor, 2000-13 and then Robinson Professor, 2013-15. Since 2015 his is  Robinson Professor, Emeritus. Professor Readhead served in various administrative positions including Director, of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, 1981-86, 2007-18,  Executive Officer for Astronomy, 1990-92, 2012-13; Director of Chajnantor Observatory, 2006-2011 and  Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist, 2006-15. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Professor Readhead was elected as the first Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH in 2021.

He joined to University of Crete in 1985 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1990 and to Professor in 2005. He retired and was elected Emeritus Professor in 2009. He served as the founding Director of Skinakas Observatory from 1985 until his retirement. Since 2001 he is the Scientific Director of the Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series, that take place every July at FORTH.

He was a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech (1979 - 1981) and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1981 - 1984). Then, he was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University (1984 - 1985) before accepting an Assistant Professor position at the University of Crete in 1985. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1989 and Professor in 1997. He served as Chairman of the Department of Physics from 1999 to 2003, as well as Dean of the School of Sciences from September 2008 to May 2013. During the period 2012-2116 he was a member of the Council of the University of Crete. He retired and was elected Emeritus Professor in 2016. In 2018 he was elected as member of the Council of the European Astronomical Society. He was awarded the 2019 "S. Pichorides Award for  Excellence in Academic Teaching" of the Univ. of Crete. In 2019 the Institute of Astrophysics established the "Nick Kylafis Lectureship" in his honour.