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Fadili

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225, Physics Building
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Jalal
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ENSI Caen, France
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Tsinganos

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Kanaris
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Dept. of Physics, University of Athens
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Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Physics, University of Athens
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Ramaprakash

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Education

Anamparambu N. Ramaprakash (Ram) obtained his Bachelors in Electronics from the University of Kerala (India) and his MSc and PhD in Physics from the University of Pune (India) in 1996 and 1998 respectively.

Career

During the last part of his thesis (1997-1998) he was a visiting fellow at the California Institute of Technology  (USA). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Astronomy of Cambridge University (UK) for the period 1998-2000 before joining the staff of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) at Pune (India). Since 2010 he is a Professor (Scientist G) at IUCAA, where he heads the instrumentation laboratory. He holds several adjunct faculty appointments in Indias as well as a Visiting Associate Faculty at Caltech (since 2015). He joined IA-FORTH as a Research Fellow in 2019. Prof. Ramaprakash has co-/supervised over 20 PhD students and postdocs.

Interests

Prof. Ramaprakash is an expert in astronomical instrumentation. He was Co-PI for Robopol and Robo-AO and currently Co-PI for the Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP). He is PI of the Devasthal Optical Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph (DOTIFS) at IUCAA, as well as Associate Program Director for India's involvement in the Thirty Metre Telescope project. He is interested in developing instruments for ground and space based astronomy including adaptive optics, optical fibres, sensors and electronics etc., Developing novel astronomical techniques and technology, physics of the inter-stellar medium, and transients.

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Anamparambu
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IUCAA, Pune (India)
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Kalas

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Education

Paul Kalas studied astronomy and physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned a Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1996 from the University of Hawaii under the direction of astronomer David Jewitt.

Career

He worked as a postdoctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, he became an Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined IA-FORTH as research fellow in 2019.

Interests

Direct imaging of exoplanets and dusty debris disks, the search for exoplanetary rings and moons, stellar and planetary dynamics, ethics in professional astronomy, and the nature of space and time.
 

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Department of Astronomy
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Paul
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Univ. of California, Berkeley (USA)
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Tassis

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Education

Kostas Tassis obtained his BSc in Physics at the University of Thessaloniki in 1999 and his PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (USA) in 2005. His academic geneaology tree is here.

Career

He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Chicago (2005 - 2008) and at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (a NASA lab run by Caltech) (2008-2011). He was elected as an Assistant Professor at the University of Crete in 2011, and he joined the Department of Physics in the fall of 2012. Between 2011 and 2012 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, Germany. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2018 and the same year he was awarded an ERC consolidator grant entitled "Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarization High-Accuracy Experiment - PASIPHAE". In 2023 he was promoted to Professor.

Interests

Star formation in the Galaxy and the Universe, interstellar medium physics, MHD simulations of astrophysical systems, interstellar chemistry.

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Department of Physics
Office
217 Physics Bldg
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(+30) 2810-394219
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Kostas
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University of Crete
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