Professor

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.

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.

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.

From 2000 until 2008 he was a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Cambridge, MA (USA). There he worked on X-ray observations of nearby galaxies with the Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observatories. He joined the Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2008, he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015 and to a Professor in 2020. In 2014 he was awarded an ERC consolidator grant entitled Accreting binary populations in Nearby Galaxies: Observations and Simulations (A-BINGOS). He was promoted to Professor of Observational Astrophysics in 2020. He is serving as Chairperson of the Department of Physics since September 1st, 2023.