Evangelos Kontizas
Affiliations: | 1972-2011 | National Observatory of Athens |
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"Evangelos Kontizas"Bio:
Evangelos Kontizas obtained his BSc in Physics from the University of Athens in 1969 and his PhD in Astrophysics with a dissertation on The temperatures of Early Type Stars from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 1978. He was a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National Observatory of Athens from 1972 until his retirement in 2011. Dr. Kontizas served as the Director of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (one of the two institutes which merged to form IAASARS) from 1994 until 1999. He held research appointments at the Observatoire de Haute Provence (France) in 1979, at Trieste Observatory (Italy) in 1980, and he was Senior Associate at NASA/GSFC (USA) in 1989-1990. He was a member of the Council of the Greek National Committee for Astronomy, 1994-1996 and 2001-2003 as well as Chairman during 1997-2001. He was member of the WG of IAU on SKY-SURVEYS and a representative of Greece in the Study Panel on Ground Astronomy & Astrophysics European Commission Unit XII-G2, 1994-1995. He was also a member of the Council of Hel.A.S., 1996-1998 and 1998-2000.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Kashinath Nandy | grad student | 1978 | Edinburgh | |
| Michael Jessop Smyth | grad student | 1978 | Edinburgh | |
| (Photoelectric spectrophotometry of early-type stars) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Efstratios Theodossiou | grad student | 1984 | University of Athens, Greece |
| Amanda-Alicia Maravelia | grad student | 1996 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece |