EDUCATION
2016 Ph.D. & Graduate Teaching Assistant in Physics at University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Thesis: Hypervelocity impacts in the Solar System: An experimental investigation on the fate of the impactor.
Supervisor: Dr. Mark C. Price, Associate Supervisor: Prof. Mark J. Bruchell
2012 Physics Degree at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Thessaloniki, Greece
Thesis: Calculation of the rotation period of Main Belt Asteroids.
Supervisor: Prof. John H. Seiradakis, Associate Supervisor: Prof. Kleomenis Tsiganis
POSITIONS
2023-now Lecturer in Planetary Science
University of Leicester, UK
2021-2023 ANR postdoc
Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
2018-2020 Fellowship "Individual Support for Young Researchers"
Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
2016-2018 ESA Internal Research Fellowship
ESTEC, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands
2013-2016 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Centre of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Research Visiting Positions
2020-now Géoazur, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Universite Côte d'Azur, France
2020 School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2016-now Impact Lab, Centre of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
2019 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona, USA
2016 Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
SPACE MISSIONS, NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
1. Collaborator on the NASA OSIRIS-REx sample return space mission, PI Prof. D. Lauretta, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, USA
2. Collaborator on the JAXA/CNES/DLR Martian Moon eXploration (MMX) sample return space mission, MIRS instrument PI Dr. M.A. Barucci, Paris Observatory (Meudon), FR
3. CoI of the NASA SSERVI project "Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS)", PI Prof. D. Britt, Exolith Lab, University of Central Florida, USA
4. Coordinator of an international team for lunar impact detection and crater discovery with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Team: Chrysa Avdellidou, Marco Delbo, JP. Rivet, M. Wieczorek (Observatory of Nice), Jeremie Vaubaillon (IMCCE/Paris Observatory), Tony Cook & Daniel Sheward (Aberystwyth University), Paul Hayne (University of Colorado).
5. CoI of the French ANR project "ORIGINS", PI Dr. M. Delbo, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Universite Côte d'Azur, FR
RESEARCH GRANTS
2021 PI Flash!, PNP (Programme National de Planetologie) (6,000eu)
2020 PI Hypervelocity impacts on the Moon & in laboratory, towards a new lunar exploration era (cont), PNP (Programme National de Planetologie) (4,500eu)
2020 CoI CNES BCU41 - MIRS, OCA grant (12,000eu)
2020 CoI Study of asteroid densities using spectra analysis & mass determination, BQR, OCA (5,000eu)
2019 PI Flash!, Credits Scientiques Incitatifs (CSI), Un. Nice Sophia-Antipolis (11,450eu)
2019 PI Hypervelocity impacts on the Moon & in laboratory, towards a new lunar exploration era, PNP (Programme National de Planetologie) (4,500eu)
2018 PI Study of the energy partitioning during a hypervelocity impact event, Science Faculty (ESTEC) (5,000eu)
2017 PI Catch a Flash!, Science Faculty (ESTEC) (600eu)
2019-2022 CoI ORIGINS, Agence National de la Recherche (ANR), OCA (475,000eu)
2019 CoI Planetary Global Deformation Model: Grail, Insight, Envision, BQR, OCA (5,000eu)
2018 CoI Origin of the regolith of space mission target asteroids BQR, OCA (7,000eu)
2014 CoPI of the Beacon grant of the University of Kent Space Exploration sans Frontiers for the construction of a new fully equipped telescope and dome at UoK ($110,000)
AWARDS
Positions
2018-2020 UCAJedi Individual Support for Young Researchers, Universite Côte d'Azur, FR
2017 Extension of ESA Internal Research Fellowship for 2018-2019 (declined)
2016-2018 ESA Internal Research Fellowship, Science Support Office, ESTEC/ESA, NL
Distinctions
2016 Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) Career Development Award ($1,500) for top postgraduate-author abstract at 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
2015 Prize "Outstanding physics postgraduate student", School of Physical Sciences, Uni. of Kent, UK
Observing time (awarded)
2017-2019 PI of two observing proposal at NASA Infrared Telescope Facilities (IRTF), Hawaii, US
2019-2020 CoI of observing proposal Lowell Discovery Telescope, USA
2020 CoI of observing proposal Copernico Telescope Asiago, IT
MEDIA
2017 Invited Press Conference at DPS, UT, US of the conference contribution
2017 Interview and article in SKY AND TELESCOPE magazine about the work on lunar impact flashes
2017 Interview at the national greek news agency about the work on lunar impact flashes
2017 Interview at a national greek TV-channel about the work on lunar impact flashes
ORGANISATION of CONFERENCES, MEETINGS & SEMINARS
2020 Convener "Physical properties of small bodies: processes and space materials", EPSC, virtual
2019 Convener "Collisions among small bodies, on planetary surfaces and with atmospheres (meteors)", EPSC/DPS, Geneva, CH
2018 Co-Convener "Science and Innovation for the Moon Village and beyond", EPSC, TU Berlin, DE
2018 Co-Convener "Lunar Science, Exploration and Utilisation", EGU General Assembly, Vienna, AU
2017 LOC 51st ESLAB Symposium, ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk, NL
2016-2018 Organiser of the Internal Seminars, Scientic Support Oce, ESTEC
2015 LOC 12th Hellenic Astronomical Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece
2015 Organiser "12th Early Career Planetary Scientists' Meeting", UK Planetary Forum, UoK, Canterbury, UK
2014 "HOYS-CAPS: Hunting Outbursts from Young Stars with the Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science"Meeting, UoK, Canterbury, UK
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
2019 On the Moon again! Responsible of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur for the organisation of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landing on the Moon.
2014 Public Engagement with Research Fund, a collaboration between the Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CAPS) of the Uni. of Kent and amateur astronomers.
2012 Public lectures and presentation of Aristotle University's Observatory and sunspots observation at "Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Sunday"events.
2011-2012 Public lectures and presentation of Aristotle University's Observatory for school classes
2009 Assistant in the 100 Hours of Astronomy, International Year of Astronomy, Observatory of Thessaloniki.
2010-2012 Assistant in the monthly public nights in the Observatory of Thessaloniki.
ACTIVITIES and RESPONSIBILITIES for the COMMUNITY
2019 Reviewer of NASA grants
2016-now Reviewer of MNRAS, ICARUS, Scientic Reports & Planetary and Space Science scientic journals
2019-now Member of Europlanet
2020-now Member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS)
2017-2018 Member of the American Astronomical Society
2010-now Member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society
2005-2006 President of the Student Union of the Physics Department at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2005-2006 Student representative of the Physics Department at the senate of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Invited Presentations at International Conferences
2019 20 years of ground-based lunar impact flash observations, EPSC-DPS, Geneva, SW
2017 Impact laboratory experiments and extreme habitability, 52nd ESLAB, ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL
2017 Temperatures of Lunar impact flashes measured for the first time, Press Conference at the 49th, Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Salt Lake City, USA
2017 Temperatures of lunar impact ashes, SAKURA meeting on lunar impact ashes, Paris Obs., FR
2015 Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions, 22nd PhD Student Meeting at the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Paris, FR
Invited Seminars
2021 Observation and interpetation of lunar impact flashes, Taiwan Space Union
2021 Asteroid families as a tool to study the original planetesimals, CAPS, University of Kent, UK
2019 Material mixing among asteroids, CAPS, University of Kent, UK
2019 Impact Flashes on the Moon, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris Meudon, FR
2018 Impact flashes on the Moon and in lab, ISAS/JAXA, Tokyo, JP
2018 Impacts in the Solar System: a hypervelocity impact facility for France, Mines ParisTech, FR
2017 Observing the Moon: A large-scale hypervelocity impact laboratory, OCA, Nice, FR
2017 Delivery of exogenous material on asteroid surfaces via impacts, National Obs. of Athens, GR
2015 Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions, Planetary and Space Science Group at Universite Paris Diderot, FR
