2007
1998
1993
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Habilitation
and venia legendi in
Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Göttingen
PhD in Astrophysics
University of Göttingen
Diploma (M.Sc.) in Physics
University of Göttingen
born in Athens and grown up in Crete
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Main Areas of Expertise
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Observational
Astronomy,
Galaxy
Evolution and Near-Field Cosmology - X-ray, UV, Optical and
Near-Infrared Studies of Galaxies - Surface Photometry and Structural
Investigations of Galaxies - Optical Spectroscopy and Element Abundance
Determinations - Evolutionary Synthesis Modelling - Dwarf Galaxies -
Interacting and Ultraluminous Infrared Starburst Galaxies - Blue
Compact Galaxies in the Local Universe and at Intermediate Redshift
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Publications  |
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| Teaching |
Basic and advanced
courses
on galaxies, observational cosmology and
astronomical techniques; laboratory classes, co-advising of
Diploma
and PhD students
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Observational Experience
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Principal
Investigator or
co-investigator in numerous successful observing programmes with
ground-based and spaceborne telescopes - Observations with the IUE, ROSAT, XMM, Chandra (more than 800 ksec) - more
than 90 nights observing with ground based telescopes (ESO VLT FORS 1&2, NTT, 3.6m, Danish 1.54m (Chile); 3.6m Galileo and NOT (La Palma/Spain); 1.23m, 2.2m3.6m
at (Calar Alto/Spain)) using
a variety
of optical and near infrared instrumentations and
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| Research Interests |
 Formation
and chemodynamical evolution of low-mass extragalactic systems
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Search
for
and multiwavelength studies (radio through X-ray) of extremely
metal-deficient galaxies in the nearby Universe
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Origin
and
implications of starburst activity in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
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Structure
and evolution of the multi-phase interstellar medium in starburst
galaxies
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Structural
and morphological evolution of galaxies: formation of the disk and
bulge component
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Fundamental
relations in galaxies (Tully-Fisher,
Fundamental
Plane, luminosity-metallicity)
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Star
clusters as tracers of the star formation history of galaxies
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Galaxy
transformations in clusters and diffuse
intragroup light in
compact galaxy groups
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Evolutionary
relations between different types of
dwarf galaxies in
clusters and in the field
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Properties
of galaxies in voids
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Starburst and AGN activity in Ultraluminous IR galaxies
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Numerical
simulations of galaxy formation and evolution
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Pipeline
processing of complex multiwavelength datasets and automated galaxy
classification techniques
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| Miscellaneous |
Leading role in several
successful proposals to DARA, DLR, DFG, EU Commission and Volkswagen
Foundation
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Refereeing for Astronomy
& Astrophysics, Astronomical Journal and Astrophysical Journal
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Several research stays in
France (Observatoire de Meudon, one year), USA (Lick Observatory/Santa
Cruz), Spain (IAA
Granada
and IAC Tenerife)
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System Administrator (Unix
and Linux) and development of astronomical software in Fortran and C
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Co-organiser of the
Parallel Session ``The life of galaxies'' of the JENAM 2004
conference
in Granada
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Collaborations (in random order)
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Y.I. Izotov,
N.G. Guseva
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Main Astronomical
Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine  |
K. Noeske, D.
Koo & DEEP Team
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University of California,
Santa Cruz, USA |
J.M. Vilchez
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Instituto de Astrofisica
de Andalucia (IAA), Granada, Spain |
| E. Wehner |
Department of Physics
& Astronomy, McMaster University, Canada
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| J. Ott |
ATCA, Australia
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| U. Fritze von Alvensleben ,
R. Kotulla |
University of
Hertfordshire, UK |
| L.M. Cairos,
P. Weilbacher ,
S. Knollmann
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Astrophysikalisches
Institut Potsdam (AIP), Germany |
C.
Munoz-Tunon, N. Caon
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Instituto de Astrofisica
de Canarias (IAC), Tenerife, Spain |
G. Hensler,
W.W. Zeilinger
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Institut für
Astronomie der Universität Wien, Austria |
| J.S. Gallagher III |
University of Wisconsin,
USA
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U. Klein
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Radioastronomisches
Institut Bonn, Germany |
R. Beck, A. Zensus
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Max-Planck-Institut
für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany |
B. Cunow; A.
Kniazev
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University of South Africa
(UNISA) ;
SAAO, South Africa |
K.J. Fricke
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University of
Göttingen
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A. Gil de Paz
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Caltech/IPAC &
Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, USA
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C. Heller
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Georgia Southern
University, USA
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N. Bergvall,
G. Östlin
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Uppsala Observatory
; Stockholm Observatory
, Sweden
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P.-A. Duc
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CEA/DSM/DAPNIA, Service
d'Astrophysique, Saclay, France |
| T.X. Thuan |
University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, USA |
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