Basilakos Spyros

Dr. Spyros Basilakos is a cosmologist with a career spanning scientific research, academic teaching and science communication. He has held a number of academic positions at various universities around Europe. Currently, he is a director of research at the Academy of Athens (Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics - RCAAM). He is a member of the Hellenic Astronomical society, an elected Councilor of the Governing Board of the Hellenic Society for Relativity, Gravity and Cosmology and a member of the committee that proposed to the Greek Ministry of Education the National council for Research and Technology for the period 2017-2021.

He completed his PhD studies in Cosmology at the University of Athens. During the period 1999-2002, he worked as a PPARC fellow at the Imperial College (UK). From 2002 to 2005, he worked within NOA's (National observatory of Athens) program searching for the clustering properties of the large scale structures. In 2005 he joined the astrophysics group at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) as a NOVA fellow. For the period 2006-2014 he was a faculty member (Senior Researcher) at the Academy of Athens (RCAAM) and a Visiting Professor in Physical Cosmology at the University of Barcelona (2011-2012).  Today he is Director of Research at RCAAM. In 2013, 2014 and 2017 he participated in the international Gravity competition organized by the Gravity Research Foundation (GRF -USA)  and his scientific works received honorable mentions by GRF.  He published a large body of scientific articles in prestigious refereed journals. Moreover, he supervised several theses at the level of PhD, MSc and BSc and he participated in several international conferences (in some of them as an invited speaker), collaborations and scientific programs. Currently, he gives lectures in Cosmology and General Relativity at the University of Athens and contributes to public engagement events in science.

More details regarding the scientific activity of Dr. Basilakos can be found in his personal website.