Patsis Panos

Education

• 1991 Ph.D. in Astronomy. Department of Physics, University of Athens
  Thesis: Self-Consistent Models of Normal Spiral Galaxies
  Advisor: Prof. George Contopoulos
  Graduated with honors
  A major part of the Thesis has been worked out at bthe European Southern Observatory (ESO), at Garching bei München, Germany, under the supervision of Dr. P. Grosbol
• 1985 "Ptychion'' (B.S.) in Mathematics. Department of Mathematics, University of Athens.
• 1979 High school. Varvakeios Model School. Graduated with honors

Research interests - Research fields:

• Galactic Dynamics
• Morphology of Disk galaxies
• Stellar Dynamics
• SPH Hydrodynamics
• Astronomical observations in the near-infrared
• Hamiltonian Dynamics
• Nonlinear Phenomena
• Chaos Theory

Employment History

2017 Laboratoire  d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Marseille, France (1 month stay)

2014 Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching bei München, GERMANY Visiting Scientist (1 month stay).

2012 European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching bei München, GERMANY Visiting Scientist (1 month stay).

2009-today Research Center for Astronomy, Academy of Athens, GREECE Research Director. Acting Director

2008 University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, FRANCE Visiting Professor (1 month stay)

2008 European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Muenchen, GERMANY Visiting Scientist (2 months stay)

2008   Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA Fulbright fellow (3 months stay)

2006-2009 Research Center for Astronomy, Academy of Athens, GREECE Research Director.

2001-2006 Research Center for Astronomy, Academy of Athens, GREECE Senior Researcher

2000-2001 Research Center for Astronomy, Academy of Athens, GREECE Principal Researcher in the project: "Theoretical Study of Galaxies"

1999-2000 Max Planck Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, GERMANY Researcher at BAT IIa position (public employee)

1998 Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, GERMANY Researcher at BAT IIa position (public employee)

1995-1998  Max Planck Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, GERMANY Postdoctoral fellow

1994-1995 Observatoire de Marseille, Marseille, FRANCE Visiting Astronomer, CNRS fellow

1992-1994 European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching bei München, GERMANY Postdoctoral ESO fellow. 

1990-1991 Greek Army. Fulfilled part of his service as Specialized scientist at the Research Center of National Defense in projects on remote sensing.

1989 European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching bei München, GERMANY Postgraduate PhD Student. Supervisor: P. Grosbol

1986-1991 Department of Astronomy, University of Athens Postgraduate PhD Student.

1980-1992 Managed private business (``P. Patsis & Co. Wholesale'', Athens)

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

• 1988 ERASMUS/IKY

• 1989 European Doctoral Astrophysics Network

• 1989 ESO studentship

• 1992-1994 ESO fellowship

• 1994 European Union Human Capital and Mobility 

• 1994-1995 CNRS fellowship

• 1995-1998 Max-Planck Gesellschaft postdoctoral fellowship

• 2000-2001 European Union/Greek Ministry of Research and Technology. Grant for Greek-Speaking Researchers working abroad

• 2000 CSC- "Professional Paper Honorarium - Honorable Mention'' for the paper "Resonances and the Morphology of Spirals in N-body Simulations'' by P.A. Patsis and D.E. Kaufmann (1999)

• 2004, 2007 DAAD/IKY fellowships

• 2008 Fulbright fellowship

• 2008, 2012 ESO visitor

• 2014 Exellence Cluster "Universe", Munich 

Selected Publications:

1. Patsis, P. A., Katsanikas M., 2014, The phase space of boxy-peanut and X-shaped bulges in galaxies - II. The relation between face-on and edge-on boxiness, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 445, 3546 

2. Patsis, P. A., 2006, The stellar dynamics of spiral arms in barred spiral galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 369L, 56 

3. Patsis, P. A.; Skokos, Ch.; Athanassoula, E., 2002, Orbital dynamics of three-dimensional bars - III. Boxy/peanut edge-on profiles, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 337, 578 

4. Grosbol, P. J.; Patsis, P. A., 1998, Stellar disks of optically flocculent and grand design spirals. Decoupling of stellar and gaseous disks, Astronomy and Astrophysics 336, 840 

5. Patsis, P. A.; Grosbol, P.; Hiotelis, N., 1997, Interarm features in gaseous models of spiral galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics 323, p.762 

An almost complete list of publications can be found here. 

Has participated in more than 50 international conferences and workshops and has participated to the Scientific Organizing Committees in 8 of them. Has organized the weekly seminar  “Dynamics and Morphology of Galaxies” (Heidelberg 1995-99) and since 2009 organizes the weekly seminar of RCAAM. Has given more than 20 invited talks in conferences and research institutes in Greece and abroad.

Main long time collaborations, visits to other institutes:

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Marseille, France (visiting professor), Excellence Cluster “Universe”, Munich, Germany, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA, (Fulbright fellow), University of Strasbourg, France (visiting professor), as well as university of Oulu, Finland, LMU, Munich Germany, University of Stokholm, Sweden, University Observatory of Vienna, Austria.

For the needs of the observational projects has observed in La Silla (Chile), Calar Alto (Spain), Tenerife (Spain) and Aristarchos, Helmos (Greece)

Reviewer for 

• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Astrophysical Journal
• Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
• International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• New Astronomy
• International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

Education and Training Duties

Co-supervised the PhD Theses of: V. Boonyasait, University of Florida, FL, USA (2003)

Supervisor of the PhD Theses of:

M. Katsanikas, Section of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mechanics, University of Athens (2012) (main supervisor)
E. Tsigaridi, Section of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mechanics, University of Athens (2016) (main supervisor)
L.Chavez-Velasquez, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico  (main supervisor, together with Dr. I. Puearari)

Supervised the Masters Theses of: 

M. Katsanikas, Section of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mechanics, University of Athens (2005) (main supervisor)
E. Tsigaridi, Section of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mechanics, University of Athens (2008) (main supervisor)
S. Chatzopoulos, Section of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mechanics, University of Athens (2010) (main supervisor)
M.Chrisafeli, Section of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mechanics, University of Athens (2016) (main supervisor)
K. Dima, Section of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mechanics, University of Athens (2016) (main supervisor)

He taught (2009->11) the postgraduate course "Nonlinear Dynamics" for Master's Degree students at the Section of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mechanics, University of Athens

He particapted (2012-2017) in the teaching of the postgraduate course "Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy" for Master's Degree students at the Section of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mechanics, University of Athens

Professional Memberships

• International Astronomical Union (IAU)
• Hellenic Astronomical society (Hel.A.S)
• Hellenic Mathematical Society
• Hellenic Physicists Society

Languages

• Greek (native)
• English (perfect knowledge)
• German (perfect knowledge)