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Manolis Plionis

Professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ; Director and President of BoD of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ; Director and President of BoD of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki A. GENERAL • Born in Athens 13/7/1960. Married with one son. • Spoken languages: Greek (mother tongue), English, Italian, Spanish • PhD in Astronomy, University of Sussex (1989) [supervisor Prof J.D. Barrow] • Memberships: International Astronomical Union, Hellenic Astronomical Society (founding member) and the Hellenic Society of Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology (founding member), Europlanet Society • Prices/Awards: (a) British Council Fellowship (1988-1989), (b) Human Capital & Mobility Fellow (early Marie Curie) - (1994-1996). B. CURRENT POSITIONS: • Professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece • Director and President of BoD of the National Observatory of Athens (2017-2020, 2021-2025) C. LEADERSHIP OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS/CONSORTIA/COMMITTEES • Coordinator of the National Network for Climate Change-CLIMPACT • President of the State Thematic Committee on Climate Change, Energy and Sustainable Mobility • Director of the Governing Board of the Panhellenic Geophysical and Climate Change Observatory – PANGEA of NOA. • Member of the European Space Science Committee (ESSC-ESF), by selection. • Member of the Greek National Committee for Astronomy • Member of the Scientific Committee of the The Ultimate XMM Extragalactic X-ray Survey (XXL) project and of the Steering Committee of the corresponding International Consortium. • Member of the Sci. Committee of the International collaboration: Cosmology with HII galaxies • Member of the BoD of NOHSIS Technology & Science Museum (2016-2019, 2020-2022) D. RESEARCH ACTIVITY • Scientific Interests: Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics & Climate Change and Natural Disaster management. • Publications: >245 scientific publications, out of which >150 in International Refereed Journals (according to NASA/ADS), 2 reviews in Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, 95 in conference proceedings. >40 articles in newspapers & newsletters • Citations: Total Citations (NASA-ADS): >4400 (h-index: 37), (Google Scholar): >5800 (h-index: 45). • Student PhD Supervision: Supervision of 9 completed PhD theses. • Scientific Journal Editor: Member of the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Modern Physics D • Referee of Scientific Programs for the: Greek State Funding Agency, Mexican CONACYT, Spanish CONICET, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), European Science Foundation, etc • Referee for peer-review Journals: MNRAS, Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics, etc • Conference Proceedings Editor: 1. “Large Scale Structure in the X-ray Universe” eds. Plionis, M. & Georgantopoulos, I., Atlantic Sciences, Paris (ISBN 2-84394-227-6), 2. “2nd Hellenic Cosmology”, eds. Plionis, M. & Cotsakis, S., (ISBN: 1-4020-0808-2, Kluwer, ASSL 276), 3. “Multiwavelength Cosmology”, ed. Plionis, M. (ISBN:1-4020-1971-8, Kluwer, ASSL 301). 4. “The Panchromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure», Springer LNP, eds. Plionis, M., Lopez-Cruz, O. & Hughes, D., ISBN: 978-1-4020-6940-6, LNP Vol. 740 (2008) E. FUNDING • Research Funds awarded through competitive calls by European, Hellenic or Mexican agencies sum up to a total of more than ~1.000.000 € • Development funds as President of NOA (European Investment Bank, ESPA-Prefectures, European RRF, etc): ~70.000.000€