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
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€