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Yannis Siradakis

Yannis Seiradakis (1948-2020) was born in Chania. He completed his secondary and university studies (degree in Physics) in Athens. His postgraduate studies (MSc. and PhD) in Astronomy were carried out at the University of Manchester, UK. He worked as a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institüt für Radioastronomie (Bonn), the University of Hamburg and the University of California, San Diego. In 1985 he was elected Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and in 1995 he was promoted to the position of Professor, a position he held until his retirement on 31 August 2015. In December 2015, by decision of the Senate, he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus of the AUTH. His research interests included studies related to Neutron Stars, Neutral Hydrogen in galaxies, the Center of the Milky Way, Variable Stars, the Sun, the Moon and Archaeoastronomy.

He has published, alone or in collaboration, three textbooks, other books on astronomy, conference articles and a total of over 100 original research (mostly) and other papers in international scientific journals or volumes. He supervised PhD theses, organized or participated in many international conferences and represented our country in international resolutions and major European networks (OPTICON, ILIAS, CRAF, etc.). He participated as member or chairman in many national or international committees or research projects and served as Secretary or President of the National Astronomical Committee and the Hellenic Astronomical Society. In 2011 he was elected Director of the Astronomy Laboratory of the Department of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a position he held until his retirement. He was a founding member of the Pulsar Science in Europe (PULSE) group, which in 2005 was awarded the highest Descartes Prize of the European Union. I. Seiradakis was a member of the international research team that pioneered the recent investigation and revival of interest in the Antikythera Mechanism. He is considered as one of the foremost experts on the Mechanism, both in Greece and internationally and has given more than 200 scientific or popular lectures in Greece and abroad on the Antikythera Mechanism.

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Fiori-Anastasia Metallinou

Dr. Fioris - Anastasia Metallinou works at the National Observatory of Athens, where she is responsible for Science Communication at the Thiseion Visitor Centre. She received a B.Sc. in Physics and a M.Sc. in Atmospheric and Environmental Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her PhD thesis was on «Development and Dissipation of Magnetic Storms in Geospace». She has collaborated with the Centre d'étude des Environnements Terrestre et Planetaires, in Paris, the Heliophysics Science Division NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, in the USA and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IADET) of the National Observatory of Athens. Her research background concerns the simulation of acceleration of charged particles in the Earth's magnetosphere during magnetic storms.

She holds a degree in singing from the Conservatory of Music Horizons in Athens and has studied at the Melodramatic School of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki. She uses sound and music as a means of communication and teaching Astronomy. He lectures and articulates for the purpose of public understanding of astronomy and space physics to students and the general public.