John Antoniadis
John Antoniadis | |
|---|---|
Ιωάννης Αντωνιάδης | |
| Born | 11 August 1986 |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Pulsars |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Multi-wavelength studies of pulsars and their companions (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Kramer |
| Website | http://antoniadisjohn.com/ |
John Antoniadis also known as Ioannis Antoniadis (Greek: Ιωάννης Αντωνιάδης) is a Greek astrophysicist. He is mostly known for his research of radio pulsars, a type of rapidly rotating neutron stars.
Education
Antoniadis was born in Didymoteicho, Greece. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Thessaloniki in 2009 and his Ph.D. in 2013 at the University of Bonn.[1] under the supervision of Michael Kramer.[2]
Career
From 2014 to 2016 Antoniadis was a Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics in Toronto, Canada.[3] Since 2017 he has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.[4]
Research
In 2013 he led the team that measured the mass of the neutron star in the binary system PSR J0348+0432.[5][6][7] This measurement confirmed the existence of supermassive neutron stars and made possible a new test of Einstein's theory of general relativity. In 2016, Antoniadis together with André van Staden, a South African amateur astronomer, announced the discovery of magnetic activity on the surface of the companion star of a millisecond pulsar.[8]
In 2014, Antoniadis was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society,[9] the Dissertation Prize of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft[10] and the Best Thesis Award from the Foundation for Physics and Astronomy in Bonn.[11] His thesis was included in the “outstanding theses” series by Springer Nature[12]
In 2016 he received the John Charles Polanyi Prize for Physics by the Council of Ontario Universities.[13]
References
- ^ "About". personal website. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "Doctoral Thesis". University of Bonn.
- ^ "Dunlap People". Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
- ^ "Scientific Staff". Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- ^ "A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary". Science Magazine.
- ^ "Einstein was right - So far". eso.org.
- ^ "A heavyweight for einstein". www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de.
- ^ "A stellar discovery about pulsars". astronomy.com.
- ^ "Announcements". Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.
- ^ "Ausgezeichneter physikalischneter Nachwuchs". dpg-physik.de (in German).
- ^ "Preisträger". stiftung-physik-astronomie.de (in German).
- ^ I., Antoniadis (2014-09-23). Multi-wavelength studies of pulsars and their companions. Cham. ISBN 978-3-319-09897-5. OCLC 895661493.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "U of T literature and physics researchers recognized with Polanyi Prizes". utoronto.ca.
