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://johnantoniadis.com/ |
John Antoniadis (born August 11, 1986) 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
[edit]Antoniadis was born in Didymoteicho, Greece. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Physics 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
[edit]From 2014 to 2016 Antoniadis was a Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics in Toronto, Canada.[3] From 2017 until 2021 he was working at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.[4] In 2021 he joined the Institute of Astrophysics[5] - FORTH as a tenure track researcher.[6]
Research
[edit]In 2013 he led the team that measured the mass of the neutron star in the binary system PSR J0348+0432.[7][8][9] 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.[10]
In 2014, Antoniadis was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society,[11] the Dissertation Prize of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft[12] and the Best Thesis Award from the Foundation for Physics and Astronomy in Bonn.[13] His thesis was included in the “outstanding theses” series by Springer Nature[14]
In 2016 he received the John Charles Polanyi Prize for Physics by the Council of Ontario Universities.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "Institute of Astrophysics". www.ia.forth.gr. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ "Person Info | Institute of Astrophysics". www.ia.forth.gr. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ Antoniadis, John; Freire, Paulo C. C.; Wex, Norbert; Tauris, Thomas M.; Lynch, Ryan S.; Van Kerkwijk, Marten H.; Kramer, Michael; Bassa, Cees; Dhillon, Vik S.; Driebe, Thomas; Hessels, Jason W. T.; Kaspi, Victoria M.; Kondratiev, Vladislav I.; Langer, Norbert; Marsh, Thomas R.; McLaughlin, Maura A.; Pennucci, Timothy T.; Ransom, Scott M.; Stairs, Ingrid H.; Van Leeuwen, Joeri; Verbiest, Joris P. W.; Whelan, David G. (2013). "A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary". Science. 340 (6131): 448, 1233232. arXiv:1304.6875. Bibcode:2013Sci...340..448A. doi:10.1126/science.1233232. PMID 23620056. S2CID 15221098.
- ^ "Einstein was right - So far". eso.org.
- ^ "A heavyweight for einstein". www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de.
- ^ "A stellar discovery about pulsars". astronomy.com. 8 December 2016.
- ^ "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.
