Curriculum Vitae
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Physics, Retired Professor and Head
cv Professor Xenophon Moussas is a charismatic lecturer that charms the audience in many subjects.
Well known for his studies of the oldest known computer, the Antikythera Mechanism and interesting contributions in Space Physics and outreach.
Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics
Faculty of Physics, School of Science
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Panepistimiopolis, GR 15783 Zographos, Athens, Greece, Tel mobile +30 6978792891
e-mail: xmoussas@phys.uoa.gr, xmoussas@gmail.com
http://artemis-iv.phys.uoa.gr/
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr
Sex: male, Born in Athens 6 March 1947, BSc in Physics, University of Athens, 1971, PhD 1977, University of Athens, senior visiting research fellow at Imperial College for almost 20 years, visiting professor University of Mexico for three months.
His awards include:
the American Geophysical Union, Boston, 2001,
the NASA group achievement award for Ulysses Space Mission, 2009 and
the Hipparchus award, Arcadia, Athens, 2010.
His research interests include the study of oldest computer Antikythera Mechanism, the History of Astronomy, the history of Philosophy and Civilization, Space Physics, Solar physics, Space experiments, the Franco-Greek Solar Radio Spectrograph, Saturn, Titan and Enceladus, the use of ancient astronomy and astrophysics in teaching children, students and adult.
Participates in many spacecraft experiments of NASA and ESA.
He has supervised 20 PhDs, 20 M.Sc. theses and 250 B.Sc. theses.
Author or coauthor of books
Space Physics, Greek Open University Publishing House, Patras, 2003.
The Antikythera Mechanism, the oldest computer, Hellenic Physical Society, Athens, 2011, 2nd ed. 2012.
Notes for the students on (a) Astrophysics, (b) Space Physics, (c) Astrophysics Laboratories workbook.
more than 110 articles in scientific journals, 150 in Encyclopedias, 200 in scientific conferences.
Many radio and TV programs
In Greece, USA, Cyprus
Numerous talks (>300)
Numerous exhibitions and talks around the World including the NASA Kennedy Space Center, the Children Museum of Manhattan, UNECSO/Paris, Drexel University, University of London (Goldsmiths College), University of Birmingham, University of Reading, the Gustavianum Archaeological Museum of Uppsala, Olzstyn Planetarium and Observatory (Poland), the Library of Alexandria, The Astronomical Institute of the Slovac Academy of Science, Germany, Italy, France, Algeria, Portugal and many in Greece, in Archaeological Museums, very many in Schools in Greece, England, Egypt, France.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Physical Journal
He has served as:
European Science Foundation reviewer
Editor of Hipparchus, the magazine of the Hellenic Astronomical Society
Co-editor of Physicos Cosmos of the Hellenic Physical Society
Director of Astrophysics Laboratory of the University of Athens
Director of Astronomical Observatory of the University of Athens
Senator of the University of Athens
Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of Physics
Director of the Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics of the University of Athens