Michalis Kourniotis

Employment

2017 - present : Postdoctoral researcher at Astronomical Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences

Education

2017: Ph.D. in Observational Astrophysics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Thesis: Properties of Massive Stars in the Local Group

2013: M.Sc. in Astrophysics, Astronomy & Mechanics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Thesis: Variability of Massive Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

2008: M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Thesis: Parallel Processing of QR Factorization & Applications

2005: B.Sc. in Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Field of interest

Observational study of advanced stages of massive stars; Luminous Blue Variables, Yellow Hypergiants, B[e] supergiants - Massive binaries - Winds from massive stellar clusters; simulations, population synthesis