John Antoniadis

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John Antoniadis
Ιωάννης Αντωνιάδης
Born (1986-08-11) 11 August 1986 (age 35)
Didymoteicho
NationalityGreek
Alma mater
Known forPulsars
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisMulti-wavelength studies of pulsars and their companions (2013)
Doctoral advisorMichael Kramer
Websitehttp://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 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[]

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[]

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[]

  1. ^ "About". personal website. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
  2. ^ "Doctoral Thesis". University of Bonn.
  3. ^ "Dunlap People". Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  4. ^ "Scientific Staff". Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  5. ^ "Institute of Astrophysics". www.ia.forth.gr. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  6. ^ "Person Info | Institute of Astrophysics". www.ia.forth.gr. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  7. ^ "A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary". Science Magazine.
  8. ^ "Einstein was right - So far". eso.org.
  9. ^ "A heavyweight for einstein". www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de.
  10. ^ "A stellar discovery about pulsars". astronomy.com.
  11. ^ "Announcements". Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.
  12. ^ "Ausgezeichneter physikalischneter Nachwuchs". dpg-physik.de (in German).
  13. ^ "Preisträger". stiftung-physik-astronomie.de (in German).
  14. ^ I., Antoniadis (2014-09-23). Multi-wavelength studies of pulsars and their companions. Cham. ISBN 978-3-319-09897-5. OCLC 895661493.
  15. ^ "U of T literature and physics researchers recognized with Polanyi Prizes". utoronto.ca.
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