
Konstantinos Tassis
Scientific Director, Professor, Department of Physics
- Group:Ινστιτούτο Αστροβιολογίας
Konstantinos Tassis
Scientific Director, Professor, Department of Physics
✉️ tassis[at] physics.uoc.gr •
📞 +30-2810-394219 •
Office 217 Physics Building •
expertise: Astrochemistry, interstellar medium physics •
He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Chicago (2005 – 2008) and at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (a NASA lab run by Caltech) (2008-2011). He was elected as an Assistant Professor at the University of Crete in 2011, and he joined the Department of Physics in the fall of 2012. Between 2011 and 2012 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, Germany. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2018 and the same year he was awarded an ERC consolidator grant entitled “Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarization High-Accuracy Experiment – PASIPHAE“. In 2023 he was promoted to Professor.
Research interests :
Star formation in the Galaxy and the Universe, interstellar medium physics, MHD simulations of astrophysical systems, interstellar chemistry..