Dr. Efstratios Theodossiou

Dr. Efstratios Theodossiou is an astronomer and from 2017 Emeritus professor of History and Philosophy of Astronomy and Sciences at the University of Athens (since 2004). He was born in Athens, Greece on the 12th of March, 1949. He got his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece (1972) and his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the Physics Department of the University of Athens, Greece (1983).

He has worked as Laboratory Assistant, Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Athens. His scientific interests include History and Philosophy of Astronomy and Physical Sciences, Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics, Satellite Spectrophotometry of Be and Variable stars.

He has published 92 scientific papers in refereed journals (17 in Astrophysics and 75 in History and Philosophy of Astronomy), 27 papers in the British Sundial Society Bulletin (BSSB) and the Journal of North American Sundial Society (NASS) and 203 papers in Conference Proceedings in Greece and abroad.