Kiriaki Xiluri, Research Scientist
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Email: kx8u@virginia.edu Phone: (804) 924-4899 Fax: (804) 924-3104 Office: 210 Astronomy Building Address: Department of Astronomy PO Box 3818 Charlottesville, VA 22903 |
- Curriculum Vitae
- Ph.D.,
Aristoteleian University of Thessaloniki, Greece,1991
- Research Associate, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece,1985-1994
- Postdoc, MPE, Garching, Germany,1991-1992
- Postdoc, MPIR, Bonn, Germany,1993-1995
- Research Associate, Arecibo Observatory,1995-1999
- Research Scientist, NRAO Central Development Lab,1999-2000
- Research Scientist, Astronomy Department University of Virginia,1999-2005
- Presently:
- Staff Astronomer, Steward Observatory, ARO
- Research Associate, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece,1985-1994
- Research Interests
- Pulsars
- Planetary nebulae
- Computing
- Fan Mountain Telescope
- Astronomy 535
- Astronomy 314
- Planetary nebulae
| I started out in Astronomy by developing instrumentation for a new 30cm telescope in Crete, Greece. Such a wide field telescope together with a CCD camera was ideal for studies of extended emission objects like Comets, Planetary Nebulae and SNRs. I was fortunate enough to see Skinakas Observatory developing and after a few years a new 1.3m telescope, together with state of the art instrumentation, was developed. Radio Astronomy though, and especially Pulsar Astronomy, captured my interest and my thesis evolved around polarimeters specially designed to study the emission processes in the extraordinary conditions that nature freely provides in Pulsar magnetospheres (100m Effelsberg Radiotelescope, Bonn). A slightly different kind of instrumentation was involved in searching for and timing periodic signals from Pulsars using the 300m Arecibo Radiotelescope in Puerto Rico. |
