Collaborators

Loukas Vlahos was a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 1986 to 2016. He studied Physics at AUTH and continued with postgraduate and doctoral studies in Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. From 1980 to 1985, he worked as a researcher at the University of Maryland, and in 1986, he joined the academic staff of AUTH, where he was promoted to the rank of Professor. He retired in 2016 and since then, he has been working on research programs. His research interests focus on Plasma Physics, High Energy Astrophysics, turbulence in space and laboratory plasmas, the dynamics of complex systems, and particle diffusion and acceleration. He has served as scientific coordinator and coordinator in national and European research programs and was the leader of the research group "Non-linear Processes in Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas" at AUTH. He has also served as President of the Hellenic Astronomical Society and Director of the Laboratory of Astronomy of the Department of Physics at AUTH. He has supervised five doctoral dissertations and more than forty-five diploma theses, and has taught courses such as Introductory Calculus, Plasma Physics, Introduction to Astronomy, and Astrophysics.

Dr. Heinz Isliker received his diploma in theoretical physics and his PhD in physics/astrophysics from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is a senior researcher at the Department of Physics of the University of Ioannina, Greece, and the Department of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research focuses on theoretical plasma physics, with applications to (i) turbulent astrophysical systems (mainly the solar corona), and (ii) turbulence in magnetic fusion devices (including tokamaks and stellarators). His research interests include (1) the study of fully developed turbulence in its nonlinear stage, modeled by the magnetohydrodynamic or the gyrokinetic approach; (2) statistical analysis of turbulence; and (3) kinetic modelling (test-particle simulations) of turbulent phenomena, with aim the understanding of the mechanisms of heating and acceleration of particles, and with particular emphasis on phenomena of anomalous (non-local, fractional) transport. 

He has published 73 articles in international peer reviewed journals, including two publications in Physical Review Letters, and 24 articles in conference proceedings. The number of citations to his publications are 1550 according to NASA ADS, and 2776 according to Google Scholar (Dec. 2025). He has been active as a referee for more than 10 journals.