Web page of Apostolos Pantinakis
Apostolos Pantinakis is Assistant Professor in `Experimental Physics of Condensed Matter' at the Technical
University of Crete, Greece, active in undergraduate teaching and lab experiment development, in postgraduate
teaching and research and in physics textbook writing. He also enjoys
photography and architectural drawing.
Address:
Physics Section
Department of
Sciences
Technical
University of Crete
Chania 73100, Crete
GREECE
Tel: (Greece) 28210 37250
e-mail address :
apostol@science.tuc.gr
Apostolos Pantinakis
was born in Rethymnon, Crete (1948) . He
took his first degree in Physics at the National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1971). In 1972 he left for England where he obtained his
M.Sc. degree in Physics at the University of Sussex (1974) and continued with
doctoral studies, in high resolution laser spectroscopy. He completed his
experiments in 1977, returned to Greece to
do his military service (1977-78), continued in the UK with the interpretation
of his experiments and was awarded the DPhil degree at Sussex in 1981. A year earlier
(1980) he took up his first academic research post at Imperial College, London.
There followed four further academic
research appointments in the UK, at the University of Southampton
(1981-82), University of Cambridge
(1982-85), University of Kent at Canterbury (1985-1988) and Open University
(1988-92). He returned to Greece in 1994, on being elected as an Assistant
Professor at the Sciences Department, Technical University of Crete, in Chania,
where he lives with Veronica, his 38 year- long companion.
Apostolos
Pantinakis has many years of experimental research experience in a wide range of topics in pure and
applied physics.
His
main contributions to science cover four areas:
High
resolution laser spectroscopy
Nonlinear properties of atoms and molecules
Magnetometry
Physics
of multidisciplinary investigations related to energy saving and electromagnetic pollution