Ioannis Kontogiannis

Ioannis is a physicist, with a PhD in Astrophysics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the  Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) and at the Istituto ricerche solari Aldo e Cele Daccò (IRSOL), in Switzerland. He has previously worked as a researcher at the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) in Germany, at the National Observatory of Athens and the Center for Research in Astronomy and Applied Mathematics of the Academy of Athens. His research interests include solar activity phenomena, space weather forecasting, and the study of small-scale phenomena in the quiet Sun.

From 2007 to 2015, he worked as a science communicator at the Interactive Exhibition of Science and Technology of the Eugenios Foundation. From 2016 to 2018, he was an instructor of educational programs at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation. He has attended seminars on science communication, he has given popular science lectures at educational/scientific institutions, and has participated in the development/design and execution of numerous presentations, science shows, and educational activities for students, the general public, science festivals, and television shows.

He was a member of the editorial team of the magazine “Science Illustrated” (2010-2013) and the inlet “Prisma, magazine for the sciences, technology, and society” of the newspaper “Avgi” (2016-2024). He has authored numerous popular science articles in newspapers, a script for a science comic, he has been the scientific editor of an educational theater performance, and has participated in stand-up comedy shows with scientific topics.

He is a musician (guitarist) and in his free time he is involved in songwriting and music composition.