CHaralampos Varvoglis

Haris Varvoglis was born in 1949 in Thessaloniki and graduated in 1967 from the Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki. He studied Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), where he earned his degree in 1972 and his Ph.D. in 1980. In 1983, he was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at A.U.Th., and he is currently a Professor in the same department. He has worked as a research associate in the Astronomy Program at the University of Maryland in the USA and as a Visiting Professor at Paris XI University in France. He has served as the General Secretary of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (1998-2002), as well as the General Secretary (2007-2009) and President (2009-2010) of the NOESIS Science Center and Technology Museum. He regularly contributes articles to the "BHMAScience" supplement of the Sunday newspaper "To Vima."