Nick Stergioulas is a Professor of Astrophysics and General Relativity at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is known for his contributions to the study of compact objects like black-holes and neutrino stars. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, under the supervision of John L. Friedman, in 1996. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam (MPA for Gravitational Physics, 1998-1999) before joining the Department of Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as a faculty member.
His research topics include: Compact stars as sources of gravitational waves; Equilibrium and instabilities of rotating relativistic stars; Nonlinear oscillations of relativistic stars; MHD oscillations in relativistic models of magnetized neutron stars; Numerical relativity; Interaction of gravitational waves with plasma; and Relativistic accretion disks.
Nick Stergioulas served or currently serves as an elected member in the governing councils of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (2008-2010) and the Hellenic Society for Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology (2012-2014). Recently, he was elected for a second term on the governing council of the Virgo-Ego Scientific Forum (VESF), which supports the VIRGO gravitational-wave detector.Moreover, he represents Greece in the management committee of the ESF COST project “Exploring Fundamental Physics with Compact Stars” and is participating in the CTA Consortium and in the LOFT proposal for a new ESA X-ray mission.
He is author of a highly-cited review article in Living Reviews in Relativity and co-author of a new book, entitled “Rotating Relativistic Stars”, in the highly-acclaimed series Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. He is currently an associate editor for the journal “General Relativity and Gravitation” (Springer).