John Antoniadis CV. Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie. Argelander Institut für Astronomie, Auf den Hügel 69/71, Bonn, DE

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1 John Antoniadis CV Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie & Argelander Institut für Astronomie, Auf den Hügel 69/71, Bonn, DE +49 (0) antoniadisjohn.com ORCID: last modified: October 2018 Biographical Information Name: John (Ioannis) Antoniadis Birthday: August 11, 1986 Place of Birth: Didymoteicho, Greece Citizenship: Greek, Cypriot Research Interests Formation and evolution of compact stars, binary neutron stars, radio pulsars, tests of fundamental physics, equation-of-state of nuclear matter, peculiar optical transients Employment History Postdoctoral Research Fellow Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie 2017 now Bonn, DE Dunlap Fellow Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Toronto, CA Postdoctoral Research Fellow Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Bonn, DE Education Doctor of Natural Sciences University of Bonn Bonn, DE suma cum laude Thesis: Multi-wavelength studies of pulsars and their companions Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Kramer Diploma in Physics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, GR magna cum laude Thesis: Transits of extrasolar planets Supervisor: Prof. Dr. John H. Seiradakis Awards and Fellowships John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics 2016 Government of Ontario TalentEdge Fellowship 2015 Ontario Centres of Excellence Dunlap Fellowship Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Springer Thesis Award 2013 Springer-Verlag 1/6

2 Otto Hahn Medal for Physics 2014 Max Planck Society Citation: For the study of pulsars and their companions and the resulting new insights for gravitational physics and the equation of state of matter at super-nuclear densities Best Thesis in nuclear, atomic and gravitational physics 2014 German Physics Society University of Bonn 2013 Best Thesis Award IMPRS Fellowship International Max-Planck Research School for Astronomy & Astrophysics Professional Associations International Astronomical Union Junior Member European Astronomical Society Ordinary Member Hellenic Astronomical Society Ordinary Member 2018 now 2014 now 2014 now Teaching and Mentoring Courses and Labs Optical Spectroscopy Lab 2015 Dunlap Instrumentation Summer School Role: Tutor Introduction to Astronomy 2006, 2007 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Role: Teaching Assistant Student Mentorship Graduate Students Tasha Gautam 2018 now Project: Mass measurements of millisecond pulsars Tilemachos Athanasiadis Project: Targeted pulsar surveys Master Students Savvas Chanlaridis Project: Evolution of ultra-stripped helium stars towards core collapse Undergraduate Students 2017 now 2018 now Abhinav Jindal 2017 Project: Pulsar timing constraints on the masses and orbits of objects in the outer solar system Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Astrophysics at the Shannon Brown 2017 Project: High-cadence Multi-color Observations of the Dwarf Nova KSP-OT a Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Astrophysics at the Nicole Mateo 2015, 2016 Project: Optical Photometry of the companion to PSR J Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Astrophysics at the Chris Peacock 2015 Project: Cooling of irradiated white dwarfs Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Astrophysics at the 2/6

3 Training Didactics at the University 2018 MPIfR; 1-2 October 2018 Two-day training seminar on university didactic methods; Lecturer: Alexandra Bergedick Conference Organizing 13th BONN workshop on the formation and evolution of neutron stars 2018 December 10, 2018 Role: Chair of the SOC 12th BONN workshop on the formation and evolution of neutron stars 2018 May 14, 2018 Role: Chair of the SOC Extreme Astrophysics in an Ever-changing Universe 2014 Ierapetra, Crete; June Role: main organizer (with Dr. Emmanouil Angelakis) Invited Talks (selected) Radio millisecond pulsars as probes of binary evolution th BONN workshop on the formation and evolution of neutron stars Bonn, Germany Optical observations of pulsar companions and the nuclear matter equation-of-state 2015 The many faces of neutron stars Garching, Germany The millisecond pulsar mass distribution th Marcel Grosmann Meeting Rome, Italy Pulsar - white dwarf binaries as gravity labs th Marcel Grosmann Meeting Rome, Italy Compact binary pulsars as laboratories for fundamental physics rd Session of the Saint Cugat Forum on Astrophysics: Gravitational Waves Astrophysics Sait Cugat, Spain The compact relativistic binary PSR J Physical Applications of Millisecond Pulsars Aspen, USA Testing strong-field gravity with a massive pulsar th Quantum-to-Cosmos meeting Bensberg, Germany Administration Duties and Service to Profession University Chair of the Summer University Research Program in Astrophysics Scientists representative in the Astronomy Faculty Committee 2015 Member of the DAA/DI/CITA graduate admissions committee 2015 Community Regular referee for: the Astrophysical Journal, the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nature Physics and others Referee for the time allocation committees of: GMRT, China Telescope Access Programme (Gemini) Grand proposal reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation 3/6

4 Telescope Observing Proposals (selected) The European Pulsar Interior Composition Survey [PI] now Effelsberg Radio Telescope 130+ hours The transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J [PI] 2015 Kepler K2 - C11 Program GO11901 (Short-cadence mode) Spectroscopic follow-up of infant supernovae discovered by KMTNet [PI] 2015 Gemini South 14 hours in rapid response mode Probing the properties of the double pulsar emission at low frequencies [PI] 2015 Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope 10 hours Mass determination of an eclipsing binary pulsar using X-Shooter [PI] nights; Programme 093.D-0580 Mass determination of the first eccentric binary pulsar with a white-dwarf companion [PI] hours; Programme 093.D-0108 Photometry of the massive relativistic binary pulsar PSR J [PI] 2012 William Herschel Telescope/ULTRACAM 5 hours The properties for the pulsar - white dwarf system with the shortest orbital period [PI] nights; Programme 088.D-0138 Deep imaging of the white dwarf companion of an extremely low mass neutron star candidate [PI] hours; Programme 087.D-0898 Outreach and Media Press releases Dunlap Fellow Dr. John Antoniadis Awarded Prestigious 2016 Polanyi Prize in Physics 2016 Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, UofT Amateur Astronomer Helps Uncover Secrets of Unique Pulsar Binary System 2016 Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, UofT Excellent Pulsar Research 2014 Max-Planck-Institut für Radionastronomie A heavyweight for Einstein 2013 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft & Max-Planck-Institut für Radionastronomie Record-breaking pulsar takes tests of general relativity into new territory 2013 European Southern Observatory Einstein s Gravity Theory Passes Toughest Test Yet 2013 National Radio Astronomy Observatory Arecibo Telescope Used to Study Neutron Star Twice as Massive as the Sun 2013 Arecibo Telescope, Universities Space Research Association A heavyweigt for Einstein: Probing gravity where no one has done it before 2013 European Research Council Bizarre binary star system pushes study of relativity to new limits 2013 [In German]Kosmisches Schwergewicht gibt Einstein Recht 2013 University of Bonn 4/6

5 Interviews [in Greek] Looking for Einstein s Achilles heel 2013 newspaper To Vima Podcast Interview for Science Online 2013 Science (vol. 340, n. 6131) Media Coverage (selected) An amateur astronomer just made a stellar discovery about pulsars 2016 Astronomy.com A pulsar and a white dwarf in an unexpected orbit 2016 Nova; AAS Highlights Black hole binge could test general relativity 2013 New Scientist, Issue: 2915 Extreme binary pulsar shows no deviation from general relativity 2013 Physics Today, Vol. 66, Issue 7 Massive double star is latest test for Einstein s gravity theory 2013 Nature, Issue: Exotic Objects Test Einstein s Theory 2012 Sky & Telescope [in German] Auf der Suche nach extrasolaren Transitplaneten 2010 Sterne und Weltraum Ten Most Significant Publications A detailed publication list is available upon request 1 J. Antoniadis. On the Formation of Eccentric Millisecond Pulsars with Helium White-dwarf Companions. the Astrophysical Journal Letters, 797:L24, December J. Antoniadis, P. C. C. Freire, N. Wex, T. M. Tauris, R. S. Lynch, M. H. van Kerkwijk, M. Kramer, C. Bassa, V. S. Dhillon, T. Driebe, J. W. T. Hessels, V. M. Kaspi, V. I. Kondratiev, N. Langer, T. R. Marsh, M. A. McLaughlin, T. T. Pennucci, S. M. Ransom, I. H. Stairs, J. van Leeuwen, J. P. W. Verbiest, and D. G. Whelan. A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary. Science, 340:448, April J. Antoniadis, D. L. Kaplan, K. Stovall, P. C. C. Freire, J. S. Deneva, D. Koester, F. Jenet, and J. G. Martinez. An Eccentric Binary Millisecond Pulsar with a Helium White Dwarf Companion in the Galactic field. the Astrophysical Journal, 830:36, October J. Antoniadis, D.-S. Moon, Y. Q. Ni, D.-J. Kim, Y. Lee, and H. Neilson. Discovery of a Rapid, Luminous Nova in NGC 300 by the KMTNet Supernova Program. the Astrophysical Journal, 844:160, August J. Antoniadis, T. M. Tauris, F. Ozel, E. Barr, D. J. Champion, and P. C. C. Freire. The millisecond pulsar mass distribution: Evidence for bimodality and constraints on the maximum neutron star mass. ArXiv e-prints, May J. Antoniadis, M. H. van Kerkwijk, D. Koester, P. C. C. Freire, N. Wex, T. M. Tauris, M. Kramer, and C. G. Bassa. The relativistic pulsar-white dwarf binary PSR J I. Mass determination and evolutionary history. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 423: , July P. C. C. Freire, N. Wex, G. Esposito-Farèse, J. P. W. Verbiest, M. Bailes, B. A. Jacoby, M. Kramer, I. H. Stairs, J. Antoniadis, and G. H. Janssen. The relativistic pulsar-white dwarf binary PSR J II. The most stringent test of scalar-tensor gravity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 423: , July A. G. Istrate, T. M. Tauris, N. Langer, and J. Antoniadis. The timescale of low-mass proto-helium white dwarf evolution. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 571:L3, November /6

6 9 T. M. Tauris, M. Kramer, P. C. C. Freire, N. Wex, H.-T. Janka, N. Langer, P. Podsiadlowski, E. Bozzo, S. Chaty, M. U. Kruckow, E. P. J. van den Heuvel, J. Antoniadis, R. P. Breton, and D. J. Champion. Formation of Double Neutron Star Systems. the Astrophysical Journal, 846:170, September A. D. van Staden and J. Antoniadis. An Active, Asynchronous Companion to a Redback Millisecond Pulsar. the Astrophysical Journal Letters, 833:L12, December /6

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