Alceste Bonanos

Welcome! In September 2009, I began working as an Assistant Researcher at the Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the National Observatory of Athens. Previously, I spent 1 year at the Space Telescope Science Institute as a Giacconi Fellow and 3 years at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (DTM), as the Vera Rubin Fellow. I obtained my PhD in Astronomy in 2005 from Harvard University. The title of my thesis was “Accurate Distances to Nearby Galaxies”. My thesis advisor was Kris Stanek.

Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics

National Observatory of Athens

I. Metaxa & V. Pavlou St

Palaia Penteli, Athens GR-15236 GREECE

Tel.: +30 210 8109166

Fax: +30 210 8040453

bonanos [at] astro [dot] noa [dot] gr

I currently study the most massive stars in the Local Universe, using eclipsing binaries to probe their fundamental parameters (masses, radii). I am also working on calibrating the extragalactic distance scale, using eclipsing binaries as distance indicators. Finally, I am interested in studying the origin and nature of hypervelocity stars.

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