NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS
IMG_9993_cropped_Manos Zapartas
Zapartas Manos
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Telephone: 2103490859
Office: 110
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Manos Zapartas is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the National Observatory of Athens in the ERC-funded group of Alceste Bonanos, ASSESS, since 2022. He was previously working at the Observatory of Geneva, in Switzerland, in the group of Tassos Fragkos, as a postdoc and partially funded from the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. He obtained his PhD in December of 2018 at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Selma de Mink and Alex de Koter, where he also obtained his MSc Degree. He was awarded his Degree in Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in July 2012. He is originally from Alexandroupolis city in Greece.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS

Massive stars in binary systems, their late evolutionary stages, core-collapse supernovae, compact remnants, X-ray binaries and merging compact objects. Study them implementing binary population synthesis, such as POSYDON, that is based on grids of detailed MESA binary stellar evolution models, as well as more rapid ones, such as binary_c. Member of the POSYDON collaboration.