Dimitrios Athanasopoulos pursued his studies at the Physics Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). As part of his thesis, he secured a six-month scholarship at the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency (ESA), focusing on cosmic radiation simulations for the future Moon Village scenario. He participated in the Alpbach Summer School 2018, where his team designed a space mission to investigate the connection between asteroids and comets, a project that received two awards from the committee. He graduated in 2018 and immediately continued with postgraduate studies in Astrophysics at NKUA. In 2025, he completed his Ph.D. at the same department in collaboration with the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, focusing on the most ancient asteroids of the Solar System and conducting astronomical observations from observatories in Greece and France. He is a research associate and coordinator of the international observational campaign “Ancient Asteroids.” Since 2023, he has been working at IAASARS-NOA as part of the GR-SST program, while since August 2025 he has been a postdoctoral researcher in the NELIOTA project (funded by ESA), which includes monitoring of lunar impact flashes caused by meteoroids on the lunar surface.

Observational Astrophysics (optical), Small Bodies, Asteroids, 3D Asteroid Shape Models, Solar System Formation and Evolution, Planetology, Lunar meteoroid environment (impact flashes), Radiation Simulations.