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Dr Athanassios Ganas
RESEARCH DIRECTOR IN EARTH OBSERVATION
Telephone: 210 3490186
RESEARCH
INTERESTS

Active Tectonics, Geohazards, Geological Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, Crustal Deformation, Seismotectonics, Tectonic Geodesy, GNSS, InSAR, Stress Transfer, Geology of Earthquakes.

EDUCATION

1997: University of Reading, Reading, U.K.  PhD in Remote Sensing-Image Processing

1990: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.  MSc (Research) in Structural Geology

1986: University of Athens, Department of Geology, Athens, Greece. Ptychion (4yr Degree).

CAREER

2018: Visiting Professor at the GNSS Research Centre of Wuhan University (China).

2018: Visiting Professor at the Department of Geosciences, École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France).

2011-today: Research Director at the Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens

2006-2011: Senior Researcher at the Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens

2007: Fulbright Scholar at the US Geological Survey (USGS) Menlo Park, California

2004: Visiting Researcher at INGV (Rome, Italy).

2003-2006: Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens

2000-2003: Junior Researcher at the Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens

1997-2000: Integrated Information Systems S.A (Athens), Project Manager in Environmental Studies.

RESEARCH

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  • Briole, P., A. Ganas, P. Elias, D. Dimitrov, 2021. The GPS velocity field of the Aegean. New observations, contribution of the earthquakes, crustal blocks model, Geophysical Journal International, ggab089, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab089
  • Ganas, A., P. Elias, G. Bozionelos, G. Papathanassiou, A. Avallone, A. Papastergios, S. Valkaniotis, I. Parcharidis, P. Briole, 2016. Coseismic deformation, field observations and seismic fault of the 17 November 2015 M = 6.5, Lefkada Island, Greece earthquake, Tectonophysics, 687, 210-222, ISSN 0040-1951, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.08.012  .
  • Ganas, A., and T. Parsons, 2009. Three-dimensional model of Hellenic Arc deformation and origin of the Cretan uplift, Journal Geophysical Research, 114, B06404, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005599.
  • Ganas, A, Pavlides, S, Karastathis, V., 2005. DEM-based morphometry of range-front escarpments in Attica, central Greece, and its relation to fault slip rates. Geomorphology, 65, 301–319.
  • Roberts, G. P. and Ganas, A., 2000.  Fault-slip directions in central and southern Greece measured from striated and corrugated fault planes: Comparison with focal mechanism and geodetic data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105 (B10), p. 23,443 (1999JB900440) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/1999JB900440/epdf

 

RESEARCH PROFILE:
Scopus author ID 6603002871 : https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603002871

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.gr/citations?hl=el&user=BnQ-uowAAAAJ

ORCID 0000-0002-1937-3283: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1937-3283

Personal Webpage: http://members.noa.gr/aganas/en/resume.html