Yiannis Tsapras

Yiannis Tsapras

•  I am a Senior Scientist at the Zentrum für Astronomie, Heidelberg University. Before my current appointment, I worked for the Las Cumbres Observatory (2007-2014). During the 2012-2014 academic period I was a Teaching Fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University where I taught Physics for the Science and Engineering Foundation Programme and a MSc course on Extrasolar Planets and Astrophysical Discs. Prior to that, I held a research position at the ARI in Liverpool.

•  I received a PhD in Astronomy from the University of St Andrews in 2003 and a MSc in Radioastronomy from the University of Manchester in 1999.

•  My primary research interests lie in the field of exoplanet science and I am involved in projects that use the complementary techniques of microlensing, radial velocity and transits to search for planets orbiting distant stars. I am PI of the ROME/REA Key Project on the LCO robotic telescope network which discovers exo-planets through microlensing. The project is supported by a DFG grant as part of the Priority Programme "Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets" (SPP 1992). Besides exoplanets, I have a keen interest in robotic astronomy, ongoing dark-matter surveys, CMB cosmology and science outreach programs.