Education
1986: Bachelor of Surgery in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
1988: Master of Surgery in Physics, University of California, Los Angeles
1993: Doctor of Philosophy in Physics with specialization in Space Plasma Physics, University of California, Los Los Angeles
Career
He is a specialist on Space and Astrophysical Plasmas. Since July, 2007, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles). Vassilis is currently the Principal Investigator of the ELFIN Cubesat mission and Company-Investigator of ELFIN-L, leading the energetic particle detector (EPD) experiment at University of California, Los Los Angeles He is the Principal Investigator of THEMIS, a five satellite and 20 ground based observatory mission proposed and managed by the University of California, Berkeley"s Space Science Laboratory, launched in February 2007.
He is also the Principal Investigator of the ARTEMIS mission, a two satellite mission around the moon: a collaboration between University of California, Berkeley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of California, Los Angeles, proposed in 2008, executed in 2009 and operating since 2010.
1986: Bachelor of Surgery in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.