Yiannis Tsapras
- I am an astronomer working for the LCOGT institute and presently based at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University. Prior to my current appointment I held a post-doctoral research position at the ARI in Liverpool.
My first post-doctoral appointment was here, at QMUL, working on dark matter searches in the Andromeda galaxy for the POINT-AGAPE survey. I was awarded 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 exo-planets where I use the complementary techniques of microlensing and transits to search for planets orbiting distant stars. I am PI of the RoboNet project which uses the LCOGT telescope network to detect exo-planets by microlensing. Besides exo-planets, I have a keen interest in robotic astronomy, ongoing dark-matter surveys and CMB cosmology.