Christina Irakleous
Christina Irakleous has a passion for both, Art and Science. She is an artist, astrophotographer, and amateur astronomer. She is a graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Visual and Applied Arts, Integrated MFA) and she has also attended a course on Observational Astronomy and Radio-Astronomy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Meanwhile, she organized and participated in many presentations and astronomical observations addressed to the public, schools, and other institutions. She has written a series of articles specialized in Astrophotography and many of her photographs were awarded in several competitions. The last few years she is a team member of the Functional Reconstruction of Antikythera Mechanism (FRAMe Project), in which she is responsible for the engravings on the functional bronze replicas.
Awards & Nominations:
“The Ghost Nebula”, Highly Commended Image (2021)
Atik Cameras Astrophotography Competition
“Solar Halo Over Thessaloniki”, Earth Science Picture of the Day (2020)
URSA (Universities Space Research Association)
“The Fish Head Nebula”, Night Sky Highlights - October 2019 (2019)
Royal Museums Greenwich
“Solar Halo”, La Photo Astronomica Del Giorno (APOD GRAG) (2019)
Gruppo Astrofili Galileo Galilei
“Sunspots”, “My Sun My Star”, Art Contest (2019)
National Solar Observatory (NSO) and Visual Arts Center, Honorable Mention
“Sundog and Subsundog”, Earth Science Picture of the Day (2018)
URSA (Universities Space Research Association)
“Solar Halo”, Scientific phenomena, “When Art Meets Science” (2016)
MILSET Europe, Milset Science Photo Contest, Bronze award
“Lunar Eclipse”, European Science Photo Competition (2015)
Wikimedia Commons , Runner-up in category Image Sets
Art Exhibitions:
“Astrophotography”, Group Exibition (2018)
“Ex Libris”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) (2017)
“Paraliart”, Ephemeral Art between City and Sea (2014)
“13th Annual Comic Festival”, Institut Français de Thessalonique (2014)
Projects
Total Solar Eclipse, Member of the Greek Team, responsible for a number of experiments as well as the preparation and the checking of team’s instrumental equipment before and during the eclipse.(USA, Illinois, 2017)
Capturing the Mercury transit, Observatory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2016)
