Alexandros Chiotellis obtained his Diploma in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and his Master Degree in Astrophysics from Utrecht University. He carried out his PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam, on the interaction of Type Ia supernova remnants with circumstellar structures. He has university training in special education and is a certified Braille instructor.

In 2014 until 2016, he worked as a post-doc researcher at IAASARS-NOA at the “Manchester-Athens Wide Field Camera” (MAWFC) research project. From 2016 until February 2019, he got engaged with Science Education working on relevant European projects (Horizon 2020, Erasmus+), while he also served as a scientific advisor of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology at the Hellenic Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs. In 2019 he worked as a fellow Postdoctoral Researcher at IAASARS-NOA in the framework of the Action “PROTEAS II – Advanced space applications for the exploration of the Universe, space and earth”. In the following years he engaged in education teaching in public secondary schools.

Since 2023 he works in the President’s Office of the National Observatory of Athens as Press Officer and Coordinator of the organization’s science dissemination and outreach activities. He is in charge of managing the NOA’s social media, representing the organization in the Press as well as coordinating, planning and implementing educational programs and science dissemination and communication activities.

Hydrodynamic simulations, evolution of supernova remnants and planetary nebulae. Progenitor systems of Type Ia Supernovae, binary stellar systems evolution.