Constantin Athanassas

Dr. Constantin Athanassas is a geologist (University of Athens) with masters’ (University of Wales, NTUA), doctorate (University of Athens, NCSR «Demokritos») and postdoctoral degrees (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, CEGERE, NTUA) in tectonics, geochronology, geoinformatics and physics. He teaches General Geology. His research interests lie with the exploration of tectonic processes (tectonophysics) and geological processes in general by geochronological methods, mathematical methods and remote sensing.

• Athanassas, C.D., Underhill, J., Braucher, R., Styles, P., Vakalas, J., Apostolopoulos, G. 2024. Records of ground deformation in Western Greece: cosmogenic 36Cl dating of landslides in the Thinia Valley, Northern Kefalonia (submitted)


• Kanavou, V.K., Polymeris, G.S., Athanassas, C.D., Stamoulis, K.S. 2024. Aspects of thermoluminescence (TL) of quartz from metamorphic rocks of the Peloponnese (Greece) and its potential for geothermometry and thermochronometry, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 111366


• Athanassas, C.D., Vakalas, I. 2023. Tectonic Loading and Overthrust Gliding of the Pindos Nappe (NW Peloponnese): Insights from Thermochronology. Geotectonics, 57, 100-114


• Athanassas, C.D., Papanikolaou, D.I., Falkowski, S., Papanikolaou, I.D., Ntokos, D. 2021. Thermotectonic constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the Pindos fold-and-thrust-belt (PFTB) by low-temperature (U-Th)/He thermochronometry. Geological Journal, 56, 5311-5328


• Athanassas, C.D. 2020. Muography for geological hazard assessment in the South Aegean active volcanic arc (SAAVA). Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, 2, 233-246


• Athanassas, C. D., Bourlès, D.L., Braucher, R., Druitt, T., Nomikou, P. Leanni, L. 2016. Evidence from cosmic ray exposure (CRE) dating for the existence of a pre-Minoan caldera on Santorini, Greece. Bulletin of Volcanology, 78, 35.


• Athanassas, C.D., Fountoulis, I. 2013. Quaternary neotectonic configuration of the southwestern Peloponnese, Greece, based on luminescence ages of marine terraces. Journal of Earth Science, 24, 410-427