Yanis Bitsakis

Personal information

Telephone

+30 6974 082 062

Website

http://www.bitsakis.gr

Academic information

Affiliation

University of Athens - Centre for History and Palaeography

Position

Researcher

CV

Yanis Bitsakis is a physicist, specialized in technologies for the analysis and preservation of cultural heritage. He got his BSc in Physics at the Faculty of Physics of Athens University, and a MSc in History of Science and Technology from the joint program at the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens.
Before joining the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project in 2005, he worked at FORTH Photonics, a spin-off company of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, as application specialist for the MuSIS systems (Multispectral Imaging System), in the field of analysis and conservation of objects of artistic and historical value (paintings, icons, wall-paintings, literary documents); During this period, his major interest was the analysis and recovery of erased and overwritten texts on Byzantine parchments (palimpsests), in the scope of the "Rinascimento Virtuale" European program.

History

Member for

1 year 38 weeks

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Conference

• The Antikythera Mechanism and its place in the history of science, technology and ideas

Lecture

• Livadeia Bookstore
• National Hellenic Research Foundation
• Le mécanisme d'Anticythère: un calculateur astronomique antique
• Ο Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων: αποτελέσματα νεώτερων ερευνών
• Ο Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων: ο πρώτος υπολογιστής
• The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - A Timely Update
• The Antikythera Mechanism: an astronomical calculating machine from Ancient Greece