Professor Maria Petrou at Surrey University

摘要

Maria Petrou was born in Greece and educated at the University of Thessaloniki, where she graduated in Physics in 1975. For her outstanding performance she was awarded a studentship, giving her an opportunity to study abroad. The award brought her to the United Kingdom to study Mathematics Part Ⅲ at Churchill College, Cambridge, which was followed by PhD studies in Astronomy. She gained a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in 1981. After her PhD she returned to Greece to take up a post of Lecturer at the Department of Astronomy, University of Athens, but her longing for a fulfilling research career brought her back to the United Kingdom to take up Research Fellowship at St Hildas College, Department of Theoretical Physics, Oxford in 1983.