The Director of the Hellenic Arms Control Center, Dr. Theodore Liolios, is a nuclear-atomic physicist, who served as an Adjunct Professor (1998-2000) at the Special Weapons Chair of the Hellenic Army War College before being elected (2001) Professor of Physics in the School of Deck Officers at the Hellenic Merchant Marine Academy of Hydra island (the oldest Maritime Academy in the world). In 2003 the faculty of the Academy elected him Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies. The difficult and adverse conditions of the island life led him to resign from the Merchant Marine Academy and join (2004) the faculty of the Physics Department of the Hellenic Military University (Hellenic Army Academy ) where he know holds a permanent teaching-research position. In 2005 he was elected Director of the Nuclear & Atomic Physics Laboratory of the Academy (three-year tenure). His current research is focused on (a) nuclear-atomic physics, (b) nuclear astrophysics, and (c) special weapons effects and defenses.

Among other courses, he also teaches modern weapons physics and military science and technology.

• He received a B.Sc. in physics and a Ph.D. in nuclear-atomic physics from the University of Thessaloniki (Greece) while he also holds an English language teaching qualification (LES – University of Cambridge)
• He has been awarded various prizes and distinctions by the Hellenic Armed Forces for his teaching and research.
• He has taught hundreds of superior Hellenic Army officers during his stay as an adjunct professor of the Hellenic Army War College (in the Special Weapons Chair). At the same time he carried out research in the field of arms control and non-proliferation for the Hellenic Army.
• He has supervised more than twenty graduation theses at the higher education institutes where he has served.
• He has taught hundreds of marine officers as a full professor of physics at the Hellenic Merchant Marine Academy
• He is the author of the book «Effects of Depleted Uranium Weapons and Nuclear Weapons Accidents» (in Greek, with a forward by the MIT Prof. Kosta Tsipis ) while lots of his unpublished notes are still used by the teaching staff of the Hellenic Army War College. He is also the author of the book “Arms Control” (in Greek, with a forward by the Dean of the Hellenic Army Academy). Both books have been reviewed by the Hellenic National Defense General Staff, the Hellenic Army General Staff and the Military Science Chair of the Hellenic Academy of Athens. These authorities have all agreed that both books are excellent!
• He is an advisor to various members of the Hellenic Parliament while he very often appears on national channel TV debating issues related to special weapons effects and defenses.
• He is the Director of: «Athena» , the Hellenic Arms Control Center which also operates the Hellenic Radiation Control Institute.
• He is a member of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society and the Hellenic Nuclear Medicine Society.
• He is a referee and a member of  the Advisory Board of The Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine
• He has reviewed papers for the world-leading nuclear physics journals: Nuclear Physics A, European Physical Journal A.

Before assuming his current permanent position, Dr. Theodore Liolios had been awarded various post-doctoral fellowships in nuclear physics:

• Post-doctoral fellowship by the Hellenic Foundation of Grants and Scholarships (University of Thessaloniki)
• Post-doctoral nuclear fellowship by the European Center for Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT , Trento Italy)
• Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellowship by the European Commission (Aarhus University, Denmark) (in the group of Professor Karlheinz Langanke.)

Due to his expertise in radiological explosions, the Hellenic Ministry of Labor appointed him permanent inspector in the field of radiation control. He soon resigned from that position in order to fully focus on his academic career in Physics.

Some of his research papers can be found at the Los Alamos National Laboratory while his interests in nuclear physics include:

• The solar neutrino problem and the associated uncertainties of the standard solar model.
• The atomic effects that influence the results of nuclear experiments at astrophysical energies
• The acceleration of thermonuclear reactions rates in astrophysical plasmas due to plasma screening
• The acceleration of nuclear reactions rates in neutron star surfaces due to their ultra-strong magnetic field
• Pycnonuclear reactions in dense stars
• Computational Nuclear Astrophysics: Prof. Liolios is working on the TYCHO stellar evolution code, developing further its capabilities.

Prof. Liolios is considered an expert in the following fields of military science

• Nuclear, Chemical and Biological weapons effects and defenses
• Depleted Uranium weapons effects
• Space weapons
• Non-lethal weapons

He often lectures on these subjects in Greece and abroad.

Following an invitation from Prof. Steve Fetter , Dr. Liolios joined the faculty of  the CISSM (University of Maryland) under an official ministerial decision which authorized his sabbatical leave (autumn semester 2007-08) from the Hellenic Army Academy. His research and lecturing was focused on the detection and effects of nuclear and radiological weapons.

Currently he is an Associate Professor of Nuclear Physics & Military Applications at the Hellenic Army Academy and a Visiting Professor at the Special Weapons Chair of the Command & General Staff School of the Hellenic Army.

Professor Theodore Liolios appears frequently in the Greek Mass Media talking about Arms Control and International Security Issues. In the video below he appears on national channel TV with three members of the European Parliament and a Greek Minister (analyzing the nuclear accident in Fukushima – Japan)

You can contact Dr. Theodore Liolios by email at Director@ArmsControl.gr