Costas N. Papanicolas#
| Membership Number: | 3095 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CYPRUS |
Present and Previous Positions
- Dec 2019 - present Co-Chair of SDSN Cyprus
- Oct 2019 - present Member of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC)
- May 2019 - May 23 President of the Sciences Section, Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts
- May 2019 - Feb 23 Advisor to the President of the Republic of Cyprus and Special Envoy on Climate Change
- Feb 2023 - present President Emeritus of the Cyprus Institute
- Jun 2007 - Feb 2023 Founding President of the Cyprus Institute
- Jun 2007 - present CEO of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation of the Cyprus Institute
- Aug 1996 - Sept 2004 Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jan 1995 - Dec 2009 Director of the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications, Athens Greece
- May 1990 - Aug 2017 Professor of Nuclear and Particle Physics at the University of Athens, Greece
- Aug 1994 - present Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA
- Aug 1989 - Aug 1994 Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Particle & nuclear physics
- Hadronic physics
- Solar energy
- Energy policy
- Climate policy
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Arnold O. Beckman Award at the Univ. of Illinois
- 1994 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2017 Member of the Silk Road Academy of Sciences (China)
- 2019 Founding and Permanent Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and the Arts
- 2019 Medal of Excellence for Service to the Cyprus Republic
- 2019 "Commendatore dell’ Ordine della Stella d’Italia"
- 2021 J.M. Gago Award in European Science Policy, bestowed by the Mister of Research and Higher Education of Portugal
- 2023 Member, Académie des sciences d’outre-mer, since 2023
