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The Cyprus Institute

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About Costas

Costas N. Papanicolas is an Institute Professor in the Physics faculty at The Cyprus Institute, where he served as President from 2008 to 2022. He is also CEO of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation, Professor Emeritus at the University of Athens, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Papanicolas earned his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972 and 1979, respectively. His career includes positions as a researcher at the French Atomic Energy Commission in Saclay, Full Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois and the University of Athens, Director of the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications in Greece, and head of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Athens. He chaired the Accreditation Council for Tertiary Education of the Republic of Cyprus from 1998 to 2006, the committee that established the Department of Physical Sciences at the University of Cyprus, and served on the National Advisory Board on Science and Technology of the Hellenic Republic and the Research and Innovation Council of the Republic of Cyprus. Additionally, he has been involved in the Cyprus-CERN Committee and the interim governing board of SESAME in Jordan.