Costas N. Papanicolas is a nuclear and particle physicist with over 35 years' experience as a researcher, an educator and a scientific administrator. He received his B.Sc. in physics and PhD in nuclear physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. His research interests are in the fields of hadronic physics, solar energy and energy policy. Papanicolas has held positions at the French Atomic Energy Commission (Saclay, France) and has was Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, USA) and at the University of Athens (Greece). He has was the founding director of the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA) in Greece. He is the CEO of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF) and, from 2008 to 2022, was president of The Cyprus Institute (CyI). In 2019, he was appointed as advisor to the president of the Republic of Cyprus and special envoy on climate change. More information...
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