Costas N. Papanicolas

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rdf:langString Costas N. Papanicolas

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rdf:langString 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. Since 2008, he has been president of The Cyprus Institute (CyI) and CEO of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF). In 2019, he was appointed as advisor to the president of the Republic of Cyprus and special envoy on climate change. During his career he held a numerous positions in various organizations. He was a member of the interim governing board and co-chair of the technical committee for the SESAME (Jordan), chair of the appointments committee for the establishment of the Department of Natural Sciences of the University of Cyprus, and chair of the Council on Educational Evaluation and Accreditation (CEEA) of the Republic of Cyprus. He was a member of the National Advisory Council for Research and the National Council for Research and Technology of Greece. He was chair of the Cyprus-CERN Committee, vice-chair of the Cyprus Scientific Council, the senior advisory scientific body to the Cyprus government, and a member of the National Research Council of Cyprus which is chaired by the president of the Republic of Cyprus.