Stavros Katsanevas#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 4951 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0324-0758 |
Stavros Katsanevas passed away November 27, 2022.
Positions Held
- 2018 Director of the European Gravitational Observatory hosting the Virgo Gravitational wave antenna
- 2014 - 2017 Director of Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology Laboratory
- 2002 - 2012 Deputy Director Institut de Physique Nucleaire et Physique des Particules IN2P3/CNRS
- 2017 - 2019 General Director of the « Fondation pour la Recherche et la Formation dans le domaine de la Physique de l’Univers » in relation with the « Paris Center of Cosmological Physics », president George Smoot
- 2013 - Professor Classe Exceptionnelle 2, Université Paris Denis Diderot
- 2010 - 2013 Professor Classe Exceptionnelle 1, Université Paris Denis Diderot
- 2004 - 2010 Professor 1st class, Université Paris VII, Denis Diderot
- 2003 - 2004 Professor 1st class, Université de Lyon I Claude Bernard
- 1996 - 2003 Professor 2nd class, Université de Lyon I Claude Bernard
- 1989 - 1996 Associate Professor, Athens University
- 1982 - 1989 Lecturer, Athens University
Fields of Scholarship
- Strong interactions
- Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics
- Standard model of weak and electromagnetic interactions
- Gravitational waves
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
- 2000 - Physics Prize, Academy of Athens for work on supersymmetry
