Stamatios Krimigis - Biography#

Stamatios Krimigis is Emeritus Head of the Space Exploration Sector of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), occupies the Chair of Science of Space at the Academy of Athens, and is Principal Investigator on NASA’s Voyagers 1, 2, and the Cassini-Huygens missions. He received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Iowa (1965), served on the faculty, moved to APL in 1968, became Chief Scientist (1980), Space Department Head (1991) and Emeritus in 2004. He has built instruments that have flown to all nine classical planets beginning with Mariner 4 to Mars in 1965. He has published nearly 600 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books with more than 18,000 citations. He is a three-time recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the European Geophysical Union’s Cassini Medal (2014), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Van Allen Space Environments Award (2014), the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) Trophy for Lifetime Achievement (2015), the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Laurels Award for MESSENGER (2015) and New Horizons (2016), the American Astronautical Society Space Flight Award (2016), the NASM Trophy for Current Achievement (New Horizons Team-2016), the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2016, and the IAA Theodore Von Karman Award (2017).