Andreas Papaefstathiou

Assistant Professor of Physics

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I study Nature at the most fundamental level, with the aim of understanding the basic building blocks of matter and energy and their interactions. This involves the study of the tiniest particles that we know of - quarks, leptons, gauge bosons and the Higgs boson.

Collider Experiments

The best way to investigate Nature at the sub-microscopic level is through experiments that rapidly smash particles together at very high energies and record the outcomes. The biggest such experiment is the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, colliding protons together at  99.9999991 percent the speed of light. There are plans for an even bigger machine, currently known as the "Future Circular Collider", which will be 7-8 times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider.

I specialize in the phenomenology of particle physics. I write simulation tools and perform calculations that are crucial for the success of modern particle physics experiments. In particular, they allow us not only to predict what will be seen at experiments, but also to design future experiments and interpret their results.  

 

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Education 

2011     Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2007    MPhys in Physics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Previous Employment

2019-2021     Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2016-2019     Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam & Nikhef, The Netherlands.
2014-2016     Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland.
2011-2014     Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Zürich, Switzerland.

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Publications

You can find an up-to-date list of my publications in the INSPIRE database.

See the Computer Code page for my publicly-available open-source particle physics programs and tutorials.

Research

Check out my Research page for an up-to-date view of my research themes!

Particle Theory at KSU

For more info on the Particle Theory Group at KSU, click here.

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