Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

Kostas Nikolopoulos is interested in the experimental study of electroweak symmetry breaking and the Higgs sector. He is a member of the ATLAS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, where he led the ATLAS H→ZZ group (October 2010 to September 2012) in the discovery of a Standard Model-like Higgs boson.

In his research, he tries to understand the origin of mass at the most fundamental level. He focuses on studying the properties of the Higgs particle, which is directly linked to the mechanism by which elementary particles gain mass, and on searching for the particles that make up dark matter, which constitutes 85% of the universe’s total mass.

Currently, his research focuses on measurements of the properties and potentially anomalous decays of the recently observed particle and searches for additional Higgs bosons. He is involved in teaching physics at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is active in enhancing public engagement, interest, understanding, and awareness of physics.