Dimitri Nanopoulos

Dimitri Nanopoulos is a physicist and member of the Academy of Athens, where he has served as both Vice President and President. He studied Physics at the University of Athens and the University of Sussex, where he earned his doctorate in High Energy Physics. For many years he was a Research Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, as well as at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at Harvard University. In 1989 he was made professor in the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University, College Station, where since 1992 he has been a Distinguished Professor of Physics, and since 2002 has held the Mitchell/Heep Chair in High Energy Physics. He is also a distinguished fellow at the Houston Advanced Research Center in Houston, Texas.

He is the author of 15 books and more than 680 original papers published in peer-reviewed journals. His work has been cited more than 48,480 times, making him one of the most influential scientists of our day. In 1996 he was made Commander of the Order of Honour of the Greek State, while in 1999 and 2005 he won the essay award of the Gravity Research Foundation. In 2006 he was awarded the Onassis International Prize by the Alexander Onassis Foundation. In 2009 he won the 2009 Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society (SIF).

Since 1988 he has been a fellow of the American Physical Society and since 1992 a member of the Italian Physical Society. He has served as the National representative of Greece to the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2013 until 2015. He was also the National representative of Greece to the European Space Agency (ESA) from 2005 to 2006.