EROTOKRITOS KATSAVOUNIDIS,
Associate Professor of Physics
Research Interests
Professor Katsavounidis' research interests lie within the areas
of experimental particle astrophysics and gravity wave physics.
He recently shifted research work to the physics of LIGO
(Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) in its search
for gravity waves. Professor Katsavounidis' primary involvement
in LIGO is within the data analysis group and, more specifically,
with the working group on searches for gravity wave bursts from
modeled or unmodeled sources, as well as searches for a possible
stochastic background.
Until recently, his research interests were focused in the physics
of MACRO (Monopole, Astrophysics, and Cosmic Ray Observatory), located
at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories in Italy. Professor Katsavounidis'
work in MACRO was primarily with the rare particle and the neutrino
working groups, as well as with the detector R&D, installation,
and running. The MACRO detector stopped taking data in December
2000 and work on the completion of the final data analyses and papers
is in progress.
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Biographical Sketch
Professor Katsavounidis joined the MIT Department of Physics in
January 2001, as an Assistant Professor within the gravitational
wave astrophysics area. I received my Ph.D. in Physics in 1995 at
the California Institute of Technology, working on the experimental
search for magnetic monopoles. Following that, I held a postdoctoral
appointment with the Italian Institute of Nuclear Research, and
then an associate scientist position with the High Energy Physics
group at the California Institute of Technology, until December
2000. I did undergraduate work in Physics at the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, Greece, where I earned a B.S. in Physics in 1988.
[top] Selected Publications
1. MACRO Collaboration, "Nuclearite search with the MACRO
detector at Gran Sasso'', Eur Phys J C 13, 453-458 (2000).
2. MACRO Collaboration, "Search for lightly ionizing particles
with the MACRO detector'', Phys Rev D 62, 52003 (2000).
3. MACRO Collaboration, "Limits on dark matter WIMPs using
upward-going muons in the MACRO detector'', Phys Rev D 60, 82002
(1999).
4. MACRO Collaboration, "Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino-induced
upgoing muon flux using MACRO'', Phys Lett B 434, 451-457 (1998).
5. MACRO Collaboration, "Real time supernova neutrino burst
detection with MACRO'', Astropart Phys 8, 123-133 (1998).
6. MACRO Collaboration, "Magnetic monopole search with the
MACRO detector at Gran Sasso'', Phys Lett B 406, 249-255 (1997).
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