Dr. Dimitrios K. Papoulias is a postdoc researcher working with the group of Prof. N. Saoulidou at the Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Previously, he worked as a postdoc researcher with the group of Prof. G. Leontaris at the Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece, having a fellowship from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). Before that, he was a postdoc researcher at the Instituto de Física Corpuscular (joint center of CSIC and the University of Valencia), Spain, where he worked with the Astroparticles and High Energy Physics Group. His main research area concerns the interdisciplinary phenomena and the interplay between nuclear physics and astroparticle physics, devoting special effort to the accurate treatment of important corrections imposed by nuclear theory. Recently, he started research into the wider aspects of neutrino physics with a goal to probe exotic interactions of neutrinos with matter, Dark Matter and axion-like particles (ALPs), taking into account laboratory experiments as well as cosmological observations.
Prof. Niki Saoulidou received her Bachelor's degree (1996) and PhD (2003) from the Physics Department of the University Athens, Greece working on the DONUT (Direct Observation of the tau Neutrino) experiment at Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Chicago, USA. This experiment directly
observed the tau neutrino, the last known elementary particle of the Standard Model. In 2003, she moved to Fermilab, Chicago, USA, as a postdoctoral research associate and joined the MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) experiment, which confirmed neutrino oscillations with accelerator neutrinos.
In 2006, as a Fermilab Wilson Fellow (fast tenure track position equivalent to an Assist. Prof.), she continued her research in the MINOS and NOvA (Numi Off-axis nue Appearance) neutrino experiments, and contributed in the planning of future long baseline neutrino experiments in the USA proposing what is now called the DUNE experiment. In 2009, she joined the CMS experiment as a Fermilab Wilson Fellow, and relocated at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland). In the Spring of 2011, she returned to Greece as an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Athens. Since June of 2018 she has been an Associate Prof. at NKUA, Greece. Since 2023, she is also chairing the international Long-Baseline Neutrino Committee (LBNC), charged by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Director, and is an ex-officio member of Fermilab’s Physics Advisory Committee (PAC).
