Yannis K. Semertzidis | |
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Ιωάννης Σεμερτζίδης | |
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| Born | September 16, 1961 |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| Awards | Brookhaven National Laboratory Science and Technology Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Dark matter, cold dark matter, axions, magnetic dipole moment, electric dipole moment, particle physics, nuclear physics |
| Institutions | Institute for Basic Science, KAIST, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Rochester |
| Thesis | Coherent production of light pseudoscalars (axions) inside a magnetic field with a polarized laser beam (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Adrian C. Melissinos |
| Other academic advisors | Konstantin Zioutas |
| Website | IBS Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research |
Yannis K. Semertzidis is a physicist exploring axions as a dark matter candidate, precision physics in storage rings including muon g-2 and proton electric dipole moment (pEDM).[2] The axion and the pEDM are intimately connected through the strong CP problem. Furthermore, if the pEDM is found to be non-zero, it can help resolve the matter anti-matter asymmetry mystery of our universe. During his research career, he held a number of positions in the Department of Physics in Brookhaven National Laboratory, including initiator and co-spokesperson of the Storage Ring Electric Dipole Moment Collaboration. He is the founding director of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research,[3] is a professor in the Physics Department of KAIST, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[4]
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Director Yannis K. Semertzidis, a fellow of the American Physics Society and a tenured, senior physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, was appointed as director of the IBS research center in October 2013 in recognition of his experiments in precision particle physics and his experimental plan to search for the dark-matter axion.
- ^ Greenberg, Diane (5 January 2006). "Brookhaven Lab's Yannis Semertzidis Named American Physical Society Fellow". Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
Yannis Semertzidis, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a professional organization with about 43,000 members.