Stavros Katsanevas

Stavros Katsanevas was a Greek-French astrophysicist who was director of the European Gravitational Observatory, professor at the Université Paris Cité, former director of the AstroParticle and Cosmology (APC) laboratory and former chairman of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium. In 2000, he received for his work on supersymmetry the Physics Prize from the Academy of Athens. In 2011, he was awarded the Ordre National du Merite. He was an ordinary member of Academy of Europe, Earth and Cosmic Sciences since 2019.

Education and work

Katsanevas was born in Athens, Greece, where he did his undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Athens. He obtained a doctorate "of 3rd cycle" from University of Paris XI and a PhD from the University of Athens, where he was later a lecturer and an associate professor. He has spent three years as a postdoc at the Fermi National Laboratory. He also worked at CERN, as a CERN Fellow, CERN Associate Scientist and as CERN Corresponding fellow. He then moved as a professor to France to the Université de Lyon I Claude Bernard. In 2002, he became Deputy Scientific Director of IN2P3/CNRS for the field of Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics, transferring at the same time to the Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, where he was Professor Exceptional Class. Since 2018, he was director of the European Gravitational Observatory near Pisa.
From 2000, Katsanevas held the following positions:

Katsanevas was also a member of the following committees:

Steering Committee of Astroparticle Physics European Coordination
AstroParticle Physics International Forum of OECD
European Strategy Group as representative of APPEC
CERN Super Proton Synchrotron Committee
PaNAGIC astroparticle coordination - IUPAP working group
Evaluation Committee for Space Research and Exploration and Inter-Organism Committee of CNES
Scientific council of IFAE/Barcelona

Katsanevas died in Pisa, Italy on 27 November 2022, at the age of 69.