Dr. Costas Andreopoulos, Neutrino Physicist at STFC

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Mail address:
Science & Technology Facilities Council
Rutherford Appleton Lab.
Bld R1, Office 2.90
Harwell Science & Innovation Campus
Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK

Telephone/VoIP/Fax:
(Tel@RAL): +44-(0)1235-445091
(Fax@RAL): +44-(0)1235-446733
(Cell@UK): +44-(0)7540-847333
(Skype): candreop

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Home Pages:
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http://www.andreopoulos.eu

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Dr. Constantinos (Costas) Andreopoulos

Welcome to my home page at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, operated by the UK Science & Technology Facilities Council .

My academic path

10/2008 → present: Staff Scientist, Senior Scientific Officer (SSO) grade
STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
10/2009 → present: Associate,
Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP), Durham, UK
02/2007 → 09/2008: Staff Scientist, Higher Scientific Officer (HSO) grade
STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
06/2003 → 01/2007: Post-doctoral RA
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
03/1999 → 06/2003: PhD in Experimental Particle Physics
University of Athens, GR
09/1996 → 11/1998: MSc in Nuclear & Particle Physics
University of Athens, GR
09/1992 → 09/1996: BSc in Physics
University of Athens, GR

My research in a nutshell...

My research interests lie in the field of neutrino physics and particularly in the experimental study of the fundamental neutrino properties and their connection with nature's symmetries.
A special interest of mine is the physics of neutrino interactions and their computer simulations, a critical component for the precision measurement of neutrino properties.

For a descripion, in simple terms, of what I actually do, see here.

Current research / work

Main author of GENIE, a large scale (130,000 C++ lines) HEP Monte Carlo generator providing comprehensive, state-of-the-art modelling of neutrino interaction physics. GENIE is used, amongst others, by the T2K, NOvA, MINOS, MINERvA, ArgoNEUT and MicroBooNE experiments.
→ more info: The GENIE Neutrino MC Generator official web page
T2K Global Analysis issues
- Reweighting methods for quantifying and propagating neutrino-nucleus interaction systematics
  → more info: here
- Fast fitting methods including systematics with proper correlations
  → more info: here
- Neutrino generator and cross section studies
  → more info: here
T2K/nd280 DS-ECAL
- `Nearest Neighbor'-type PID
  → more info:
- Light Injection DAQ Control Software
  → more info: latest version
Co-supervising the PhD work of J.Dobson (Imperial College London / T2K)
Co-coordinator of the Physics Simulations WG in MINOS.

Past & present experiments

2006-present: T2K
→ Tokai 2 Kamioka Neutrino Oscillation Search @ Japan
1999-2010: MINOS
→ Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search @ Fermilab, US
1997-2003: DONUT
→ Direct Observation of the NU Tau @ Fermilab, US
1997-1998: COSMOS
→ COsmologically Significant Mass Oscillation Search @ Fermilab, US