George Iakovidis

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Physics Department
Bldg. 510A
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-6387
giakovidis@bnl.gov

Research | Education | Appointments | Awards

Research Activities

Publications on INSPIRE

Education

• National Technical University of Athens, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), High Energy Experimental Physics, 2010 - 2014
• National Technical University of Athens, Bachelor + Master of Science - MS, Physics 2001 - 2008

Professional Appointments

• Scientist (Research Staff 5), Oct 2025 - Present
• Associate Scientist (Research Staff 4), Sept 2022 - Sept 2025
• Physics Associate I, Jan 2020 - Sept 2022
• Physics Associate II, Jan 2016 - Dec 2019
• Research Associate, Oct 2014 - Dec 2015 

Awards & Recognition

• Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation - 2025 - awarded to co-authors of publications based on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Run-2 data released between 2015 and July 15, 2024, at the experimental collaborations ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb
• ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award, ATLAS Collaboration - 2021: For outstanding contributions to the development of front-end electronics and readout for the New Small Wheel detector.
• Spotlight Award in recognition of exceptional job performance, Issued by Brookhaven National Laboratory - 2016: For the extraordinary work on the NSW upgrade of the ATLAS detector
• High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society - 2013:  awarded to the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, for the discovery of a Higgs boson, as predicted by the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism