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Constantinos Andreopoulos

Professor Constantinos Andreopoulos
BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD, MInstP, FHEA

Professor in Experimental Particle Physics
Physics

Research

Professor Andreopoulos’ research is primarily focussed on precision measurements of neutrino mixing and new physics searches in the intensity frontier, neutrino interaction phenomenology and quantum information science.

Precision measurements of neutrino mixing and new physics searches.

I am centrally involved in preparations for the physics exploitation of the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program, in particular in the SBN Near Detector (SBND).
I have served as a member of the SBND Executive Committee (2020-2023), member of the SBN Results Approval Committee (2023), chair of the SBND Speakers Committee (2019-2022), SBND Physics co-Coordinator (2017-2023), and Systematics & Oscillation Sensitivity WG co-Coordinator (2018-2022) for the overall SBN programme.
I lead the development of multi-channel sterile neutrino oscillation analyses for SBN, as well as analyses to exploit the SBND-PRISM concepts and high statistics exclusive measurements on SBND to improve to imporove understanding of neutrino-Argon interactions, produce SBND-driven tunes and stringent constraints physics modelling uncertainties, and enable new physics searches at the O(1%) level.

I also participate in the physics exploitation of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in Southern China. I am excited by the prospect of using atmospheric neutrinos to enhance the overall JUNO sensitivity (in combination with reactor neutrinos), and help JUNO achieve the first definitive neutrino mass-ordering determination. I work in the modelling of atmospheric neutrino interactions, as well as in the development of an atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis.

Previously, I was a member of the T2K experiment in Japan where, over the past decade, I performed flagship oscillation measurements. I am founder and coordinator of the VALOR fitting group which, from 2010 to present, has produced over 20 reviewed oscillation physics analyses and it has contributed to 12 published T2K papers, an effort culminating in the 2020 Nature paper on T2K neutrino CP violation constraint.

Comprehensive neutrino interaction modelling and global analysis of neutrino scattering data.

I am co-spokesperson of the international GENIE collaboration, and one of the main authors of the well-known GENIE event generator, as well as of the corresponding global analysis of neutrino scattering data informing GENIE tunes. GENIE performs influential phemomenology research in the boundary between nuclear and particle physics, provides a bridge between theory and measurement, and it is a key ingredient in the exploitation effort of many experiments.

Quantum Information Science.

Research grants

Neutrino Interaction Modelling for JUNO

ROYAL SOCIETY

March 2024 - September 2026

Probes of new physics and technological advancements from particle and gravitational wave physics experiments

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

September 2023 - August 2026

LIVERPOOL REQUEST FOR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTS 2022

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

April 2023 - September 2025

SENSE

UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

January 2023 - December 2026

INTENSE: particle physics experiments at the high intensity frontier, from new physics to spin-offs. A cooperative Europe - United States - Japan effort

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

July 2022 - December 2024

Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2022

UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

October 2022 - September 2025

Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2019

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

October 2019 - September 2025

PNT using Neutrino Particles

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (FRANCE)

March 2019 - March 2020

Particle Physics Consolidated award

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

October 2015 - September 2019

    Research collaborations

    JUNO

    http://juno.ihep.cas.cn

    SBND

    http://sbn-nd.fnal.gov

    T2K

    http://t2k-experiment.org

    DUNE

    http://www.dunescience.org

    GENIE

    http://www.genie-mc.org

    VALOR

    https://valor.pp.rl.ac.uk