Vlasios Petousis, Ph.D.
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Hello, my name is Vlasios Petousis. I am a senior researcher, particle physicist, and a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN. My work also extends to phenomenology, with a strong focus on implementing new theories in experimental settings. In recent years, my research has focused on:
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The physics of neutron stars
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The nature of dark matter
Short Biography
Dr. Vlasios Petousis is a Greek senior physicist at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at Czech Technical University in Prague (IEAP-CTU). He studied physics at the University of Ioannina, Greece, where he also earned a master’s degree in Applied Physics. He obtained his PhD in Experimental High Energy Physics through a joint program between the University of Thessaly and the University of Würzburg.
He began his scientific career as a postdoctoral researcher at the Rudjer Bošković Institute of Nuclear Physics in Zagreb, Croatia, working with silicon pixel detectors for the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He then continued as a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics at the University of Cyprus, contributing to the HADES collaboration at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany. Later, he served as an external collaborator for the APEX experiment (direct detection of dark photons) at Jefferson Lab (Hall A) in the United States.
Since 2018, he has been a senior researcher at IEAP-CTU, focusing on the ATLAS – Roman Pots (ARP) project, particularly the ATLAS Forward Proton Detectors (AFP). His work involves the analysis of exclusive di-muon detection through proton tagging and detector alignment techniques.
In addition to his research, he has experience in teaching, having served as a Lecturer in Applied Physics at the Technological Education Institute (T.E.I) in Lamia, Greece.
His research interests include phenomenological studies in Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics, as well as the structure of compact astrophysical objects such as neutron stars, their hybrid formations, and potential dark matter admixtures.
Beyond his scientific work, he is an amateur astronomer and science communicator with a strong interest in the history of physics. He has also translated the book For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time into Greek.