Biography

Dr Konstantinos Karafasoulis works at the Hellenic Army Academy as Laboratory Special Teaching Staff and he is an associate researcher with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He holds a BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Ph.D in High Energy Physics (DELPHI/CERN) experiment from the National Technical University of Athens. Konstantinos has more than 20 years working experience in the fields of radiation detector simulation, data acquisition systems and data analysis techniques.

He has participated in the DELPHI and CMS experiments at CERN with the Demokritos/Greece and INFN/Italy teams and he has been involved in various European and National funded R&D projects for the simulation and development of radiation detectors, data acquisition systems and novel data analysis techniques (e.g. NATO SENERA, FP7-COCAE, EPAN, PYTHAGORAS, PENED, ESA-C14240). He was the NATO Country Project Director (NPD) of the NATO funded project SENERA.

He is involved in the detailed simulation with GEANT4 of the MIDAS device (a radiation dosimeter for space applications) and in the development of reconstruction algorithms for deducing the energy and the identity of particles crossing the device based on the energy depositions of the particles in the MAPS.

He is leading the GEANT4 simulations effort in the “Comprehensive radiation monitor package for Lunar mission” project funded by ESA.