Constantia Alexandrou
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Constantia Alexandrou (Greek: Κωνσταντία Αλεξάνδρου) is a Cypriot physicist whose research focuses on lattice QCD, including the use of lattice QCD to elucidate the proton spin crisis.[1] She is a professor at the University of Cyprus and at The Cyprus Institute.
Alexandrou studied physics at the University of Oxford, receiving a bachelor's degree there with first class honours in 1980. She continued her studies in the US at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1985.[2][3] Her dissertation was Stochastic study of one-dimensional many-fermion systems.[4]
After postdoctoral research at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland and Erlangen University in Germany,[3] she became an assistant professor at the University of Cyprus in 1993. She was promoted to associate professor in 1996 and full professor in 2003.[2] She was the founding head of the Department of Physics of The Cyprus Institute,[3] and since 2010 she has held a second affiliation as Institute Professor at the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center there.[2]
In 2022 she was elected for a two-year term as chair of PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe.[5]
