Asimina Arvanitaki, PhD
Physics
Dr. Asimina Arvanitaki is a particle physicist who specializes in designing new experiments at the “precision frontier” of theoretical physics. Dr. Arvanitaki is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics and is the first woman to hold a named chair at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario.
In 2016, she received the New Horizons Prize in Fundamental Physics from the Breakthrough Foundation, and in 2022, she won the CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for her work on subatomic physics. Asimina earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Athens and her PhD from Stanford University.
