
College of Science
George Mason University
Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos was born in Athens, Greece, and graduated from the University of Athens with a B.S. degree in physics in 1961. He received a Ph.D. in theoretical solid state physics from the University of London, England, in 1967. He was a professor of physics at George Mason University from 1967 to 1977 and chairman of the physics department from 1974 to 1977. He then joined the Naval Research Laboratory as a government employee. He was director of the Center for Computational Materials Science in the Materials and Technology Division of NRL from 1992 to 2004.
His areas of expertise are in computational solid state physics and
include band structure calculations, theory of superconductivity, and
theory of alloys. He has authored 240 journal papers and two books and
has given more than 300 presentations at professional meetings.
He has won four Alan Berman
Research Publication awards and the 1990 Sigma Xi Pure Science Award at
NRL. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1980.
He has over 4500 citations in the scientific literature. In August 2000
he was awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award. In August
2004 he was appointed as professor of materials science at George Mason
where he had held an adjunct professorship since 1992.
| Ph.D. 1967 | University of London(U.K.) Theoretical Solid State Physics |
| M.Sc. 1964 | University of London(U.K.) Theoretical Solid State Physics |
| D.I.C 1963 | Imperial College of London Mathematical Physics |
| B.Sc. 1961 | University of Athens (Greece) Physics |
George Mason University:
| Professor of Materials Science | 2004-present |
| Senior Contract Professor, CSI+SCS | 1992-2004 |
| Adjunct Professor | 1977-1992 |
| Professor and Chair of Physics Department | 1974-1977 |
| Associate Professor of Physics | 1971-1974 |
| Assistant Professor of Physics | 1967-1971 |
Naval
Research Laboratory:
| Research Physicist | 1977-2004|
| Branch Head | 1992-2004 |
American Physical Society
Materials Research Society
Sigma Xi