Professor Foudas is Professor of physics and heads the high-energy physics group at the University of Ioannina in Greece. After completing his PhD at Columbia University in 1989, studying neutrino production at the Tevatron, he worked on the data-acquisition electronics for Fermilab’s CCFR experiment. He then moved to the University of Wisconsin and worked on the trigger system of the ZEUS experiment at DESY. In 2000, he started work at Imperial College London and joined the CMS collaboration where, among several roles, he took responsibility for the design and implementation of the Global Calorimeter Trigger, his group also developed the first model of the CMS track trigger. Later, based at the University of Ioannina, he developed and built the CMS Barrel Muon Track Finder using cutting-edge FPGAs and optical-link technologies. At the LHC his physics interests have focused on jet cross sections and searches for new fundamental interactions. Alongside his expertise in delivering detector systems and conducting physics analyses, Professor Fountas has held several management roles in CMS and been a member of many councils and advisory committees. He was appointed Greek scientific delegate to the CERN Council in 2016, Vice President of Council in 2022 and President of the Council in 2024
