Costas J. Papachristou

Dr. Costas J. Papachristou is a senior faculty member at the Hellenic Naval Academy (The Naval Academy of Greece). He received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Brigham Young University, USA, and spent another year at BYU as a research faculty in physics. At the HNA, he teaches freshman- and sophomore-level physics. His research interests are mainly in theoretical and mathematical physics (in particular, symmetry and integrability properties of classical field equations, classical electromagnetism), but he is also active in physics education. He is an amateur musician and a columnist for Greek newspapers and magazines.