Martha Constantinou

Dr. Constantinou is an Associate Professor of Physics and a Physics Department Vice Chair at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Cyprus (2008), and her professional preparation includes postdoctoral positions awarded by the Cyprus Research Innovation Foundation. She was also a research associate at the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center at The Cyprus Institute. She is a recipient of a 2019 Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. She received the Selma Lee Bloch Brown Professorship at Temple, which recognizes female faculty in research and service. She has been elected and is currently serving on the Steering Committee of the Electron-Ino Collider (EIC) Users Group, and the Executive Committee of the USQCD Consortium. She has also been appointed the Chair of the External Advisory Board of the EIC Theory Institute at Brookhaven National Lab. She is the Lead Principal Investigator and a spokesperson of the Quark-Gluon Tomography Topical Collaboration funded by the US Department of Energy, and she is a member of the Physics Cluster of the Committee on Science and the Arts of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. The committee identifies worldwide scientific and technological achievements and recommends awarding the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal to the most pioneering scientists, engineers, inventors, and innovators from across the globe.