Igor Strakovsky

Igor Strakovsky is an experimentalist in fundamental nuclear and particle physics. He received a doctoral degree from the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) in 1984 and worked as a research scientist at PNPI before joining the Physics Department at Virginia Tech in 1992 and then the Physics Department at The George Washington University in 1997. He has been a full research professor there since 2009. He was and is a visiting researcher at TRIUMF, Canada; MAX-lab, Sweden; Jülich FZ and Mainz U., Germany; BNL and JLab, USA. His research is hadronic and electromagnetic physics and nuclear structure. Now his main experimental focus is on Jefferson Lab and the future EIC at BNL. He authored the book, “Modern Muon Physics: Selected Issues” and he is a Regional Award Winner and one of the 15 national Finalists for The 2008 Inspire Integrity Awards of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars’ (NSCS) Inspire Integrity Awards, USA. He also received an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.