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Professor
Past Physics Chair (2004-2007)
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Dr. Makis Petratos received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the American University. He subsequently held research positions at the University of Rochester and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) before joining the KSU Faculty in 1994. He has been doing research for two decades on the quark-gluon substructure of nucleons and nuclei by scattering unpolarized and polarized electron beams from unpolarized and polarized nuclear targets at SLAC and Jefferson Laboratory (JLab). During the 90's, Professor Petratos played a leading role in the SLAC measurements of the spin structure functions of the nucleon and in the development of the experimental program of the JLab Hall A Facility. His current research interests are focused in JLab measurements of the electromagnetic form factors of few-body nuclear systems testing the meson-nucleon framework of the few-body "standard model" and predictions of nuclear chromodynamics.