Michael Stamatikos

Dr. Michael Stamatikos is an Associate Professor in OSU’s Departments of Physics, Astronomy, and Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CCAPP), and an astrophysicist affiliated with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Stamatikos served as the Founding Director of the SciDome Planetarium and The Works Museum’s first Chief Science Officer, leading to “Collaboration of the Year” (2017) and “High Impact Program” (2022) awards. At OSU, Stamatikos has won awards for “Best New Undergraduate Research Mentor” (2016), Service (2017), “Thomas J. Evans Teaching Excellence” (2017 & 2021), Community Engaged Scholar (2021), and the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (2022). Stamatikos has been featured in The Columbus Dispatch, Daytime Columbus, The Newark Advocate, NASA-TV, TEDx, NPR, and WKNO 101.7 FM. Stamatikos leads research in high-energy particle astrophysics, with a focus on gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and has won the Bruno Rossi Prize (2007, 2011 & 2021) from the American Astronomical Society for major advances in the scientific understanding of GRBs. 

Stamatikos has also been widely recognized for his work on Swift, which ranked as the best NASA science mission in 2014 and 2016. He has co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles and is an invited reviewer for NASA science proposals and The Astrophysical Journal. Lastly, Stamatikos is developing comprehensive educational support for K-12 STEM students and educators, as well as public outreach content, as the Owner and President of STEM Solutions, LLC - a company he started in 2023. This includes serving as a Digital Science Communication Fellow at the Boston Museum of Science and an Artificial Intelligence STEM (Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics, K-12 STEM) content expert for Aligned Labs.