Team

Dr. Vasily Jorjadze is an experimental nuclear physicist with over 40 years of experience in detector design and data processing. Dr. Jorjadze has worked at Brookhaven and Fermi National Labs, and international laboratories including DESY in Germany, PSI and CERN in Switzerland, and the High Energy Physics Institute in Serpukhov and Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics, in Dubna, both Russia. Since 2011, he has been developing industrial methods for waste and material processing and renewable energy. Dr. Jorjzadze founded IM Technologies in 2019 to transition the high temperature furnace technology from the Physics Laboratory of Stony Brook University where it currently sits.

Dr. Drees is an experimental nuclear physicist with over 30 years of experience. He had leading roles in multiple nuclear physics experiments at CERN in Switzerland and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). He was project manager (2000-2008) for detector upgrades for the PHENIX experiment at BNL, a group of about 500 scientists from around the world. As Associated Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (2008-2012) at Stony Brook University he was responsible for the facilities of 27 departments and a budget of about $70M, and as Vice Provost for Budget and Planning (2012-2015) he managed a $150M budget. Since 2015 he is Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy,

Dr. Papadopoulos is an Aero-Mechanical Engineer having worked in academia, government and industry, collectively 30+ years of experience with more than 20 years of experience leading programs for innovative technology to address needs in the Aerospace, Defense and Energy sectors. From 2004 to 2014 he was with Alliant Techsystems (ATK), a large multi-billion defense contractor now part of Northrup Grumman, having held senior management and technical leadership positions with responsibilities over a $20M technology portfolio. As of 2015 he is one of four principals at Innoveering, LLC, a fast-growing technology startup that is focused on high speed / harsh environment systems with applications in Aerospace and Defense.