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Post by leandros nikon on Mar 22, 2008 15:06:13 GMT -5
www.voiceofgreece.gr/news-in-english/from-harvard-to-thessaloniki-university.htmWith a grant worth 1.13 million euros, 24-year-old Katerina Ayfanti will continue her research for the next five years in the Laboratory and Engineering Department of the Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki. She is the youngest researcher in the world, who succeeded in the first competition for grants from the European Research Council (ERC), to be funded for her research on the subject: “Investigating the transition from microscale to nanoscale: theory/experiment and comparisons/applications”. Her aim is to study and research her theory at the university for the next few years. Katerina Ayfanti was accepted by the Technological University of Michigan in the United States at the age of 16 and completed her pre-graduate studies in three years. Subsequently, with a scholarship from the US National Foundation of Sciences, she did post-graduate work at Cambridge University in Britain. In 2005, at the age of only 21, she had already completed her doctorate at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where she was distinguished as the youngest scientist to have received her PhD in that country. here in greek... news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_100044_22/03/2008_263723
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Post by leandros nikon on Mar 22, 2008 15:35:49 GMT -5
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Post by rex362 on Mar 22, 2008 16:17:51 GMT -5
is she Hungarian ?
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Post by bordura on Mar 22, 2008 18:44:23 GMT -5
cool Europe needs badly to increase R&D budget! As it now it lags on that sector behind US in both governmental and privat investment in R & D. Nice to see some one from Balkan on the sciences spear head. good job
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Post by Kanaris on Mar 22, 2008 18:52:23 GMT -5
They don't have to.... her name is 100% Greek.....
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Post by rex362 on Mar 22, 2008 19:27:14 GMT -5
unusual name ....
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Post by leandros nikon on Mar 23, 2008 5:53:55 GMT -5
ayfanti
that's a greek surname rexy...a compound word from aei=always and yfaino=spin...
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Post by rex362 on Mar 23, 2008 9:44:28 GMT -5
your making me dizzy
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Post by Arlin on Mar 23, 2008 23:44:33 GMT -5
Yeah, congrats to her! That's impressive
I have met some Greek scientist in the US. Mostly doing clinical research, not hard sciences like this girl. Cheers!
@rex Heh, funny play on words
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Post by rex362 on Mar 24, 2008 17:13:14 GMT -5
I got better play ... call me
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Post by Teuta1975 on Mar 24, 2008 19:37:52 GMT -5
Congratulations to her....she is going to die soon though...all gifted persons die earlier...and yes, I am jealous... ;D
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Post by albquietman on Mar 24, 2008 23:23:57 GMT -5
There is some truth on that Teuta, since death comes from brain...but I don't see the reason why you're jealous...
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Post by Teuta1975 on Mar 24, 2008 23:57:51 GMT -5
;D ;D Of course I am not jealous for her dying earlier...lol...but of her glory and splendor in the lifetime... ;D do not misjudge me...it's humans' nature (especially females) ;D
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Post by Arlin on Mar 25, 2008 2:46:09 GMT -5
Oh come on let's not jinx her with this dying early stuff... We need more scientists in the Balkans and she didn't sell out to the west! ... but yeah I'm jealous too @rexy... So you are player eh?
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Post by albquietman on Mar 25, 2008 7:12:56 GMT -5
;D ;D Of course I am not jealous for her dying earlier...lol...but of her glory and splendor in the lifetime... ;D do not misjudge me...it's humans' nature (especially females) ;D I was just kidding honey and I don't misjudge you. Of course we humans are wired in the way to get the best out of our lives and that includes everything, career, glory, splendor, you name it...and by reading your posts here on this board, I think you've got the ingrediends to get the best out of your life...;D
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Post by Teuta1975 on Mar 25, 2008 23:32:29 GMT -5
Thank you AlbQ. you're right..I wouldn't change my life with hers...so I think I don't have any reason to be jealous ...I was just kidding too
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Post by albquietman on Mar 25, 2008 23:33:57 GMT -5
You're very welcome Teuta
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