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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 12, 2007 9:54:16 GMT -5
 The present thread is about our favorite Greeks of the 20th-21th century,NOT earlier!Posts about earlier periods will be erased. Several interesting webpages about the prominent Greeks: *http://greekodyssey.typepad.com *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_Americans *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greeks *www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/IT.html *http://www.ellines.com/en/category/famous-greeks/ The only exceptions (biographies of foreigners) which are posted here are of the following four phillelenes:De Chirico,Antony Quinn,Asa Jennings and Otto Rehagel. Disclaimer Most of the following biographies are taken from wikipedia,the free encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_CopyrightThere is no personal economic profit by my participation in this forum or from the specific thread particularly.My only intention is to inform the public about the prominent modern greeks.Also,i always mention the source of my information. If you are the copy right owner of any biography or photo and you wish to remove it from here,please send me a personal message.It will be removed at once. CATEGORIES:(1)SHIPOWNERS (2)SCIENTISTS (3)ATHLETES (4)AUTHORS (5)MARTYRS AND WARRIORS (6)MUCISIANS (7)ACTORS,DIRECTORS,TV PERSONAS (8)THE GREEKS OF AMERICA (9)ARTISTS (10)CHURCH (11)BUSINESSMEN (12)POLITICIANS (13)BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS (14)AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY (15)THE VLACH BENEFACTORS (16)ATHENS POLYTECHNICAL SCHOOL,1973 (17)ATHENS OLYMPICS 2004:THE PROTAGONISTS (18)THE GREEK AIRFORCE. (19)OTHER BENEFACTORS (20)CHEFS (21)OTHERS (22)THE CHIOTIC DIASPORA (23)THE GREEKS OF THE SOVIET UNION (24)THE GREEKS OF FRANCE (25)THE GREEKS & GREEK CYPRIOTS OF U.K (26)THE GREEKS OF AFRICA. (27)THE GREEKS OF AUSTRALIA (28)THE GREEKS OF TURKEY favorite modern greeks prominent modern greeks photobucket,wiki ...........................................................................................................................................................................
For further reading,this is the link for the astonishing webpage of Dr.Michael Lahanas,"Hellenica".
www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/IT.html
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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 12, 2007 10:00:41 GMT -5
INDEXThis list is not complete yet.
1.THE GREEK SHIP OWNERS.(31) Aristotelis Onassis John Latsis Spiros Latsis Panayis Athanase Vagliano Stavros Niarchos Theodoros Angelopoulos Vasil Goulandris George Livanos Costas Lemos Constantine Los
Vassilis Konstantakopoulos/Costamare
John Handris John Hatzipateras John Theodoracopoulos Epaminondas Empiricos Vardinoyiannis family Periklis Panagopoulos Dimitri & John Coustas George Economou The Tsakos family
Attica Group
Giorgos Prokopiou Haji-ioannou family
John Angelicoussis
Angeliki Frangou
Evangelos Marinakis
Paris Dragnis Dinos Martinos P. T. Laskaridis Frangos-Moundreas Nikos Pateras Diamantis Diamantidis Yiorgos Prokopiou Spiros and Adam Polemis Lou Kolakis 2.THE GREEK SCIENTISTS(159)
Andronikos Manolis
Ayfanti Katerina
Apostol Tom
Apostolakis George
Angelopoulos Vassilis
Avgerou Chrisanthi
Apostolopoulos Dimitrios
Artavanis Tsakonas Spiros
Athanassakis Apostolos
Angelopoulos Vassilis
Angeletos George-Marios
Akassoglou Katerina Antoniadi Eugene Michel
Antoniadou Eleni
Antoniades Charalambos
Antonarakis Stylianos
Argyris John H.
Alaoglu Leonidas
Avouris Phedon
Alivisatos Paul
Argyris Apostolos
Alexandridis Annetta
Alexandridis Paschalis
Alexopoulos Golfo
Alexopoulos Michelle
Alexopoulos George S
Alexopoulos Sophoclis P.
Alexopoulos Andreas
Alexopoulos Constantine John
Alexopoulos Christos
Alexopoulos Nicolaos
Andreadis Stelios T.
Artavanis-Tsakonas Spyros
Akassoglou Katerina
Aliprantis Charalambos D.
Arvanitaki Asimina
Aris Poulianos Victor Sarigiannidis Spyridon Marinatos Dimitrios Pandermalis Helene Glykatzi-Ahrweiler John K. Papadopoulos Eleni Konsolaki Christine Kondoleon George Papanikolaou Stephen Papadopoulos George Coukos Christos Coutifaris Panos Zavos Andreas G. Tzakis George Iliakis Evripidis Gavathiotis Apostolos P. Georgopoulos Evangelos Michelakis Antonios G. Mikos Nikolaos Scarmeas George Vithoulkas Irena Papadopoulos Nicholas Negroponte Michael Dertouzos Michalis Bletsas Aggelos Bletsas Gregory Stefanopoulos Evangelos Papadopoulos Manolis Kellis Dimitris Bertsimas Ioannis V. Yannas Lena Valavani Nikolaos Mavridis Chryssa Kouveliotou Stamatios M. Krimigis Thanasis Economou Nicholas Leventis Andreas 'Andy' Gerasimos Michalitsianos Samuel Kounaves Fotis Kafatos Dimitrios Trichopoulos Nicholas Christakis Panagiotis Roilos Christos Papadimitriou Christos Papadopoulos Dimitri Terzopoulos George Tsebelis Alexandros G. Dimakis Panayiotis Papadopoulos Demetri Psaltis Anastasios Chassiakos Thymios Jordanides Nick Panagiotacopulos Jean Focas John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos Kleomenis Tsiganis Emilios T. Harlaftis Konstantinos Dennis Papadopoulos Mihalis Mathioudakis Constantin Caratheodory Christos Papakyriakopoulos Stamatis Vassiliadis Nicholas Metropolis Demetrios Christodoulou Panos M. Pardalos Paris Kanellakis Andreas Moshovos Kyros Kutulakos Joseph Sifakis Constantinos Daskalakis Kyriakos Mouratidis Panagiotis Metaxas Dimitris Papadias Phokion G. Kolaitis Nikolaos Mavridis Nikos Salingaros Ioannis Karatzas Christos Kozyrakis Stavros Garoufalidis Dimitris Pavlidis Nikolaos G. Bourbakis Athanase Papadopoulos George Metakides Dimitris Nanopoulos Othon Rediniotis Dimitris C. Lagoudas Gregory Vlastos Christodoulos A. Floudas Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos Emmanuel Giannelis George Malliaras Yiorgos Makris Andreas Savvides Stathis N. Kalyvas Nicolas Constantine Christofilos Kyriakos Kostas Nicolaou Paris Svoronos Savas Dimopoulos Nikolaos Vlasopoulos Nicholas M Spyrou Georgiadis Teodoro Constantino Tsallis Tom Ypsilantis Nicholas Leventis Maria Spiropulu Arthuros Zervos Aristides Patrinos Soukoulis & Economou Jannis (John) Kallinikos Eugene Trivizas George Georgiou Nikos Paragios George Papadopoulos Sotiris Pratsinis Vasilis M. Fthenakis Leda Cosmides Kalypso Nicolaidis Basil Markesinis Nikos Mouzelis Sophia Drossopoulou Sakellaris Mailis Periklis Petropoulos Mikhail N. Zervas 3.GREEK ATHLETES(57) The Olympic medalists Greek national basketball team Greek national football team Greek national volleyball team Greek national water polo team Vouliagmeni women water polo team Ethnikos women's water polo team Athinaikos women's basketball team Mike Zambidis Mike Arnaoutis Jim Londos Stan "The Man" Longinidis Michael Alan Katsidis Nikos Gallis Dean Karnazes Yiannis Kouros Harry Agganis Lefter Kucukandonyadis Sotiris Ninis Tom Papas Vassilis Hatzipanagis Pyrros Dimas Kahi Kakhiasvili Valerios Leonidis Leonidas Sabanis Leonidas Kokkas Viktor Mitrou Anna Verouli Sofia Sakorafa Ekaterini Koffa Konstantinos Koukodimos Olga Vasdeki Paraskevi Tsiamita Ekaterini Voggoli Kostas Gatsioudis Herodotos Giorgallas Niki Xanthou Eleftheria Ftouli and Evanthia Makriyianni Nery Mantey Niangkouara Vasiliki Arvaniti and Vasiliki Karadassiou Sofoklis Schortsianitis Vlasis Maras Periklis Iakovakis Kanellos Kanellopoulos Rhythmic Gymnastics national team Ioannis Drymonakos Aris Grigoriadis Kostas Douvalidis Marcos Paghdatis Demetrius Vikelas Spiridon (Spiros) Louis Panagis Koutalianos Konstantinos Tsiklitiras Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Stylianos Kyriakides Harilaos Vasilakos 4.THE GREEK AUTHORS.(26) Nikos Kazantzakis Constantine Cavafy Giorgos Seferis Odysseus Elytis Elia Venezis Yannis Ritsos Nikos Gatsos Stratis Tsirkas Nikos Kavadias Andreas Embirikos Nikos Engonopoulos Penelope Delta Kostis Palamas Lorentzos Mavilis Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo Nikos Tsiforos Aggelos Sikelianos Eleni Sikelianos Kostis Moskof Eugenios Trivizas Freddie Germanos Thea Halo Katerina Gogou Nicholas Gage Antigone Kefala Kiki Dimoula ................................................. 16.THE VLACH BENEFACTORS.George Averoff Apostolos Arsakis George Stavrou Stergios Doumbas Evangelos Zappas Constantinos Zappas Demetrius Postolakas George Sinas Simon Sinas Nikoaos Stournaras The Tositsas family MUSICIANS.Anna Maria Kalogeropoulou aka Maria Callas Vangelis Manos Hatzidakis Mikis Theodorakis Nana Mouschouri Yanni Xenakis Dimitri Mitropoulos Vicky Leandros Dionysis Savopoulos Kostas Hatzis Demis Rousos Flery Dandonaki Nikos Xylouris Haris Alexiou Eleftheria Arvanitaki Marinella George Dalaras Marios Frangoulis Yanni Markos Vamvakaris Vasilis Tsitsanis Sotiria Bellou Manos Loizos Grigoris Bithikotsis Giorgos Zambetas Roza Eskenazi Spyros Samaras Nikos Skalkotas Maria Farantouri Vailis Lekkas Leonidas Kavakos Dimitris Sgouros John Georgiadis George Arvanitas Miltiadis Karidis Elena Paparizou George Michael Tzimis Panousis Nikolas Asimos Alkinoos Ioannidis Nikos Papazoglou Eleni Tsaligopoulou Agni Baltsa Basil Polidouris Sofia Vempo Manolis Kalomiris 7.ACTORS,DIRECTORS,TV PERSONAS.Michael Kakoyannis Theo Angelopoulos Katina Paxinou Emilios Veakis George Mitsikostas Philopemen Finos Malvina Karali Lakis Lazopoulos Elia Kazan Telly Savalas a.k.a Kojak Spyros Skouras Kostas Gavras Elia Koteas Billy Zane John Cassavetes Melina Eleni Kanakaredes Olympia Dukakis Irene Papas Nikos Aliagas Antonia Eugenia Vardalos Alexandra Pascalidou Marina Sirtis Antony Quinn Jennifer Aniston John Stamos Michael Constantine Alexander Payne Costas Mandylor Louis Mandylor Strangis family Melina Mercouri Despo Diamantidou Dimitris Horn Ålli Lampeti Karolos Koun Alexis Minotis Manos Katrakis Marika Kotopouli Titos Vandis Lydia Koniordou Aliki Vougiouklaki Mimis (Dimitris) Fotopoulos Rena Vlahopoulou Kostas Voutsas Patrick Tatopoulos Alex Proyas POLITICIANSXenophon Euthymiou Zolotas Georgios Papandreou Konstantinos Karamanlis Constantine of Greece Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Kostas Simitis Constantinos Stephanopoulos Stavros Dimas Kostas Zouraris Karolos Papoulias Rodi Kratsa Tasos Papadopoulos Spiro Theodore Agnew John Dimitri Negroponte Michael Stanley Dukakis George Robert Stephanopoulos Paul Sarbanes Olympia Jean Bouchles Snowe Leonidas Raptakis Michael Bilirakis Gus Bilirakis George Tenet Paul Efthemios Tsongas Andrew Natsios Andrew A. Athens Marietta Karamanli Maria Vasilakou John Hatzistergos Arthur Sinodinos Ivan Savvidis BUSINESSMENSoukos robots Andreas Vgenopoulos/Marfin Investment Group Vasilakis/Aegean airlines Haralambos Vovos constructions Andrew Athens Socrates Kokkalis Alexandros Iolas Ilias Lalaounis Boutaris Spiros Metaxas Dimitris Kopelouzos Koutsianas/apivita Korres Dimitris Koutsolioutsos/folli follie Gavrilos Tsagaris Minos Kyriakou Bulgari family Alexander Pantages Leonidas Kestekides Leo Stefanos Andrew Georgiou Peter Karmanos Tavoulareas, William Peter Peter Angelos John Paterakis John A. Catsimatidis Mike Lazaridis Nikolaos Stasinopoulos and Family The Mytilineos Family Lambrakis Stelios Hajiioannou Glentos Sotiris Sofianopoulos
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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 12, 2007 10:07:08 GMT -5
1.The ship owners
Nine Facts about the Greek Merchant Fleet Today
1.) In 2004, 13.5 billion Euros were absorbed by Greece from the merchant fleet.
2.) Approximately 23.5 percent of the world’s oil tankers of 73.8 mil. Tn. Dwt belong to Greek ship owners. This is as large as the US and Japanese fleets combined.
3.) Some 20 percent of the world’s ships in gross tonnage over 1000 tn. Dwt belong to Hellenic ship owners. This is around 60 percent of EU 25 combined fleets.
4.) The largest Hellenic shipping conglomerate nowadays, that of the Tsakos family, has a fleet of around 8 million tn. Dwt. This is two times larger than the entire French fleet.
5.) Greek ships transport 70 percent of Chinese imported oil and natural gas.
6.) Around 50,000 professionals work for Hellenic shipping companies in the City of London.
7.) Around $20 billion were spent in Japanese shipyards for the construction of new ships for Greek shipowners, only for the period 2001-2005.
8.) Around 450,000 employees and their family members depend on the merchant navy and related activities in Greece nowadays.
9.) The port of Piraeus is the third largest in the world in terms of passenger transportation. In 2004, some 15 million passengers were transported to the islands via Greek ferries. Aristotelis OnassisAristotle Onassis (January 15, 1900–March 15, 1975) was the most famous Greek shipping magnate of the 20th century. Onassis was born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now Izmir, Turkey). At the time of his birth, Smyrna had a significant Greek population. After being briefly occupied by Greece (1919 – 1922) in the aftermath of the allied victory in World War I, the city was recaptured by Turkey, and the Onassis family holdings were lost, spurring them to move to Greece as refugees. By 1932, Onassis had become a world-class businessman, owning commercial ships, tankers and whalers. He founded Olympic Airways (today Olympic Airlines), the Greek national carrier, in 1957. In 1954, the FBI investigated Onassis for fraud against the U.S. government. He was charged with violating the citizenship provision of the shipping laws which requires that all ships displaying the American flag be owned by United States citizens. Onassis pled guilty and paid $7 million. He married Athina Mary Livanos, daughter of shipping magnate Stavros Livanos, on December 28, 1946; their son, Alexander (April 30, 1948 – January 23, 1973), and daughter Christina Onassis, were born in New York City. After their divorce, Athina married her late sister's widower—and Onassis's arch shipping rival—Stavros Niarchos. Despite the fact they were both married, Onassis and opera diva Maria Callas embarked on a notorious affair. According to Greek Fire: The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis by Nicholas Gage, Callas gave birth to their child, a boy, who died hours later on March 30, 1960. Onassis ended his relationship with Callas to marry Jackie Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, on October 20, 1968. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----  Yannis (John) Latsiswww.eurocharity.org/en/article.php?article_id=248John S. Latsis, child of a large and poor family, was born in 1910 in Katakolo, in the prefecture of Ileia, and died in 2003 in Athens. His father was from Korytsa (today Korçë) and his mother from Kefallonia. He married Henrietta Tsoukala from Pyrgos, with whom he had three children, Spiros, Marianna and Margarita. John Latsis graduated from the School of Commerce in Pyrgos and then took up various occupations related to shipping and trade. A hard working and ambitious man, he soon turned successfully to the export trade in currants that flourished in the Pyrgos region. However, World War II ended his activity in this industry. John Latsis had already moved to Athens with his family before the war. After the war, he turned to coastal shipping, becoming one of its pioneers, in an age when visiting the islands was a difficult venture. In the early post-war period John Latsis established connections with Egypt initially, and then with other Arab countries, as his ships systematically carried cargoes and petroleum products. These contacts would, for a while in the late 1950s, turn him to the transportation of Muslim pilgrims from various Islamic countries to Mecca. His restless nature permitted him no complacency. A little later, he purchased freighters, and soon added the first tankers to his fleet, which grew at a rapid pace during the following decades. John Latsis had a special relationship with the sea that not only lasted all his life, but occupied a prominent place in his business activities: in the subsequent years, the fleet of John Latsis and his company Bilinder Marine Corporation were among the global powers in the shipping industry. Meanwhile, parallel to his transport of petroleum products by sea, he proceeded to the sale of these products. This new activity was added to his existing ones, and soon John Latsis foresaw the need to store and refine the oil he transported on his ships. This led him, early in the 1970s, to make his first investment on Greek territory by establishing a refinery of international specifications, the export refinery of Petrola. The refinery – which was built within a very short period of time – operated for the next 30 years under the management of the Latsis Group and constituted the springboard for consolidating the Group’s presence in Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia, John Latsis extended his activities by establishing the company Petrola International during the mid-1970s. Through this company, the Latsis Group essentially penetrated the construction industry by developing significant activity that contributed to building the technical infrastructure of Saudi Arabia and helped develop important private projects. The culmination of the Group’s activities in that country was the fact that in the early 1980s, John Latsis built the refinery at Rabigh. He then ran this large refinery as an equal partner with the Saudi Arabian state oil company up to 1995. In 1980, John Latsis purchased the Banque de Dépôts based in Switzerland, a move that laid the foundation for creating an international network of banks in many European cities, in the U.S., Asia and of course Greece. These business activities constituted the cornerstone for the growth of the Latsis Group and for the great legacy left by John Latsis to his children, who continue his work and have extended the Group’s activities into other fields. Although in the business field, John Latsis acquired the reputation of a tycoon, his social activity and contribution place him in the category of a benefactor. Through a number of major charitable works, donations and philanthropic acts, John Latsis supported hundreds of initiatives by the governments of Greece and of other countries, state organisations, ministries, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Greek Church, hospitals, foundations, athletic associations, schools, etc. He took special care of Greek seamen, which was expressed by donations of tens of millions of dollars, and of course he also looked after his special homeland, Pyrgos in Ileia. John Latsis established and financed the Ileians’ Scholarships Foundation John S. Latsis (196 and the Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Albanians of Greek Descent (1991), which make a noteworthy and multiple contribution to the fields of education, vocational training and social welfare. Through his business and social activity, John Latsis brought Greece into the spotlight of international political and financial affairs, helping to ensure broader publicity for the country and encouraging the adoption of Greek positions on a number of issues. For his national contribution and work, he received awards from dozens of organisations; the most important of these were the Gold Cross from the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1995, the title of Megas Referendarios from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix from the Hellenic Republic and the Academy of Athens Prize in 1989. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ www.timesonline.co.uk/richlist/person/0,,33610,00.html Spiros LatsisOne of the few academics on this list, Latsis has a PhD from the London School of Economics and his knowledge of economic theory and behaviour is widely respected. He appears here by virtue of both birth and ability. His father, John Latsis, was a Greek shipping tycoon who lived for many years in London in a vast house next to St James's Palace until his death last April. Spiro, 57, spends most of his time in London, although he often visits Geneva to keep an eye on his family's extensive banking interests. Its biggest holding is in EFG Bank Group, a private bank that operates in London, Geneva and Monaco and merged with a Spanish bank last year. The Latsis Group, the main family business, recently took a stake worth over £300m in the Greek oil refiner Hellenic Petroleum. With extensive other assets including ships and a large property portfolio, Latsis and his family are valued by Forbes magazine at £2.4 billion. We are more cautious and settle for £2.1 billion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Panayis Athanase Vaglianofrom wikipedia Panayis Athanase Vagliano a.k.a. Panaghis Athanassiou Vallianos, (1814 – 1902) was a merchant and shipowner, acclaimed as the 'father of modern Greek shipping'.He was born in Kerameies on the Greek island of Kefalonia, where he first became a sailor, before becoming part of the Greek diaspora. Russia He joined his brothers Marinos and Andreas, initially settling in Taganrog, Russian Empire around around 1840. Together they formed Vaglianos Bros. as grain-merchants and shippers, making good profits from the high prices of grain during the Crimean War. It is said that they sometimes bought the whole Russian wheat export crop, and were pioneers of exchange-traded wheat contracts. After the war ended, fellow Greeks had problems finding shippers for their cargoes from the Great Powers; Vaglianos Bros. stepped in and offered them financing and transport on their own ships. London Vagliano moved his business to London in 1858, as grain merchants, bankers, and shippers, but kept in contact with Russia through his brothers. There was already a well-established Greek merchant community in London, and they assisted his membership of the Baltic Exchange from where his business thrived. His operation based in London avoided restrictive Greek commercial laws, enabling him to loan money to other Greeks for shipbuilding, and he was quoted as wishing for 'the seas covered with a thick forest of Greek masts'. Legacies Vagliano Bros. continued operating after his death, and survived the loss of its traditional markets in Russia and Turkey after World War I by concentrating on shipping and finance; in this way they helped develop Greek shipping dynasties. However, he is probably best remembered in his native Greece for a donation that funded the National Library of Greece in Athens. He was also a philanthropist in London, and donated money towards Saint Sophia Cathedral in London and the Greek Orthodox cemetery within West Norwood Cemetery, where he is interred next to his brother Marinos in a grand neoclassical Greek mausoleum modelled on the Tower of the Winds, now listed Grade II. At his death he was enormously wealthy (his estate was valued at £3M) and he willed a considerable legacy to Kefalonia for charitable purposes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  www.stavrosniarchosfoundation.org/page/?la=2&id=7
Stavros Niarchos
In 1956, less than twenty years after creating his own firm, Niarchos agreed to build and operate the Hellenic Shipyards, the first such private investment in Greece. Known as the Skaramanga Yard, it employed over 6,000 skilled workers and rapidly became the largest Mediterranean shipyard for repairs and new construction. In 1985 the shipyard was placed under state control, but Niarchos’s early and considerable commitment to Greece still stands as an effective demonstration of the power of private investment for the country’s economic well-being. Niarchos’s business philosophy in shipping was to buy and build big; his supertankers set world records for size and carrying capacity. For many years he owned the largest private fleet in the world. At its peak, his shipping company operated more than 80 tankers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Theodoros Angelopouloswww.goarch.org/en/news/NewsDetail.asp?printit=yes&id=170...Angelopoulos, who co-founded Greece’s first heavy industry and later expanded from steel works to shipping, was best known in his later years as a philanthropist who funded the restoration of the headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople– earning as a result the distinction of Great Benefactor and Archon Megas Logothetis (Grand Deputy), the highest honor accorded a laymen by the Ecumenical Patriarch, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Goulandris family of ship owners.
John P. Goulandris, patriarch of his family
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goulandris (Greek: Γουλανδρής, feminine/genitive form Γουλανδρή) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexandros Goulandris (1927-2017), Greek ship owner
Basil Goulandris (1913-1994), Greek ship owner and arts patron
Chryss Goulandris (born 1950), Greek-Irish ship owner and horse breeder
John Goulandris (?-2016), Greek ship owner
Nicholas J. Goulandris (1891-1957), Greek ship owner
Niki Goulandris (1925-2019), Greek painter and philanthropist
Nikos Goulandris (1913-1983), Greek shipping tycoon and sports team owner
Basil Goulandris
switzerland.isyours.com/e/celebrities/bios/215.html The Greek shipowner settled in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1965. Basil P. Goulandris was born on the Island of Andros in the Aegean Sea. His father, Ioahnis Goulandris, with the help of his five sons, founded a shipbuilding company to connect the islands of the region. During the Second World War, the family assisted the Allies and, after the war, received profitable credits from the Americans. The Goulandris business, Orion & Global Group, dealt with passenger and cargo transport throughout the world. When Basil assumed control of the company, he made the most of the growth in the fifties and managed one of Greece's largest fleets with over 70 ships. During the Golf War in 1992, the shipowner demonstrated his keen sense of business by renting three supertankers to Iran for a considerable profit. In 1965, Basil Goulandris and his wife, Elise, moved to a large property of over 20,000 sq.m in Jouxtens-Mézery near Lausanne. They then went to live in Gstaad in the Bernese Alps. Estimated at 1.5 billion, the Goulandris fortune enabled them to support the Greek community in Lausanne and to acquire an extensive collection of paintings, including five works by Van Gogh. After the death of Basil Goulandris, his wife took care of the Goulandris Foundation, which is dedicated to art and the development of the Island of Andros, until she, too, passed away in July, 2000.
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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 12, 2007 10:12:56 GMT -5
1.Ben.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_shippingShipping is arguably the oldest form of occupation of the Greeks. Greece has the largest merchant marine in the world at 170 mil. dwt, of which 50 mil.t. dwt under the Greek flag.[1] It is the second largest contributor to the Greek economy after tourism and forms the backbone of world shipping. As of 2007, Greek run companies controlled almost 18% of the world's fleet. Its key centers of operation are Pireaus, London and New York. Its fleet flies under a variety of flags, including flags of convenience. However, some Greek shipping is gradually returning to Greece following the changes to the legislative framework governing its operations and the improved infrastructure.Georges Livanosen.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Livanos Georges Livanos was born in 1926 in New Orleans. His father, Stavros Livanos, was a great figure in Greek shipowning circles. During the World War II, Georges Livanos served in the American army in Japan. In 1946, he received a degree in economics from the University of Athens. In 1949, he founded his own company, Ceres Hellenic Shipping. Shortly after, he inherited his father's fleet of 30 ships, including the world's five largest supertankers. Although rivals in business, the Greek shipowning families had close personal ties through the marriages of Georges Livanos' sisters. Eugenia Livanos married a competitor, Stavros Niarchos, and her sister Tina married Aristotle Onassis. After Eugenia's death, Tina divorced and remarried Stavros Niarchos, Aristotle Onassis' lifelong rival. Georges Livanos managed his naval empire from Lausanne. With over 100 ships, his fleet was the largest merchant navy in Greece. He also created a shipping company between the Greek Isles and was involved in the protection of ocean and coastal waters. In 1994, his fortune was an estimated 3 billion dollars. The Greek shipowner then diversified his activity and invested in real estate, as well as in the banking industry with Basil Goulandris, another Greek shipowner also based in Lausanne. Georges Livanos passed away in 1997, leaving his business to his son, Peter Livanos. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Costas Lemos switzerland.isyours.com/e/celebrities/bios/77.html This Greek shipowner lived in Lausanne, the heart of the Swiss Greek community. Born on the Island of Oinuse, Costas Lemos succeeded in building his shipping industry just before the Second World War and maintained a small fleet. During the fifties, he took advantage of the new-found growth and launched into the lucrative supertanker business. He survived the 1974 oil crisis relatively unscathed. With a fleet of 38 ships, Costas Lemos was Greece's third largest shipowner in 1980, after John Spyridon Latsis and Aristotle Onassis. In the eighties, Costas Lemos delved into real estate and lost part of his fortune. In an attempt to be a good patriot, he invested in bad tourism projects in Greece and lost several million dollars. Upon retiring to Lausanne, Costas Lemos did not loose sight of his initial activity and retained a fleet of five ships. His children assumed control of the company after his death and now manage his 2 billion dollar fortune. His son Michael C. Lemos lives in London, while his daughters have remained in Greece. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Constantine M. Los was born on the Ottoman-controlled Greek island of Chios, in 1871. He was the youngest son of the shipping magnate Matheos S. Los. He was trained in maritime skills in Chios. In 1904 he went to New York and became the chief engineer of a line of ferryboats operating in New York harbour, and in 1906 he went to Panama to assist in the maritime aspects of the building of the Panama Canal. Around 1910 he returned to Chios. Utilizing the personal capital he amassed in the Americas, he assumed control of the fleet his father left to his older sons after his death in 1881. Between 1914 and 1930 he revamped the Los fleet, replacing several ships with the then modern steam ships. He continued to expand the fleet until the outbreak of World War II. In 1922, as the Turkish army invaded Asia Minor westward towards Smyrna, Costis Los offered and personally captained his only locally available ship to the Greek efforts to assist the 1,500,000 resulting Greek refugees by transporting them to safety in mainland Greece. During World War II, Costis Los' entire fleet was requisitioned by the Allied Forces, and in turn suffered losses. By the end of the war, his sons had established offices in London, Montreal and New York, although he continued to oversee operations from Chios. The New York-based sons had played a role in the decision of the American government to liquidate its wartime fleet of Liberty Ships to private interests that had lost ships on behalf of the Allied Forces during the war, including the allocation of 107 of these ships to Greek shipowners, with lucrative sale terms. With the profits of the Liberty Ships allocated to Costis Los, the fleet began to grow once again, and by the 1950's he was commissioning new shipbuildings in Japan. Costis Los is also credited with numerous charitable works in Chios, including the construction of a water-pumping station and the development of a beach, now called Los Beach. Costis Los died in 1962 in Chios, having already passed the operation of his fleet to his sons. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_25/01/2011_375017 Vassilis Konstantakopoulos/CostamareVassilis Konstantakopoulos, one of Greece’s best-known shipowners and the man behind one of the country’s biggest tourist resorts, Costa Navarino in the Peloponnese, has died at the age of 76. After spending two decades as a seaman and captain in merchant shipping, Konstantakopoulos established the Costamare Shipping Company in 1974. Today it has a fleet of 46 Greek-flagged ships, making it the largest independent cargo fleet in the world, according to the Athens News Agency.
The shipowner was involved in a number of other organizations and charity projects. He saw a life’s dream fulfilled when the Costa Navarino resort opened last May. Konstantakopoulos and his family had spent more than 25 years buying land in the Peloponnese so the complex could be constructed. The cost of the whole project exceeded 1 billion euros. “This unit was not built just so we could make money,” he told Skai Radio in a recent interview. “It took 28 years to buy all this land. Whatever land I bought, I bought there, I don’t own any other land. If I’d wanted to make money, I would have invested in other things.” Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costamare
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John D. Chandris (1890-1942) - Greek shipping magnate. Born in Chios, Greece (then under Ottoman occupation), Chandris bought his first ship, the S/S Dimitrios, in 1915 after years of experience in the shipping industry. By World War I his fleet had grown to 4, including steamships. In 1922 he had expanded into the passenger shipping market. Following the outbreak of World War II, Chandris followed the exodus of shipowners from Greece, he moved to London where he died. He had two sons, Anthony and Dimitri, who continued rebuilding the company until making it the largest Greek passenger shipping firm www.ssaustralishomepage.co.uk/chandris.htmlThe Founder of Chandris, Mr. John D. Chandris, had many years of shipping experience before he bought his first vessel, the sailing ship Dimitrios in 1915. The First World War did not interrupt his fortunes and soon after he purchased three other ships, his first steamers: the Dimitrios the second, the Vlassios and the Eugenia. His scope of trade was in and around the Greek islands. He then entered passenger shipping in 1922 with the steamer Chimara, a 300-tonner that ran a coastal service between Piraeus and Corinth. hIn 1936, he bought his largest ship to date, the 1,306-ton Corte II from French owners and renamed her Patris. This was actually the very beginning of a Chandris passenger service, although the Corte II was not operated under the Chandris Lines name. Carrying 161 all one class passengers, she operated something of a combination passenger-cruise service out of Venice to other Adriatic ports, the Greek islands and Piraeus, and as far as the Holy Land. John Chandris died at the end of the Second World War, but his two sons, Anthony and Dimitri, then living in London, began to rebuild the company and later develop it as the largest Greek passenger shipping firm. In 1959 Chandris bought the Union Castle motor ship Bloemfontein Castle with the intention of inaugurating a service to Australia. Operating under the name of the Greek Australia Line the company sent the ship to Newcastle-On-Tyne, England, for an extensive refit. Renamed the Patris(16 259 tons ) she made her first voyage from Piraeus via Suez to Freemantle, Melbourne and Sydney in November 1959.The Patris in fact never took part when the service became extended to run from Southampton to Australia. The first to do so was the Brittany(16 644 tons) a twin-screwed, single-reduction geared turbine vessel built in 1952 by the Penhoet Company, St Nazaire, France. She was chartered by Chandris in 1960 and began her service from Piraeus, Greece, to Australian ports in 1961. This was the beginning of the company's long association with the Australian migrant and tourist trades. Another major purchase was the American Lurline, which became the highly popular Ellinis, and which started the Chandris around-the-World service in 1963. Sailings to Australia went outbound via the Suez (and later South Africa) and then returned via the Panama Canal. After this, more and more attention was given to developing cruise services as part of the Chandris operation. More purchases and so more conversions, a highly praised Chandris speciality. There were ships like the Romantica, the Fiesta and the Fantasia, and such other notable acquisitions as the former President Hoover(later the Regina). Chandris lines bought the Queen Frederica in 1966 and after fully modernising her with room for 1200 one-class passengers she left for Southampton in October 1966 to join the rest of the Australian fleet. She left service in January 1971, and was scrapped in 1977. But perhaps the biggest expansion came in 1969-`70 when four ships joined the fleet within a matter of months: the Fiorita, the Romanza, the Atlantis and the Britanis. A few years later, by 1976, Chandris had the largest passenger-cruise fleet in the world, surpassing the prior records held by the likes of Cunard, P&O and Union Castle. That year, there were thirteen active Chandris passenger ships in all: The Australis, Britanis, Ellinis, Patris, Victoria, Amerikanis, Romanza, Regina Prima, Bon Vivant, Fiorita, Romantica, Fiesta and finally the little Radiosa. That same year Lloyd's review did a cover story on Chandris. They were carrying 500,000 passengers a year in ships with a total gross tonnage of over 185, 000. Lloyd's wrote, "The most impressive fact in the annals of economic progress in post-war Greece is the speed with which the renaissance of her merchant fleet has taken place". To those who know Greek shipping, this is quite understandable, for the sea has been at the heart of the Aegean life through 30 centuries or more. In times of war, Greece, and in particular the island of Chios, has supplied men and ships in plenty. It is not surprising, therefore, that a name often mentioned with Greek shipping-Chandris-was born in Chios. Nor is it surprising that the most successful passenger ship operator in modern times should be Chandris. Part of this success, besides a passenger sales policy of working almost exclusively through travel agents throughout the world, had to do with the care with which Chandris bought ships, and with an eye to their itineraries and destinations, as well as the refurbishing of the ships periodically at Chandris` own shipyard-all this giving Chandris quality control over their product and operations, and in general making them a most unique company".< While Chandris turned to Greek hotels on shore in 1973, they also began to strengthen their American cruise operations. A partnership called Chandris-Fantasy Cruises started in the early 1980s and later was divided into two separate arms of the Chandris Group, Fantasy-Cruises and then the more up-market Celebrity cruises. Soon after, in 1990, Chandris commissioned their first brand new, purposely-built ships, the sisters Horizon and Zenith. Three even larger luxury cruise ships are on order as of 1993. In 1995, Chandris Shipping interests will reach their eightieth year. Combining the cruise ships, separate fleets of freighters and tankers and speciality carriers as well as hotels, John D. Chandris could not have imagined that his company would have blossomed into such a great success. www.timesonline.co.uk/richlist/person/0,,33700,00.html Based in London, Chandris, 54, heads a Greek shipping dynasty founded by his grandfather. It made £170m from the 1997 sale of its cruise operation, Celebrity Cruise Line. Chandris also chairs Leathbond, a property firm that made a profit of £31.5m on £71.7m sales in 2002-03 and has £370m net assets. We assume he controls at least half of the firm, representing £185m net assets. The family has shipping, hotel and other interests in Greece and a collection of modern art. Our £400m valuation is conservative. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromMktGuideIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedMktGuideId=182389John Hadjipateras John C. Hadjipateras founded Eagle Ocean Inc., a Stamford, Connecticut-based marine transportation agency concentrating in vessel sales and purchases, chartering, insurance and finance, and has served as its President since its inception in 1980. He is also Managing Director of Eagle Financial Partners, LLC, a venture capital management company founded in 1998, and was Managing Director of Peninsular Maritime Ltd. a shipbrokerage firm, from 1972 until 1993. From 1974 until 1999, Mr. Hadjipateras was a Council member of INTERTANKO, the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners. From 1985 until 1989 he was a Board Member of the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee, and is currently a Director of KIDSCAPE LTD., and a Member of the Board of Advisors to the Faculty of Language and Linguistics of Georgetown University. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Theodoracopoulos Liberty ships John Theodoracopoulos was a well known shipping magnate of the 20th century who controlled a large fleet from New York. Theodoracopoulos started out his fleet by buying many Liberty ships from the Americans during WWII en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_shipLiberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. They were British in conception but adapted by the U.S., cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by Britain to replace ships torpedoed by German U-boats, they were purchased for the U.S. fleet and for lend-lease provision to Britain. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,751 Liberties between 1941 and 1945, easily the largest number of ships produced to a single design. www.eagle.org/NEWS/press/jun04-2008.htmlQuote:The importance of the Liberty ships to the resurgence of Greek merchant shipping in the post-World War II period cannot be over stated. The Greek fleet had been decimated during the war, assisting in the supply of Allied troops. With hostilities over, the U.S. government made the surplus fleet of Liberty ships available for purchase on favorable terms with Greek owners purchasing what was to become known as the 'Blessed 100' (actually 104) Liberty ships which became the foundation upon which the post-war Greek fleet was based.
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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 12, 2007 10:33:58 GMT -5
1.Dwww.seatrade-global.com/Awards/Awards_honour_06.htmEpaminondas Embiricos, Chairman, Greek Shipping Co-Operation Committee, was named Seatrade Personality 2006 for his outstanding representation of the London Greek community in the City of London and strong advocacy on a range of issues ranging from, multi-lateralism in the regulation of the shipping industry, to the need for robustness in vessel design. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Vardinoyannis FamilyA very well known name in Greek business circles is that of the Vardinoyannis family. Unlike the other more or less patriarchal dynasties, the Vardinoyannis clan operates as a tight-knit group of relatives controlling numerous successful companies in a variety of sectors. The most important is the Avin International group, active in the area of oil transport, possessing a fleet of tankers and offices in locations across the globe. The family also owns Motor Oil, an oil refinery in the Athens area which is the second largest in the Balkans and has an international clientele for its finished products. Other companies include the Star TV station and Village Cinemas. The Vardinoyannis family is very well known for its donations to charities, and has very close relations with other rich and important families in the USA and the Arabic world. Its business philosophy is characterized by a tendency to tread cautiously and to promote the interests of the companies, without bowing to ephemeral passing trends and opportunistic temptations. Facts: Motor oil has a market capitalization of around 3 billion USD. The total number of employees in all Vardinoyannis-controlled companies is difficult to calculate precisely, but they probably are around 15,000. Fortune: Around 2 billion USD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pericles Panagopoulos www.europeanbusiness.gr/SiteResources/Data/Templates/article.asp?DocID=351&parentDocID=Blue Star Ferries Pericles Panagopoulos is President of Attica Enterprises and President in the Association of Passenger Ships' Owners. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dimitri & John CoustasDanaos corporation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danaos_Corporation content.edgar-online.com/edgar_conv_img/2008/06/20/0001047469-08-007627_G158604MQ01I001.JPGDanaos Corporation is an international owner of container ships, chartering vessels to many of the world's largest liner companies. Danaos currently has a fleet of 31 container ships aggregating 138,931 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), making it among the largest container ship charter owners in the world. The company's customers include Maersk, COSCO, Hapag-Lloyd, CMA-CGM, Neptune Orient Lines, Yang Ming, China Shipping, Norasia Container Lines Ltd, Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., Wan-Hai Lines and Zim Israel Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. Danaos Corporation headquarters is in Piraeus, Greece but has offices in Hamburg, Germany and in the Ukraine. History Danaos was founded in 1972 by Dimitri Coustas, an experienced shipping investor who had been active in the industry since 1963. Having developed sea transport services throughout its history, Danaos forged a reputation for operational support to liner companies and other charterers throughout the world. In 1987, John Coustas took over as CEO of Danaos. As of March 12, 2007, the company's fleet is comprised of 31 container ships aggregating 138,931 twenty foot equivalent units. The company plans to increase this by an additional 147,524 TEU from 28 contracted vessels scheduled for delivery between 2007 and 2010. www.danaos.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- people.forbes.com/profile/george-economou/27377George EconomouChairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer DryShips, Inc. Athens 55 Years Old George Economou has over 25 years of experience in the maritime industry. He has served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of DryShips Inc since its inception in 2004. He successfully took the Company public in February 2005. Economou has overseen the Company's growth into the largest U.S. listed drybulk company in fleet size and revenue, and the second largest *Panamax owner in the world. Mr. Economou began his career in 1976 when he commenced working as a Superintendent Engineer in Thenamaris Ship Management in Greece. From 1981-1986 he held the position of General Manager of Oceania Maritime Agency in New York. Between 1986 and 1991 he invested and participated in the formation of numerous individual shipping companies and in 1991 he founded Cardiff Marine Inc., Group of Companies ('Cardiff'). Mr. Economou is a member of ABS Council, Intertanko Hellenic Shipping Forum and Lloyds Register Hellenic Advisory Committee. He was born and raised in Athens, Greece and is a graduate of Athens College. Mr. Economou completed his higher education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where, in 1976, he earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and a Master of Science in Shipping and Shipyard Management. Effective May 30 2007, Mr. Economou was appointed by the DryShips Board as the Interim Chief Financial Officer. 707th on the Forbes World's Richest People in 2008 www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0225/095.html*"Panamax ships" are the largest ships that can pass through Panama Canal. The size is limited by the dimensions of the lock chambers and the depth of the water in the canal. An increasing number of ships are built to the Panamax limit to carry the maximum amount of cargo through the canal. from wikipedia---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Tsakos familyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/TsakosNikolas Tsakos has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Tsakos Energy Navigation ("TEN") since its inception. Mr Tsakos is the sole shareholder of Tsakos Energy Management. He has been involved in ship management since 1981 and his seafaring experience began in 2004. The scramble for capital has intensified in the wake of environmental catastrophes such as the Exxon Valdez and Erika oil spills. "After the Exxon Valdez disaster, we could see that old ships would be phased out," says Tsakos. His company unloaded the last of its old, single-hulled vessels last year and has used the proceeds from the sale of its shares to buy a fleet of 25 vessels with an average age of just seven years -- all double-hulled, as required by European and U.S. regulators. As of April, 2007 Tsakos Energy Navigation’s proforma fleet consists of 53 vessels of 5.6 million metric tons deadweight (DWT). Today, TEN operates a fleet of 40 vessels all double-hull. Additionally, its newbuilding program of 13 vessels includes seven Aframax crude carriers, one Suezmax, two Panamax tankers and three Handysize product carriers representing 1.2 million DWT.www.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=848761en.sae.gr/?id=17854&tag=Alafouzos,%20Tsakos%20honored%20by%20Japan%E2%80%99s%20emperor%20for%20contributions%20to%20Greek-Japanese%20ties ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Attica Group
Trade name Attica Group Native name Attica Ανώνυμος Εταιρία Συμμετοχών Type Public Traded as Athex: ATTICA ISIN GRS144003001 Industry Shipping Transport Founded 27 October 1918; 105 years ago as Attica Flour Mills S.A. Founders Pericles Panagopoulos Alexander Panagopoulos Headquarters Kallithea, Athens , Greece Key people Kyriakos D. Magiras (Chairman) Panagogiannopoulos Nikolaos (President) Spiridon Paschalis (CEO) Revenue €290.40 million (2020) Operating income €40.46 million (2020) Net income €(53.63) million (2020) Total assets €905.48 million (2020) Total equity €378.35 million (2020) Owner STRIX Holdings L.P (98%) Number of employees 1,412 (2020)
Subsidiaries Africa Morocco Link (49%) Blue Star Ferries Hellenic Seaways Superfast Ferries ANEK Lines Website attica-group.com
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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 12, 2007 10:43:22 GMT -5
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Giorgos Prokopiouwww.dynacomtm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=34&Itemid=2Dynacom www.dynacomtm.com/images/Dynacom/Vessels/gladiator-wide.jpgIn the years 2000~2007 a total of 50 older tankers were sold, whilst concurrently the Company embarked on a dynamic newbuilding program with the signing of 67 contracts f or suezmax, aframax, coated panamax tankers, crude oil panamax tankers and VLCC's.DTM has a strong presence in the oil industry, delivering over 1.8 million barrels of cargo daily, with vessels calling at more than 1,000 ports yearly – linking international economies and serving customers worldwide. Since 2001 DTM has launched an intensive fleet renewal programme, resulting in the formation of a fleet with an average age of 5 years compared to 13 years average age of the worldwide tanker fleet. troktiko.blogspot.com/2010/05/40_5901.html (in greek) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelios_Haji-IoannouHaji-ioannou familyEasy jet.Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou,born 14 February 1967), is a British entrepreneur of Greek Cypriot origin, currently a resident of Monaco. He is the scion of a wealthy, shipowning family, but is best known for setting up easyJet, a highly successful and profitable low-cost airline, with start-up funds provided by his father, the beginning of a series of ventures under the Easy brand.www.travelsites.com/Reviews/easy_jet.htmlAs the Travelsites reviews of Southwest and Jetblue will show you, budget or low fare airlines are the real way to make money in the airline business. These airlines all operate the same way -- point to point flights, low operating overhead and consistent low pricing. It was inevitable that this idea would expand from the United States to other countries. Ryan Air and EasyJet are two carriers that operate from bases in the UK to all of Europe that are part of this international expansion. The story of Easy Jet is really the story of it's founder. Stelios Haji-Ioannou is the son of*greek shipping magnate. He started Easy Jet with the idea of low fares and value competing directly against the costly British Airways fare structure. In Stelios's mind Easy Jet was a cheap, no-frills, airline designed to attract customers from coaches and trains as well as from other airlines. The company was incorporated in March of 1995, and was launched with great fanfare. In October of 95, the first booking was taken -- though it's interesting to note that this phone booking was supposed to be the way all Easy Jet reservations were taken. Internet bookings weren't even thought of at that time. (Today, almost 100% of all EasyJet reservations come through the websites operated by the company.) In November of 1995, the first EasyJet flights from London Luton to Edinburgh and Glasgow are launched. They are supported by the advertising campaign "Making flying as affordable as a pair of jeans - £29 one way". This advert struck a cord with the public and the airline was able to grow. EasyJet grew so quickly, in fact, that British Airways launched it's own low price carrier called Go. Stelios buys a ticket on the inaugural Go flight and boards in an orange Easy Jet jumpsuit, earning his company the lions share of the press on Go's launch. Go was purchased by EasyJet after losing BA about 21 Million pounds sterling in the year 2002. Although Stelios has stepped away from the day to day Easy Jet business, his legacy remains. In 2004, Stelios was welcomed into the UK Travel and Hospitality Hall of Fame for his ground breaking efforts with the company. Today, EasyJet offers 179 routes between 50 key European airports across the UK, France, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Czech Republic, Greece, Germany, Portugal, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Poland. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_AngelicoussisJohn AngelicoussisFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Born 1948 London, United Kingdom Nationality Greek Owner of Angelicoussis Shipping Group Net worth Increase US$5.4 billion (September 2015) John A. Angelicoussis (born 1948) is a billionaire Greek shipowner, the owner of Angelicoussis Shipping Group. John Angelicoussis is the son of Anthony J. Angelicoussis (1918-1989) and Maria Papalios.Anthony J. Angelicoussis bought his first ship in 1953. In 1968 Anthony Angelicoussis and his partner Dimitris Efthymiou established the Agelef Shipping Company. John Angelicoussis joined his father's company in 1973. Career In 1987, Anangel-American Shipholdings was floated on the Luxembourg stock market. Two years later the company listed on Nasdaq, where it remained until it was delisted in 2001. John Angelicoussis is the owner of Angelicoussis Shipping Group, which comprises Anangel Maritime Services, Maran Tankers Management and Maran Gas Maritime.In June 2014, Anangel Maritime controlled a fleet of 48 dry bulk vessels (with 35 capesizes), Maran Tankers had a tanker fleet of 31 ships (including 23 VLCCs) and Maran Gas had 9 LNG carriers and 17 newbuildings on order. The total fleet deadweight controlled by Anangel Maritime and Maran Tankers amounted to 18 million tonnes, while Maran Gas had 1.4 million cbm in the water and 2.8 million cbm on order, according to Tradewinds. In March 2015, Angelicoussis had a net worth of $2.4 billion, and a fleet of 96 ships, according to Bloomberg.[1] Apart from having the largest Greek-owned fleet, Angelicoussis controls the largest Greek-flag fleet, with only one bulk carrier under non-Greek colors and seven tankers, which are on bareboat charters.He was ranked 5th in 2015 and 4th in 2014 in the world in the Lloyd's List Top 100 Most Influential People in the Shipping Industry. Personal life He is married to Elizabeth Angelicoussis. Their only daughter, Dr. Maria Angelicoussis, has trained as a doctor and works for the Angelicoussis Group since 2009.She is involved in all major investment decision talking and in the daily operations of all three management companies.In December 2015 she was awarded the Lloyd's List "Next Generation Greek Shipping Award" for "successfully taking on the challenge of managing one of the world's largest and most respected family-controlled shipping groups". She graduated in Medicine from Cambridge University and worked as a hospital doctor in the UK before joining the Angelicoussis Shipping Group in 2009. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeliki_Frangou Angeliki Frangou
Angeliki Frangou is a Greek female shipowner.She is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Navios Maritime Holdings.,of Navios Maritime Partners L.P., of Navios Tankers Management Inc. and Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation. Ms. Frangou obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University. Navios Group In 2004, Frangou raised $200 million to buy Navios. Previously she was working on Wall St as an analyst on the trading floor of Republic National Bank for a couple of years.As of December 2014, Navios Group controls 149 dry bulk carriers, 50 tankers and 12 container vessels.Between 2004- 2014, "the Navios group has raised a shade under $10bn in financing - $6.3bn from the capital markets and 3.6bn from bank debt". Angeliki Frangou demonstrates an acute ability to grasp both the financial and shipping markets. "She is just as happy to mull over the fuel economies that can be achieved by proper sandblasting as she is to discuss the intricacies of financial tools". Being a woman in a male dominated industry does not seem to pose an issue for her. Asked about the role of women in top posts in shipping, she retorted that "I don't believe in gender, race, religion. I think it's what you want to make it. If you ever thought that you work in a company for any other reason than your ability, you should leave!" Awards & mentions In 2014 Frangou was listed 11th in the Lloyd's List Top 100 Most Influential People in Shipping list.In 2013, Frangou was mentioned on CNN's International Leading Women.In 2011, she was named the 50th most powerful businesswoman in Fortune Magazine.Also, she was named as Connecticut Maritime Association's Commodore for the year 2011. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Evangelos Marinakis
Born 30 July 1967 (age 55)
Piraeus, Greece
Occupation Businessman
Board member of Owner of Mega Channel
Owner of One Channel
Owner of Olympiacos F.C.
Owner of Nottingham Forest F.C.
City councillor, Piraeus
Spouse Athanasia Marinakis
Children 4
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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 12, 2007 10:55:05 GMT -5
1.Fstrategicanalysis.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/list-of-the-top-50-greek-shipowners/List of the top 50 Greek shipowners1) Agelikousis-Kristen Navigation – 36 ships(8,1 million DWT) 2) Tsakos Panagiotis&Nikos – 63 ships(6,4 million DWT) 3) J. Prokopiou -40 ships(6,2 million DWT) 4) G.Economou- 55 ships(5,9 MILLION DWT) 5) Viktor Restis- 72 ships(5 million DWT) 6) K. Martinos -Thenamaris-47 ships(4,3 million DWT) 7) P. Hajioannou- 35 ships(3,9 million DWT) 8)D. Diamantidis- 43 ships(3,8 million DWT) 9) Gulf Marine-12 ships(3,7 million DWT) 10) G. Aggelikousis-Anangel-26 ships(3,2 million DWT) 11) A. Martinos-Eastern Med.- 29 ships(2,7 million DWT) 12) N. Lykiardopoulos-NEDA- 19 ships(2,9 million DWT) 13) P. Georgopoulos- 33 ships(2,8 million DWT) 14) A. and S. Polemis- 23 ships(2,7 million DWT) 15) P. Livanos- 29 ships(2,7 million DWT) 16) Onassis conglomerate- 18(2,7 million DWT) 17) B.and K. Konstantakopoulos- 51 ships(2,7 million DWT) 18) E. Pistiolis-Top Tanker- 27 ships(2,6 million DWT) 19) Chandris – 20 ships(2,6 million DWT) 20) A. Martinos-Minerva- 28 ships(2,6 million DWT) 21) D. Prokopiou-Centrofin- 23 ships(2,5 million DWT) 22) C. Kanellakis- 18 ships(2,1 million DWT) 23) P. Kollakis-Chartworld- 45 ships(2,1 million DWT) 24) E. Marinakis- 39 ships(2 million DWT) 25) i. kARRAS- 12 ships(2 million DWT) 26) G. Beniamin- 22 ships( 1,9 million DWT) 27) c. Vafias- 38 ships(1,8 million DWT) 28) I. Koustas- 32 ships(1,8 million DWT) 29) E. Empirikos- 7 ships(1,7 million DWT) 30) S. Karnesis- 21 ships(1,7 million DWT) 31) Eletson- 25 ships(1,7 million DWT) 32) G. Livanos- 17 ships(1,6 million DWT) 33) M. Lemos- 10 ships(1,6 million DWT) 34) Prime- 23 ships(1,6 million DWT) 35) S. Molaris- 18 ships(1,6 million DWT) 36) OSG- 32 ships(1.6 million DWT) 37) Cyprus Maritime- 22 ships(1,5 million DWT) 38) N. Moundreas- 26 ships(1,5 million DWT) 39) G. Papadimitriou- 22 ships(1,5 million DWT) 40) Zolotas- 17 ships( 1,5 million DWT) 41) N. S. Lemos- 7 ships(1,4 million DWT) 42) K. Aggelopoulos- 13 ships(1,3 million DWT) 43) C. Mylonas-Transmed- 9 ships(1,3 million DWT) 44) I. Giouroukos-Technomar- 28 ships(1,2 million DWT) 45) Maryville- 20 ships(1,2 million DWT) 46) N.G. Goulandris- 11 ships(1,1 million DWT) 47) S. Iglessis- 12 ships(1,1 million DWT) 48) Diana- 13 ships(1,1 million DWT) 49) G. Koumantaros-Atlantic Bulk- 23 ships(1.1 million DWT) 50) Vardiniyannis Corporation- 18 ships(1 million DWT) The above data are estimates for the mid -2006.
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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 12, 2007 13:56:32 GMT -5
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3% of the World’s Greatest Scientists Are Greek; Most Live Abroad
Greece may be a small country, however, its contribution to the scientific world is disproportionately large compared to its size. Even though the Greek population is less than 0.2% of the total world population, the percentage of Greek scientists in the world reaches 3%. However, only 14% of these scientists lived or live in Greece, while the rest are live abroad.
This information was revealed at the Panhellenic Medical Conference in Athens, by Giannis Ioannidis, professor of medicine at Stanford University in California and a specialist in statistics.
In his first annual lecture, in memory of Professor Dimitris Trichopoulos, on “The exodus of Greek scientists – a meta-analysis,” Ioannidis presented statistics on the 672 scientists of Greek origin, who have had the greatest influence in the international scientific field, based on objective data retrieved from the Google Scholar database. On average, the 672 Greek scientists have been referenced around 17,000 times in various international scientific reports and almost all of them live outside of Greece.
The oldest Greek scientist is Aristotle, who is still referenced in modern scientific literature.
Out of the 672 leading Greek scientists, only 95 (14%) are located in Greece. More than half (376 scientists or 56%) live in the US, another 60 live in the United Kingdom, 32 in Canada, 24 in Germany, 20 in France, 19 in Switzerland, 17 in Australia, 9 in Cyprus and 21 are located in other countries across the world.
According to the findings, 33 leading Greek scientists have passed away while 12 – including Dimitris Trichopoulos- were born abroad to Greek families who had emigrated. The rest migrated later in their lives.
Ioannidis stressed that “we should consider whether we can benefit, as a country and as a society, from the other 639 scientists who are still alive, but also to ensure that Greece will give birth to thousands of other leading scientists in the future.”
“Greece still has the potential to become one of the most prosperous countries in the world, if we utilize people’s talent and skills, while focusing on meritocracy and excellence,” he added.
2.A Archaeologists-Historians  wikipediaManolis AndronikosA Greek archaeologist,he discovered the royal grave of Phillip the 2nd at Vergina(Aeges).Manolis Andronikos (Greek: Ìáíþëçò Áíäñüíéêïò) was a Greek archaeologist and a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was born on October 23, 1919 at Bursa (Greek: Ðñïýóá). Later, his family moved to Thessaloniki. He studied philosophy at the University of Athens and in 1952 became a professor of Classical Archeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Later he continued his studies at Oxford University with the famous professor Sir John D. Beazley (1954-1955). He came back to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1957 where he taught Archeology first as instructor and later (1964) as professor. He was married to Olympia Kakoulidou and loved reading poetry, especially Palamas, Seferis and Elitis. He was the founder of a cultural group named The Art (Greek: Ç ôÝ÷íç). Manolis Andronikos conducted archaeological research in Veroia, Naousa, Kilkis, Chalkidiki and Thessaloniki, but his main research was done in Vergina. The greatest moment of his life took place on November 8, 1977, when he made one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century: he found the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina in the prefecture of Imathia. The tomb was unopened and contained many invaluable items, such as the Golden Larnax (Greek: ×ñõóÞ ËÜñíáêá). The finds from this tomb were later included in the travelling exhibit "The Search for Alexander" displayed at four cities in the United States from 1980 to 1982. While the discovery is of great archeological importance, the identification of the tomb with Philip has been disputed. He was a member of the Archaeological Council (1964-1965), the Athens Archaeological Association, the Macedonian Studies Association, the Association Internationale des Critiques d' Art and the German Archaeological Institution at Berlin. He lived permanently in Thessaloniki on Papafi Street and died on March 30, 1992. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aris Poulianosen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aris_PoulianosAris Poulianos (born on July 24, 1924 in Ikaria, Greece) is a Greek anthropologist. He studied biology at the City University of New York between 1948 and 1952. He studied anthropology in Moscow and earned his Ph.D in 1961. He worked at the Soviet Academy of Sciences until 1965, when he returned to Greece. He conducted research about the anthropological origins of Balkan peoples and European populations in general. During this time, he led research expeditions in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, former Yugoslavia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. After he returned to Greece, Poulianos continued conducting anthropological research (i.e. populations in Spain; the Ainu of Japan). His research focuses on the origins of the inhabitants of the Haemus Peninsula, as well as on the origins of Europeans in general. Poulianos' best-known project was the study of the Petralona Cave in Chalcidice, a site where prehistoric human remains had been found accidentally by Philippos Chatzaridis on May 10, 1959. Poulianos also studied the excavations that occurred in the Triglia site in Chalkidiki and the prehistoric elephant site at Perdikkas-Ptolemais. In 1969, Aris Poulianos was elected Vice-President of the 8th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Tokyo. In 1971, Poulianos founded the Anthropological Association of Greece, which is now run by his son. This organization, specifically, has had a long-standing dispute with the Greek Ministry of Culture, after the latter's attempts to evict the Anthropological Association of Greece from the excavation site in the Petralona Cave, which was conceded to them after a 1981 contract. In 1976, Poulianos founded the Department of Paleoanthropology-Spelaeology, which functions within the Greek Ministry of Culture. He is a permanent member of the International Council of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization). In 1979, he was appointed President of the 3rd European Congress of Anthropology at Prague, which held its works in 1982 at Petralona. Poulianos is more widely known for his claim that there exist "12,000,000 million years old homo erectus trigliensis" on Greek soil. This claim is still controversial among anthropologists. Aris Poulianos has published five books and numerous articles, many of them in the yearbook "Anthropos" which is published by his own association. A biography of Poulianos was written by his wife, Daphne, and published in 2006 entitled "Aris N. Poulianos - Reflections." The book contains an historical account of Poulianos' life and contributions since 1947, as well as his activities with UNESCO and the various anti-racist organizations to which he belongs. Archanthropus of Petralona Poulianos hypothesizes that the first proof of native human presence in Europe was to be found with the discovery of the Archanthropus skull in Chalcidice, Greece in 1960. The skull has been dated to be at least 700,000 years old by two German scientists, anthropologist E. Breitinger and palaeontologist O. Sickenberg [citation needed]. According to Poulianos, this dating renders the Indo-European theory obsolete. However, an article in Nature (292, 533-536, August 6, 1981) coauthored by three German scientists dates the skull to between 160,000 and 240,000 years old [citation needed]. [edit] Published works 1960 - "The Origin of Greeks"; Ph.D Thesis at Moscow Institute of Anthropology; Reprinted in Athens in 1962, 1965, 1968, and 1988. 1961 - "Discovery of a Skull of Palaeolithic Man in Greece"; Voprossi Anthropologhii, 8:162. 1963 - "New Palaeolithic Finds of Greece"; Sov. Arheologhia, 2: 227-229. 1965 - "On the Position of the Petralona Man within Palaeoanthropi"; Sov. Ethnografia, 2: 91-99. 1967 - "The Place of the Petralonian Man among Palaeoanthropi"; Anthropos C 19, (N.S.11): 216-221. in Akten Anthropologischen Kongresses Brno. 1971 - "Petralona: A Middle Pleistocene Cave in Greece"; Archaeology, 24: 6-11. 1975 - "Palaeoanthropological excavations at Petralona. Prakt. Archaeol.; Et.: 131-136. Athens. 1977 - "Stratigraphy and Age of the Petralonian Archanthropus"; Anthropos, 4: 37-46. Athens. 1980 - "The Petralona Finds"; Thessaloniki. Yearbook of the Society of Macedonian Studies: 65-76. 1981 - "Pre-sapiens Man in Greece"; Current Anthropology, 22 (3): 287 - 288. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Victor SarigiannidisVictor Sarigiannidis,a Pontian from Russia,is the man behind the gigantic archaeological success at TillyaTepe in north Afghanistan,where he discovered a huge hellenistic treasure...During these excavations he had discovered 20.000 objects,most of them coins from the region of hellenistic Vactria... www.afgha.com/?af=article&sid=48229&newlang=englishwww.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12943&m=A35&aa=1&eidos=Swww.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/03/18/Arts/bactrian050318.html 20 March 2005 ATHENS - The National Geographic Society has a deal to organize a tour of Bactrian gold treasures from Afghanistan. The tour would be the first to display the gold artifacts, jewellery, weapons and everyday objects, considered Afghanistan's most revered treasure, outside of the country. The tour will begin in the United States. The 20,000 pieces were first discovered in 1978 by Greek-Russian archeologist Victor Sarigiannidis. He announced the tour on Friday in Athens, according to Agence France Presse. The 2,000-year-old collection originated in the northern Afghanistan region formerly known as Bactria, considered a central stop on the Silk Road. Museums from around the world had been vying to show the treasures, which resurfaced unexpectedly in a bank vault in Kabul in 2003. Afghanistan's national museum was in ruins after the fall of the Taliban and many of its antiquities were missing. It was thought the artifacts had been destroyed by the Taliban, which smashed many antiquities as contrary to Islam. After the discovery, international experts went to Kabul to verify that the find actually was the fabled collection. "What we did was an inventory and an accounting of all of the items that were there," Dr. Frederik Hiebert of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology said in 2003. He had travelled to Kabul on behalf of the National Geographic Society. The National Geographic Society did an inventory of the treasures and negotiated with Afghan authorities for the international tour. Sarigiannidis was brought in to verify that all of the collection was still there. Bactria was an ancient nation that covered parts of what is now Afghanistan. The gold artifacts were found in six tombs in the northern part of the country. From VIMA newspaper,an interview in greek www.tovima.gr/default.asp?pid=2&ct=75&artid=138246&dt=11/11/2001------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyridon_MarinatosSpyridon MarinatosSpyridon Nikolaou Marinatos (November 4, 1901 – October 1, 1974) was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century. Marinatos began his career in Crete as director of the Herakelion museum in 1929 where he met Sir Arthur Evans. He conducted several excavations on Crete at Dreros, Arkalochori, Vathypetro and Gazi, all of which resulted in spectacular finds. In 1937 he became director of the Antiquities service in Greece for the first time. Shortly afterwards, he became professor at the University of Athens. He turned his attention to the Myceaneans next, regarding them as the first Greeks. He excavated many Mycenaean sites in the Peloponnese, including an unplundered royal tomb at Routsi, near Pylos. He also dug at Thermopylae and Marathon uncovering the sites where the famous battles had occurred. His most notable discovery was the site of Akrotiri, a Minoan port city on the island of Thera. The city was destroyed by a massive eruption which buried it under ashes and pumice. The tsunamis created by the eruption destroyed coastal settlements on Crete as well. This event is linked by popular writers and the media to the myth of Atlantis. Marinatos began excavations in 1967 and died at the site in 1974, after suffering a massive stroke. He was director-general of antiquities for the Greek Ministry of Culture during the autocratic rule of the colonels. The acquaintance he cultivated with the colonels who were in power in Greece, especially the widely-despised Georgios Papadopoulos, was ideologically based. Marinatos was committed to a vision of a well-ordered patriotic country, which he hoped the regime would build. His political affiliation created controversy among his academic peers. His Crete and Mycenae was originally published in German in 1960.[1] His most important article was about "the volcanic destruction of Minoan Crete" [Antiquity 1939]. His excavations at Thera have been published in six slender volumes (1968-74). "Life and Art in Prehistoric Thera" was one of his last publications in 1972.[2]. His name is mentioned in the video game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, which also features a plot involving Thera and the legendary underwater lost city. Marinatos was responsible for excavations at: Akrotiri (Santorini), Thera Amnisos Vathypetro ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dimitrios PandermalisFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dimitrios Pandermalis , is a Professor of Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, supervisor of the Archaeological site of Dion, Pieria and curator of the new Acropolis Museum. www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/greece/article4268110.eceThe new Greek Acropolis Museum-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helene Glykatzi-AhrweilerProfessor of History President of the University of Europe An established Byzantine expert, specializing in social history, she was born in Athens in 1926, studied philosophy in the University of Athens and worked in Minor Asiatic Study Centre of Athens between 1950 and 1953. She then moved to Paris to study under a scholarship by the French state. In 1960 she became principle of studies in the French National Centre of Scientific Research and in 1966 she became “Docteur es Lettres”. This established her in the French scientific community and led her in 1967 in becoming the first woman Head of the Department of History at the Sorbonne. Nine years later, she was elected President of the Sorbonne, the first female in such a position in its 700-year history. Helene Glykatzi-Ahrweiler serves as President of the European University, President of the Academy of Paris (being responsible for the universities located in the French capital), and President of the Georges Pompidou Center. She is considered to be a major contributor to the genesis of the European consciousness, and she embodies the cultured, sophisticated European woman of today. She has written many books, has published many studies and articles in a large number of scientific journals and received honorary doctorates by a large number of universities around the globe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John K. PapadopoulosProfessor, Department of Classics, UCLA Ph.D., Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, 1988 PROJECT: Since 1979, Professor Papadopoulos has been engaged in excavations at Torone Chalkid*ke, Greece, a project sponsored by the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and the Athens Archaeological Society (Field Director of the excavations from 1986 to 1995). The site is the largest of the classical cities of the Chalkid*ke in the sixth and fifth century BC, featuring prominently in classical literary accounts. Few sites in the Old World have such a long and successful history, beginning sometime toward the end of the third millennium BC and continuing through the twentieth century AD. Since 1994 he has also been working on the publication of the Early Iron Age material from the Athenian Agora, the civic and commercial center of Classical Athens. Interests: Aegean prehistory;Greek and Italian archaeology, history and culture of the Classical and later periods; the archaeology of colonialism; the integration of literary evidence with the material record in the study of the past. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eleni Konsolakien.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni_KonsolakiEleni Konsolaki, also Eleni Konsolaki-Giannopoulou or Eleni Konsolaki-Yannopoulou (Greek: ÅëÝíç ÊïíóïëÜêç-Ãéáííïðïýëïõ) is a Greek archaeologist who is renowned internationally and excavated in areas including Troezen, Poros and Methana. Major task She has been active for approximately 18 years in that area. She spends her busy time with examination of ancient treasures of the area. Special attention was received while excavating in Methana in 1990 which she discovered a Mycenaean building from which she described over 150 'cult images': small clay figures of animals, horses with riders etc. Special discoveries It drew the attention of all the Greek state in fact that the peninsula of Methana was archaeologically known. The Methana peninsula is noted as an archaeologically protected zone. In the last years, she investigated the Mycenaean-built Acropolis Magoula near Galatas next to the island of Poros. She discovered several Mycenaean buildings which show that the Troezen area did not only have a great importance in the ancient times, after a few researches, the connections of the Mycenaean and the Minoan epochs came closer. These include Theseus, the famous mythological hero who defeated the Minotaurs from this region. Also the Troezen area had a great importance. Eleni Konsolakis-Yannopoulou published her research work to the conference to the history of the Saronic Gulf in 1998 on the island of Poros (Konsolaki-Giannopoulou, E. (ed.) Argosaronikos (Athens 2003)). Their research work contributed much to the prehistory. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni_Konsolaki" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_/ai_78334755Christine KondoleonChristine Kondoleon has been named curator of Greek and Roman art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Since 1995 she had been curator of Greek and Roman art at the Worcester [Mass.] Art Museum. www.helleniccomserve.com/kondoleonpostrelease.htmlDr. Kondoleon received her MA from Yale University in 1975 and her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1985. After serving a long tenure at Williams College, where she was Chair of the Art Department, she was named to the position of Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Worcester Art Museum, where, among much else, she produced and mounted the exhibition "Antioch: The Lost Ancient City."(Read about exhibition catalogue.) In 1995, she was called upon to serve as the first-ever George D. and Margo Behrakis Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was responsible for the very well received exhibition on ancient athletics: "Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.lsa.umich.edu/umich/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=0e8ff659ca1b4110VgnVCM1000009db1d38dRCRD&vgnextchannel=9fe77787314f3110VgnVCM1000003d01010aRCRDUniversity of Michigan
Department of classical studiesTraianos Gagos Professor of Papyrology and Greek; Archivist, Papyrology Collection, University Library; Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum Fields of StudyGreek papyrology and palaeography; social, economic and cultural history of Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt and Near East; papyrology and archaeology; computer technology and the study of the ancient world. Co-founder and co-editor, New Texts from Ancient Cultures; Director, Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Michigan and central sections; Immediate Past President, American Society of Papyrologists. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- classics.chass.utoronto.ca/index.php/faculty/faculty-list/42-dimitri-nakassis University of Toronto
Dimitri Nakassis
Associate Professor
Bio and Research Dimitri Nakassis received his B.A. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. in Greek and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the archaeology and scripts of the Aegean Bronze Age, in particular the administrative practices of the Mycenaean state. He has published articles on Linear A, Homer and Hesiod, archaeological survey, Greek religion and history, and Mycenaean economy, society and prosopography. He is the author of Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos (Leiden 2013), and is co-director of the Western Argolid Regional Project, an archaeological field survey in southern Greece. He has taught at the University of Toronto since 2008. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46xzkAmnW------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- arthistory.cornell.edu/people/alexandridis.cfmCornell UniversityDepartment of History of Art and Visual StudiesAnnetta Alexandridis
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests : Roman sculpture, Greek myth and iconography, archaeology and its media (photography, plaster casts), gender studies, animal studies.
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www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5370Andromache KaranikaAssociate Professor, Classics School of Humanities Princeton University. Ph.D., Princeton University, 2002, Classics M.A., Princeton University A.B., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1993, Classical Philology Research Interests:Early Greek Epic and Lyric – Gender and Performance Genres in Greek Literature - Ancient and Modern Greek Oral Tradition- Reception of early Greek epic in Late Antiquity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
University of South Florida
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History
Golfo Alexopoulos
Associate Professor, Associate Chair
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996
M.A., Yale University, 1988
Teaching
I teach a variety of courses on topics related to the history of modern Europe, Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, and historical methods and historiography. My undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of the Soviet Union, Stalinism, and twentieth-century Europe tend to focus on the problems of war and revolution, genocide and human rights, as well as culture and everyday life. When possible, I try to engage student interest by incorporating a variety of media (art, film, music) and assigning diverse readings (primary sources, literature, memoirs, poetry). In particular, I enjoy showing students my slides from when I lived in the Soviet Union and Russia under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. Over the years, I have advised many bright USF students, both graduate and undergraduate. Some of them have been accepted into first-rate doctoral programs in Russian/Soviet history, others have joined the Peace Corps or pursued careers in international law and business, the military, diplomacy, teaching, and journalism.
Research
I have authored one book and co-edited another. My first book, Stalin’s Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926-1936 (Cornell, 2003), examines Stalin’s disenfranchisement policy, and the lives and voices of those deprived of rights (lishentsy). The work describes the violence of social exclusion and the risky and painstaking rites of political rehabilitation to which many lishentsy were subjected. At the center of the work is an analysis of over five hundred petitions to Soviet officials for the reinstatement of rights. I discovered these letters from lishentsy in a closed archive in western Siberia just months after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I am now writing my second historical monograph, which examines the Gulag under Stalin. The book draws upon recently declassified archives of the central Gulag administration to explore the systemic and routine violence of Stalin’s labor camp system. I was awarded a NEH fellowship for 2011-2012 to complete the book, and it is currently under contract with Yale University Press. It will appear in the Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
The volume I co-edited, Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) includes my article, “A Torture Memo: Reading Violence in the Gulag.” I have published several articles including, most recently: “Exiting the Gulag after War: Women, Invalids, and the Family,” published in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2009); “Stalin and the Politics of Kinship: Practices of Collective Punishment, 1920s-1940s,” published in Comparative Studies in Society and History (2008); “Soviet Citizenship, More or Less: Rights, Emotions and States of Civic Belonging,” for the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (2006); and “Amnesty 1945: The Revolving Door of Stalin’s Gulag,” which appeared in Slavic Review (2005).
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Modern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, Stalin and Stalinism
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2.B BRITISH UNIVERSITIES.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalypso_Nicola%C3%AFdis Kalypso Nicolaidis
Oxford University Kalypso Aude Nicolaidis is Professor of International Relations and Director of the European Studies Centre at Oxford University. She teaches in the areas of European integration, international relations, international political economy, negotiation and game theory and research methods as University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Before moving back to Europe, she taught European affairs and international relations at Harvard University where she was associate professor at the Kennedy School of Government. She has also held visiting professorships around Europe, including at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris, at the College of Europe in Bruges as the professorial chair on Visions of Europe and in Sciences-Po, Paris as Vincent Wright chair. At Harvard, she was the founder and chair of the Kokkalis Programme on Southeast Europe and is now Chair of the South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) which runs, inter alia, the Greek-Turkish Network. At Oxford, she also chairs the RENEW programme (Rethinking Europe in a Non European World), the Euro-Mediterranean network RAMSES , coordinated by the Maison Mediterranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme in Aix en Provence, and the EU-WTO Oxford programme in collaboration with the German Marshall Fund. Professor Nicolaïdis has been involved in policy for some time. She has been advising Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou on European affairs since 1996 and chaired the International Group of Expert Advisors on the Convention for the Future of Europe and the Greek Presidency. She was advisor to the Dutch presidency of the EU on the theme of "Europe: a Beautiful Idea", a policy-academia dialogue culminating in the December 2004 intellectual summit. Nicolaïdis has also worked with the European Commission on the White Paper on Governance (subsidiarity, global governance), on DG trade and DG communication consultations, as well as a trade and regulation expert for UNCTAD and the OECD. Most recently, she produced a report on the European Neighborhood Policy for the European Parliament. Much of Nicolaïdis' recent work focuses on "European demoi-cracy" and the challenge of building an EU of deep diversity through the mutual recognition of identities, polities, and socio-economic rules. She has published widely on EU institutional and constitutional debates, EU external relations including with Mediterranean countries and the United States, issues of identity, justice and cooperation in the international system, the sources of legitimacy in European and global governance, the relationship between trade and regulation, trade in services as well as preventive diplomacy and dispute resolution. She has published in numerous journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, International Organization as well as in French in Politique Etrangere, Politique Européenne and Raison Critique. Her latest books include: Whose Europe? National Models and the Constitution of the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2003) and The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the US and the EU (Oxford University Press, 2001). Nicolaïdis holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, a Master in International Economics and a Diplome Service Public from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. She also studied law and philosophy at the Paris I-Sorbonne. She is of French and Greek nationality with German and Spanish origins. Her husband, Simon Saunders is British and teaches Philosophy of Science at Oxford University. Her two children, Ari and Daphne, are trans-channel Europeans. www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/knicolaidisKalypso Aude Nicolaidis Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Director, European Studies Centre, St Antony's College University of Oxford Chair, South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Markesinis Basil Markesinis
Sir Basil Markesinis is a scholar of law and Jamail Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and Professor of Common and Civil Law, University College London. Professor Markesinis was born July 10, 1944 in Athens, Greece. He is the son of Greek politician Spyros Markezinis. He holds a British-Greek citizenship. He started his education at the law school of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from where he graduated with a first class degree followed by a Doctor Iuris, Athens - "Summa Cum Laude". In 1972, he was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, of which he is now a Bencher. He took silk, thus becoming a senior barrister, in 2001. He has held office as Assistant Professor of Roman and Byzantine Law at the University of Athens (1966–8), Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Trinity College, Cambridge (1974–86), Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (1978–86), Denning Professor of Comparative Law at Queen Mary and Westfield College, Professor of European Private Law at University College London, Clifford Chance Professor of European Law and Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (1995–99) and Clifford Chance Professor of Comparative Law and Fellow of Brasenose College. Other positions have included Director and Founder of the Institute of Anglo-American Law, Leiden, member of the Council of Management of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, member of the Board of Management of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, member of the Board of Editors of European Review of Private Law, Revue de droit internationale et de droit comparé, and The Netherlands Journal of International Law. He has held visiting professorships at Cornell Law School, University of Paris I, University of Paris II, the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Ghent, and the University of Siena. He has authored or co-authored thirty books and more than one hundred and twenty articles in languages including English, French, German, and Greek. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Athens, the Institut de France, the Royal Dutch Academy, and the Royal Belgian Academy. He is also a member of the American Law Institute, of the Commercial Bar Association, and the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association. for more info www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=bsm66--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.lse.ac.uk/collections/hellenicObservatory/whoswho/mouzelis.htmNikos MouzelisProfessor Nikos Mouzelis, (PhD London) is Professor of Sociology at the LSE (London school of economics) and member of the Hellenic Observatory's Advisory Board. His main area of interest includes sociology of development, historical sociology and sociological theory. He is the author of many publications on modern Greece and has also published on parliamentarism and industrialisation in the Balkans and Latin America. His most recent publications include Back to Sociological Theory: The Construction of Social Order (Macmillan, 1992) and Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong? Diagnosis and Remedies, Routledge, 1995. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrisanthi_Avgerou Chrisanthi Avgerou
London School of Economics and Political Science Chrisanthi Avgerou is a Greek-born British scholar in the field of the Social Study of Information Systems, focusing on Information Technology in developing countries. She is currently Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Avgerou is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), associate editor of The Information Society journal and Information Systems research Journal, and chairperson of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 on the relationship between computers and society Among her published works are six books and about 200 peer-revewed journal articles. She has an MSc from Loughborough University and a PhD from the London School of Economics. personal.lse.ac.uk/avgerou/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Drossopoulou Sophia Drossopoulou
Imperial College London Sophia C. Drossopoulou is a computer scientist, currently working at Imperial College London, where she is Professor in Programming Languages. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe. Her research interests are mainly in formal methods for programming languages; her work is notable for a proof of the soundness of the Java programming language.[1] Her first Ph.D. student was Diomidis Spinellis. She is the daughter of the author Athena Cacouris. www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~scd/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quite impressive!Three of the professors of this department are Greeks! www.orc.soton.ac.uk/phdprojects.htmlUniversity of Southampton Optoelectronics research center
Dr Sakellaris Mailiswww.orc.soton.ac.uk/people.html?person=smDr Mailis received his PhD from the University of Crete - Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) in 1996 on "Optical signal processing with photorefractive materials", and stayed as a research fellow at FORTH until the end of 1997 investigating the photosensitivity of semiconducting oxides and the use of laser-induced-forward-transfer (LIFT) for the fabrication of computer generated diffractive optical elements. From January 1998 onwards he has been with the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) being involved in the investigation of the photosensitivity of Laser deposited lead germanate glass films for optical waveguides and the development of a continuous wave Nd:YVO4 holographic laser resonators. He is currently a Principal Research Fellow at the ORC and he is leading a research activity that aims to develop a comprehensive material-processing toolbox for the fabrication of complex multifunctional devices based on ferroelectric lithium niobate substrates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.orc.soton.ac.uk/phdprojects.htmlUniversity of Southampton Optoelectronics research center
Dr Periklis PetropoulosDr. Periklis Petropoulos was born in Patras, Greece. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Patras, Greece in 1995. He received the MSc degree in Communications Engineering from UMIST, UK in 1996 and the PhD degree in Optical Telecommunications from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK in 2000. Dr. Petropoulos is currently appointed a Reader at the ORC. His particular areas of interests and expertise lie in the fields of optical communications and nonlinear fibre technology. Within the Optical Fibre Communications group at the ORC he is working on such areas as all-optical processing and switching in optical fibres; ultrashort pulse generation and characterisation; pulse shaping for optical communications, including applications in optical correlation systems for the implementation of optical code-division multiple access and optical packet switched systems; silica and compound glass holey fibres and their nonlinear applications. Dr. Petropoulos has published more than 200 papers in technical journals and conferences and holds 4 patents. He is a member of the optical society of America. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ University of Southampton Optoelectronics research center Prof M N Zervas
www.orc.soton.ac.uk/479.htmlMikhail N. Zervas received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1983, his M.Sc Degree in Applied and Modern Optics from the University of Reading, UK in 1985 (with distinction) and his Ph.D in Fibre Optics from the University College London in 1989. In 1990, he was appointed Lecturer in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Thessaloniki. In 1991, he joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton as a Research Fellow. In 1995, he was appointed Research Lecturer at the Optoelectronics Research Centre and Electronics and Computer Science Department, University of Southampton. His main research interests are in the areas of erbium-doped fibre amplifiers, dispersion compensation, fibre gratings, surface-plasmon-polaritons and distributed feedback fibre lasers. In 1996 he shared a prize on "Metrology for world class manufacturing awards" for his contribution on the development of a high accuracy fibre grating characterisation system. He is the author and co-author of over 90 technical publications and 10 patents. He has served as a member of program committees of various international conferences. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannis_Kallinikos London school of economics and political science Jannis (John) KallinikosJannis (John) Kallinikos is a Greek organizational theorists and intellectual focusing in particular on the area of information technology and information systems. Kallinikos was born and raised in the north western town of Preveza, Greece. After completing his undergraduate studies, Kallinikos moved to Sweden, Uppsala and enroled at Uppsala University in order to pursue doctorate in business. He was awarded his PhD from the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University in 1984. Jannis Kallinikos is currently with the London School of Economics where is engaged with research as well as being head of the PhD programme. Academic career In 2001, Kallinikos joined the Department of Information Systems at LSE when Claudio Ciborra was in charge of it. The department merged in 2006 with three other departments into a newly founded Department of Management. Kallinikos has been a visiting professor at various universities, including the University of Bologna, Uppsala University, Växjö University, Umeå University, University of Macedonia, Greece, Stanford University and the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Brussels. LSE promoted him to full professor in 2007. Kallinikos served as member of the LSE Research Committee (2003–2008) research chair of the Information systems and Innovation group (2005–2008) and director of the MSc Programme in Information Systems and Organizations Research (ISOR) (2006–2008). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Eugene Trivizas
www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/lw/Sociol/publish/people/academic/eugene/bio.htmEugene Trivizas was born in Athens, Greece. He received his LL.B degree at Athens University in 1969 In 1972 passed the Athens Bar examinations and in the same year he was called as a barrister to the Athens Bar. In 1973 he received a B.Sc. degree in Politics and Economics from the University of Athens and the following year he received an LL.M degree in Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure from the University of London (University College) and a diploma in Shipping Law from the City of London Polytechnic. In 1977 he was made a Fellow of the Salzburg seminar in American studies and in 1979 he was awarded his Ph.D. degree in Criminology from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science, Law Department) Since 1978 Dr. Trivizas he have been the responsible for the teaching of criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Reading. He is currently teaching a course on crime and society and he has been awarded the titles of director of criminal justice studies and senior research fellow. During the past years Dr. Trivizas taught part of the course, 'History of Sociological Theory' at the same University. He also taught criminology on a part-time basis at the Polytechnic of Central London and in the London School of Economics (Law Department 1983-4 ) Since 1992 he is a visiting professor at the Pantion University of Greece. At the postgraduate level, he taught part of the MA course, 'Morals, Law and Elites in Contemporary Society', an option in the University of Reading MA course in Sociology and the course 'Comparative Criminology' in the Graduate School of European and International Studies and in the MA degree in Criminal Justice. Since 1982, he has been supervising candidates for the degree of PhD and acting as one of the internal examiners for PhD students. Dr. Trivizas has published many books on literature and he is one of Greece's leading writers for children . He has produced more than a hundred books of enduring popularity, all of them currently in print, that are enjoyed as much by grown ups as by children and he has received more than twenty national and international literary prizes and awards. Reviewers have described him as 'a miracle worker who brings to life a whole new world 'and as 'the author who with a distinctive combination of lyricism and surrealism, humour and poetic imagination has revitalised the whole of our children's literature. ' Much of E.Trivizas work has been transferred to the stage and serialised for television as well as the radio. He is currently the most frequently performed writer of plays for children in Greece, In 1986 his play ''THE CARECROW''was placed on the International Board on Books for Young People's "Honour List" and awarded a Diploma for excellence in writing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Petrou Maria Petrou
Surrey University's Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Imperial College London Maria Petrou was a Greek-born British scientist who specialised in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine vision. She developed a number of novel image recognition techniques, taught at Surrey University and Imperial College London, and was a prolific author of scientific articles. Petrou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1953, and displayed an aptitude for science from an early age.She began tutoring children in maths and science at the age of 15. She studied physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, before travelling to the United Kingdom to study mathematics and astronomy at the University of Cambridge.In 1983, Petrou began working as a postdoctoral research assistant at Oxford University's Department of Theoretical Physics. Artificial intelligence research As British academia gained a more practical focus in the 1980s, Petrou began to study machine vision and other aspects of robotic intelligence. In 1988, she started work at Surrey University's Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, becoming its Professor of Image Analysis in 1998.She later held the Chair of Signal Processing at Imperial College London, and was the Director of the Informatics and Telematics Institute at Greece's Centre for Research and Technology (CERTH) from 2009 until her death.Petrou was furthermore a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, authored several books, and was a prolific contributor to scientific journals. During her career, Petrou developed a number of important image recognition techniques, including methods for robotic texture analysis, image comparison and 3D measurement.Most notably, she and Dr Alexander Kadyrov co-invented the trace transform,[4] a method of image representation that allows for more efficient facial recognition systems.[5] Technologies based on Petrou's work have had numerous applications in commerce, medicine and environmental imaging.[3] She was also an amateur cartoonist, and once challenged her colleagues to construct a robot capable of ironing clothes – a challenge that later developed into a European Union-funded robotics project. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.mbs.ac.uk/research/people/profiles/ipetrouniasThe university of Manchester.
Dr Ilias Petrounias
Position: Senior Lecturer Academic unit: Management Sciences and Marketing Biography Dr Petrounias is the Organising Chair for the 7th IFIP Working Conference on Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM) in 2014. He was the Programme Co-Chair for the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems in 2006. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Requirements Engineering Journal (published by Springer Verlag). He has been a Programme Committee member for a number of international conferences, including the 8th IFAC International Symposium on Computational Economics and Financial and Industrial Systems, 1st IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (ICEIS’2006), 3rd and 4th International Conference on Advances in Information Systems (ADVIS 2004 and ADVIS2006), 1st Iand 2nd nternational Conference on Global E-Security (ICGeS 05, ICGeS 06), 1st East European Conference on Health Care Modelling and Computation (HCMC 2005), 18th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS’2003). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Cambridge. Dr Dorothea Pinotsi
Superresolution microscopy and biophysics of protein misfolding and aggregation Biography: I hold a Diploma on Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a Ph.D. in Physics, from the Quantum Photonics Group, at ETH Zurich. I joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher with a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, to work on biophysical studies of amyloid self-assembly reactions. I am now developing techniques that permit the real time imaging of biological nanostructures, and performing single molecule optical super-resolution microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy and AFM. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/porfyrakis.htmlProfessor Kyriakos Porfyrakis
Associate Professor of Materials St Anne's College Department of Materials University of Oxford --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/noni-symeonidouUniversity of Warwick Dr Noni Symeonidou
Assistant Professor Research Interests Firm capabilities, Process of capability development, Decision making under uncertainty, International entrepreneurship, Strategic entrepreneurship and innovation, Process research methods (in particular, Sequence analysis, Optimal matching, Grounded theory), Quantitative research methods (Multilevel modelling, Panel methods, Survival and Network analysis). Biography Noni is an Assistant Professor within the Entrepreneurship and Innovation group at Warwick Business School. She specialises in entrepreneurial capabilities, international entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial and innovation strategies. Noni obtained her PhD at Imperial College and was awarded a fully funded PhD scholarship by the Innovation Studies Centre and the EPSRC. During her studies in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship group of Imperial College she investigated the process of capability development in ventures that experienced significant liabilities of foreignness and liabilities of newness. Noni was granted access to the confidential Kauffman Firm Survey and won two awards from the E.M. Kauffman Foundation. She holds an MSc (Distinction) in Entrepreneurship from the University of Nottingham. Prior to that she had spent a semester at the University of Tampere and the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. Noni has worked in a range of industries including biotechnology and advertising. She is the co-founder of a Community Interest Company and has been involved in the innovation process of a technology start-up that invented the first blood test to screen for cancer in dogs and cats. She is a member of the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. Her work has appeared at top conferences including the Academy of Management, Druid and Babson. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Bristol Faculty of Engineering Professor Dimitra SimeonidouBSc(Aristotelian), MSc(Aristotelian), PhD(Essex) Professor of High Performance Networks Area of research High Performance Networks Research Optical Communication Networks Converged Optical and Wireless Networks Programmable and Cognitive Optical Networks Network Control and Management Software Defined Networking Grid Computing and High Performance Clouds Data Centre Networking Multi-dimensional Optical Switching Future Internet Research and Experimentation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~D.Nikolopoulos/Queen's University of Belfast Dimitrios S. NikolopoulosProfessor and Head of School of EEECS Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos is Professor and Head of the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at Queen's University of Belfast. He holds the Chair in High Performance and Distributed Computing and the post of Director of Research of the HPDC Cluster. His research explores scalable computing systems for data-driven applications and new computing paradigms at the limits of performance, power and reliability.Dimitrios's accolades include the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the DOE CAREER Award, the IBM Faculty Award, the SFI-DEL Investigator Award and Best Paper Awards from the best IEEE and ACM HPC conferences, including SC, PPoPP, and IPDPS. His research has produced over 160 top-tier outputs and has received extensive (£10.6m as PI/£39.5m as CoI) and highly competitive research funding from the NSF, DOE, EPSRC, SFI, DEL, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, European Commission and private sector. He regularly teaches modules in computer organisation, parallel computing, and systems programming. Dimitrios is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, Senior Member of the IEEE and Senior Member of the ACM. He earned a PhD (2000) in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Pissarides Christopher A. Pissarides
London School of Economics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christopher Antoniou Pissarides,born 20 February 1948 is a Cypriot economist. He currently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labor, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, for his contributions to the theory of search frictions and macroeconomics. Pissarides was born in Cyprus (into a Greek-Cypriot family). He received his B.A. in Economics in 1970 and his M.A. in Economics in 1971 at the University of Essex.[2] He subsequently enrolled in the London School of Economics, where he received his PhD in Economics in 1973 under the supervision of the mathematical economist Michio Morishima.[2] He currently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the Economics Department and is Director of the Research Programme on Macroeconomics at the Centre for Economic Performance, both at the London School of Economics (where he has been since 1976).
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Prof.Sotiris Georganas
I am a Reader (Associate Professor) at the Department of Economics, City University London.
My primary area of research up to now has been in auction experiments, models of bounded rationality and applied game theory.
Recently, I spent some time visiting CESS, Department of Economics, New York University.
My previous job was as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of London, Royal Holloway.
From 2007 until 2009 I have worked at the Ohio State University as a post doctoral researcher with John Kagel.
My doctoral research was done at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics, under Professor Reinhard Selten.
While in graduate school I spent my second year (2004-2005) visiting the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (as part of the European Doctoral Programme) and working with Rosemarie Nagel.
My undergraduate studies were also in Economics at the University of Bonn from 1999 to 2003. I spent my last year visiting the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. My Diplomarbeit (similar to a master's thesis), done under Benny Moldovanu, was an experimental study about auctions with resale.
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Dr Georgios Batsakis
Senior Lecturer in International Business & Economics
Brunel university,London
I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Business (fractional appointment). My research focuses on the internationalisation processes and foreign market entry strategies of multinational enterprises, while my teaching lies in the area of International Business, Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship. I have published more than fifteen papers in leading international business and general management academic journals, such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, Management International Review, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Thunderbird International Business Review, among others, while I have participated with numerous papers in the proceedings of major international conferences, such as the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business, among others.
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Prof.Panos DeloukasWilliam Harvey Research Institute Queen Mary University of London Professor of Cardiovascular Genomics Research: Cardiovascular: Genomics & Stratified Medicine, NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit. Panos Deloukas obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece and MSc in Microbiology from University Paris 7, France. He received his PhD from the Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland in 1991. He joined the Sanger Centre in 1994 where he set up a high-throughput pipeline for radiation hybrid mapping, leading an effort to map 30,000 gene markers, GeneMap98. Panos was an active member of the Human Genome Project coordinating the sequencing and analysis of chromosomes 10 and 20. After the completion of the HGP he joined the International HapMap project constructing SNP maps of the human genome. Since 2005 he is studying the molecular basis of common disease and variable response to drugs in humans through large-scale genetic studies. He joined the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University London in September 2013 working on the genomics of coronary artery disease and lipid levels. Panos is a member of many consortia including CARDIoGRAMplusC4D, Global Lipids Genetics Consortium, GIANT and IWPC. He has authored over 350 publications (H-index 100) and was listed by Thomson Reuters among the 1% highly cited researchers in Molecular Biology & Genetics for the period 2002-2012. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Athanasios FokasThe greatest Greek mathematician right after Karatheodoris He was born in 1952 and grew up in Argostoli. The most famous teacher at his 18 he left for Great Britain since for various reasons he did not get into the National Technical University of Athens. Nevertheless he has now become an honorary Doctor of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, NTUA – he has been voted Honorary Doctorate at the University of Crete and Patras. Started in London studying aeronautics, with his sole purpose of vocational rehabilitation but his greatest love was always mathematics. He has graduated honorably and it was then that he won his first prize. Right after he had a PhD in applied mathematics. Later he was interested in medical science, and so he deservedly graduated also from medical school in the U.S. He was appointed to the newly inaugurated Chair in Nonlinear Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge, UK(2002) and at the Chair of Applied Mathematics of Imperial College London (1996). He is an aeronautical, distinguished mathematician, physicist and physician. He has given over 220 lectures at seminars and international conferences. In 2000 he received the «Nylon» prize by the London Mathematical Society. The news agency «Associated Press» University and the Imperial College described the prize as equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the field of Applied Mathematics. In 2004 he was awarded the Aristeion Prize in Sciences of the Academy of Athens where he was elected a full member, couple of months later. In January 2005 he was presented with the decoration of the Commander of the Order of Phoenix by the President of the Hellenic Republic and. Also in 2005 he was elected as Professional Fellow of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. The Clarkson University so as to honour his scientific contribution they introduced a series of lectures entitled «The Fokas Distinguished Lecture Series». Since 2006 he is an honorary doctorate at the University of Athens, and he has recently been awarded the Excellence Foundation Bodossakis, along with D. Christodoulou. Furthermore, he is a member of several scientific committees and co-publisher and editorial board member of many distinguished journals. It is worth mentioning about his position as Chairman of the Board of Supervisory at the National Library. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.imperial.ac.uk/people/n.mazarakisProfessor Nicholas D. MazarakisFaculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine Chair MolBioMedicine and Head of Gene Therapy Imperial College London Professor Nicholas D. Mazarakis holds the Lucas-Lee chair of Molecular BioMedicine and is head of Gene Therapy in Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. He is a molecular neuroscientist with an international reputation in gene therapy of neurological diseases. He has served as Vice President of Neurobiology at Oxford BioMedica plc, where he pioneered the first ever lentiviral gene therapy to the clinic for Parkinson’s disease (ProSavin®). His research focuses on investigating molecular pathways of neurodegeneration and developing translational gene therapies for neurological diseases. He received his Ph.D. from King’s College University of London and is an elected fellow of the Society of Biology. He has lectured in conferences worldwide and published in top science journals such as Nature, Science and PNAS. His research is supported by several grants including an Advanced Investigators award in 2008 and a Proof of Concept grant in 2013 from the European Research Council.
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www.brunel.ac.uk/about/hongrads/1991/papadopoulosDr George PapadopoulosGeorge Papadopoulos is the person most senior within the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with specialised responsibility for education and training matters. On his retirement this year he was Deputy Director of the Education Directorate which included responsibility for several specialised educational programmes including Institutional Management in Higher Education and Educational Building Programmes. He was also the most senior officer responsible for the QECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). Dr Papadopoulos' role in educational development throughout the OECD countries cannot be easily captured by mere reference to his official position. He began his professional life as a teacher in one-teacher school in Cyprus before coming to England to gain a first class honours degree in History at Exeter University (then University College). He took a doctorate from there in co-operation with the Institute for Historical Research in two years and this was later published. It was on the British presence in the near-east at the end of the nineteenth century. After various teaching and educational administration jobs he moved to the OECD. It was he who helped to organise the first OECD meeting of science ministers in the 1960s. In 1968 he was instrumental in securing Ford Foundation and Dutch Shell money for the creation of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. He did so in the belief that, in the wake of the Paris events in May of that year and the turmoil throughout education systems at the time, the credibility of the OECD depended on responding to the mood of innovation and change that then prevailed.
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2.C Biological sciences.Dr George Papanikolaou
 George Papanicolaou: inventor of the pap smear.Uterine cancer & the papsmear: a profile of George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the pap smear for cancer detection in women, a diagnostic test that has saved millions of lives. George Nicolas Papanicolaou was born on May 13, 1883 in Kymi, Greece. His father, Nicolas, was a well-respected physician and his mother, Maria, was a very cultured lady who had a great love for Greek classical music and literature. George had three siblings, Athanase, Maria and Helen. When George was four years old he began grammar school. He was a sensitive child and spent his free time hiking in the mountains, boating or walking along the sea. When George was eleven he went to Athens to study at a school his older brother attended. In 1898, George entered the University of Athens where he majored in humanities and music. His father wanted him to become a physician. Due to his father's encouragement, George went to medical school and graduated with an "A" average in 1904. He served as an assistant surgeon in the military until 1906. Although his father tried to encourage him to remain in the military as a physician, George wanted to pursue a career in scientific research. Dr. George Papanicolaou began his medical career taking care of patients at a leper colony north of his hometown of Kymi. Papanicolaou was very sympathetic to the lepers, who received little care from the surrounding community, and spent a lot of time tending to their medical and other personal needs. In 1907, Papanicolaou went to Jena, Germany for postgraduate study at the Zoological Institute in Munich, the greatest zoological research center in the world at that time. His first teacher at the Institute in Munich was Professor Ernst Haeckel, one of Europe's greatest early proponents of Darwinism. In 1910, Papanicolaou obtained his Ph.D., he was now George Nicolas Papanicolaou, M.D., Ph.D. After receiving his Ph.D., he married Mary Mavroyeni, the daughter of a wealthy merchant from his hometown of Kymi. In 1912, Dr. Papanicolaou joined the Balkan Alliance in the war against Turkey. He was 1st Lieutenant in the Medical Corps. During his time in the military, he had met some Greek-American soldiers who told him of the opportunities in the United States. Dr. Papanicolaou obtained a position as assistant in the Department of Anatomy at New York's Cornell Medical School in 1914. His wife, Mary, also worked there as his technician. In 1920, Dr. Papanicolaou began his study of the girl thingyl cytology of the human. After becoming familiar with normal cytology changes, he found some cases of malignancy. About this discovery, he remarked, "The first observation of cancer cells in a smear of the uterine cervix was one of the most thrilling experiences of my scientific career." In 1928 he published a paper about the results of his work, entitled, "New Cancer Diagnosis." A newspaper article in the "New York World" stated, "Although Dr. Papanicoloau is not willing to predict how useful the new diagnostic method will be in the actual treatment of malignancy itself, it seems probable that it will prove valuable in determining cancer in the early stages of its growth when it can be more easily fought and treated. There is even hope that pre-cancerous conditions may be detected and checked." In 1928, Dr. Papanicolaou became a citizen of the United States and was promoted to Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Cornell. In 1939, the reevaluation of the girl thingyl smear for cancer detection began. At the New York Hospital all women patients were required to take a routine girl thingyl smear. Dr. Herbert Traut, a gynecological pathologist, collaborated with Dr. Papanicolaou to validate the diagnostic potential of the girl thingyl smear. In 1943, they published their findings and conclusions in the famous monograph, "Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the girl thingyl Smear." The diagnostic procedure was named the Pap test. In 1954, Dr. Papanicolaou's comprehensive scientific treatise was published. It was entitled, "Atlas of Exfoliative Cytology," which contained a compendium of cytological findings in health and disease involving multiple organ systems of the human body. Some of the many awards and honors he received were the First Award of the Order of AHEPA, as the Most Outstanding American Scientist of Greek Descent; The Honor Medal of the American Cancer Society; The Modern Medicine Award for Distinguished Achievement; Honorary Member of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Athens; Honorary Member of the New York Academy of Sciences; Permanent Honorary Consultant to the Society of Pelvic Surgeons; and Honorary Degrees from the University of Athens, University of Turin and the Hahnemann Medical College. Dr. Papanicolaou died on February 18, 1962 of heart failure and pulmonary edema and is buried in New Jersey. Millions of women have received the Pap test and deaths from cancer of uterus has been greatly reduced because of the test. On May 13, 1962, the Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute in Miami, Florida was dedicated. The dedication address was given by Dr. Papanicolou's friend, Dr. Charles Cameron, who said: "He was a giver of life; he is in the company of the great; he is one of the elect of the men of earth who stand for all eternity like solitary towers along the way to human betterment. We are deeply in his debt." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.bnaneuro.net/barrow_phys_pappa.htmlDr. Stephen Papadopoulos specializes in spinal surgery and computerized applications in the operating room. Dr. Papadopoulos is a graduate of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. In 1983 he began his training as a neurosurgeon at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was in Ann Arbor that he developed a significant interest in spinal surgery and surgical informatics. He completed a fellowship in spinal surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in 1989. Dr. Papadopoulos was instrumental in developing a state of the art Image-Guided Surgery program at the University of Michigan. He recently joined his colleagues at Barrow Neurosurgical Associates in utilizing and further developing this technology. Dr. Papadopoulos is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons. He is the President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Coukos M.D., Ph.DCenter for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Pennsylvania Medical Center 1209 Biomedical Research Building II/III The current research interests of Dr. Coukos focus on understanding host-tumor interactions at a cellular and molecular level in ovarian cancer and other gynecologic malignancies. In particular, Dr. Coukos is interested in mechanisms regulating the trafficking and regulation of immune cell function within the tumor and mechanisms modulating tumor cell immunogenicity. State-of-the-art high-throughput analysis of tumors is carried out using laser capture microdissection followed by molecular profiling using cDNA arrays and protein arrays as well as conventional molecular biology techniques. These are combined with conventional cell culture work. In addition, a syngeneic model of epithelial ovarian cancer was recently generated in Dr. Coukos' lab and is used to study host-tumor interactions in vivo. The laboratory is also focused on the immune therapy and biological therapy of ovarian cancer and other gynecologic malignancies. We are exploring the application of dendritic cell-based vaccines as well as the use of recombinant oncolytic or replication-incompetent viruses encoding cytokines for intraperitoneal in situ vaccination of ovarian carcinoma. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christos Coutifaris, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor and Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Pennsylvania Medical Center also read... www.pennhealth.com/Wagform/MainPage.aspx?config=provider&P=PP&ID=970------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Panos ZavosBorn: 1944 Geneticist Born in Trikomo, Cyprus Born February 23, 1944, in Tricomo, Cyprus, Panayiotis Michael Zavos is the second youngest son of Michael and Theodora Zavos. He comes from a very successful family, holding numerous national and international companies and institutions. He grew up in Tricomo, and attended the Agricultural Gymnasium of Morphou (High school) in the city of Morphou. He worked at the Agricultural Research Institute of Cyprus and served as a Lieutenant in the Cypriot Army from 1963-1966. He immigrated to the United States for University studies in 1966. Dr. Panayiotis Zavos received his B.S. in Biology-Chemistry in 1970, his M.S. in Biology-Physiology in 1972 and Education Specialist in Science (Ed.S.) in 1976 from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. He earned his Ph.D. in Reproductive Physiology, Biochemistry and Statistics in 1978 from the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Graduate Teaching Award from Emporia State University and the Student Leadership Award from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Zavos has a long career as a reproductive specialist and he has devoted more than 25 years to academia and research. He is the chief scientist in the development of several new and innovative technologies in the animal and human reproductive areas with worldwide implications. He has authored or coauthored more than 400 peer-review publications, along with a number of solicited reviews, book chapters and popular press releases. He has presented more than 300 abstracts and other presentations at a large number of national, international and professional scientific meetings all over the world. Dr. Zavos' studies and findings have been reported in the local, national and international press. He served as an ad hoc reviewer for the NIH and other scientific groups. Dr. Zavos is currently serving as a Member of the International Advisory Commitee of the Middle East Fertility Society, and is a past Board Member of the China Academy of Science. He was awarded the first ever Honorary Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Science awarded to an American by Chinese Scientists. He is also currently on the Board of Scientific and Policy Advisors for the American Council on Science and Health. He has given plenary lectures nationally and internationally at a number of Scientific Societies meetings, has been and continues to be a visiting scientist for a number of international collaborations and exchanges. Dr. Zavos has numerous scientific collaborations nationally and internationally and his publications have appeared in eight languages. He is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the American Society of Andrology (ASA), the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), the Middle East Fertility Society ( MEFS), the Japanese Fertility Society, the International Society of Cryobiology Sigma XI, Gamma Sigma Delta and a number of other Scientific and Professional Societies. He has served on a large number of committees for the International Society of Cryobiology, ASRM, MEFS, ESHRE and others. Professor Zavos has received a great deal of media coverage both within the scientific and reproductive arena and the mainstream press for his many scientific accomplishments and pioneering ventures. He has made many television and radio appearances including: NPR Radio, 60 Minutes, Dateline NBC with Stone Phillips, The Connie Chung Show on CNN, Face the Nation, BBC World, ESPN, Tech TV, Nightline, Fox TV, World News Tonight, Good Morning America on ABC, The Early Show, CBS This Morning, CNN News, CNN, CNN International, Reuters, HBO, The View with Barbara Walters, National Geographic, Televisione svizzera (Swiss TV), Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, Antena TV of Cyprus and Greece, Tokyo Broadcasting System International, NHK Television (Japan), Nippon Television of Japan, TV Asahi (Japan), ZDF TV (Germany), Deutsche Welle TV (Germany), Nine Network TV (Australia), National TV (Israel) and Live Talk with Sabine Christiansen (Germany). Dr. Zavos is recognized worldwide as a leading researcher and a strong authority in the areas of male reproductive physiology, gamete physiology, male infertility, Andrology and other ART procedures including the development of in-vitro round spermatid manipulations (ROSI procedures). Dr. Zavos is also recognized as an international authority on smoking and its effects on human reproductive performance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas G. Tzakiswww.diabetesresearch.org/AbouttheDRI/DRIFaculty/AndreasTzakis.htmAndreas G. Tzakis, M.D., a world-renowned transplant surgeon who has long collaborated with the Diabetes Research Institute faculty, recently joined DRI as director of Microsurgery Core Facility in the Cell Transplantation Center. The former director of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Pediatric Liver and Intestinal Transplant Programs, Dr. Tzakis joined the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1994 as co-director, with Joshua Miller, M.D., of the Division of Transplantation and as director of the Surgery Department's newly created Division of Liver and Intestinal Transplantation. While with the University of Pittsburgh's transplant team, Dr. Tzakis performed numerous pioneering surgeries, among them the world's first successful islet transplant from a single pancreas in collaboration with DRI's Camillo Ricordi, M.D., Daniel Mintz, M.D., and Rodolfo Alejandro, M.D. Dr. Tzakis is considered the leading transplant surgeon in the world, says Dr. Ricordi. He was selected to perform all the most complex cases at the University of Pittsburgh, and is a tremendous asset and a unique faculty scholar at the DRI and the University of Miami. In addition to being an accomplished liver transplant surgeon, Dr. Tzakis has been a principal contributor to the development of small bowel and multiple-organ transplantation as a viable procedure for both children and adults. In recent years, he performed history-making baboon-to-human liver transplants at the Pittsburgh Medical Center. In Miami, Dr. Tzakis plans to continue his research on cross-species transplantation. He is also collaborating with DRI faculty on clinical studies to induce tolerance to organ and cellular transplants without the need for long-term immunosuppressive therapy. Working with Dr. Ricordi, he is transplanting the bone marrow cells of the donor along with the transplanted organs, tissues or cells to create a state of chimerism, or the mixture of donor and recipient cells in the transplant patient's body. The movement of the donor and recipient cells between the transplanted organ and recipient is considered a key mechanism for acceptance of foreign tissue. He also leads a research effort to introduce new genes into these bone marrow cells that would suppress immune reactivity to these donor cells. A native of Greece, Dr. Tzakis received his M.D. from the University of Athens, and completed a surgical residency at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York. After completing a surgical residency under Harry Sozoff, M.D., and Felix Rapaport, M.D., professor of surgery and chief of transplantation at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dr. Tzakis then successfully concluded a two-year transplantation fellowship under Thomas E. Starzl, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Pittsburgh. Author or co-author of more than 300 papers, Dr. Tzakis is a member of several professional organizations and has often lobbied Congress and the national organ donor network to place more emphasis on patient need, and less on geographical boundaries in deciding how to allocate life-saving organs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.kimmelcancercenter.org/RadOnc/ili.htmGeorge Iliakis, Ph.D.
Professor, Radiation Oncology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital E-mail: george.iliakis@mail.tju.edu Dr. Iliakis is a trained Radiobiologist. He received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany and is conducting research in United States since 1983. He is a recipient of the twentieth Radiation Research Society Research Award. Dr. Iliakis is currently Professor and Associate Director of the Division of Experimental Radiation Oncology in the Department of Radiation Oncology of Thomas Jefferson University. He has served as Associate Editor for Radiation Research and the International Journal of Radiation Biology, and is presently Associate Editor for Radiation and Environmental Biophysics. Dr. Iliakis is the President of the Philadelphia Cancer Research Association. He is a member of the NCI Man Power study section that reviews training grant applications and has served as an ad hoc reviewer in numerous other study sections. He is a member of several Professional Societies including the American Society for the Advancement of Science, the Radiation Research Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, the North American Hyperthermia Society, and the European Society of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Iliakis also serves on committees of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group. Research in Dr. Iliakis' laboratory has a basic and a translational component. The basic research component focuses on the elucidation of the DNA damage response with emphasis on the mechanism of activation of the S-phase checkpoint as well the enzymology and regulation of non-homologous recombination. Translational research in Dr. Iliakis' laboratory focuses on the evaluation of interactions between drugs and radiation and the development and application of predictive assays in cancer therapy. Research in Dr. Iliakis' laboratory is funded by grants from the NCI, NASA, and Pharmaceutical Companies. Dr. Iliakis has authored or co-authored over 100 peer reviewed papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Evripidis Gavathiotiswww.dana-farber.org/abo/news/pres....activation.htmlScientists unlock secret of death protein's activation May lead to drugs that force cancer cells to self-destruct The researchers used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to monitor the arrangement of atoms in the protein. First authors of the Nature paper Evripidis Gavathiotis, PhD, of Walensky's laboratory and Motoshi Suzuki, PhD, of Nico Tjandra, PhD,'s laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, succeeded in generating pure BAX protein that could be put into solution with the stapled BH3 peptide — the latter in increasing concentrations until it initiated a BH3-BAX interaction. Gavathiotis and Suzuki used the NMR technique to spot a group of BAX amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, which were affected by the addition of the stapled BH3 peptide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.neurosci.umn.edu/faculty/georgopoulos.htmlApostolos P. Georgopoulos, M.D., Ph.D.UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAProfessor, Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evangelos Michelakis www.ualberta.ca/PERINATAL/Investigators/michelakis.htmDr Michelakis received his MD from the University of Patras/Greece in 1990. Following a research fellowship at the University of Texas in Galveston, he completed his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at Yale University and the University of Minnesota. He is an assistant professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the University of Alberta since 8-1-1998. Since his arrival at the U of A he has received funding from the AHFMR (Clinical Investigator) and the Alberta Lung Association. He is a member of the Vascular Biology Research Group. His research interests are focused in the role of potassium channels in the control of vascular tone in the pulmonary and the systemic circulation. He has recently been studying the effects of chronic hypoxia on cellular electrophysiology and vascular reactivity as well as the mechanisms that control tone in the pulmonary veins and the human ductus arteriosus. He is the 1999 recipient of the Richard Row Young Investigator Award (sponsored by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society) and he was first runner-up in the 1999 Cournard-Comroe Young Investigator competition (sponsored by the American Heart Association). Techniques routinely used in his laboratory (located on the 4th floor of the AHFMR building) include: cellular electrophysiology (whole-cell and single-cell patch clamping), intracellular Ca++ fluorescence imaging, tissue baths (vascular rings), the mice and rat isolated perfused lung models, immunoblotting, immunohistochemistry, RT-PCR and the chemiluminescence technique for measuring NO and NO oxidation products. There is currently 1 position open for a student at the graduate or postgraduate level. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.ntu.edu.sg/icbpe/Docs/mikos_bio.htmAntonios G. MikosAntonios G. Mikos is the J.W. Cox Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. He is the Director of the J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering at Rice University. He received his Dipl.Eng. (1983) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and his Ph.D. (198 from Purdue University, both in Chemical Engineering. From 1990-1991, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School. He joined the Rice faculty in 1992 as the T.N. Law Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996 and to Professor in 1999. During 1998, he was a Visiting Professor at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Utah. Mikos’ research contributions have been in the synthesis, processing, and evaluation of new biomaterials for tissue engineering, scaffolds for three-dimensional cell culture, conduits for guided tissue regeneration, substrates for targeted cell adhesion, carriers for controlled drug delivery, and non-viral vectors for gene therapy. His research has led to the development of novel orthopaedic, cardiovascular, neurologic, and ophthalmologic biomaterials. He is the author of over 300 publications, 130 proceedings, 200 abstracts, and 20 patents. He is the editor of 7 books, including Frontiers in Tissue Engineering, as well as the editor of 9 journal special issues. In addition, he has given more than 90 invited seminars and 410 scientific presentations. Mikos was elected a Fellow of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering in 2000 and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 1999. He has been recognized by various awards including: the 2005 Marshall R. Urist Award for Excellence in Tissue Regeneration Research of the Orthopaedic Research Society, the 2003 Huygens Lectureship of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, the 2001 Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature of the Society for Biomaterials, the 1998 Young Investigator Research Achievement Award of the Controlled Release Society, the 1996 Outstanding Young Investigator Award of the Materials Research Society, the 1994 Whitaker Young Investigator Award of the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the 1991 Victor K. LaMer Award of the American Chemical Society. He was also the recipient of a FIRST Award of the National Institutes of Health in 1996. Mikos has supervised 20 Ph.D. and 4 M.S. theses, and is currently supervising the research of 16 additional Ph.D. graduate students. He has trained 23 post-doctoral fellows and supervised the research of 60 undergraduate students at Rice University. He is a Founding Member of the Bioengineering Department at Rice University (1997). He is the Organizer of the Continuing Education Course Advances in Tissue Engineering offered annually at Rice University since 1993. Mikos is a Founding Editor of the journal Tissue Engineering and Member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Biomaterials (Special Issues Editor), Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Cell Transplantation, Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research (Part A and B),and Journal of Controlled Release. www.ruf.rice.edu/~mikosgrp------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nikolaos Scarmeaswww.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/sergievsky/cnd/scarmeas.htmlNikolaos Scarmeas, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Taub Institute
Division of Aging and Dementia, Department of Neurologywww.slashfood.com/2006/04/19/med-diet-may-cut-alzheimers-riskDr. Nikolaos Scarmeas,assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, is the first that links a mental benefit to the diet. Scarmeas says he can't pinpoint any particular food, but thinks that the the diet's high level of antioxidant rich foods may hold the key. Dr. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, professor of cancer prevention and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, who himself adheres to the Mediterranean diet, and has also studied its benefits, points out that it includes "moderate consumption of alcohol, usually in the form of wine during dinner." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George VithoulkasHe started studying homeopathy in South Africa in 1960. He continued in India at different homeopathic colleges, receiving a diploma from the Indian Institute of Homeopathy in 1966. Returning to Greece the following year, Vithoulkas started practicing homeopathy and teaching it to a small group of Greek medical doctors. The therapeutic success of these first doctors so attracted the attention of others that the Athenian School of Homeopathic Medicine was established in 1970. The school, since re-named the Center of Homeopathic Medicine, is devoted exclusively to the teaching of MDs. In 1994, Vithoulkas opened the International Academy for Classical Homeopathy on the Greek island of Alonissos, its purpose being to provide post-graduate training for health practitioners from all over the world. Currently, as the Director of the Athens Center, Vithoulkas heads a team of 30 doctors who practice homeopathy while they study under his supervision. He has established homeopathy in Greece as a science respected by the medical profession, and has also made his country one of the leading centers for homeopathy in the western world. Vithoulkas' books, Homeopathy: Medicine of the New Man (Arco, New York, 1979), written for lay people, and The Science of Homeopathy (Grove Press, New York, 1980), for health professionals, have been translated into twenty languages and have had a profound influence upon the acceptance and practice of homeopathy worldwide. His book, A New Model for Health and Disease, published in German and English in 1991, makes a fundamental critique of conventional allopathic medicine and sets out a new paradigm for the science of medicine. He has been an international teacher of classical homeopathy for 20 years. In the year 1996, he was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize for his work in the field of Classical Homeopathy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Papadopoulos
Irena PapadopoulosFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Professor Irena Papadopoulos (born in Famagusta, Cyprus) is a prominent Greek Cypriot transcultural nursing researcher and now resides in the United Kingdom. Papadopoulos currently heads the research centre for transcultural studies in health at Middlesex University but has been working within the NHS and the University sector for over 30 years. During this period she has led a number of projects aimed at changing nursing practice, developing new curricula, developing new assessment tools, establishing quality systems, and integrating nursing education within the higher education sector. She has conducted various research projects using a range of methodologies, and have provided consultancy to individuals and institutions. She has conducted research on the health, the health promotion and the social care needs of minority ethnic groups, asylum seekers and refugees. She has developed and delivered programmes aimed at promoting cultural competence as well as tools to measure individual and organisation competence. Her main research interests are culture/ethnicity/diversity and health, cultural competence, inequalities in health, disability and health, consumer involvement, regeneration and health, and the contribution of the voluntary sector to health and social welfare. She was for a number of years responsible for her school’s research capacity programme which aimed at developing research skills for academic staff and research students. she has led the development and delivery of a Masters in Applied Health Research, an Intensive European Programme in Transcultural Nursing, a Masters in European Nursing, as well as supervising research students. Further, she led the Research Assessment Exercise for the 'Nursing' Unit of Assessment, both in 1996 and 2000, and was instrumental in establishing the Ethics Committee of the former School of Health, Biological and Environmental Sciences, and University's Journal of Health Social and Environmental Issues. Papadopoulos also has a vast experience related to the voluntary sector. In 1994, she co-founded the ‘Greek and Greek Cypriot Community of Enfield’, a very successful voluntary organisation. She has also been -amongst others- an elected executive member of a Racial Equality Council, and a Citizen's Advice Bureau. Her contribution in the voluntary sector has involved my participation in a number of committees and close liaisons with policy makers and funders at local and national level. In 2003 she established the ‘Papadopoulos Award for Outstanding Caring Acts by Young People in the Greek community’. She is a Scholar of the Transcultural Nursing Society and a former Dozor Scholar. She is the co-author of a book on transcultural nursing (1998) and the editor of a book on transcultural health and social care (2006). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.voiceofgreece.gr/news-in-english/from-harvard-to-thessaloniki-university.htm
Katerina Ayfanti With 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. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7264828.stmhere in greek... news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_100044_22/03/2008_263723----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.mountsinai.org/profiles/panagiotis-roussosPanagiotis Roussos, MD, PhD
PsychiatryPositions ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Psychiatry ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences Specialty Psychiatry Language English Hospital Affiliation The Mount Sinai Hospital Biography Panos Roussos is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a member of Icahn Institute - Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Friedman Brain Institute. He is also a VA/MIRECC Research Physician at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center. Panos Roussos received his medical and doctorate degrees from the University of Crete in Greece. He completed his residency in Psychiatry (research track) at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai followed by a MIRECC research fellowship in schizophrenia. Education MD, University of Crete Medical School MD, University of Crete MS, University of Crete PhD, University of Crete Residency, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Residency, Psychiatry Mount Sinai School of Medicine Fellowship, Schizophrenia Mount Sinai School of Medicine Language English Certification Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas Genetics and Genomic Sciences [GGS], Neuroscience [NEU] - See more at: www.mountsinai.org/profiles/panagiotis-roussos#sthash.Fa0xUxl3.dpuf---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Frangou Sophia Frangou
Sophia Frangou is Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where she heads the Psychosis Research Program. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Vice-Chair of the RCPsych Panamerican Division. She is a Fellow of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) and of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). She served as Vice-President for Research of the International Society for Bipolar Disordersfrom 2010-2014. She has also served on the Council of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. She is founding member of the EPA NeuroImaging section and founding chair of the Brain Imaging Network of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She is one of the three Editors of European Psychiatry, the official Journal of the European Psychiatric Association.
Frangou graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens, Greece in 1989. She then moved to the UK where she trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London. She obtained her master's degree in Neuroscience from the University of London, UK and trained in the US as a research fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University She returned to the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London where she completed her PhD on neuroimaging and electrophysiological markers of familial vulnerability to schizophrenia. Between 1997 and 2013 she worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital and led her own research group at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. Frangou's research focuses on the pathophysiological processes underlying psychosis, with emphasis on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder using clinical, genetic, cognitive and neuroimaging techniques. Her key contributions in the field relate to the neuroimaging correlates of disease risk, expression and resilience and on the functional impact of susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder on brain structure, connectivity and plasticity. In parallel Frangou is also interested in the standardisation of neuroimaging measures to capture normal variation across the lifespan and to guide diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response. She currently co-chairs the ENIGMA Lifespan Working Group [4] that examines normal variation in brain structure in over 10,000 healthy people aged 2–92 years. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46sdPcBuO-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Logothetis Nikos Logothetis (born 1950) is a Greek biologist and neuroscientist.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Logothetis is director of the department "Physiology of Cognitive Processes" at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. He studied music and mathematics at the University of Athens and completed a doctorate in biology in Munich with Ernst Pöppel. His research interests lie in exploring the neural mechanisms of visual perception. According to Logothetis, in order to understand a system, a description of it is necessary at all levels . As a result, intracortical cell recording and also modeling and imaging is conducted at all levels in his department. Therefore, in addition to functional magnetic resonance imaging, 'in vivo' spectroscopy is also used, and the working group is researching smart contrast agents (SCA) in order to make functional imaging useful for effects other than haemodynamic response. Logothetis has made significant discoveries, such as finding out that the blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) response is connected to brain activity at a neuronal level. These findings are essential for correct interpretation of measurements with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Logothetis is one of the 2003 winners of the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46sdpr0w5------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.med.nyu.edu/biosketch/papagt01Thales Papagiannakopoulos
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
........................................................................... www.greece-is.com/news/greek-doctors-innovative-cancer-research/Greek Doctor’s Innovative Cancer Research
A young Greek assistant professor is part of a team that is revolutionizing the study of cancer mutations. Mathaios Tsimitakis | January 21st, 2016
He’s only 33 years old, but has an office and a laboratory at New York University (NYU) and is at the forefront of research for the discovery of treatments for lung cancer — the most deadly form of the disease.
Thales Papagiannakopoulos, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at NYU, has employed a revolutionary new technique which tries to understand how specific commonly occurring cancer mutations work. The ultimate objective is the development of genetic cancer therapies, something which, for now, is extremely difficult because of the complexity involved. But Papagiannakopoulos’ research might well be a right step in the right direction. On December 22, 2015, the Academy of Athens awarded him a special prize for his innovative research, which was accepted for publication in the leading scientific journal, Nature. Science magazine also described the CRISPR method used by Papagiannakopoulos’ scientific group as a scientific revolution. Cancer research is first tested theoretically on computer models, then in human tissue cultures and then in animals, such as the Drosophila fly and mice. “Until recently we had to create mutations through stem cells produced by mice. This could take up to three years. Now we can intervene directly in the DNA of adult organisms, which is of particular interest to us since cancer usually occurs in mature tissue,” he explains. The technique used by the group, in which Papagiannakopoulos participated as a postdoctoral MIT researcher, managed to produce four mutations in four months, although, as he says, there is no barrier to creating many more, which could greatly accelerate cancer research. The CRISPR method was discovered in the late ’80s in Osaka, Japan, when researchers observed that some bacteria can alter their DNA to protect themselves against virus attacks. Years later in 2014, scientists in the US found that they could use this mechanism to splice new DNA, much like cutting text on a computer screen. They then inserted a protein which was prompted by the cell’s RNA to break down the DNA sequence of the cell, as desired by the researchers. “Using viruses, we managed to transfer cancerous mutations to specific cells in the lung and can focus our study on these. It’s like we found a genetic switch that allows you to create combinations of genetic mutations that occur in humans.” says Papagiannakopoulos. The big problem that researchers are trying to overcome is the complexity of mutations. In 200 lung cancer patients, Papagiannakopoulos identified two oncogenes that appear to occur more frequently (in 70% of cases while there are thousands of other mutations whose function is currently unknown) and is trying to interrupt their operation to inhibit disease progression. The belief in the medical community is that, in the future, gene therapies will be created which may turn some forms of cancer into chronic conditions, though generating a unique DNA treatment per patient is not easy. If they manage to find genetic pathways that involve large patient groups, they might move a step closer to personalized treatments. The revolutionary CRISPR method employed by Papagiannakopoulos also has other ethically questionable uses. “The method can be used for practically anything. We know that some scientists in China have attempted to use it for the genetic engineering of cells.” he says. “Eugenics may be closer than we think,” he concludes. * Originally published in kathimerini.gr Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46seuTZeY-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.usias.fr/en/fellows/fellows-2015/evi-soutoglou/
Evi Soutoglou
University of Strasburg
Evi Soutoglou obtained her PhD in the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Crete, Greece, in tissue regulation of gene expression. She then held the postdoctoral positions at the IGBMC in Strasbourg and at National Cancer Institute, NIH, in Bethesda USA, supported by the EMBO long term and HFSP post doctoral fellowships. During this time, she studied the impact of nuclear architecture on the formation of chromosomal translocations. In 2009, she joined IGBMC as a group leader and CNRS researcher, supported by the prestigious ATIP program. In 2010, she obtained her Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches from the University of Strasbourg. In 2014, she received the CNRS Bronze Medal. Her laboratory investigates the balance of DNA repair pathways in relation chromatin structure and nuclear architecture and its impact in the formation of chromosomal translocations. As part of her fellowship, Evi Soutoglou is working on the project The role of 3D genome organization in DNA repair. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46sg2DwKs--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.cs.rice.edu/~kavraki/Lydia E. Kavraki
Noah Harding Professor
of Computer Science and Bioengineering
Rice University
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Kavraki Lydia E. Kavraki is a Greek computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, a professor of bioengineering at Rice University, and a professor of structural and computational biology and molecular biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine. She is known for her work on motion planning and bioinformatics and in particular for the probabilistic roadmap method for robot motion planning and biomolecular configuration analysis. Kavraki did her undergraduate studies at the University of Crete.She then moved to Stanford University for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of Jean-Claude Latombe.She joined the Rice faculty in 2004. Awards and honors In 2000, Kavraki won the Grace Murray Hopper Award for her work on probabilistic roadmaps.In 2002, Popular Science magazine listed her in their "Brilliant 10" awards, and in the same year Technology Review listed her in their annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35.[7] In 2010, she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to robotic motion planning and its application to computational biology."[8][9] She is also a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46sgVuoPM-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni_Antoniadou Eleni Antoniadou
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eleni Antoniadou (born 1988) is a Greek scientist and a women's rights activist,with degrees in multiple disciplines. She is also a co-founder in a start-up initiative entitled "Transplants Without Donors" a medical firm to popularize artificial organ transplantation with research, with the long-term vision of creating organs in the laboratory and transplanting them on sick patients in need. She has won several awards from many institutions.
Biography Antoniadou was born in Greece in 1988. Right from her school days when she was interested in astronomy and aerospace clubs she hoped to pursue science studies. Her initial college education was at the University of Thessaly in Greece from where she graduated with a BSc degree in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics in 2009.[3][5] She continued her studies at University College London, earning a master's degree in nanotechnology and regenerative medicine. Thereafter, she studied at the University of Illinois and was awarded another master's degree in bioengineering and tissue engineering. Concurrently with her doctoral studies in Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, she worked as a researcher to study the effects of changes in atmospheric pressure on the nervous systems of astronauts at the NASA Mars Exploration Lab. While pursuing her studies, Antoniadou also experimented on neural generation testing biomaterials which could be adopted as artificial nerves. Awards In the course of her young career Antoniadou has received several awards, including:[4] NASA - ESA Award for 2012; the 50 Future Award'; in September selected for the 2013 Woman of the Year at the annual British FDM Every-woman in Technology Awards, the 2015 Young Business Woman of the Year in the UK, BBC 100 Most Powerful Women, "11 Great Greeks of the Past, Present and Future" by the EPP party of the European Parliament, Libertine 100, Greek America Fortyunder40. In 2014 she became the USA Laureate for Cartier for her research in bioengineering.[8] Eleni was included in the List of 21st-century women scientists that was sponsored by The New York Academy of Sciences and the Young Global Leaders 2016 by the World Economic Forum. Eleni Antoniadou was named the recipient of the 2016 “Giuseppe Sciacca” International Award for “Science & Research” presented by His Eminence, the Most Reverend Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos in the Vatican City, Rome. Appreciation Forbes, awarding Antoniadou third place in the "30 Under 30" list of the leading young people in the field of healthcare, observed: “ "Eleni Antoniadou is chasing one of the holy grails of biotechnology:the idea of creating organs in the laboratory that could be transplanted into sick patients who need them. Her company, Transplants Without Donors, has been run with tens of thousands of dollars from its founders in 2012. Now it is searching for angel investors to take it to the next level." ” The Daily Telegraph UK included Antoniadou as one of the "Trailblazers who paved the way to success for generations of women", the Provocateur Magazine included her in the list "5 Outstanding Greeks for 2014", the Marie Claire Magazine featured her in the piece "8 Women that Change the World", Wow Now Magazine portrayed her in the article "15 Most Inspirational Women", Red Magazine selected her as a finalist for the Smart Woman award, MedTech Boston included her in the list "Top 10 Heathcare Trendsetters of 2016" and the Daily Toast featured her in the piece "6 Superwomen in Real Life". ............................................................................. www.forbes.com/pictures/mkg45effdk/eleni-antoniadou-27/Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46shBKQrF---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pipl.com/directory/people/Afksendiyos/Kalangos Afksendiyos KalangosAfksendiyos Kalangos is a Professor of paediatric and adult cardiac surgery and Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery of the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.
................................................................... www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/763-the-golden-hands-of-pediatric-cardiac-surgery/The “golden” hands of pediatric cardiac surgery He has been characterized as the modern missionary of Medicine and not unfairly. He is not just interested in titles or offices. He was a disciple of Alain Karpentie and Magktni Yaqub, whom he followed closely. Afksentiyos Kalangos is holding the leading position in the Department of Cardiac surgery of the University Hospital of Geneva. All the above do not matter more than the 15.000 surgeries over the last decade to poor children. In 1998, Afksentiyos Kalangos founded the charity institution «Coeurs pour tous» (Hearts for All), and since then he is surrounded by a group of surgeons with common ideals, offering valuable medical services to people in need around the world. He graduated in 1984 at the age 23, from the American Medical Faculty of Istanbul, he specialized himself in surgery in London and then he spent five additional years of study in order to be devoted to heart surgery for children and babies in Paris and in the U.S. Eventually he became a professor at the University of Geneva at his early 40s. He loves the smell of cinnamon and he always has a bottle of it in his office. He says that cinnamon regenerates him, but it also reminds him of the place of his origin Constantinople. As a son of a doctor, his father was a physician, head physician of the pediatric hospital in Istanbul Baloukli, he followed his father’s words, to make his life’s goal the works and not the money. It’s no wonder that a road to Istanbul has been named after his father, who died in 2004, having completed 65 years of devotion to patients. “A man, who could cure any disease” as the Turks say even today! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web.engr.utexas.edu/che/directories/faculty/peppas.cfm Nicholas A. Peppas, Sc.D.
Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacy Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering University of Texas at Austin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_A._Peppas Nicholas A. Peppas University of Texas at Austin Nicholas (Nikolaos) A. Peppas (born in Athens, Greece on August 25, 1948) is a chemical and biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterials science and engineering, drug delivery, bionanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, chemical and polymer engineering has led to numerous biomedical products or devices. Peppas was educated in chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (D. Eng., 1971) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sc.D., 1973) under the direction of bioengineering pioneer Edward W. Merrill. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Arteriosclerosis Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under world biomedical leaders Clark K. Colton, Kenneth A. Smith and Robert S. Lees. He is the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and Chairman of the Biomedical Engineering Department. He has been at the University of Texas at Austin since December 2002 and is also serving as the Director of the Center of Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Bionanotechnology and Molecular Recognition with appointments in the Department of Chemical Engineering, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he was the Showalter Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46yOsS9FD-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.cbe.buffalo.edu/people/full_time/p_alexandridis.phpUniversity at Buffalo
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Paschalis Alexandridis
UB Distinguished Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.cbe.buffalo.edu/people/full_time/s_andreadis.phpUniversity at Buffalo
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Stelios T. Andreadis
Professor
Department Chair
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_IoannidisJohn P. A. IoannidisBorn in New York City in 1965, Ioannidis was raised in Athens, Greece.He was Valedictorian of his class at Athens College, graduating in 1984. He also graduated first in his class at the University of Athens Medical School, then attended Harvard University for his medical residency in internal medicine. He did a fellowship at Tufts University for infectious disease and came to Stanford in 2010. John P. A. Ioannidis (born August 21, 1965 in New York City) is a Professor of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine and a Professor of Statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences. He is director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center, and co-director, along with Steven N. Goodman, of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS).He was chairman at the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine as well as adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.He is best known for his research and published papers on scientific studies, particularly the 2005 paper "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False".Ioannidis is one of the most-cited scientists across the scientific literature, especially in the fields of clinical medicine and social sciences, according to Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers 2015.
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Aristides PatrinosDirector, Office of Biological & Environmental Research Department of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC, 20585 www.sc.doe.gov/sub/Newsroom/News_Releases/DOE-SC/2006/Patrinos/index.htmDear Colleagues,I am writing to inform you that Dr. Aristides Patrinos, our Associate Director of Science for Biological and Environmental Research, will be leaving the Department of Energy’s Office of Science to become President of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. on February 8, 2006. Ari Patrinos has been a major figure in the fields of biology and environmental science for many years. He played an historic role in the successful Human Genome Project, the founding of the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the design and launch of DOE’s visionary genomics (GTL) program. He is a leading authority on structural biology, global environmental change, nuclear medicine and health effects, and basic research underpinning DOE’s environmental restoration effort. As those of us who have been privileged to be Ari’s colleague know, he has been a great ambassador for DOE and the Office of Science throughout the scientific community, both here in the U.S. and around the world. For example, Ari received the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Executives in 2001 “for his exemplary leadership of the human genomic research and global climate change programs, which have resulted in extraordinary public benefits and acclaimed international recognition.” Ari was honored in 2003 with the Secretary of Energy’s Gold Award for his leadership of the Human Genome Project for “this outstanding scientific and management accomplishment [which] has opened the door to the biotechnology revolution that now offers such promise for human health, clean energy and a cleaner environment.” Ari was recognized by President Bush with the 2004 Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executives “for his sustained extraordinary vision, leadership and achievements in genomics and climate change science.” And next month, at the AAAS annual meeting in St. Louis, Ari will be inducted as an AAAS Fellow “for truly outstanding direction and implementation of interdisciplinary projects, especially with respect to leadership in genome research.” Sincerely, Dr. Raymond L. Orbach Director, Office of Science Department of Energy www.mikrobiokosmos.org/en/founding_members.htmAris Patrinos received his undergraduate degree from the National Technical University of Athens and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, a Member of the American Geophysical Union, a Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a Member of the Greek Technical Society. Dr. Patrinos is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, including three Presidential Rank Awards and two Secretary of Energy Gold Medals, as well as an honorary doctorate from the National Technical University of Athens. Currently, Dr. Patrinos is the president of Synthetic Genomics. before that, he was the director of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the US Department of Energy (DOE), directing the department's research activities in human and microbial genome research, structural biology, nuclear medicine and health effects and global environmental change. Dr. Patrinos is well known for his leading role in the development of the US Human Genome Project. In addition, he helped create the Joint Genome Institute and developed and launched the Genomes to Life Program, a research program dedicated to developing technologies to use microbes for innovative solutions to energy and environmental challenges. www.syntheticgenomics.com/corporate.htm
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Leda Cosmides
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Leda Cosmides, (born May 7, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology.
Cosmides originally studied biology at Harvard University, receiving her A.B. in 1979. While an undergraduate she was influenced by the renowned evolutionary biologist Robert L. Trivers who was her advisor. In 1985, Cosmides received a Ph.D in cognitive psychology from Harvard and, after completing postdoctoral work under Roger Shepard at Stanford University, joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991, becoming a full professor in 2000.
In 1992, together with John Tooby and Jerome Barkow, Cosmides edited The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. She and Tooby also co-founded and co-direct the Center for Evolutionary Psychology.
Cosmides was awarded the 1988 American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Science Research, the 1993 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2005 National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award.
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Katerina Harvati
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Born 1970 (age 48–49)
Nationality Greek
Alma mater Columbia University (B.A.)
City University of New York (M.A.)
Known for Identification of the remains of the first Homo sapiens outside of Africa in the Apidima Cave, Greece
Scientific career
Fields Paleoanthropology
Institutions University of Tübingen
Doctoral advisor Eric Delson
Katerina Harvati (Greek: Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη; born 1970) is a Greek paleoanthropologist and expert in early human evolution. She specializes in the broad application of 3-D geometric morphometric and virtual anthropology methods to paleoanthropology. Since 2009, she has been full professor and director of Paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Life
Harvati is a graduate of Columbia University, New York, where she earned a B.A. in Anthropology 1994 (summa cum laude).[2] Four years later, she received her master’s degree in Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York. After having been awarded with her Ph.D. at CUNY in 2001[3] she worked as an assistant professor at New York University. From 2004 to 2009, she was senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology[4] in Leipzig, Germany. In 2005, she became also adjunct associate professor at the City University of New York Graduate School[5] and in 2009 she was appointed full professor at the University of Tübingen and director of Paleoanthropology. In 2010, she was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her contributions to Paleoanthropology.[6] Harvati is married to the Greek biotechnology executive Elias Papatheodorou.[7] They have two children.
Research
Harvati´s research focuses on primate and human evolution as well as on evolutionary theory, with emphasis on the paleobiology of Pleistocene humans and modern human origins. She has conducted fieldwork in different parts of Europe and Africa and contributed largely to the understanding of the relationship of morphological variability to population history and the environment. As part of international teams of scientists, Harvati showed in 2007 that modern humans left Africa between 65,000 and 25,000 years ago, a publication that TIME magazine ranked as one out of Top Ten discoveries of the year.[8] In 2011, she identified the earliest modern human remains known in Europe from Grotta del Cavallo, Southern Italy (Benazzi et al 2011); and in 2017 demonstrated that modern humans evolved much earlier than previously thought, around 300,000 years ago in Morocco (Hublin et al. 2017). Harvati led recent breakthroughs in the understanding of Neanderthal behaviour: her team’s research refuted long held assumptions about increased levels of violence and traumatic injuries relative to modern humans (Beier et al. 2018) and demonstrated that Neanderthals regularly performed precise manipulative activities, contrary to previous beliefs (Karakostis et al. 2018). Finally, Harvati's work has spearheaded paleolithic and paleoanthropological research in South-East Europe (Harvati and Roskandic 2016, Tourloukis and Harvati 2018). She has received two grants of the European Research Council, one ERC Starting Grant in 2011, and one ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016.[9] In addition, she directs a Centre for Advanced Studies on linguistic, cultural and biological trajectories of the human past since 2015.[10]
Awards
2016 ERC Consolidator Grant
2014 Research Prize of Baden-Württemberg for basic research[11]
2011 ERC Starting Grant
2009 Hellenes abroad award - Woman of the year 2009, Europe[12]
2000 City University of New York Dissertation Year Fellowship
1998 American Museum of Natural History Fellowship (Anthropology and Paleontology)
1997 Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
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Weill Cornell medical college
George S Alexopoulos
Professor of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College 1993 -
Professor of Psychiatry in Integrative Medicine, Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College 2004 -
Stephen P. Tobin and Dr. Arnold M. Cooper Professor in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College 2009 -
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www.surgery.usc.edu/hepatobiliary/facultyandstaff-alexopoulos_sophoclis.htmlKeck School of Medicine of USC Department of Surgery Sophoclis P. Alexopoulos, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California Associated Program Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation Children's Hospital of Los Angeles Sophoclis P. Alexopoulos was born in Athens, Greece and moved to the United States at a young age. He grew up in Northern California and graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a B.S. in Physics. Dr. Alexopoulos attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City for medical school. He then moved to Boston where he completed a general surgical residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. During residency he obtained extensive experience in complex pancreaticobiliary surgery. A strong interest in pediatric liver transplantation brought him back to Northern California where he completed a multi-organ abdominal transplant fellowship at Stanford University, one of the busiest pediatric transplant programs in the nation. Dr. Alexopoulos is the surgical director of kidney transplantation at Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California and associated program director for the pediatric liver transplantation at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. His non-transplant interests include the treatment of benign and malignant tumors of the liver, pancreas, and biliary tree including hepatocellular carcinoma, pancreatic cancer, and cholangiocarcinoma. His experience in split and live donor liver transplantation allow him to perform complex non-transplant liver surgery. Dr. Alexopoulos is funded in basic science research involving the detection and analysis of circulating tumor cells in liver cancer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Cleveland Clinic
Andreas Alexopoulos, MD, MPH
Andreas Alexopoulos, MD, MPH, is a Staff Physician in the Epilepsy Center of the Neurological Institute, located on the main campus of Cleveland Clinic. He was appointed in 2005 subsequent to completion of a fellowship in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology. Prior to his appointment, he was Chief Resident in adult neurology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City. Dr. Alexopoulos is certified in neurology and in clinical neurophysiology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and he is certified in MRI/CT by the American Society of Neuroimaging. His specialty interests include epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology, epilepsy surgery and translational research in epilepsy.
Dr. Alexopoulos received his medical degree from the University of Athens, graduating with honors. He served in the Hellenic navy as a Physician Petty Officer. He returned to the United States for an internship in medicine and surgery at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Boston, Mass. He is licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts, Indiana, Ohio, as well as Greece and the United Kingdom.
Professional Highlights
Dr. Alexopoulos is principal investigator or co-investigator of several research trials. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, and he has contributed numerous chapters to medical textbooks in his field. He has twice received the Cleveland Clinic’s World Class Service Recognition Award.
Dr. Alexopoulos has been the Director of the clinical and research fellowship programs in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center since 2009. Currently, he is also the Director of the Neurological & Behavioral Sciences year 1 course at the Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine of the Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Alexopoulos is a member of the American Epilepsy Society, the Society of Neuroscience and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, among others. He is a Diplomate of neurology and the subspecialty of clinical neurophysiology of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
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www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/principal-investigators/researcher/charalambos-antoniadesRadcliffe Depertment of Medicine Prof Charalambos AntoniadesResearch Area: Cell and Molecular Biology Technology Exchange: Biobanking, Drug discovery, Ex vivo models, In vivo imaging and SNP typing Scientific Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v61/n10/obit.htmlPerelman School of Medicine Dr. Nicholas K. GonatasDr. Nicholas K. Gonatas, professor of pathology & laboratory medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine and founder of the division of neuropathology at Penn, died on October 7 of pancreatic cancer; he was 84. A luminary neuropathologist, Dr. Gonatas had been a faculty member at Penn for 50 years. He was raised in Thessaloniki, capital of the province of Macedonia in mainland Greece. Dr. Gonatas survived the Nazi occupation, graduated from the Anatolia College in 1946 and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine in 1952. He came to the US in 1957 where he trained in neuropathology, experimental pathology and cell biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York by legendary physicians and scientists: Lucien Rubinstein, Harry Zimmerman, Bob Terry and Saul Korey. In 1964 Dr. Gonatas was recruited to Penn where he built one of the finest neuropathology divisions in the country. During his scientific and clinical career, Dr. Gonatas published more than 220 manuscripts, many of them in journals such as Nature, Science, Journal of Cell Biology, American Journal of Pathology, Journal of Neuroscience and PNAS. In cell biology his work on mitosis, which resulted in a citation classic publication, was the first to describe in detail the ultrastructure of mitosis. His work on axonal transport, again another citation classic, was the first to describe retrograde axonal transport, receptor-mediated endocytosis and Golgi trafficking. In clinical neuropathology he described four myopathies: myotubular (centronuclear) myopathy, nemaline myopathy, mitochondrial myopathy and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. He introduced the concept of organelle pathology as key underlying factor in the pathogenesis of many inherited neurological diseases, paving the way to better classification of these disorders (such as lysosomal or mitochondrial diseases) and to better understanding of their etiology and pathogenesis. In experimental neuropathology and following closely his work in cell biology, he discovered that disruption of the Golgi apparatus is an early and hallmark lesion of motor neuron degeneration. He also described synaptic alterations as an early manifestation of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease. His NIH grant support, which included two Senator Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator awards, had been one of the longest that any individual scientist had in the history of the NIH. Dr. Gonatas received numerous fellowships and awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and Josiah Macy Foundations, the Rous-Whipple Award and the Gold Headed Cane Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology, the Meritorious Award for Contributions to Neuropathology from the American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP) and numerous teaching awards. He served as AANP president and in 1984 was elected corresponding member of the Academy of Athens. Dr. Gonatas established a distinguished national and international neuropathology training program and built a division populated by faculty with very strong experimental programs. He trained more than 30 neuropathology fellows; many of them continue in his mold, as physician-scientists combining basic or translational science with clinical neuropathology. Dr. Gonatas is survived by his wife, Jacqueline; sons, Dinos and Constantine; daughter, Marina; and three grandchildren. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Anthony Marmarou Ph.D.Vice-Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery & Director of Research Education & Training BSEE Drexel University, Philadelphia MSEE University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PhD Temple University,Philadelphia Professional Appointments Professor of Neurosurgery Professor of Physiology Professor of Radiology Professor of Biomedical Engineering Professional Interests Pathology and treatment of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus CSF and ICP fluid dynamics Cerebral edema formation and resolution Pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury Pharmacological therapy of brain injury
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylianos_Antonarakis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prof.Stylianos Antonarakis
Geneva Medical School
Stylianos E. Antonarakis (born 1951) is a Greece-born human geneticist.
Antonarakis is Professor and Chairman of Genetic Medicine at the University of Geneva Medical School, and director of the iGE3 institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the President of the Human Genome Organization (since 2013), a member of the scientific council of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and chair of the Genetics panel of the European Research Council. Previously he was the President of the European Society of Human Genetics.
Antonarakis holds degrees in medicine, from the University of Athens, and in human genetics, from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Maryland, US. His research focuses on the relationship between genomic and phenotypic variations, in particular the functional analysis of the genome, effect of human genetic variation to phenotypic variation, the molecular pathogenesis of trisomy 21 and polygenic phenotypes, the functional characterization of the conserved fraction of the genome, diagnostics and prevention of genetic disorders, and the societal implications of genetics and genome research.
Antonarakis co-authored more than 620 papers and is listed as one of the highly cited scientists by the Institute for Scientific Information (h-index 94). He is co-editor of the classic textbook Genetics in Medicine, and is an editor of journals Annual Review of Genetics, Genomics and Genome Research and eLife.
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www.lambris.com/lambris.aspDr.John D. Lambris, Ph.D.University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., University of Patras, Greece, Biochemistry (1976-1979) B.S., University of Patras, Greece, Biology (1972-1976) John D. Lambris, received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1979. He is the Dr. Ralph and Sallie Weaver Professor of Research Medicine in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Using complement as a model system Dr. Lambris applies ideas and methods embodied in engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, biomedicine, and other fields to study the structure and functions of the complement system. Dr. Lambris' laboratory was among the first to map the critical sites on C3 responsible for its diverse functions and also to define its complex binding dynamics to various C3 natural ligands, viral proteins, complement receptors, and regulators. His laboratory contributed in the development of complement-based anti-inflammatory therapeutics through the discovery of the first small-size complement inhibitor, termed Compstatin, which has exhibited consistent efficacy for use in a series of in vivo trials and shows great promise for the use in the clinic. His subsequent efforts to develop more potent compstatin analogues have laid the development of a novel platform for peptide-based drug design, integrating both rational and in silico approaches. In as series of elegant in vivo studies the Lambris lab. established an unprecedented association of complement components with non-inflammatory pathways by demonstrating the involvement of complement in the developmental processes, including liver and limb regeneration, hematopoietic development and stem cell engraftment. Dr. Lambris has also contributed in the field of evolutionary immunology by identifying multiple complement genes in fish and the mechanism by which they expand immune recognition and develop a versatile innate immune system to compensate for their weak adaptive immune repertoire. Dr. Lambris has published over 380 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is the editor of several books and special journal issues. He has delivered invited lectures and served as a session chairperson at various national and international scientific conferences, organized workshops, and group discussion sessions. Dr. Lambris is the Founder and Executive Director of Aegean Conferences, an independent, nonprofit, educational organization and of Amyndas Pharmaceuticals, a company developing complement therapeutics. He also serves as an Editorial Board Member of several peer-reviewed journals, and has served as the President of the International Complement Society. Dr. Lambris has received more than $50 million research funding from various institutions and agencies including the National Institute of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), American Cancer Society, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and the National Research Foundation of Greece.
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www.cmm.cornell.edu/members/view/giannakakou-1.htmlParaskevi GiannakakouCornell University Prof.Paraskevi Evi Giannakakou is Associate Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York. She received her PhD in Pharmacology from University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece and the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD in 1997. Dr. Giannakakou became Assistant Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Winship Cancer institute of Emory University in 2000 and was recruited to WCMC in 2005. Dr. Giannakakou’s research is focused on the biology of the microtubule cytoskeleton in cancer and the mechanism of action of antitumor drugs that target microtubules and are used in cancer chemotherapy. More specifically, her research tries to identify the intracellular trafficking and signaling pathways that require an intact and dynamic microtubule network as well as the little-understood functional consequences of drug-induced microtubule disruption and cell death. She is the co-leader of Project 2 in which she proposed to study the effects of microtubule dynamics in three dimentional cell migration and the cross talk between cancer-cell microtubules and the tumor microenvironment.
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George Velmahos, MD, PhDDivision Chief of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care Medical Education PhD, University of Athens MD, University of Athens School of Medicine Residency, Hippokration General Hospital|Residency, Kalamata General Hospital www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/14478-top-professor-of-surgery-worldwide/Top professor of surgery worldwide George Velmahos is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and he is internationally acknowledged as a top scientist in his field. Moreover, he’s the Division Chief of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Velmahos’s father has origins in Kalamata and his mother has origins in Crete. He studied at the University of Athens School of Medicine and later worked for the Hippokration Hospital and the General Hospital of Kalamata, before travelling to South Africa to receive his training in trauma medicine at the Baragwanath Hospitalin South Africa, the largest trauma centre in the world. He later relocated to the United States to conclude his studies in Los Angeles. He practiced trauma medicine for 10 years at the Los Angeles County Hospital, one of the largest trauma centres in the United States, and worked also as Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. Since 2004, George Velmahos lives in Boston and works for both Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 25 books/book chapters both as a writer or co-writer. With a newly recruited team, he is building the Centre for Early Trauma Research, which will focus on innovative methods to manage trauma patients in the pre-hospital and early in-hospital post-traumatic phases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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George PaxinosGeorge Paxinos, AO DSc FASSA FAA, is a Greek Australian neuroscientist. He was born in 1944 in Ithaca, Greece where he finished high school. He completed his BA in Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD at McGill University in Montreal. After a postdoctoral year at Yale University, he moved to the School of Psychology of The University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is currently an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and Scientia Professor of Psychology and Medical Sciences at The University of New South Wales. He is a member of two learned academies in Australia and corresponding member of the Academy of Athens. www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/4659-the-man-who-mapped-the-human-brain/The man who mapped the human brain Dr George Paxinos is an internationally appreciable scientist for his outstanding mappings of the human brain. Paxinos is a Professor of Psychology and Medical Sciences at the Neuroscience Research Australia Institute of the University of New South Wales in Sydney. George Paxinos was born on December 6th, 1944, at Lefki on the island of Ithaki. His pursuit of science led him away from Greece. He continued his studies at Berkeley University in California and later received his PhD from McGill University in Canada. He later spent a postdoctoral year at Yale University. Since 1973, Paxinos has been working with New South Wales University at Sydney, his place of residence, keeping also close contact with the world’s most influential and prestigious universities and research institutes, like Oxford University. His studies on neurology and neuropathy opened the path towards the cure of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. George Paxinos has been honoured with 9 prestigious awards: Warner Brown Memorial Prize from Berkeley University (1968), Walter Burfitt Award (1992), Award of Excellence in Scientific Writing, AssocAmer Publishers Award (1999), Ramaciotti Medal of Excellence in Biometric Research (2001), The Alexander von Humbolt Foundation Prize (2004). George Paxinos is the author of The rat brain in stereotaxic coordinates, which is ranked 10th in the list of world’s 50 most popular scientific works. He has also published 38 books on human and animal brain structure. Paxinos is currently the President of Neuroscience Research Australia Institute, member of the Australian Academy of Science, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Dr Paxinos is also Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia for Service to Neuroscience, Honourary Professor of the Kapodistrian University of Athens, member of the Academy of Athens, Honourary President of the Phychology School of City Unity College of Athens and editor of international scientific reviews and magazines. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.mountsinai.org/profiles/nikolaos-k-robakisDr. Robakis is A.P. Slaner Professor for Alzheimer's Disease Research and is Director of the Robakis Laboratory. Training Areas: Neurobiology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Basis of Disease. www2.kenes.com/adpd2009/speakers_bio/Robakis-ShortBiosket-AD-PD-March-09.pdf
Prof.Nikolaos K. RobakisNikolaos Robakis is the First A.P. Slaner Professor for Alzheimer’s disease research and director of the Center for Molecular Biology and Genetics of Neurodegeneration, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. He obtained his undergraduate training in chemistry at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and his PhD in Biochemistry at New York University. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley NJ. He has worked on the gene expression of bacterial systems, on prion disorders, and on the neurodegeneration and genetics of Alzheimer’s disease. His laboratory has been awarded numerous competitive research grants totaling millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), pharmaceutical companies, and non-profit organizations. He has been invited to lecture at many academic institutions and as main speaker at numerous national and international meetings. He has been on the editorial board of professional journals and on the Scientific Advisory Board of private organizations that fund AD and Aging research. Dr Robakis has received many awards including the NIH MERIT award, The McKnight Neuroscience Development award, the Zenith Award of the Alzheimer's Association, and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Hellenic Medical Association of New York. He has served as research advisor to pharmaceutical companies including Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories (1992-1993) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co (1991-1995). Many scientists trained in Dr. Robakis laboratory are currently faculty members in universities and other academic institutions or group leaders in pharmaceutical companies in USA and Europe.
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funpopgen.unige.ch/members/professor-emmanouil-manolis-dermitzakis Prof.Emmanouil (Manolis) DermitzakisUniversity of Geneva Medical School Department of Genetic Medicine and Development Emmanouil (Manolis) Dermitzakis is currently a Professor of Genetics in the Department of Genetic Medicine and Development of the University of Geneva Medical School. He is a member of the executive board of the Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), a member of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, and is also an affiliated Faculty member at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens in Greece and the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. He obtained his B.Sc. in 1995 and M.Sc. in 1997 in Biology from the University of Crete (Greece) and his PhD in 2001 from the Pennsylvania State University in the USA, studying the evolutionary biology and population genetics of regulatory DNA in mammals and Drosophila. His post-doctoral work was at the University of Geneva Medical School, focusing on comparative genome analysis and the functional characterization of conserved non-genic elements. He was an Investigator and Senior Investigator at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute from 2004 to 2009. He was elected an EMBO member in 2014 and was also named Highly Cited Researcher. His current research focuses on the genetic basis of cellular phenotypes and complex traits. He has authored and co-authored more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and many of them in journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Genetics, his papers have been cited more than 24,000 times and his H-index is 58. His research is supported by the Louis-Jeantet Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the European Commission, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is also the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) grant. He has been invited to give talks and keynote lectures in most of the prestigious genetics meetings and is the organizer of multiple training courses including the Wellcome Trust HapMap course and co-founder and co-organizer of the Leena Peltonen School of Human Genomics. He has served as an analysis co-chair in the pilot phase of the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of Dna Elements) consortium and member of the analysis group of the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium and the International HapMap project. He had a leading analysis role in the extension of the HapMap (aka HapMap3 project) and is a member of the analysis group of the 1000 genomes project and a co-chair in the GTEx project. He has served in the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science (2006-2011), and he is a Senior Editor in PLoS Genetics and a member of the Board of Reviewing editors for the new scientific journal eLife. www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/715-o-chartografos-tou-gonidiomatos-chilion-anthropon/The “cartographer” of the genome of one thousand people When in 2000 Aris Patrinos and Craig Veder stood next to the U.S. president, Bill Clinton announcing the decoding of human genome, the achievement was only related to the «alphabet» of the code that creates life. In decoding the “grammar” code, we had to wait just for a few years, in order bioinformatics and metagenomics -the new sciences- which analyze the complexity of the genome, the countless ways of producing life and certainly the mutations that cause diseases, to be developed. Today two new international programs, are trying to achieve that, closing up to a young Greek biologist. «In 2000 we realized the basic structure of DNA, but soon we realized that its diversity is enormous. Everyone has different combinations of genes and they act in different ways, «says to «Kathimerini, «the 35 year-old biologist from Heraklion, Crete, Manolis Dermitzakis, who works as a researcher at the Sanger Institute in Great Britain. «So”, he continues, “for example, proteins produced by these genes may vary in quantity from person to person or we can observe changes in the structure of a protein, changes in the regulatory regions of genes that determine the body part in which this can act etc». A few years ago, Mr. Dermitzakis played a leading role in the research project ENCODE. A major international attempt to understand the function of the 90% of the human genome, previously called «useless». Within the ENCODE, Mr. Dermitzakis and his colleagues from around the world, found that these specific genes are just the «verbs» of a complex syntax, that the so-called “useless” DNA needs in order to be activated so as to perform a function. The revelations of the program showed that the complexity and diversity of the human genome is such that we must search in detail the causes of both the evolution of mankind, and his disease. Two people can be identical in 99%. That 1%, that differentiates them may determine very important information for them, such as height, colour, or even predisposition of developing serious illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
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Photis BerisGeneva Medical School Professor of Haematology Distinguished professor of Haematology in Geneva Medical School Photis Beris is an important piece in the puzzle of the greek society in Geneva. He is a Professor of Haematology in Geneva Medical School, and was Head of the Department of Haematology-Unilabs group, Geneva (1994-2009). His research interests focus on Thallassemias, Hemoglobinopathies, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Hemopoiesis-Erythropoiesis, Sideroblastic anemia, Iron metabolism and hepcidin. He was born on the 4th of May, 1950, in Athens. He studied in Athens Medical School, where he got his MD in 1975. www.unige.ch/presse/nominations/fiche.php?id=210
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MIT's Technology Review has posted their top 35 innovators under the age of 35 for 2006.4 of them are Greeks and 5 are Indians.The names of the greeks are:
1) Apostolos Argyris
2) Manolis Kellis
3) Nikos Paragios
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte is the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding chairman of MIT's Media Laboratory. Professor Negroponte studied at MIT and has been an MIT faculty member since 1966. He was the founder of MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface. In 1995, he published The New York Times bestseller Being Digital, which has been translated into over 40 languages. www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Nicholas_NegroponteNicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943) is a Greek-American computer scientist best known as founder and director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. Thanks to his personal charisma and his aura of a technological visionary, he has been very successful at attracting corporate sponsors for the Media Lab, a skill for which he is greatly admired. He is the brother of United States Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte. Born the son of*greek ship owner on New York City's Upper East Side, Nicholas Negroponte studied at MIT, where as a graduate student he specialized in the field of computer-aided design. He joined the faculty of MIT in 1966. For several years thereafter he divided his teaching time between MIT and visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1968 he also founded MIT's Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to the human-computer interface. In 1985, Negroponte piloted MIT's Media Lab into existence. It developed into a famous and generously-funded computer science laboratory for new media and a high-tech playground for investigating the human-computer interface. In 1992, he became involved in the creation of Wired Magazine as a minority investor. From 1993 to 1998, he contributed a monthly column to the magazine in which he reiterated a basic theme, his credo "Move bits, not atoms." Negroponte expanded many of the ideas he wrote about in his Wired columns to a bestselling book Being Digital (1995), in which he surveyed the recent history of media technology, his now rehashing well-known forecast that the interactive world, the entertainment world, and the information world would eventually merge. Being Digital sold well and was translated into some twenty languages. However, critics faulted his techno-utopian ideas for failing to consider the historical, political, and cultural realities with which new technologies should be viewed. In the years following the dot-com bust, the book dated quickly. Yet one can still appreciate the unique quality of the author's vision, and draw inspiration from the sense of speculative possibility that washes over the reader. In the private sector, Professor Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc., and as a special general partner in a venture capital firm focusing on technologies for information and entertainment. He was a founder of WiReD magazine and has been an "angel investor" for over 40 start-ups, including three in China. Professor Negroponte helped to establish, and serves as chairman of, the 2B1 Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing computer access to children in the most remote and poorest parts of the world. Professor Negroponte is chairman of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization created by faculty members from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Dertouzos web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2001/dertouzos.html MIT colleagues attend Dertouzos funeral in Greece September 5, 2001 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Ten MIT colleagues were among the mourners attending the Tuesday (Sept. 4) funeral services in Athens for Professor Michael L. Dertouzos. Dertouzos, who had a rare gift for putting complicated technology into human terms and making it accessible to non-technical audiences, died on August 27 at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 64. Dertouzos was buried next to his parents at First Cemetery in Athens, where he was born and raised. Personal letters from MIT President Charles M. Vest and Microsoft founder Bill Gates were read at a dinner in Dertouzos's honor Tuesday night, sponsored by Athens College. The MIT delegation included MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) Associate Director Victor W. Zue, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Director Rodney A. Brooks, and Vice President for Resource Development Barbara W. Stowe, who represented President Charles M. Vest. The group also included LCS research scientists and staff members Timothy J. Berners-Lee, Jean-Francois Abramatic, Lissa Natkin, Stephanie Seneff and Anne Wailes. They were joined by retired LCS Associate Director Albert Vezza and senior research scientist David Tennenhouse. A memorial service will be scheduled at MIT. Dertouzos joined the MIT faculty in 1964 and became director of LCS in 1974. Under his leadership, LCS became one of the largest research labs at MIT with 400 faculty members, graduate students, and research staff. LCS dedicated itself to the invention, development and understanding of information technologies, always within the context of their human utility. "We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism," Dertouzos said in an interview in Scientific American. "It's time to put the two back together." President Vest said, "Michael was larger than life. He was at once a leader, builder, visionary and caring human being. Few individuals have so personally and profoundly shaped their institutions and professional fields. Yet he did so in a manner that respected and involved all of his colleagues. I will miss his personal friendship and counsel very much." "Michael was a leader in every sense of the word. He knew how to motivate people; he was passionate about his work and passionate about the people he worked with. For many of us, this is more like losing a family member than losing a colleague," said John V. Guttag, head of the department of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. LCS members and alumni have been instrumental in the development of numerous innovations, among them time-shared computers, RSA encryption, the X Window system, the ArpaNet and the Internet. Most recently, LCS spearheaded the $50 million Oxygen project in 1999 in conjunction with MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab. Oxygen is intended to make computers easier to use, "as natural a part of our environment as the air we breathe." Zue commented, "Michael fervently believed that developing technology is not enough by itself. One must also strive to demonstrate that it is good for something. Under his stewardship, LCS has been mindful of balancing technical excellence with social relevance." The Lab is currently the North American home of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an open forum of companies and organizations that helps promote the Web's evolution and ensure its interoperability. Dertouzos was instrumental in bringing the W3C and its director, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, to LCS. Berners-Lee said, "If it hadn't been for Michael, there would not probably have been a World Wide Web Consortium. He was a spring of enthusiasm, capability, insight, and experience which drove a half-formed idea of W3C into an international reality. Ever since, Michael's strength of leadership, clarity of thought and warmth of heart have been a constant support and nourishment and inspiration. He will be dearly missed." In the LCS director's statement, Dertouzos wrote with characteristic enthusiasm for human progress through technology: "We feel extraordinarily privileged to have a hand in shaping the Information Revolution -- the third major socioeconomic movement of our world. "But our quest goes beyond utilitarian increases in human productivity to the broader ways in which information can help people. We find ourselves in the junction of two interrelated challenges: Going after the best, most exciting forefront technology; and ensuring that it truly serves human needs. It is this mixture of forefront technology and human utility that is the hallmark of LCS research." Professor Harold Abelson of electrical engineering and computer science, who co-authored a paper with Dertouzos, said: "Michael was a leader of mythic proportions, both at MIT and worldwide. Much of what we take for granted in computing at MIT -- including Project Athena and the World Wide Web Consortium -- is a direct result of his leadership, his vision, and his entrepreneurial skill." Dertouzos played a key role in creating Project Athena, which he suggested be named after the Greek goddess of wisdom. Stephen A. Ward, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at LCS and a former doctoral student of Dertouzos, said, "Michael Dertouzos brought a unique combination of intuition, humanity, and style to our faculty. Michael's impact on MIT and his mentorship of students and colleagues stand as an indelible monument to his leadership, vision and personality. He will be remembered as one of the greats of MIT and computer technology." Dertouzos, whose father was an admiral in the Greek navy and whose mother was a concert pianist, was raised in Greece. His earliest memories were of war-torn Athens and of people starving in the streets, an experience that deeply affected him for the rest of his life. As a teenager, Dertouzos dreamed of going to MIT, but when he won a Fulbright scholarship it was to the University of Arkansas, where he earned the BS and MS degrees. After selling soft drinks and working with shaft-angle encoders at Baldwin Piano, he applied to the MIT doctorate program. Upon receiving the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1964, he joined the faculty as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 1973. True to the MIT spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, Dertouzos holds patents on a graphical display system, an incremental photoelectric encoder, a graphic tablet, and on a parallel thermal printer. A PROLIFIC AUTHOR ON HUMANS AND COMPUTERS Dertouzos is the author of eight books. His latest, "The Unfinished Revolution: Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do for Us" (HarperCollins), published this year, introduced the concept of "human centered computing." Computers, he wrote, should serve people, not the other way around. Today's machines are overloaded with excessive features, inadequately address our needs, and demand too much of our attention, he declared. "Michael argued eloquently for human-centered computing. He thought deeply about how information technology could help everyone, not just the technical elite," said Guttag. In the best-selling "What Will Be" (HarperCollins), published in 1997 when the Internet was first beginning to take hold, he wrote about the many ways in which information technology would transform our lives. In 1986, Dertouzos was asked to chair the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity, to examine why US firms were losing competitiveness to their overseas industrial rivals. The result was "Made in America," co-authored by Richard K. Lester and Robert M. Solow (MIT Press), which became one of the most influential business books of the 1980s, with over 300,000 copies in print. "Michael's books were one example of his educational skills. He was fearless in entering the arena of other pundits attempting to forecast the future of computers and their application. Among his colleagues he was known for his concern for the big picture," said Fernando J. Corbat��, professor of electrical engineering, emeritus, at MIT, and the inventor of time-shared computing. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michalis BletsasMichalis is one of the associates of the greekamerican nicholas negroponte in the program "one laptop per child"...their noble ambition is to provide cheap laptops which will cost 100$ each to poor countries and mostly to the children.. laptop.org/people.en_US.html Michail Bletsas, Chief Connectivity Officer Michail Bletsas was director of computing at the MIT Media Laboratory. He designed and deployed most of the Internet network infrastructure systems at the Media Lab. His research involves experimenting with wireless networks that are implemented using off-the-shelf, low-cost components to provide broadband Internet access to underserved areas. Before joining the Media Lab, he was a systems engineer at Aware, Inc., where he designed and wrote high-performance software libraries for Intel's distributed-memory parallel supercomputers, and was involved in the development of one of the first ADSL Internet-access test beds. He holds a diploma in electrical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and an MS in computer engineering from Boston University. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ web.media.mit.edu/~aggelos/Aggelos BletsasMassachusetts Institute of Technology M.S. '01, Ph.D '05 Viral Communications MIT Media Lab ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gregory Stefanopoulos web.mit.edu/cheme/people/faculty/steph.html Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 56-469C 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge MA 02139 USA Phone: 617.253.4583 Fax: 617.253.3122 Email: gregstep@mit.edu Web: web.mit.edu/bamel/index.shtml Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1978 M.S., University of Florida, 1975 B.S., National Technical University, Athens, 1973 Honors and Awards American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2001 Marvin Johnson Award of the Biotechnology Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), 2000 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division Division Award, 1997 Inaugural Bayer Lecture on Biochemical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 1996 Chairman, Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 1992 Founding Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 1992 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher and Scholar Award, 1982 Excellence in Teaching Award, California Institute of Technology (CalTech), 1982 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1984 Technical Achievement Award, Southern California American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 1984 Research Interests _ metabolic and biochemical engineering _ biotechnology _ bioinformatics Stephanopoulos group Current Research Selected Publications and Lectures also,read this... www.greece.org/themis/alabama/gregorystephanopoulos.html
To: Governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman
From: Gregory Stephanopoulos, USA
Date: 11.Sep.2001
Re: Turkish Tragedy?!
Dear Governor,
I called your office to protest the Proclamation of the "Remembrance Day of the Turkish Tragedy in Asia Minor." Your assistant was happy to inform me that the original text had been revised to exclude language that was historically inaccurate and blatantly offensive to thousands of Armenian and Greek survivors of Turkish brutality during and following the First World War. Despite the changes, a number of questions remain:
1. How did that offensive language find its way in the first proclamation?
2. Looking at the facts, how can one speak of tragedy of people who still live in their homes and the homes of those forcefully expelled from lands they inhabited for thousands of years?
3. The new proclamation equates aggressors and victims. In this form it does injustice to the ethnic groups that suffered the Turkish wrath and were exterminated from Asia Minor in the first act of ethnic cleansing of the 20th century.
4. The forced migrations of Armenians and Greeks were carefully planned by German generals and executed by the official Turkish army. As such, they constitute the dress rehearsal of the Nazi extermination of the Jews 15 years later. Do not forget Hitler's comment: "Who remembers the Armenians?"
5. Did someone bring to your attention the simple fact that Turkey fought AGAINST the United States and Western democracies in the Great war? Do you also know that Turkey shone in its NEUTRALITY during WW II favoring on most occasions the Axis nations? Why then this historically inaccurate sensitivity towards a nation suspect of its true intentions?
6. One would be willing to overlook this history if the present record of modern Turkish state suggested a democracy adhering to the RULE OF LAW in its domestic and international affairs. Reports of Amnesty International and other organizations will leave you no doubt that little has changed from the mentality that led to the genocides of the beginning of the century.
Please try to understand that there is ample historical evidence of the true events that actually took place in Asia Minor between 1912-1923 and revisionist attempts will only bring embarrassment to their authors and signatories. You can adhere to an ill advised proclamation or seek the opinion of politically neutral scholars on this matter. It is imperative that elected officials show respect for history and reinforce our belief in human rights and the rule of law.
Sincerely,
Gregory Stephanopoulos
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technologywww.mech.ntua.gr/en/staff...bmit+Query[glow=red,2,300]Papadopoulos Evangelos [/glow] Associate Professor Address: National Technical University, 15780 Zografou (+30) 210-772-1440, (+30) 210-772-2348 (lab1), (+30) 210-772-2643 (lab2) (+30) 210-772-1455 e-mail: egpapado@central.ntua.gr Personal Homepage: nereus.mech.ntua.gr/home.html Studies Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1991 M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1983 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1981 Professional Experience Associate Professor National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2002 - today Assistant Professor National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 10/96 - 2002 Adjunct Professor, McGill University, Canada,1997 - 2004 Associate Professor, McGill University, Canada, 1997 Assistant Professor, McGill University, Canada, 1991-1996 Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1991 Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1987-1990 Researcher, Hellenic Navy, Greece, 1985-1987 Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1982-1984 Research Modelling, identification and control of dynamic systems. Robotics, incl. mobile space, earth and underwater robotic devices. Design and control of mechatronic devices. Model-based control of electrohydraulic systems and simulators. Distinctions Associate Editor, Mechanism and Machine Theory (2005 -), Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2004 -), Venture 2002, 1st Prize, 16th Panhellenic Urological Conference, 1st Prize, Who‘s Who in the World, Who‘s Who in Science and Engineering, 1998 - today. Outstanding Paper Award, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering Transactions, 1995. Thomaidion Award and Scholarship, NTUA, 1981. Technical Chamber of Greece 17th of November Award, 1978 - 1981. Member of: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Senior Member. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Full Member. Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member. The New York Academy of Sciences, Full Member. Current Duties Departmental Representative, NTUA Senate Library Committee. Departmental Representative, Graduate Program "Microsystems & Nanodevices". Departmental Representative, NTUA English Guide Committee. Chair, Department's Web Site Committee. Member, Departmental Student Transfers Committee. Associate Representative of MKAE Sector, Departmental Undergraduate Studies Committee. Equipment Responsible Mechanical Design & Control Systems Section. Principal Investigator, Registrar's Research Programs. Teaches at NTUA Undergraduate: Introduction to Electrical Circuits and Systems, Electromechanical Systems, Intelligent Control Systems and Robotics Postgraduate: Mechatronics, Computational Methods for Control Systems and Robotics, System Optimization, Design of Micromechanisms and Microrobotic Systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web.mit.edu/manoli/www/ web.mit.edu/manoli/www/me.html Manolis Kellis
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Distinguished Alumnus (1964) Career Development Chair MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- wikipedia
Tom M. Apostolen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_M._ApostolTom Mike Apostol (born 1923) is an American analytic number theorist who teaches at the California Institute of Technology. He was born in Helper, Utah in 1923. His mother, Efrosini Papathanasopoulos, was a mail-order bride from Greece.[1] His father, Emmanouil Apostolopoulos, was a Greek immigrant who traveled to the United States in 1916. His name was shortened to Mike Apostol when he became an American citizen. Tom inherited this shortened name. Apostol received his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and Master's degree in mathematics from the University of Washington. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley; after which, he taught there and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of several influential graduate and undergraduate-level textbooks. He is a well-known teacher. He is the creator and project director for Project MATHEMATICS! producing videos which explore basic topics in high school mathematics. He has helped prosletise the Visual Calculus devised by Mamikon Mnatsakanian with whom he also written a number of papers. On Feb. 20 2001 he was also elected in the Greek Academy (http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12111.html www.math.caltech.edu/people/apostol.html---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.hri.org/hri/bertsimas.htmlDimitris BertsimasDimitris Bertsimas is currently the E. Pennell Brooks Professor of Operations Research at the Sloan School of Management, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1985, a MS in Operations Research at MIT in 1987, and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research at MIT in 1988. He has been in the faculty at MIT ever since. He has worked in the areas of optimazation of stochastic systems arising in manufacturing, transportation and telecommunications. He is associate editor of em Operations Research and em Queueing Systems and Applications. He was the recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator award in 1991 awarded by the National Science Foundation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=100Ioannis V. YannasProfessor of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Education: Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, 1966, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ M.S. in Physical Chemistry, 1965, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ S.M. in Chemical Engineering, 1959, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA A.B. in Chemistry, 1957, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA MIT Service: 1966-1968: Assistant Professor, Fibers and Polymers Division, Dept. of Mech. Eng., MIT 1968-1969: duPont Assistant Professor, MIT 1969-1978: Associate Professor, MIT 1978-present: Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT 1978-present: Professor, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology 1983-present: Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT 1998-2004: Professor, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health, MIT 2004-present: Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/apostolakis.htmlGeorge E. ApostolakisKEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Professor of Engineering Systems.MIT Department of Nuclear Science and EngineeringEducation Diploma, Electrical Engineering, National Technical University, Athens, Greece, 1969 M.S., Engineering Science, California Institute of Technology, 1970 Ph.D., Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1973 Research Interests Methods for probabilistic risk assessment of complex technological systems; risk management involving several stakeholder groups; decision analysis, human reliability models; organizational factors and safety culture; software dependability; risk-informed, performance-based regulation; risk assessment and management of terrorist threats. Teaching Interests Probability and its Applications to Risk Assessment and Reliability; Risk-Benefit Analysis; Nuclear Reactor Safety. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.wseas.us/conferences/2009/rodos/icc/Keynote5.htm
Lena ValavaniMassachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T)Professor Lena Valavani, Associate Professor in the Department of Aero-nautics and Astronautics at MIT, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of AthensLena Valavani was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, on February 23, 1952.www.wseas.us/conferences/2009/rodos/icc/Keynote5.htmLena Valavani holds her B.S. in Physics, from Barnard College, Columbia University, and the M.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D degrees in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University. After postdoctoral positions at Yale and MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, she joined the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, where she was Boeing Associate Professor. She also served as Chief Scientist, Systems Engineering, U.S. D U.S. Department of Transportation for four years. She is currently president of Hellenic Space Systems , S .A. Dr. Valavani served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control, Automatica , AIAA Journal of Guidance, Navigation and Control, and the International Journal on Robust and Nonlinear Control. She was elected to the Board of Directors, AIAA, N.E., and served as General Secretary. She also was for a long time a member of the steering committee of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, GBPSR, (1985 Nobel Peace Prize). Her research interests are in modeling for, and the analysis and synthesis of control systems, estimation and identification, with emphasis on robustness to structured and unstructured uncertainty, fault tolerance and reconfiguration, currently in distributed systems and networks . Her research in the U.S. was supported by NASA, NSF, AFOSR,ONR ,and by private industry , resulting in innovative designs of prototype systems currently in operation in the U.S; in Europe by ESA and EC. She has supervised 27 Ph.D and 29 M.S theses at MIT , and 22 M.S. theses at NTUA and UoA. Dr. Valavani was consultant to Lincoln Laboratory, C.S.Draper Laboratory , and Bell Helicopter while in the U.S. She received the Best Research Paper Award (1991) from the International Gas Turbine Institute and holds three U.S. Patents in the area of controlling unsteady aerodynamic processes in compressors. She is an Associate Fellow of AIAA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web.media.mit.edu/~nmav/
Nikolaos MavridisMy name is Nikolaos Mavridis, and I have been awarded my PhD from the Media Laboratory of the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007. My research is centered on designing Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants, and more generally on bridging language with sensing and action. web.media.mit.edu/~nmav/pubs.htm------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Bertsekas Dimitri Bertsekas
MIT
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas is an applied mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Bertsekas was born in Greece and lived his childhood there. He studied for five years at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (a time that, by his account, was spent mostly in playing poker and chess, and dating his future wife Joanna) and studied for about a year and a half at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (at night, while working as a research engineer), where he obtained his M.S in Electrical Engineering, and for about two years at MIT, where he obtained his doctorate in system science. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 1979, he taught for three years at the Engineering-Economic Systems Dept. of Stanford University, and for five years at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is known for his research work, and for his sixteen textbooks and monographs in theoretical and algorithmic optimization and control, and in applied probability. His work ranges from theoretical/foundational work, to algorithmic analysis and design for optimization problems, and to applications such as data communication and transportation networks, and electric power generation. He is featured among the top 100 most cited computer science authors in the CiteSeer search engine academic database[3] and digital library; see also his Google Scholar citations.[4] In 1995, he co-founded, a publishing company, Athena Scientific that among others, publishes most of his books. In the late 90s Bertsekas developed a strong interest in digital photography. His photographs have been exhibited on several occasions at M.I.T.,and can also be accessed from his www site web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/home.html. See also an article describing his career and views on mathematical research and artistic photography. Awards and honors Bertsekas was awarded the INFORMS 1997 Prize for Research Excellence in the Interface Between Operations Research and Computer Science for his book "Neuro-Dynamic Programming" (co-authored with J. N. Tsitsiklis); the 2000 Greek National Award for Operations Research; and the 2001 ACC John R. Ragazzini Education Award for outstanding contributions to education.[7] In 2001, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering for "pioneering contributions to fundamental research, practice and education of optimization/control theory, and especially its application to data communication networks".[8] In 2009, he was awarded the 2009 INFORMS Expository Writing Award for his ability to "communicate difficult mathematical concepts with unusual clarity, thereby reaching a broad audience across many disciplines. "[9] In 2014 he received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council,[10][11] the Khachiyan Prize for life-time achievements in the area of optimization from the INFORMS Optimization Society.,[12] and the 2015 Dantzig prize from SIAM and the Mathematical Optimization Society. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46slNAsG9-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinos_Daskalakis Constantinos Daskalakis
MIT
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constantinos Daskalakis (born 1981) is a Greek Professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and a member of CSAIL. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Together with Paul Goldberg and Christos Papadimitriou, they received the 2008 Game Theory and Computer Science Prize for their paper "The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium". He became a tenured Professor at MIT in May 2015.
Studies Prior to joining MIT's faculty he was a postdoctoral researcher in Jennifer Chayes's group at Microsoft Research, New England. And before that he spent four years at UC Berkeley's theory of computation group advised by Christos Papadimitriou. He did his undergraduate studies in Greece at the National Technical University of Athens, at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, where he graduated with the highest grade ever awarded (9.98/10). Awards and honors Constantinos Daskalakis has won the 2008 Doctoral Dissertation Award from ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) for advancing our understanding of behavior in complex networks of interacting individuals, such as those enabled and created by the Internet. His dissertation, entitled “The Complexity of Nash Equilibria,” provides a novel, algorithmic perspective on Game Theory and the concept of the Nash equilibrium ("The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium." Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46slfOg3l------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George-Marios_Angeletos George-Marios Angeletos
MIT
George-Marios Angeletos (born in 1975, Athens, Greece) is a Greek economist who is a Professor of Economics at University of Zürich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Angeletos was born in Athens, Greece. He earned his B.A. degree in Economics from Athens University of Economics and Business in 1996, and received his M.Sc. in Economics in 1997 from the same university. Angeletos earned his Ph.D in Economics in 2001 from Harvard.After graduating from Harvard, Angeletos became a member of the MIT faculty, and was awarded tenure there in 2007. In 2006, Angeletos received a Sloan Fellowship,awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Shortly after receiving tenure, Angeletos won the Bodossaki Foundation Prize in Social Sciences for distinguished young Greek scientists in 2008. Angeletos has published many articles in the field of macroeconomics. In particular, much of his research has investigated the impact of informational frictions in macro settings.He has made many notable contributions to the field of global games, which followed the work of Stephen Morris and Hung Song Shin.More recently, his work has focused on the role of dispersed information in the business cycle. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Professor Michael Triantafyllou
MIT
William I. Koch Professor of Marine Technology; Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director, Center for Ocean Engineering
INTERESTS
Biomimetic ocean robots and sensors
Flow-structure interaction
Dynamics and control of ocean vehicles
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Michael Triantafyllou
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Triantafyllou is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, Head of the Area of Ocean Science and Engineering, and Director of the Testing Tank and Propeller Tunnel Facilities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is best known for his work on underwater robots, based upon and emulating the performance of fish, including the six-foot laboratory robot the RoboTuna (part of a permanent exhibition at the Science Museum in London since 1998), the free-swimming RoboPike (1998), and the RoboTurtle (2005).
Triantafyllou was born and grew up in Athens, Greece. After graduating from the National Technical University of Athens in 1974 (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering), he continued with graduate studies at MIT. In 1977 he graduated with a dual S.M. in Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in 1977, followed in 1979 by an Sc.D. in Ocean Engineering. Upon receiving his doctorate, Triantafyllou took up a teaching post at MIT in the Department of Ocean Engineering.
Triantafyllou has been a visiting scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Chairman of the Joint MIT/WHOI Program Committee in Oceanographic Engineering, and visiting professor at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece, Kyushu University in Japan, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, and ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
"The main focus of his resent research has been on flow control, vortex-induced vibrations, and biomimetics, the discipline that explores what can be learned about the physics of underwater propulsion from live animals."
In the summer of 2001, he undertook the mission of recovering a mediaeval shipwreck off the coast of a small Greek island called Nysiros. They mainly used AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) to find it. The shipwreck contained a large cargo of plates, most of which were undamaged. In the summer of 2004, he again successfully found a shipwreck, this time off the Greek island of Kithira.
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2.E NASA GREEKSwww.msfc.nasa.gov/news/NSSTC/news/releases/2003/N03-001.htmlChryssa Kouveliotou Dr. Chryssa Kouveliotou, a scientist at the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Ala., has won two prestigious awards for research in astrophysics. The Rossi Prize recognizes Kouveliotou’s research and scientific observations to confirm the existence of magnetars, neutron stars with extraordinarily strong magnetic fields, and the Descartes Prize recognizes her contributions to the study of powerful explosions known as gamma ray bursts. “Winning these awards is wonderful because it provides stimuli to propel the research further — hopefully toward many more discoveries,” said Kouveliotou, a senior research scientist with the Universities Space Research Association in Huntsville. Kouveliotou is a member of the Space Science group at the National Space Science and Technology Center, a partnership with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama universities, industry, research institutes and federal agencies. Awarded by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society, the Rossi Prize recognizes significant contributions to high-energy astrophysics, emphasizing recent, original work. It is named for the late Dr. Bruno Rossi, an authority on cosmic rays and physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Kouveliotou shares the 2003 Bruno Rossi Prize with Drs. Robert Duncan of the University of Texas, at Austin, and Christopher Thompson, of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, in Toronto. Duncan and Thompson were cited for their prediction of magnetars, neutrons stars with extraordinarily strong magnetic fields, and Kouveliotou was cited for her observational confirmation of the existence of these objects. The Descartes Prize, also known as the European Science Award, recognizes scientific breakthroughs from European collaborative research in any scientific field. This marks the first time the Descartes Prize — named for René Descartes, a mathematician, natural scientist and philosopher — honors research in astrophysics. Kouveliotou is the only U.S. team member who shares the Descartes Prize with Dr. Edward van den Heuvel of the University of Amsterdam and a team of scientists from the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The group earned the award for its research on gamma-ray bursts – the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The team discovered that the gamma-ray bursts occur in distant galaxies at the very edge of the Universe, which means their peak energy output is roughly 1 billion times the output of our Sun. Their research provides new insight into star formation rates and mechanisms. Kouveliotou, who joined the Marshall Center in 2000 on special assignment from the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) based in Columbia, Md., has directed the USRA Astronomy Program in Huntsville since 1998. Since 1995, she also has served as deputy director of the Institute for Space Physics, Astronomy and Education – a joint research venture of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the Universities Space Research Association. Her prior experience includes 12 years of teaching at the University of Athens, Greece, and two years as a visiting scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “Being part of these research teams and working at Marshall with the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) team since 1991 has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my professional life,” said Kouveliotou. A native of Athens, Greece, Kouveliotou has a bachelor’s degree in physics from the National University of Athens, master’s and doctorate degrees in Astrophysics from the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, and the Technical University of Munich, respectively. Known internationally for her work in astrophysics, Kouveliotou is active in professional societies including the American, European and Hellenic Astronomical Societies and the Royal Astronomical Society of England. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. The NSSTC is a cooperative venture of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama A & M University, Auburn University, Tuskegee University, The University of Alabama, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, and The University of South Alabama. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/panel/krimigis_bio.htm
Stamatios M. KrimigisSpace Department, Applied Physics Laboratory Biography Stamatios M. Krimigis Head, Space Department The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Summary Dr. Krimigis joined APL in 1968, was head of the Space Physics and Instrumentation Group, became Chief Scientist in 1980, and was appointed Head of the Space Department in 1991. APL's Space Department conducts forefront research in space and earth sciences and designs, constructs, tests, and launches satellites and scientific instruments for Earth-orbiting and interplanetary missions, having combined excellence in space engineering with in-depth scientific capability on some 58 space missions and well over 150 instruments since 1959. Dr. Krimigis has been Principal (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I) on several NASA spacecraft, including the Low Energy Charged Particle (LECP) Experiment on Voyagers 1 and 2, the Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers (AMPTE), and the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE). He is currently PI for Cassini and Co-I on Galileo, Ulysses, and MESSENGER. He is a specialist in solar, interplanetary, and planetary magnetospheric physics. He was instrumental in the establishment of NASA's Discovery program: NEAR, the first such mission, was developed at APL, launched in 1996, and landed on asteroid Eros on February 12, 2001. Dr. Krimigis has published more than 330 scientific papers in refereed journals and books, participated in or chaired many national and international conferences in space science, and delivered more than 1,000 talks on these topics. In addition, Dr. Krimigis has served as member or chairman of more than 40 national and international committees, panels, and boards on issues of space science, technology, programmatics, management, publications, and conference activities. He has often testified before Congress on space science and technology and has been a member or Chairman of many advisory committees for the Government. Education B. Phys., Physics, University of Minnesota (1961) M.S., Physics, University of Iowa (1963) Ph.D., Physics, University of Iowa (1965) Professional Experience Head, Space Department, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (1991-present) Chief Scientist, Space Department, APL (1980-90) Supervisor, Space Physics and Instrumentation Group, APL (1974-81) Supervisor, Space Physics Section, APL (1968-74) Assistant Professor of Physics (1966-6 and Research Associate (1965-66), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa Professional Societies and Committees Fellow, American Geophysical Union Fellow, American Physical Society Member, International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Corresponding member, Athens Academy Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science Chairman, National Academy of Sciences, Space Science Board, Committee on Solar and Space Physics (1983-86) Member, NASA's Space Science and Applications Advisory Committee (1987-91) Chair, Subcommittee on Small Planetary Missions, IAA (1993-present) Member, NASA's Solar System Exploration Subcommittee (1998-present) Honors and Awards NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1981 and 1986 Over twenty NASA Group Achievement Awards for Voyager, AMPTE, Galileo, Ulysses, NEAR, ACE, and Cassini IAA Basic Sciences Award, 1994; AHEPA Academy Prize, 1994 Aviation Week and Space Technology Laurels Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Space, 1996 Gold Medal, City of Homeroupolis, Chios, Greece, 1996 Asteroid "8323 Krimigis", IAU, 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanasis Economou NASA,PROGRAM MARS PATH FINDER,THE GREEK MEMBER. mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/b...team1.html Nuclear Physicist and Planetary Scientist Lab. for Astrophysics and Space Research, Enrico Fermi Institute University of Chicago Co-Investigator on the Pathfinder Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) team. I am also a Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research of the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. I worked on a variety of projects during the past 34 years, but right now I am involved in the exploration of the planet Mars. My background is in experimental nuclear physics and that helped me to design and develop, together with Professor Anthony Turkevich of the University of Chicago, the technique of the Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer that it was used to obtain the chemical composition first of the lunar surface some 30 years ago and in 1997 of the Martian soil and rock samples at the Pathfinder landing site. My Career Journey I am originally a proud Greek, and I started work in planetary science immidiatelly after ariving in this country in 1964, when I joined a group at the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research of the Univerity of Chicago, just starting to design space instrumentation. I was part of the lunar Surveyor mission team that obtained the first chemical analysis of the Moon in 1967. I also was involved with similar projects on the Soviet Phobos 1 & 2 and the Russian Mars-96 mission to Mars, but both these missions failed prematurely to our big disapointment. In between these missions, I also participated on, and performed, again, together with A. Turkevich, many exotic nuclear physics experiments involving high energy accelerators in Los Alamos, Argonne and Fermilab National Laboratories. One such experiment was the Double Beta Decay of U-238 and determining its half life time. Pathinder successfull landing on 4th of July 1997 and the excellent performance of the APXS in analyzing Martian soil and rocks was the culmination of my career. The Future In the near future I will be busy doing the detail analyses of the data that have been returned by the APXS Mars Pathfinder instrument. At the same time I will will also be very busy getting ready for the Mars '01, Mars '03 and MUSES-C missions providing new APXS instruments for these missions. The ultimate goal of the future Martian missions is to bring back to Earth Martian samples for more detailed analyses in terrestrial laboratories and prepare for sending humans to planet Mars. This probably will not happen during my active carier but I have two young grandsons who are very eager to follow the steps of their grandfather, and who knows-- they might be the ones to get there. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web.umr.edu/~leventis/
Nicholas LeventisB.S. 1980 Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece Ph.D. 1985 Chemistry, Michigan State University Postdoctoral Associate, 1985-1987, MIT C.S.S. 1992, Harvard University Curriculum Vitae lRESEARCH INTERESTS MAGNETIC EFFECTS ON ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS Magnetohydrodynamic convection by electrolysis in the magnetic field Paramagnetic forces in electrolytic solutions AEROGELS Mechanically strong polymer crosslinked aerogels (X-Aerogels) Doped Aerogels as platforms of gas sensors ORGANIC ELECTROCHEMISTRY The effect of substitution on stepwise multielectron processes. Homogeneous electron transfer between electrogenerated species by multi heterogeneous electron transfer processes INTRAMOLECULAR PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE and ELECTRON TRANSFER> Charge transfer in the design of large Stokes shifts and emission in the near IR Photoinduced electron transfer in sensors and switches CONDUCTING POLYMERS AND COMPOSITES Sensors Electrochromics Dr.Leventis is the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2005) for "ground breaking research in the development of polymer cross-linked aerogels". This award granted for a significant, specific accomplishment or substantial improvement in operations, efficiency, service, financial savings, science, or technology which contributes to the mission of NASA. www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/MDWeb/MDExceptSci.htmle. www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/news/2005/05-032_Honor_Awards.html. Dr. Leventis new technology, "Reinforced Aerogels" has won the Nano 50 award in 2005. Nano 50™ Awards, recognize the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted - or are expected to impact – the state of the art in nanotechnology. www.nanotechbriefs.com/nano50_winners.html. 2003 Keynote Lecturer at the 7th International Symposium of Aerogels. Dr. Leventis was a keynote lecturer at the 7th International symposium of aerogels and a speaker at the Electrochemical Gordon Research Conferance in 2001. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Gerasimos MichalitsianosFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andy Michalitsianos(May 22, 1947 – October 29, 1997) was a Greek-American astronomer and a NASA astrophysicist.Born in Alexandria, Egypt on May 22, 1947, Andreas grew up with his mother, who spoke little English and shortly, with his father. He moved with his family to New York City in 1949 and lived in the Queens borough before going to college. Andreas' father, Gerasimos Andreas Michalitsianos, was a sea captain of the Greek molasses tanker S.S. Foundation Star. Gerasimos died however, after his ship was caught up in a hurricane and sunk on September 24, 1952 off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, in which Andreas' father died shortly after of pneumonia after he and some of the crew had been rescued by the United States Coast Guard. Andreas showed an early interest in astronomy and physics from the age of 16, during when he was president of the Junior Astronomy Club in NYC in which his accomplishments included leading a South American eclipse expedition. Later on, he would graduate from Newtown High School in 1965 and then earn his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Arizona at Tucson in 1969, working at the nearby Kitt Peak National Observatory as a student employee in the Space Division to help pay off his college debts. His duties at Kitt Peak included the initial tests of a remotely controlled telescope. Andreas then received a scholarship and earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics from University of Cambridge, Churchill College in 1976 while doing research on a theoretical topic in solar physics, and later worked as a astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center from the 1970s until his death. Michalitsianos was involved with such projects as the Hubble Space Telescope and was the Deputy Project Manager for NASA Goddard's highly successful International Ultraviolet Explorer, in which he won several awards for his contributions. Michalitsianos eventually went on to become Chief of the Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics at the Goddard Space Flight Center in early 1997, and was renowned for his breakthrough research on symbiotic stars. Michalitsianos died on October 29, 1997 in Baltimore, Maryland after a long struggle with brain tumor. Until his last days he was hard at work rejuvinating the Laboratory of which he had recently taken command, and on a proposal for a spacecraft to monitor temporal changes in the ultraviolet and X-ray spectra of stars and active galaxies. He is survived by a wife, two daughters, a sister, and one son, whom reside in Severna Park, Maryland. A landbased robotic telescope on the island of Kefalonia in western Greece is named in his honor. The telescope is utilized by such institutions as the University of Athens and the Hellenic Naval Academy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/mission/vassilis_bio.html Dr. Vassilis Angelopoulos Principal Investigator University of California, Berkeley Dr. Vassilis Angelopoulos is a scientist with 15 years of experience in space physics with emphasis in magnetospheric processes. He’s authored and co-authored 65 publications in refereed journals on data analysis, plasma theory and space plasma phenomenology, space technology, space instrumentation and mission analysis and design. His research interests include plasma sheet transport, electromagnetic instabilities in the plasma sheet and its boundary, beam-induced ionospheric low frequency waves, substorm physics, turbulence and self-organized criticality. Dr. Angelopoulos' current position is as Research Physicist in the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the principal investigator for THEMIS. In his free time he enjoys playing classical violin and chess. Awards and Honors: January 2001: Macelwane Medal, conferred by the American Geophysical Union in recognition of significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by young scientists. July 2000: Zeldovich Medal, conferred by the Russian Academy of Sciences and COSPAR on young sci-entists for excellence and achievement. June 1994: Fred Scarf Award, conferred by AGU’s Space Physics and Aeronomy Section to the best Ph.D. thesis in that section. 1986-1992: Fulbright fellowship for the duration of Ph.D. program. news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_371749_18/02/2007_216288 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel KounavesProfessor Samuel Kounaves Department of Chemistry Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology Research Affiliate, NASA-Jet Propulsion Lab Department of Chemistry Pearson Chemistry Laboratory Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 chem.tufts.edu/faculty/kounaves/astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/people/profile/4403/samuel/kounaves/phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/kounavesSam.php---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/4502-the-messinian-nasa-astrophysicist/Dr. Periklis PapadopoulosThe Messinian NASA astrophysicist
Dr. Periklis Papadopoulos, Aerospace Engineering Professor and Astrophysicist, has origins in Kalamata, where he was born in 1963. In 1982, he relocated to the United States to pursue his academic dream of studying Aeronautics and Aeronautical Engineering, with expertise in planet exploration and ultrasounds. In 1992, Papadopoulos received his doctorate degree with distinction from Stanford University. Since 1987, he has been working for NASA Ames in California, having committed as a partner for over 10 years to the Curiosity landing programme, as head of the thermal protection system research team. In 2003, Periklis Papadopoulos founded Space Systems LLC and as an expert in ultrasonic reintegration he is the head of a research team having accomplished important programme goals and missions for the exploration of space and planets of our solar system. He has been awarded by NASA for his offer and has also earned the prestigious Turning Goals into Reality award. He also holds a tenure, full professor, position at San Jose State University. The first Greek satellite will launch in the summer 2013 from Cape Canaveral, a programme donated by NASA and funded by Greek entrepreneurs. Dr. Periklis Papadopoulos loves Greece and pays regular visits to the country on every summer occasion. His lifetime dream is to settle down in Kalamata after retirement.
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Matina Gkioulidouwww.executivegov.com/2016/05/nasa-findings-show-how-how-earths-ring-current-behaves-matina-gkioulidou-comments/NASA Findings Show How How Earth’s Ring Current Behaves; Matina Gkioulidou Comments NASA has revealed new findings related to the long-term behavior of the Earth’s ring current the space agency says carries electricity, encircles the planet and affects satellites. The space agency’s Van Allen Probes found that the high-energy and low-energy protons in the ring current change in a way different from one another as opposed to previous understanding, NASA partner Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory said Thursday. The findings were published in Geophysical Research Letters and show that some particles wane over time while other particles remain consistent, APL said. Researchers used the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Ion Composition Experiment tool to gather data about the long-term behavior of the ring current. “We study the ring current because, for one thing, it drives a global system of electrical currents both in space and on Earth’s surface, which during intense geomagnetic storms can cause severe damages to our technological systems,” said Matina Gkioulidou, a space physicist at APL and lead author of the study. “It also modifies the magnetic field in the near-Earth space, which in turn controls the motion of the radiation belt particles that surround our planet,” added Gkioulidou. JHUAPL operates the Van Allen Probes, launched in 2012, for NASA’s science mission directorate. ............................................................................ sites.google.com/site/matinagkioulidou/home/cv ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/143-nasas-greek-eye-to-the-limitless-sky/Angelos VourlidasNASA’s greek “eye” to the limitless sky He was born, grew up and studied in Thessaloniki. Yet from the day he left Greece, in order to pursue a PhD at the University of New Mexico, he knew that he wouldn’t even consider returning to Greece for many years to come. His passion for telescopes and solar physics may have kept Angelos Vourlidas away from home, but it also offered him the privilege of being the first scientist who has watched- and is watching observing- what is happening on our mother star, closer than anyone else. NASA’s twin satellites, STEREO, for which he constructed possibly the most advanced telescopes ever created- given that they can trace what is going on in the optical and ultraviolet spectrum, covering the whole distance from Earth to the sun-, are constantly recording solar activity, providing new data, which change the face of solar physics. “For the first time, we are able see the sun in three dimensions, by combining views from the two spacecrafts to create a sphere”, says the scientist. “We can understand the function of small-scale solar erruptions, for which we used to have only limited knowledge. We have discovered that comets tails can be torn off when they are caught in solar storms, while we could even observe and record solar tsunamis”. Mr. Vourlidas is responsible for the five telescopes of NASA’s two research satellites, STEREO, and has the privilege of seeing first the incoming data before he passes them to the global scientific community for analysis, retaining only what falls within his own field of expertise. Angelos Vourlidas and his team accidentally discovered that comets” tails are torn off when they go through solar storms. One morning, as he was looking at the data coming from the spacecrafts, he witnessed the collision of a comet with a massive solar storm, which was extending from the sun to outer space. “This proves that eruptions on the surface of the sun are magnetic”, says the scientist. nasa.jhuapl.edu/our_staff/pdf/00106613_Vourlidas_Angelos_.pdf Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks?page=15#ixzz6C3vmJyrW
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2.F HARVARD GREEKSen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotis_Kafatos Fotis KafatosFotis Kafatos was born on the island of Crete in Greece. As a student, he moved to Ithaca, NY where he later got his Bachelor's degree from Cornell University. He went on to received his PhD from Harvard University in 1965. His following academic positions include Assistant Professor and later Professor and Chairman of the department of Cellular and Developmental Biology of Harvard University, Professor of Biology at the University of Athens and at the University of Crete, director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Heraklion and, most notably, served as the Director-General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory from 1993 to 2004. Since 2004 he is a professor at Imperial College in London. He is a member of several prominent academic societies, including the Royal Society of London, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Académie des Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and is one of the 22 members of the highly influential European Research Council. A very prominent scientist world-wide, Fotis Kafatos is the most influencial Greek biologist having had a pivotal role in the establishment of the Faculty of Biology in the University of Athens, the Faculty of Biology in the University of Crete and the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Heraklion. His contribution to international science is well recognized, mostly due to his contributions in establishing cDNA cloning technology, the initiation of the Drosophila melanogaster Genome Project and for his more recent coordinated efforts in the field of malaria reaserch. Towards these ends, Fotis Kafatos spearheaded the consortium of the Anopheles gambiae (Mosquito) Genome Project, which was completed in 2002. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Emanuel Sifneos
Peter Emanuel Sifneos, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, died at his home in Belmont on December 9, 2008, at the age of 88. He was an internationally renowned pioneer in the areas of short-term psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. His work and writing constitute a creative and significant contribution to the field.
Born October 22, 1920, on the Greek island of Lesbos, he graduated from Athens College and received his degree in chemistry at the Sorbonne in Paris. He escaped German occupied France and immigrated to the USA where he continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Graduate School and Harvard Medical School from which he graduated in 1946. After completing his medical internship at Boston City Hospital he served as a United States Army psychiatrist for three years in Frankfurt, Germany.
Returning to Boston in 1950 he completed his psychiatry residency and worked at McLean and Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He served as director of the outpatient psychiatric service of the Massachusetts General Hospital until 1968, when he joined the staff of the Beth Israel Hospital as Associate Director of Psychiatry under the stewardship of Dr John Nemiah.
It was there in his somewhat removed third floor walk-up office in the Rabb Building (that he himself chose) that Dr Sifneos saw his patients and his trainees (psychiatry residents and psychology interns), and grew the ideas that his innovative talent had been nurturing through his formative professional years. He had treated a few patients with limited problems successfully, in a half dozen sessions guided by psycho-analytic principles. This opened up the possibility of a protocol to resolve mild neurotic symptoms in selected patients, in a limited number of visits. The parameters of Short Term Anxiety Provoking Psychotherapy (STAPP), evolved in the late 1960s and early 70s against a backdrop of an unbending psychoanalytic bias toward long term, classically non-directive psychoanalytic treatment.
Differing from psychoanalysis and other psychoanalytically derived psychotherapies, STAPP is a highly interactive process for well motivated and psychologically resilient individuals with a circumscribed emotional problem. Patients learn fairly early in the treatment how they tend to reenact (in their interaction with the therapist) the suppressed conflicts at the core of their difficulties. They are also provided with enduring tools for dealing with problems in the future. The anxiety provoking component of STAPP is a result of the therapist’s early clarification and interpretation of the hidden material. Outcome studies have shown that a large majority of carefully selected patients benefit from the treatment.
It is a testament to his legendary creativity, his originality and his courage, (when psychotherapy was a slow and very private event) that Dr Sifneos chose to record his interviews on videotape. He obtained permission from many of his patients to record their treatment sessions, and used the tapes in his lectures and seminars to demonstrate precisely what is crucial to his process. Viewers were able to observe how he uncovered the core of a problem, seeming to chisel away like a sculptor removing what obscured it. He has left us with a library of almost 280 videotapes.
In 1971 he accepted the invitation to come as a visiting professor to the University Psychiatric Clinic in Oslo, Norway, to promote research. He visited there annually until 1974, the first foreign visitor to come on a regular basis. It was he who brought psychotherapy research to Norway. The first doctoral thesis on the subject appeared in 1983. Short term dynamic psychotherapy has been a central and successful theme in psychotherapy research in Norway since then. The reports from Oslo and from his own widely read publications and presentations, brought several invitations to lecture and teach in Europe and the Americas.
Dr Sifneos’s interest in psychosomatic medicine started early in his career when treating patients with so called psychosomatic illness. He observed that they often had an inability to find the appropriate words to describe their feelings. He discussed this at length with Dr John Nemiah, a close friend, who affirmed the observation. As a result, in 1972 Dr Sifneos introduced the term alexithymia from the Greek a for lack, lexis for word, and thymos for emotion, meaning lack of words for emotions. The term described a marked difficulty in experiencing, identifying, differentiating and expressing feelings; as well as a paucity of fantasies and a utilitarian (stimulus bound and tied to reality) way of thinking. Clinical and research studies since have indicated that alexithymic characteristics are present not only in patients with psychosomatic illness, but in patients with other medical and psychiatric disorders as well as in individuals in the general population. The steadily increasing literature on individuals with alexithymia has proven to be of considerable help in a better understanding of their therapeutic needs, and the development of appropriate treatments for the alleviation of their suffering.
Dr Sifneos published 125 articles in various journals on the subjects of psychotherapy and psychotherapy training, medical illness associated with strong psychological factors, and mental health. He authored four books on psychotherapy that have been translated from English into many languages. He made important contributions to the psychiatric literature not only in his own writings, but in encouraging and helping younger colleagues to contribute by mentoring them. He was editor-in-chief of “Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics” for nearly two decades, and vice-president of the International Federation of Medical Psychotherapy for fifteen years.
He was invited to numerous countries around the world to present his work, and to run workshops in North and South America, Japan, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Greece. He had first offered systematic training in STAPP in educational programs in the 1970s in Oslo, and in 1997 he established a two year training program in Athens where over a period of ten years he taught and supervised five groups of interdisciplinary therapists. He visited Athens three to four times per year, and despite the physical stresses of his health problems he continued to teach with indomitable spirit until September 2007. For his scientific work and accomplishments he was awarded an honorary doctorate (PhD) by the University of Athens in February 1998.
Fascinated by the richness of the human mind, he was an inspiring and enthusiastic clinical teacher. He was constantly curious and open-minded, and although always warm and welcoming to his trainees, he was also critical and precise. He had a remarkable memory, not only for history, the Greek philosophers and music, all of which filled much of his limited free time, but also for the smallest details of what patients said in the interviews. He constantly encouraged his trainees, “Listen closely, and remember a patient’s words, they connect to his feelings.” He was, himself, a sensitive and brilliantly insightful interviewer, who appeared to miss nothing that occurred in the interview and who never lost his compassion for human suffering.
Although deeply appreciative of the opportunities afforded him by his country of adoption, he remained a cultured European in his attitudes and his manners. He retained his passion for life, music, art and French wine; and was very proud of his mother’s Huguenot ancestry. Most summers he spent with his friends and family at the Sifneos family’s seaside home in Lesbos where he loved to swim in the Aegean sea. He was an ardent reader, and thrived on challenging discussion. His children recall his devotion to them, and rich weekends filled with laughter, music, Mediterranean food and intellectual games.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.hsph.harvard.edu/facu...oulos.htmlDimitrios Trichopoulos
Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention
Department of Epidemiology Other Affiliations Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Univeristy of Athens Medical School, Greece; Adjunct Professor of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Education M.D., 1963, University of Athens Medical School M.S., 1968, Harvard School of Public Health Ph.D., 1971, University of Athens Medical School Dr. Trichopoulos' main research interest is the evaluation of the hypothesis that hormone-dependent cancers have their origin in the intrauterine life. This hypothesis is compatible with experimental evidence and can explain why it takes more than two generations for the incidence of breast and prostate cancer in Asian immigrants to the U.S. to reach the four times higher incidence prevailing in the host population. The main postulate is that higher levels of pregnancy hormones favor the generation of a higher number of susceptible stem cells with compromised genomic stability. Research in collaboration with Dr. Cc Hsieh and other colleagues in Boston, as well as Drs. Adami and Ekbom at the Karolinska Institute (Sweden), Dr. Lawson at the University of New South Wales (Australia), Dr. La Vecchia at the Mario Negri Institute (Italy), Dr. Vatten at the University of Trondheim (Norway) and other colleagues has provided supportive evidence for the hypothesis. Dr. Trichopoulos is also studying the multifactorial etiology of hepatocellular cancer, with emphasis on the interactive effects of hepatitis B and C viruses, tobacco smoking and ethanol intake. Moreover, he continues his international collaborative work on the effects of human diet on health and disease and has co-edited two textbooks on epidemiology and cancer etiology published by Oxford University Press. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/f...hristakisNicholas ChristakisProfessor of Sociology (FAS) and
Professor of Medical Sociology
Harvard Medical SchoolNicholas Christakis,M.D., Ph.D., is an internist and sociologist who conducts research on the socio-cultural factors that affect the supply, demand, and outcomes of medical care. He usese primarily demographic methods to examine the determinants of health at individual and population levels. He is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; he is an Attending Physician in the Palliative Medicine Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy program at Harvard. Dr. Christakis' past work has examined the accuracy and role of prognosis in medicine, ways of improving end-of-life care, and neighborhood effects on health care and illness course. His book on prognosis, Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1999 and has been widely reviewed. Currently, he is principally concerned with health and social networks, and specifically with how ill health, health risks, and death in one person can influence similar phenomena in others in a person's social network. Some current work, involving over 1,000,000 couples followed for ten years, is focused on the health benefits of marriage and on how ill health in one spouse can have cascading effects on the other spouse. It seems likely that improving the health of one partner in a marriage can have meaningful effects on the health of the other, and that both parties would value this - in a way that influences health policy. Other work, executed in collaboration with colleagues in the Departments of Sociology and of Health Care Policy, uses a large interconnected network of nearly 10,000 people followed for 30 years to examine the "non-biological spread of disease" and health externalities. This area of research is supported by NIH. A separate line of research involves developing the conceptual and practical foundations of the problem of iatrogenesis and examining physicians' responses to the problem of medical harm. His research has implications for understanding why people become sick and how they use medical care to become well again. It also has implications for clinical and policy actions to enhance the quality of care given to seriously ill patients and their families. Dr. Christakis received his B.S. degree from Yale University, his M.D. and M.P.H. degree from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Christakis serves on the editorial boards of the British Medical Journal, the Journal of Palliative Medicine, Palliative Medicine[UK], and until 2001, the American Journal of Sociology. He teaches quantitative research design, medical sociology, health services research, clinical epidemiology, and palliative medicine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ artavanis-tsakonas.med.harvard.edu Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Ph.D.
Kurt J. Isselbacher/Peter D. Schwartz Professor
Harvard Medical School - Department of Cell Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research M.A. Chemistry, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, 1971 Ph.D. Molecular Biology, Cambridge University, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,1975 Postdoctoral research, Biozentrum, University of Basel and StanfordUniversity, 1980 Department of Biology, Yale University & Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, (1981-199 Joined Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and the Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School in 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/people/roilos.htmlPanagiotis RoilosProfessor of Modern Greek Studies
and of Comparative Literature
Director of the Modern Greek Studies ProgramPanagiotis Roilos was born and raised in Greece. He studied at the University of Athens (B.A./Ptychion in Classics, Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature, 1991; class valedictorian) and Harvard University (Ph.D. in Modern Greek Studies, 1999). Before joining the Harvard faculty he was Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University in the Department of Greek and Latin (1998-2000). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen LagakosHARVARD
School of public health
Professor of biostatistics www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2009-releases/professor-lagakos-dies.html Stephen Lagakos, an international leader in biostatistics and AIDS research and professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), died in an auto collision on Monday, October 12, 2009 in Peterborough, N.H. He was 63 years old. His wife, Regina, and his mother, Helen, were also killed in the daytime accident, along with the driver of the other car.Added Harvey Fineberg, former Dean of HSPH and current president of the Institute of Medicine: "Steve Lagakos was a versatile and talented biostatistician, a gifted teacher, and deft administrator. Steve's leadership in AIDS clinical trials and longitudinal studies helped convert data into action -- to prevent HIV transmission, improve treatment, and save lives. At the Institute of Medicine, Steve chaired a technically demanding study on methods to use in biomedical AIDS prevention trials. Steve made complicated problems seem simple, and in this IOM effort, he demonstrated his ability to clarify differences, develop consensus, and express cogent conclusions and policy recommendations. Steve was a successful leader and a delightful personality with a knack for finding something of value in the views of others, much as he could extract value from numerical data in a clinical trial." www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/10/14/stephen_lagakos_talented_biostatistician_with_a_common_touch/?page=2Born in Philadelphia, Stephen Lagakos was the son of*greek immigrant and grew up in a household where extra money was sent back to his extended family in Kastania, Greece. “When the AIDS epidemic was beginning to be noticed, he organized a center to study its quantitative aspects,’’ Zelen said. “Steve was instrumental in designing many of the clinical trials nationwide to find therapies for treating AIDS, and he was absolutely fundamental to the AIDS program in the world.’’ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.bidmc.org/CentersandDepartments/Departments/Medicine/Divisions/Rheumatology/MeetOurTeam/LeadershipTeam.aspxHarvard medical school
George C. Tsokos, M.D.
Chief, Rheumatology Division
George C. Tsokos, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and on staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He received his M.D. from The National University of Athens and completed his medical residency at the University of Athens, VA Hospital and Georgetown University in Washington DC and his rheumatology and clinical immunology training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Tsokos’s research has focused on the cellular and molecular pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). His laboratory has opened and led the field of molecular abnormalities on immune cells in patients with SLE. There are two central needs to improve the care of patients with SLE: 1) reliable markers to diagnose and follow the activity of the disease and 2) therapeutic targets which will be specific for the disease with minimal toxicity. His lab performs biochemical, molecular biology and cellular studies of immune and kidney cells using human material. Major findings are transferred to lupus animal models (drug treatment or genetic manipulation). Dr. Tsokos has led the field of deciphering cellular and molecularaberrations that characterize SLE T cells and has identified several that can be used as disease markers. - See more at: www.bidmc.org/CentersandDepartments/Departments/Medicine/Divisions/Rheumatology/MeetOurTeam/LeadershipTeam.aspx#sthash.7xNwV9bl.dpufRead more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46saEBGyZ-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/115264Iosif Lazaridis, Ph.D.Harvard Medical School
Title Research Fellow in Genetics (INT) Department Genetics Address Harvard Medical School Genetics, NRB 260 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston MA 02115
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2.G CALIFORNIA GREEKSChristos PapadimitriouFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California at Berkeley. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens (BS in Electrical Engineering, 1972) and at Princeton University (MS in Electrical Engineering, 1974 and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1976). He has also taught at Harvard, MIT, the National Technical University of Athens, Stanford, and UCSD. Christos Papadimitriou is the author of the textbook Computational Complexity, one of the most widely used textbooks in the field of computational complexity theory. Bibliography Elements of the theory of computation. (With Harry Lewis). Prentice-Hall, 1982; second edition September 1997. Combinatorial optimization: algorithms and complexity. (With Ken Steiglitz). Prentice-Hall 1982; second edition Dover, 1998. The theory of database concurrency control. CS Press, 1988. Computational Complexity. Addison Wesley, 1994. Turing (a Novel about Computation), MIT Press, November 2003. www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apostolos N. Athanassakis is a classical scholar and Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in classical linguistics and early epic Greek poetry. He also enjoys socializing with the students living in the residental housing. [edit] Bibliography Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii (translation, introduction and commentary, 1973) Homeric Hymns (translation, introduction and commentary, 1976) Vita Sancti Pachomii (translation and introduction, 1977) Ranka (197 Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days and The Shield of Heracles (translation, introduction and commentary, 1983) Essays on Hesiod, Volume I (editor, 1992) Essays on Hesiod, Volume II (editor and contributor, 1993) The Life of St. George of Chozeba (with Tim Vivian, 1993) The Life of St. Anthony (with Tim Vivian, 2003) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cs.usc.edu/~christos/
Christos Papadopoulos
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California Affiliations Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory, Director ISI, Computer Networks Division IMSC Research Interests Computer Networks, Network Security, Multimedia Communication, Distributed Systems Projects Cossack SAMAN ANT ns Distributed Immersive Performance ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/mission/vassilis_bio.html
Dr. Vassilis Angelopoulos- Principal Investigator
University of California, BerkeleyDr. Vassilis Angelopoulos is a scientist with 15 years of experience in space physics with emphasis in magnetospheric processes. He’s authored and co-authored 65 publications in refereed journals on data analysis, plasma theory and space plasma phenomenology, space technology, space instrumentation and mission analysis and design. His research interests include plasma sheet transport, electromagnetic instabilities in the plasma sheet and its boundary, beam-induced ionospheric low frequency waves, substorm physics, turbulence and self-organized criticality. Dr. Angelopoulos' current position is as Research Physicist in the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the principal investigator for THEMIS. In his free time he enjoys playing classical violin and chess. Awards and Honors: January 2001: Macelwane Medal, conferred by the American Geophysical Union in recognition of significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by young scientists. July 2000: Zeldovich Medal, conferred by the Russian Academy of Sciences and COSPAR on young sci-entists for excellence and achievement. June 1994: Fred Scarf Award, conferred by AGU’s Space Physics and Aeronomy Section to the best Ph.D. thesis in that section. 1986-1992: Fulbright fellowship for the duration of Ph.D. program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UCLA Dimitri Terzopoulos www.cs.ucla.edu/~dt/Demetri Terzopoulos is the Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also affiliated with the University of Toronto as an adjunct professor in the departments of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences. Terzopoulos was awarded the PhD degree ('84) in EECS (Artificial Intelligence) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the MEng and Honours BEng degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. After graduation, he was a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Cambridge, MA. Prior to becoming an academic in 1989, he was affiliated with Schlumberger, Inc., serving as Program Leader at corporate research centers in California and Texas. He has been a visiting professor at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, at Digital's (now Hewlett-Packard's) Cambridge Research Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, and at the Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science in Austin, TX. He joined UCLA in 2005 from New York University, where he held the Lucy and Henry Moses Professorship in Science and was Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Professor Terzopoulos is one of the most highly-cited authors in engineering and computer science. His published work includes approximately 300 articles, primarily in computer vision, computer graphics, medical image analysis, computer-aided design, and artificial intelligence/life, including the volumes Real-Time Computer Vision (Cambridge Univ. Press '94), Animation and Simulation (Springer-Verlag '95), and Deformable Models in Medical Image Analysis (IEEE CS Press '9 . He has given hundreds of invited talks around the world, including more than 60 distinguished lectures and keynote/plenary addresses. Professor Terzopoulos is the recipient of a 2005 Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his pioneering work on realistic cloth simulation for motion pictures. His other citations include an award from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1987 for his work on deformable models in vision, a Marr Prize award from the IEEE in 1987 for his work on active contours (snakes), an award from NICOGRAPH in 1996 for his work on human facial modeling and animation, two awards from Computers and Graphics in 2002 for his work on dynamic virtual humans and deformable models in medical image analysis, two citations from the International Medical Informatics Association in 1999 and 2003 for his work on model-based medical image analysis, a citation from SAE International in 2006 for his work on autonomous virtual humans, awards from the International Digital Media Foundation in 1994 and from Ars Electronica (the premier competition for creative work with digital media) in 1995 for his work on artificial animals for computer animation and virtual reality, and six University of Toronto Arts and Science Excellence Awards. In 1998 the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society cited him for his "outstanding contributions to research and education in image understanding". The PhD thesis of his student Xiaoyuan Tu won the 1996 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and in 2003 his PhD student Alex Vasilescu was named a TR100 Top Young Innovator by Technology Review magazine. Terzopoulos has been a Visiting Fellow of UCLA's Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM), a Killam Research Fellow of the Canada Council for the Arts, an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, and an AI and Robotics Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has served on DARPA, NSF, and NIH advisory committees, and on the Presidential Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Plank Institute for Informatics in Germany. He has served on the program committees of the major conferences in his fields of expertise and was program co-chair of the 1998 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '9 and the 2004 Pacific Graphics conference, as well as conference co-chair of the 2005 SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Computer Animation. He is a Series Editor of the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. He is or was a founding member of the editorial boards of the journals Medical Image Analysis, Graphical Models, Videre: Journal of Computer Vision Research, and the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. He is a member of the ACM, Sigma Xi, and the New York Academy of Sciences. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Tsebelis is a Professor of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles. Tsebelis developed the theory of veto players, set out in his best known work, Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work (2002). The ‘veto players’ concept is an old one, dating back at least 2000 years. Tsebelis synthesises and formalises it. A ‘veto player’ is an individual or collective actor who has to agree for the legislative status quo to change. Tsebelis argues that having many veto players makes significant policy changes difficult or impossible. Tsebelis also predicts that systems with a high number of veto players will pass few significant laws and will tend to high deficits (as the veto players need to be bought off). Tsebelis considers two types of veto players: institutional (those officially named somewhere, such as the President, Congress and Senate) and partisan (those whose veto arises from the system but is not one of the rules of the system, such as political parties). Some of these veto players, moreover, can present ‘take it or leave it’ proposals to the other veto players. Tsebelis calls these ‘agenda setters’. According to Tsebelis, among feasible outcomes (that is, the shared winset of outcomes which meet each veto player’s requirement of being superior to the status quo), agenda setters pick the outcome that they like most. Tsebelis predicts that when few outcomes are feasible, agenda setters will have a small role; where none at all are possible (that is, there is no ‘core’ where all winsets overlap), agenda setters are irrelevant. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- awis.npaci.edu/wib_2007/speakers.htm
Katerina Akassoglou...is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego. Katerina performed her graduate studies at the University of Athens in Greece and the University of Vienna in Austria, where she developed a novel transgenic animal model for multiple sclerosis. As a recipient of the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) postdoctoral fellowship and the Young Investigator Award from the Wadsworth Foundation, Katerina performed her postdoctoral studies at SUNY at Stony Brook, the Rockefeller University and New York University. Her lab studies molecular mechanisms triggered by vascular damage to inhibit tissue repair. Her research on interactions of the blood protein fibrinogen with the nervous system identified fibrinogen as a potential therapeutic target in multiple sclerosis. Katerina has authored 28 peer-reviewed papers that have received over 800 citations in scientific journals and textbooks and are featured in press releases worldwide. She has been an invited speaker at conferences and universities both nationally and internationally and has received six Young Investigator Awards. She is a member of the Expert Referee Panel of the Alzheimer’s Research Fund and an ad-hoc reviewer for several scientific journals. Katerina is Director of the UCSD Pharmacology Summer Undergraduate Program and she currently mentors five postdoctoral fellows and one graduate student. Katerina is a named inventor on two US patents and she is the principal investigator of four research grants from the National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke (NIH/NINDS), the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Christopher Reeve Foundation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexandros G. Dimakis www-rcf.usc.edu/~dimakis/Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2560 I am interested in communications, signal processing and networking. In particular, coding for distributed storage, message passing algorithms and distributed inference, network coding and sparse graph codes. I received my PhD at the Wireless Foundations lab in the EECS department, UC Berkeley and my undergraduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering department National Technical Univerisity of Athens in 2003. During the summer of 2006 I was with the labs of Martin Vetterli and Patrick Thiran at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne During the summer of 2007 I was with the Communication and Collaboration Systems group at Microsoft Research and worked with Yunnan Wu on coding for storage in Data Centers. During 2008 I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for the Mathematics of Information at Caltech. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.me.berkeley.edu/~panos/
Panayiotis PapadopoulosProfessor University of California at Berkeley Research Interests: Computational mechanics, solid mechanics, biomechanics, applied mathematics www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/papadopoulos/bio.html--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Demetri PsaltisCalifornia Institute of Technology www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/Engineering.htmlDemetri Psaltis , ICO Prize (International Commision for Optics) Prize 1989 "for his contributions to optical information processing, holography, pattern recognition, neural networks, optical memories and optical devices. " Psaltis Group, holography, application of optical techniques in information systems including memories, imaging, sensors, and communication ee2.caltech.edu/People/Faculty/psaltis.htmloptics.caltech.edu/People/DPCV2008.pdf-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anastasios Chassiakoswww.csulb.edu/colleges/coe/ee/views/personnel/fulltime_emeritus/chassiakos.shtmlCalifornia state University Electrical engineering ProfessorExecutive Director for AssessmentDr. Chassiakos' research work spans many engineering areas including publications and projects on robotics, neural networks, transportation, and the next generation space telescope. Among several other awards, Dr. Chassiakos received the CSULB "Outstanding Professor Award" in 1994. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- California state University
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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 13, 2007 7:59:30 GMT -5
2.H OTHER ASTRONOMERSJean FocasFrom Wikipedia. Jean-Henri Focas (July 20, 1909 – January 3, 1969) was a Greco-French astronomer. In Greek he was known as Ionnas Focas. He worked at the Pic du Midi Observatory, investigating the surface features of Mars using visual and photographic techniques. Focas crater on the Moon and Focas crater on Mars were named for him.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Michel AntoniadiFrom Wikipedia. Eugene Michel Antoniadi (1870 – February 10, 1944) was a Greek astronomer, born in Asia Minor, who spent most of his life in France. He was also known as Eugenios Antoniadis. His name is also sometimes given as Eugène Michael Antoniadi or even incorrectly Eugène Marie Antoniadi. He became a highly reputed observer of Mars, and at first supported the notion of Martian canals, but after using the 83-centimeter telescope at Meudon Observatory during the 1909 opposition of Mars, he came to the conclusion that canals were an optical illusion. He also observed Venus and Mercury. He made the first attempts to draw a map of Mercury, but his maps were flawed by his incorrect assumption that Mercury had synchronous rotation with the Sun. A crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosJohn Stefanos Paraskevopoulos (June 20, 1889 – March 15, 1951) was a Greek/South African astronomer. He was born in Piraeus, Greece and graduated from the University of Athens. He served in the Greek army during the Balkan Wars and World War I. In 1919 he went to America for two years, spending part of that time working at Yerkes Observatory where he met and married Dorothy W. Block. In 1921 he returned to Athens where he became head of the Athens Observatory. He left this post due to a lack of funding and went to Arequipa, Peru to work at Boyden Station, a branch of Harvard Observatory, with a view to finding a more suitable location for it. The decision was made to move Boyden Station to South Africa due to better weather conditions, and Paraskevopoulos served there as director of Boyden Observatory in South Africa from 1927 to 1951. He co-discovered a couple of comets. Paraskevopoulos crater on the Moon is named after him.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kleomenis Tsiganisen.sae.gr/?id=15098&tag=Asteroid%20named%20after%20Greek%20astronomerAn asteroid until recently known as “1999 RC221” has been renamed “21775 Tsiganis” after Aristotle University astronomer Kleomenis Tsiganis. As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the International Astronomic Union (IAU) Minor Planet Center, and the people that discovered them can then submit name proposals, following the IAU’s naming conventions. Asteroid “1999 RC221” was discovered on Sept. 5, 1999 with the Lowell Observatory LONEOS telescope. Tsiganis received his PhD in physics in 2002 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and now teaches astrophysics and astronomy at the university’s physics faculty. It's the second time that an asteroid takes its name from a greek scientist.The International Astronautical Union in 1999 named an asteroid "8323 Krimigis". www.helleniccomserve.com/tsouniskrimigis.html---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emilios T. Harlaftis(29 March 1965, Kiato – 13 January 2005 Menalo) was an astrophysicist. Harlaftis obtained an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Athens in 1987, and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Oxford in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a support astronomer at the Isaac Newton Telescope at the La Palma site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. He then worked as a research assistant (1995–1997) at the University of St. Andrews and as a research fellow (1997–199 at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National Observatory of Athens. After a series of posts as a visiting scientist at the University of Sheffield, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1999), and two years as a temporary Reader at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St. Andrews (2001–2002) he returned to Greece where he was a tenured researcher at the Institute of Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens. He acted as a principal investigator for what was at the time known as the 2.3 m Aristarchos telescope located at the Chelmos mountain, which was named after him, following his untimely death. His main research contribution is the co-discovery of spiral waves in an solar-size accretion disk, pioneering analysis determining mass ratios of black hole systems using the Keck-I telescope, contribution to accretion disc physics and finally extensive analysis and image processing using the Doppler tomography technique with applications on interactive binaries resolving emission components such as the inner face of the companion star, the gas stream and the impact region of the gas stream on the accretion disk (bright spot). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Denniswww.physics.umd.edu/people/faculty/papadopolous.htmlUniversity of Maryland Department of Physics Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Dennis Professor Astronomy/Space Physics www.physics.umd.edu/people/faculty/cv/PapadopoulosCV.pdf---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mihalis MathioudakisQueen’s University Belfast www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/qub-qsd032009.phpQueen's scientists discover giant solar twistsScientists at Queen's University have made a finding that will help us to understand more about the turbulent solar weather and its affect on our planet. Along with scientists at the University of Sheffield and California State University, the researchers have detected giant twisting waves in the lower atmosphere of the Sun. The discovery sheds some light on why the Sun's corona, the region around the Sun, has a much higher temperature than its surface - something that has always puzzled scientists. The surface of the sun, known as the photosphere, can reach temperatures of 5,000 degrees. To many it would seem logical that the temperature would lower further away from the sun. But, the outer atmosphere, known as the corona, has been shown to reach temperatures of over a million degrees. The recent discovery by the scientists, published today in the respected journal Science, has revealed the existence of a new breed of solar wave, called the Alfvén wave. This solar wave has been shown to transport energy into the Corona or outer layer. The waves have been named after Hannes Alfvén who in 1942 received a Nobel Prize for his work in the area. He suggested the existence of the waves but no hard evidence was ever produced, until recently, when Professor Mihalis Mathioudakis and Dr David Jess of Queen's, made the discovery using the Swedish Solar Telescope in the Canary Islands. The new findings reveal how the waves carry heat and why this happens. The unique magnetic oscillations spread upward from the solar surface to the Sun's corona with an average speed of 20km per second, carrying enough energy to heat the plasma to more than a few million degrees. Professor Mihalis Mathioudakis, leader of the Queen's University Solar Group, said: "Understanding solar activity and its influence on the Earth's climate is of paramount importance for human kind. The Sun is not as quiet as many people think. "The solar corona, visible from Earth only during a total solar eclipse, is a very dynamic environment which can erupt suddenly, releasing more energy than ten billion atomic bombs. Our study makes a major advancement in the understanding of how the million-degree corona manages to achieve this feat." Dr David Jess, from Queen's University Belfast and lead author of the paper written on the discovery said: "Often, waves can be visualized by the rippling of water when a stone is dropped into a pond, or by the motions of*guitar string when plucked. "Alfvén waves though cannot be seen so easily. In fact, they are completely invisible to the naked eye. Only by examining the motions of structures and their corresponding velocities in the Sun's turbulent atmosphere could we find, for the first time, the presence of these elusive Alfvén waves." Professor Robert von Fay-Siebenburgen from the University of Sheffield's Department of Applied Mathematics, said: "The heat was on to find evidence for the existence of Alfvén waves. International space agencies have invested considerable resources trying to find purely magnetic oscillations of plasmas in space, particularly in the Sun. These waves, once detected, can be used to determine the physical conditions in the invisible regions of the Sun and other stars." Professor Keith Mason, CEO of the Science and technology Facilities Council (STFC), who funded the work said: "These are extremely interesting results. Understanding the processes of our Sun is incredibly important as it provides the energy which allows life to exist on Earth and can affect our planet in many different ways. This new finding of magnetic waves in the Sun's lower atmosphere brings us closer to understanding its complex workings and its future effects on the Earth's atmosphere." scienceblog.com/cms/person/mihalis-mathioudakiswww.innovations-report.com/html/r....ort-107118.html--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.physics.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/vicky-kalogera.htmlWEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Physics and Astronomy
Vicky Kalogera
ERASTUS O. HAVEN PROFESSOR
PhD, University of Illinois, 1997 Gravitational waves, X-ray emission from compact binary objects, coalescence of neutron-star binaries. Vicky Kalogera is interested in the physics of compact astrophysical objects: white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. In binary systems, where two stars orbit each other, the interactions of compact objects are especially interesting. They can include a wide variety of violent phenomena such as powerful X-ray emission, supernova explosions, black hole formation, and mergers. Kalogera's research is focused mainly on how such systems are born, how they evolve, and how they end their lives. She is also interested in how the properties of such systems are affected by their galactic environments. Kalogera studies compact objects in three main contexts: as sources of X-ray emission, radio pulses, and gravitational waves. Her research goals include the understanding of X-ray binary observations with NASA's Chandra Observatory in the Milky Way and other galaxies, of current discoveries of binary pulsar systems, and the prediction of anticipated event rates for current and future gravitational wave detectors. The direct detection of gravitational waves is a unique development in physics anticipated in the coming decade. Binaries with two neutron stars or black holes are primary sources for such detection. Over hundreds of millions of years, such binaries slowly spiral inward towards each other, eventually colliding and producing some of the most violent events in the Universe. General relativity predicts that this happens because massive objects moving at high velocities should emit gravity waves, thus slowly sapping the system of energy and forcing an inward spiral. There is considerable indirect evidence to support the relativistic theory, the most important derived from observations of relativistic binary pulsars. Ambitious efforts are currently under way with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and with the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to make the first direct detections of gravitational wave sources and create gravitational wave astronomy. Kalogera is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and works on the theoretical understanding of gravitational wave sources and the development of optimal detection methods. Honors and Awards Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Cottrell Scholar David and Lucille Packard Fellow Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46xyFPQwX----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.stce.be/esww11/Plainaki.pdf
Dr Christina Plainaki
National and Capodistrian University of Athens.International Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for space
weather and space climate.
The Alexander Chizhevsky medal rewards a young researcher for major results in space
weather. This year, the International Medal Committee decided to award
Dr Christina Plainaki.Christina started to model cosmic ray propagation through the Earth’s magnetosphere and atmosphere as a post-graduate student in the field of space plasma physics and cosmic rays at the University of Athens. This was a preparatory work for her PhD. She immediately showed uncommon skills and maturity in her research, handling compound problems, being rigorous in her analysis, and developing solutions. Her model, first published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in 2007, constitutes a reference in understanding the development of ground level enhancements following extreme solar events. Following her PhD thesis defence in July 2007, Dr. Plainaki moved to INAF-IFSI (which later became INAF IAPS), Italy, joining the SERENA experiment team. Christina got involved both in the experimental issues and the underlying physics............................................... In recognition of Christina’s outstanding work on cosmic ray physics, magnetospheric physics, and planetary space weather, she was awarded this year the EGU Planetary and Solar System Sciences Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award. This prestigious European Geosciences Union award is given annually to one outstanding young scientist, highlighting his/her exceptional scientific achievements in planetary sciences. Despite her young age, the excellence of her scientific achievements is internationally recognized and documented through a series of important publications in peer review journals : 33 refereed publications, 12 as a first author) and a significant number of invited contributions to international conferences. Several results of Plainaki's outstanding work based on combined data analysis and development (and application) of new theoretical approaches on the coupling between relativistic SEPs and their ground-level signature (i.e. Ground Level Enhancements - GLE), have been already utilized by the international space physics and cosmic rays communities. The committee noted that Christina has taken unexplored ways, potentially at risk, to reach a successful achievement, a major contribution to space weather science that originally lead to a better comprehension of the physics of the relativistic SEP-GLE eventcoupling and to a significant improvement of SEP-modeling.
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www.100mirrors.eu/ext/en/ict-tool/blog/item/211-athena-koustenis-director-of-research-in-the-national-centre-for-scientific-research-of-franceAthena Koustenis Director of Research in the National Centre for Scientific Research of France Athena Coustenis is Director of Research 1st class with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) of France, working at Paris Observatory in Meudon, Paris. She collaborates with the European Space Agency (ESA) as also with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Coustenis specialty is Planetology. Her research is devoted to the investigation of planetary atmospheres and surfaces, with emphasis on icy moons like Titan and Enceladus, Saturn’s satellites. She was born on September 28th 1961, in Athens, Greece. In 1980 she began studying both Physics and English Literature in Paris. She earned a Master Degree in Astrophysics and Space techniques and a second Master Degree in English Literature and in 1989 she earned a PhD in Astrophysics and Space techniques from University 7 in Paris. Later, she completed a Post-Doc at Paris Observatory. The Greek scientist participated in European Space Agency’s (ESA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) space missions and was heavily involved in the Cassini-Huygens mission as well as into the preparation of future space missions to Jupiter and Saturn planets. She has been awarded many times by both NASA and ESA. In 1996, she was awarded with the Diploma of Management Research in Astrophysics and Space Technology by the University 7 of Paris, which is the highest academic eminence in France. In 2012, she got the award of «Prix pour la réussite au Feminin» The American Astronomical society announced that Athena Coustenis will be honoured with the award “Harold Masursky” for her outstanding service to planetary science and exploration. According to the American Astronomical Society, Athena Coustenis has an impressive scientific research career and has made major contributions to planetary science in the spirit of the Harold Masursky award. The prize will be awarded to her in November 2014, in Arizona, USA. She is President of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and of the Planetary Sciences Division of the European Geosciences union and a life member of the Air Academy of Greece. She is also member of the American Astronomical society, she is executive director of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, French Astronomical union, International Astronomical union and American Geophysical union. Athena Coustenis is married to Franck Darin and has a daughter, Callista.
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Post by leandros nikon on Oct 13, 2007 8:00:54 GMT -5
2.I Computer science,Mathematics,Economics,Engineers. Constantin CaratheodoryConstantin Caratheodory (September 13, 1873 – February 2, 1950) was a Greek mathematician of the Modern Era. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. His work also includes important results in conformal representations and in the theory of boundary correspondence.Constantin Caratheodory was born in Berlin from Greek parents and grew up in Brussels, where his father served as the Ottoman ambassador to Belgium. The Caratheodory family was well-established and respected in Constantinople, and its members held many important governmental positions. Caratheodory studied engineering in Belgium, where he was considered a charismatic and brilliant student. In 1900 he entered the University of Berlin. In the years 1902-1904 he completed his graduate studies in the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Hermann Minkowski. During the years 1909-1920 he held various lecturing positions in Hannover, Breslau, Göttingen and Berlin. In 1920 Caratheodory accepted a post in the University of Smyrna, invited by Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. He took a major part in establishing the institution, but his efforts ended in 1922 when the Greek population was expelled from the city during the Greco-Turkish War. Having been forced to move to Athens, Carathéodory brought along with him some of the university library, thus saving it from destruction. He stayed at Athens and taught at the university and technical school until 1924. In 1924 Caratheodory was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Munich, and he held this position until his death in 1950. 1926 he gave a strict and general proof, that no system of lenses and mirrors can avoid aberration, except for the trivial case of plane mirrors. Among other accomplishments, one should mention Caratheodory's remarkable talent for languages. In addition to Greek and French as native languages, he published most of his works in German and also fluently spoke English, Italian and Turkish. Such an impressive linguistic arsenal enabled him to communicate and exchange ideas directly with other mathematicians during his numerous travels, and greatly extend his fields of knowledge. He is credited with the theories of outer measure, and prime ends, amongst other mathematical results. The Greek authorities intend to create a museum honoring Karatheodoris in Komotini, a major town of the northeastern Greek region where his family came from. www.livepedia.gr/index.php?title=%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%BF%CE%B4%CF%89%CF%81%CE%AE_%CE%9A%CF%89%CE%BD%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82www.karatheodori.grwww.sim.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~hardt/Caratheodoryen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel-Carath%C3%A9odory_theoremen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carath%C3%A9odory%27s_theorem_%28disambiguation%29----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christos PapakyriakopoulosFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Christos Dimitriou Papakyriakopoulos (1914-June 29, 1976) was a Greek mathematician, specializing in geometric topology, commonly known as "Papa". He worked in isolation from most of the mathematical community until 1948, when he was invited by Ralph Fox to come as his guest at the Princeton mathematics department. Fox had been impressed by a letter from Papakyriakoupolos which purported to prove Dehn's lemma. The proof, as it turned out was faulty, but Fox's sponsorship would continue for many years and enabled Papakyriakopoulos to work on his mathematics without concern of financial support. Papakyriakopoulos is best known for his proofs of Dehn's lemma, the loop theorem, and the sphere theorem, three foundational results for the study of 3-manifolds. In honor of this work, he was awarded the first Veblen prize in geometry in 1964. From the early sixties on, he mostly worked on the Poincaré conjecture. The following unusual limerick was composed by John Milnor, shortly after learning of several graduate students' frustration at completing a project where the work of every Princeton mathematics faculty member was to be summarized in a limerick: The perfidious lemma of Dehn Was every topologist's bane 'Til Christos Papa- kyriakopou- los proved it without any strain. also read here... www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/Papakyriakopoulos.htm------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stamatis Vassiliadisce.et.tudelft.nl/~stamatisStamatis Vassiliadis was born in Manolates, Samos, Greece. He is currently the chairperson of computer engineering and a T.U.Delft chair professor in the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. He has also served in the ECE faculties of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.), Binghamton, NY. He worked for a decade with IBM in the Advanced Workstations and Systems laboratory in Austin TX, the Mid-Hudson Valley laboratory in Poughkeepsie NY and the Glendale laboratory in Endicott NY. In IBM he has been involved in a number of projects regarding computer design, organizations, and architectures and the leadership to advanced research projects. He has been involved in the design and implementation of several computers. Examples of commercially available systems and processors that he personally worked on or that use his inventions include the following: IBM 9370 model 60 IBM POWER II IBM AS/400 Models 400, 500, and 510 IBM AS/400 Server Models 40S and 50S, IBM AS/400 Advanced 36. IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server G4 MWAVE 3780i DSP IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server G5 IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server G6 several Motorola/Apple/IBM processors including the 603e, 604e, 750 ... the Motorola/Apple/IBM ALTIVEC IBM Server z2000 BOPS ManArray ... For his work he received numerous awards including 24 Publication Awards, 15 Invention Achievement Awards and an Outstanding Innovation Award for Engineering/Scientific Hardware Design in 1989. Six of his patents have been rated with the highest patent ranking in IBM and in 1990 he was awarded the highest number of patents in IBM. While in IBM he was awarded 73 USA patents ranking him as the top all time IBM inventor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anastasios Venetsanopoulos
Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos (1941 - 17 November 2014) was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario and a Professor Emeritus with the Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.
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Nicholas Metropolis From Wikipedia. Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist.Metropolis received his B.Sc. (1937) and Ph.D. (1941) degrees in experimental physics at the University of Chicago. Shortly afterwards, Robert Oppenheimer recruited him from Chicago, where he was at the time collaborating with Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller on the first nuclear reactors, to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He arrived in the Los Alamos, on April 1943, as a member of the original staff of fifty scientists. After the World War II he returned to the faculty of the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor. He came back to Los Alamos in 1948 to lead the group in the Theoretical (T) Division that designed and built MANIAC I computer in 1952 and MANIAC II computer in 1957. (He chose the name MANIAC in the hope of stopping the rash of such acronyms for machine names, but may have, instead, only further stimulated such use.) From 1957 to 1965 he was Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago and was the founding Director of its Institute for Computer Research. In 1965 he returned to Los Alamos where he was made a Laboratory Senior Fellow in 1980. Metropolis contributed several original ideas to mathematics and physics. Perhaps the most widely known is the Monte Carlo method. Metropolis also co-authored the first paper on the technique that came to be known as Simulated Annealing in 1953. Metropolis was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society. In 1987 he became the first Los Alamos employee honored with the title "emeritus" by the University of California. Metropolis was also awarded the Pioneer Medal by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and was a fellow of the American Physical Society. He died in Los Alamos, New Mexico. See also: Metropolis algorithm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Demetrios ChristodoulouFrom Wikipedia. Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematical physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski vacuum.Christodoulou was born in Athens and received his doctorate from Princeton University under the direction of John Archibald Wheeler. He has taught as Cal Tech, Syracuse University, and Princeton, with stints at CERN and the Courant Institute. He is currently on the faculty of the ETH in Zurich. In 1993, he published a book coauthored with Klainerman in which the extraordinarily difficult proof the stability result is laid out in detail. In that year, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is a recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize, the highest award of the American Mathematical Society, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among numerous other honors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/itms/CIAO/ORBNewsletter/documents/panos-gao-new.pdfPanos M. PardalosPanos M. Pardalos is Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida.He is also affiliated faculty member of the Computer Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. He is the Co-Director of the Center for Applied Optimization.He is a Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and in 2001 he was honored with the Greek National Award and Gold Medal for Operations Research. He is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Global Optimization, managing editor of several book series, and a member of the editorial board of twenty international journals. He is the author of seven books and the editor of more than 50 books. He has written numerous articles and developed several well known software packages. His research is supported by National Science Foundation, NIH, and other government organizations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paris KanellakisFrom Wikipedia Paris Kanellakis (1953 – 1995) was a computer scientist.Kanellakis was born in Greece as the only child of general Eleftherios and Mrs. Argyroula Kanellakis. In 1976, he received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He continued his studies at the graduate level in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received an MSc degree in 1978 and a PhD degree in 1982. In 1981, he joined the Computer Science Department of Brown University as an assistant professor; he obtained tenure as an associate professor in 1986, and became full professor in 1990. He died on December 23rd 1995 together with his wife, Maria Teresa Otoya, and their children, Alexandra and Stephanos, aboard American Airlines Flight 965. His scientific contributions are in the fields of database theory—comprising work on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and constraint databases—as well as in fault-tolerant distributed computation and in type theory. He served as an associate editor in a number of respected journals, such as Information and Computation, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, SIAM Journal on Computing, Theoretical Computer Science, and Journal of Logic Programming. Acknowledging Kanellakis's contributions to computer science the Association for Computing Machinery honored him by instituting the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~moshovos/#EducationAndreas Moshovos Assistant Prof. Computer Engineering Group Engineering Annex 311 (map) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Computer Science (courtesy) University of Toronto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kyros KutulakosAssociate Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ekyros/bio.htmlKyros Kutulakos received the BA degree in computer science from the University of Crete, Greece, in 1988 and the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He has been an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto since 2001. Following his dissertation work, he joined the University of Rochester, where he was a US National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow and later an assistant professor until 2001. While on sabbatical from the University of Toronto in the 2004-05 academic year, he held a visiting scholar position at the Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia. Prof. Kutulakos has received several awards for his research, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a CAREER award from the US National Science Foundation, a Premier's Research Excellence Award from the government of Ontario, and four best paper prizes (a Best Paper Honorable Mention at the 2006 European Conference on Computer Vision; a David Marr Prize Honorable Mention in 2005; a David Marr Prize in 1999; and an Outstanding Paper Award at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in 1994). He was the Program Co-Chair of the 2003 Computer Vision and Pattern Conference and of the Workshop on Modeling and Analysis of Visual Scenes in 1999. His research interests include computer vision, computer graphics and robotics. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Sifakistp://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/turing-award-07 portal.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathworld_9_04/02/2008_220846www-verimag.imag.fr/~sifakis/?link=CVACM Turing Award Honors Founders of Automatic Verification Technology One of the winners of 2007 Turing Award,widely concidered the most prestigious award in computing,is a greek scientist of the diaspora,Joseph Sifakis.Joseph Sifakis is CNRS researcher and the Founder of Verimag laboratory (http://www-verimag.imag.fr/), in Grenoble, France. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Athens and Computer Science at the University of Grenoble. Joseph Sifakis is recognized for his pioneering work on both theoretical and practical aspects of Concurrent Systems Specification and Verification. He contributed to emergence of the area of model-checking, currently the most widely-used method for the verification of industrial applications. His current research activities include component-based design, modeling, and analysis of real-time systems with focus on correct-by-construction techniques -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Constantinos Daskalakiswww.cs.berkeley.edu/~costis/I'm a postdoctoral researcher in Jennifer Chayes's group at Microsoft Research, New England. In July 2009, I'm joining the faculty at EECS, MIT as an assistant professor and member of CSAIL. Before moving to Boston, I spent four wonderful years as a theory student at U.C. Berkeley, advised by Christos Papadimitriou. I did my undergraduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. My research focuses on algorithmic game theory, computational biology and applied probability. Recent News: Together with Paul Goldberg and Christos Papadimitriou, we received the first Game Theory and Computer Science Prize for our paper "The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium." The prize is awarded once every four years at the World Congress of the Game Theory Society. The citation reads in part as follows: "This paper made key conceptual and technical contributions in an illustrious line of work on the complexity of computing Nash equilibrium. It also highlights the necessity of constructing practical algorithms that compute equilibria efficiently on important subclasses of games." Here is a report from the congress by Paul. Here is a simplified exposition of our article on the Complexity of Nash equilibria. My Ph.D. thesis is here. I received the Microsoft Research Fellowship in Honor of Dean A. Richard Newton. Committees: SODA 2008, EC 2009, SAGT 2009. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyriakos Mouratidis (Ph.D., HKUST) www.mysmu.edu/faculty/kyriakos/ Assistant Professor School of Information Systems Singapore Management University --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Panagiotis Metaxas www.wellesley.edu/CS/pmetaxas.htmlPanagiotis Takis Metaxas is an Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science and co-Director of the Media Arts and Sciences Program at Wellesley College (located about 10 miles west of Boston). He studied Mathematics at the University of Athens and Computer Science at Brown. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth (advisor: Donald B. Johnson) and has been a visiting scientist at MIT and at the Sydney Uni. He spent a couple of years working as the Chief Technology Officer of a biotech company specializing in computerized tests for measuring the symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). He is a member of LACS, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, SIGCSE and SIGACT's electronic publication board. His research interests are currently in Cybertrust, Web Spam and Cognitive Hacking. He has also published in the areas of Parallel Computing, Multimedia, Algorithm Visualization, and Computer Science Education. Specifically: Parallel Graph and Combinatorial Algorithms, Parallel Algorithmic Techniques and Paradigms, Realizable Models of Parallel and Distributed Computation, Human-Computer Interfaces for Cultural and Educational Multimedia, CS Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods and Tools. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dimitris Papadiaswww.cs.ust.hk/~dimitris/I am a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST in 1997, I worked and studied at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA, Maine), the University of California at San Diego, the Technical University of Vienna, the National Technical University of Athens, Queen's University (Canada), and University of Patras (Greece). I have also spent some time as a Visiting Researcher at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis in France. During 2007, I will be a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phokion G. Kolaitiswww.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/kolaitis/Phokion Kolaitis is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz and a Research Staff Member of the Computer Science Principles and Methodogies Department (a.k.a. the Theory Group ) at the IBM Almaden Research Center. From July 1997 to June 2001, he served as Chair of the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Cruz. From June 2004 to September 2008, he served as Senior Manager of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center (and while on leave of absence from UC Santa Cruz). His research interests include principles of database systems, logic in computer science, and computational complexity. Kolaitis is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and the recipient of a 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also the recipient of an IBM Research Division Outstanding Innovation Award, an IBM Research Division Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and a co-winner of the 2008 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nikolaos MavridisAssistant professor of computer science
Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) at the University of the United Arab Emirates.www.qatarliving.com/taxonomy/term/38781Arabic-speaking robot set for service in mall By _noms_ on Wed, 04/11/2009 - 9:55am A laboratory in the UAE has built what it says is the world’s first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff in shopping malls. Ibn Sina, named after the 11th century Islamic philosopher and scientist commonly known in English as Avicenna, was designed by a team at UAE University in the city of Al Ain, which is part of Abu Dhabi emirate. “It is the world’s first Arabic-speaking conversational humanoid robot,” Nikolaos Mavridis, assistant professor of computer science at the university who led the team, said in an interview. “He enables us to do research and he is also quite an educational tool because the students love to do projects on him.” news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8034190.stmThe platform for exploring the problem is a robot that can recognise faces created by Dr Mavridis and colleagues from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) at the University of the United Arab Emirates plus co-workers in Germany and Greece. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=457technology review
published by MITApostolos ArgyrisApostolos Argyris has joined theoretical mathematics with solid-state physics to demonstrate a novel, nearly unbreakable encryption method. As a graduate student at the University of Athens, the Thessaloníki native implemented the first long-distance demonstration of "chaotic synchronization": using a pair of laser diodes, amplifiers, a mirror, and more than 120 kilometers of underground fiber, he disguised a message as white noise and still retrieved it clearly on the other end. The feat is a demonstration of the "butterfly effect," the founding tenet of chaos theory. The theory holds that in sufficiently complex systems, even a slight adjustment of initial variables will produce a dramatically different result; conversely, if you can replicate input conditions precisely, you should be able to replicate the output, even if that output appears random at first glance. Argyris applied this principle by combining a digital message with a chaotic, rapidly fluctuating laser signal; the chaotic signal’s irregular shape masks the message and allows it to evade standard eavesdropping methods. An identically generated chaotic signal on the receiving end cancels out the first, leaving only the original data. The technique currently delivers data at one gigabit per second (good enough for voice and video encryption). Argyris hopes to raise that to 10 gigabits per second by 2009. He doesn't see chaotic encryption replacing software encryption, but it could soon offer an extra layer of protection for the most sensitive communications. Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIT's Technology Review has posted their top 35 innovators under the age of 35 for 2006.4 of them are greeks and 5 are indian.The names of the greeks are: 1) Apostolos Argyris 2) Manolis Kellis 3) Nikos Paragios 4) Paris Smaragdis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nikos Salingarosen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_SalingarosNikos A. Salingaros (born in Perth, Australia) is a mathematician and polymath known for his work on urban theory, architectural theory, complexity theory, and design philosophy. He has been a close collaborator of the architect and computer software pioneer Christopher Alexander, with whom Salingaros shares a harsh critical analysis of conventional modern architecture. Like Alexander, Salingaros has proposed an alternative theoretical approach to architecture and urbanism that is more adaptive to human needs and aspirations, and that combines rigorous scientific analysis with deep intuitive experience.Prior to turning his attention to architecture and urbanism, Salingaros published substantive research on Algebras, Mathematical Physics, Electromagnetic Fields, and Thermonuclear Fusion before turning his attention to Architecture and Urbanism. Salingaros still teaches mathematics, and is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is also on the Architecture faculties of universities in Italy, Mexico, and The Netherlands. Education Salingaros began working in the Arts as a painter, but soon switched to the sciences. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Miami, Florida. He took his Master’s in 1974 and Doctorate in 1978 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1982, he started a long-term collaboration with Christopher Alexander, becoming one of the editors of The Nature of Order, Alexander’s four-volume masterwork on aesthetics and the geometric processes of nature. Career Salingaros joined the Mathematics faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1983, where he remains today. In the 1990’s, Salingaros began to publish his own research on architectural and urban form. In 1997 he was recipient of the first award ever by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for research on architectural topics. In 2003, he was elected to the Committee of Honor, International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU), and to the INTBAU College of Traditional Practitioners. Writings Salingaros' writings helped to introduce two key concepts in urban morphology, fractals and networks. His book Principles of Urban Structure has been compared to that of Michael Batty (United Kingdom) and Pierre Frankhauser (France) in describing cities as giant fractals, and the separate efforts of Paul Drewe (Holland) and Gabriel Dupuy (France) in describing cities as giant networks. His work links urban form to new concepts such as the Small-world network and the Scale-free network. Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, wrote about Salingaros' contribution: “He shows how networks which evolve from the bottom up lead to ordered (scaled) hierarchies that are both efficient and well adjusted. … This is the theory of the small world, but contained within, there is the germ of an idea which has barely been exploited. In connecting elements in cities, there is a natural ordering from many short links which aggregate to a lesser number of longer links which, in my view, could be linked to small worlds, to scale-free networks, to power law distributions and, more significantly, to changes in transportation technology. Salingaros is the first to hint at this.” Ref.[2] A Theory of Architecture, a collection of previously published papers, describes a set of guidelines for design, giving scientific principles that link forms to human sensibilities. In it he describes a practical architectural system in a form that any practicing architect can use. The work incorporates Salingaros’ observations of the greatest buildings of the past, which he defines as those that are the most responsive to human sensibilities. While this method and its theoretical underpinning support traditional architectural typologies, Salingaros emphasizes that architects should be free to adapt their ideas to particular situations, leaving decisions to be influenced by the environment and needs of the project. He explores questions such as: How can ornament be justifed, and why is it necessary? What are the ratios and hierarchies that promote neighborliness and beauty? What is it about our biological nature — perhaps even about the nature of matter itself — that makes us feel one thing in the presence of one kind of structure and something else in the presence of another? Speaking as a mathematician, he proposes a theoretical framework to answer these questions. Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction is a collection of essays written as a polemic against contemporary "star" architecture, and its supporters within architectural academia and the architectural media. It is an impassioned indictment against the "bad architecture" that he argues has been promoted by their actions. Salingaros defines "bad architecture" as that which makes people uncomfortable or physically ill, and which pursues formal or ideological concerns instead of adapting to nature and to the needs of ordinary human beings. "Social Housing in Latin America: A Methodology to Utilize Processes of Self-Organization", by Nikos Salingaros, David Brain, Andres Duany, Michael Mehaffy & Ernesto Philibert, outlined the role of socio-spatial relations in guaranteeing a successful built environment. [3]. The principal urbanist problem facing the world today concerns the socio-political processes in the planning and construction of social housing, as well as the large-scale renovation of favelas. This paper identified urban space that is loved by its inhabitants, enough to be defended against encroachment and degradation, as a crucial concept. The criterion is an emotional one, and arises from the correct satisfaction of the residents' emotional needs through the appropriate urban morphology, which is in turn created only through user participation (in a bottom-up process guided by an NGO representative). This sucessful type of urban space rarely arises from the typologies of post-war planning. [4] Salingaros’ newer writings focus on Biophilia as an essential component of the design of the human environment, thus joining the ideas of Edward Osborne Wilson to Sustainable design. Architecture Salingaros has had a significant theoretical influence on several major figures in architecture. Christopher Alexander, author of the seminal treatises A Pattern Language and Notes on the Synthesis of Form, describes Salingaros' influence: “In my view, the second person who began to explore the deep connection between science and architecture was Nikos Salingaros, one of the four Katarxis editors. He had been working with me helping me edit material in The Nature of Order, for years, and at some point -- in the mid-nineties I think -- began writing papers looking at architectural problems in a scientific way. Then by the second half of the nineties he began making important contributions to the building of this bridge, and to scientific explorations in architecture which constituted a bridge.” [5] Prince Charles, an influential critic of contemporary architecture, expressed Salingaros' influence in his own preface to Salingaros’ A Theory of Architecture: “Surely no voice is more thought-provoking than that of this intriguing, perhaps historically important, new thinker?” (For more information read wikipedia's article) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ioannis Karatzaswww.math.columbia.edu/%7eik/Eugene Higgins Professor of Applied Probability Department of Mathematics Department of Statistics Columbia University 2990 Broadway, Mailcode 4438 New York, NY 10027, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christos Kozyrakiscsl.stanford.edu/~christos/Christos Kozyrakis is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford University. He works on architectures, runtime environments, and programming models for parallel computer systems. His current research focuses on transactional memory, architectural support for security, and power management techniques. He joined Stanford in 2002 after receiving a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. His alma mater is the University of Crete in Greece. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stavros GaroufalidisSchool of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology www.math.gatech.edu/~stavros/www.math.gatech.edu/~stavros/research.htmlIn my early career, I got interested in TQFT (topological quantum field theory) invariants of knotted 3-dimensional objects, such as knots, braids, srting-links or 3-manifolds. Later on, I became interested in finite type invariants (a code name for perturbative quantum field theory invariants of knotted objects). I studied their axiomatic properties, and related the various definitions to each other. A side project was to study the various filtrations of the mapping class groups, and to explicitly construct cocycles, using finite type invariants. More recently, I have been studying the colored Jones polynomials of a knot, and its limiting geometry and topology. The colored Jones polynomials is not a single polynomial, but a sequence of them, which is known to satisfy a linear q-difference equation. Writing the equation into an operator form, and setting q=1, conjecturally recovers the A-polynomial. The latter parametrizes out the moduli space of SL(2,C) representation of the knot complement. Another relation between the colored Jones polynomial and SL(2,C) (ie, hyperbolic) geometry is the Volume Conjecture that relates evaluations of the colored Jones polynomial to the volume of a knot. This and related conjectures fall into the problem of proving the existence of asymptotic expansions of combinatorial invariants of knotted objects. Most recently, I am working on resurgence of formal power series of knotted objects. Resuregence is a key property which (together the nonvanishing of some Stokes constant) implies the Volume Conjecture. Resurgence is intimately related to Chern-Simons perturbation theory, and produces singularities of geometric as well as arithmetic interst. Resurgence seems to be related to the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group, and the ARI Lie algebra of Ecalle. In short, my interests are in low dimensional topology, geometry and mathematical physics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.eecs.umich.edu/dp-group/biographies/pavlidis.htmlDimitris Pavlidis Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Solid-State Electronics Laboratory Dimitris Pavlidis has been Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, since 1986. He received the B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece, in 1972 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in 1976. He continued as Postdoctoral Fellow at Newcastle until 1978, engaged in work on microwave semiconductor devices and circuits. In 1978 he joined the High Frequency Institute of the Technical University of Darmstadt, West Germany, working on III-V devices and establishing a new semiconductor technology facility. In 1980 he worked at the Central Electronic Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India, as UNESCO consultant. During 1980-1985 he was Engineer and Manager of the GaAs Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC) Group of Thomson-CSF, Corbeville, France. In this capacity he was responsible for projects on monolithic power and broadband amplifiers, tunable oscillators, optical preamplifiers, phase shifters, attenuators, their technology and process evaluation, and the establishment of a component library for MMIC applications. His publications are in microwave semiconductor devices and circuits and he holds 6 patents on MMIC applications. His current research interests cover the design and fabrication of HEMTs, HBTs, MOCVD growth of InP-based and GaN materials, and monolithic heterostructure integrated circuits. In 1990 Dr. Pavlidis was awarded the European Microwave Prize for his work on InP-based monolithic integrated HEMT amplifiers. In 1991 he was awarded the decoration of ``Chevalier'' by the French Ministry of National Education for distinguished work in the field of education. In 1992 he received the Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship for Senior Scientists/Professors from the Japanese Government, and the Humboldt Research Award for Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientists. Dr. Pavlidis is an IEEE Fellow. Dr. Pavlidis supervises in the following research programs: Noise Characteristics of InAlAs/InGaAs Heterostructure Devices Ultra-High Performance Submicron InAlAs/InGaAs HEMTs Using Novel Design and Technology Large Signal Modeling and Optimization of HBTs GaInP/GaAs HBTs Noise Characteristics of Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) New Analytic Determination of the Frequency Dependence of Current Gain and Power Gain in HBTs Applied to their High-Frequency Optimization and Study of Velocity Overshoot Effects in Precollectors Using Analytic Descriptions Self-Aligned Technology for GaAs and InP-based Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) InP-Based Heterostructure Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits For Signal Generation and Detection Planar Varactor Multiplier and Mixer Diodes for Submillimeter and THz Receivers GaN Growth Modeling GaN Growth by OMVPE Techniques Using NH(3) and Novel Precursors MOVPE Growth of InP-based Heterostructures Professor Pavlidis publications are listed on The DP-Group Publications page ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_Alaogluwww.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/LeonidasAlaoglu.htmlLeonidas AlaogluLeonidas Alaoglu (March 19, 1914 – August 1981) was a mathematician, most famous for his widely-cited result called Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space, also known as the Banach-Alaoglu theorem.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.cs.wright.edu/itri/bourbakisNikolaos G. BourbakisNikolaos G. Bourbakis, Ph. D. Director, Information Technology Research Institute Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science OBR Distinguished Professor of Information Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001 He currently is an OBR Distinguished Professor in Information Technology and the Director of the Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at Wright State University interfacing academia, industry and government. Previous working places: He was a Professor in Electrical Engineering Dept. & Computer Science Dept., the Director of the research labs (Intelligent Robotics & Applied AI, Image-Video Processing & Machine Vision, and Bio-Informatics & Biomedical Engineering) at Binghamton University (SUNY), a Professor at the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and the Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Lab, the Associate Director of the Center on Intelligent Systems (1995-2000), at T.J. Watson School, Binghamton University (SUNY), an Associate Researcher, Air Force Research Laboratory at Rome, NY 1997; a Staff Senior Scientist, IBM in SSPD for Performance Evaluation of the I/O Systems, and collaborated with the Expert Systems Division and Almaden Research Center, California S. Jose, 1989-91; an Assistant Professor at GMU responsible for research in Machine Vision and Image Processing; a Lecturer at the University of Patras responsible for research and development in Multiprocessor Retina-based Vision Systems. He is the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on AI Tools, the Editor-in-Charge of a Research Series of Books in AI (WS Publisher), the Editor–in-Chief of a new upcoming International Journal on Bio-Informatics & Bio-Engineering, the Founder and General Chair of IEEE Computer Society Conferences, Symposia and Workshops (Tools with AI (1989-91), Intelligent Tools (1992-93), AI in Automation (1994), Intelligence in Neural and Biological Systems (INBS-95), Intelligence in Automation and Robotics (IAR-96), Intelligence in Image, Speech, Natural Language Processing and Understanding (IISNL-96), Intelligence and Systems (I&S-98) and Information, Intelligence and Systems (I-I&S-99), Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering (BIBE-2000-01). He is also an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (1995-1998), International Journal Engineering Applications of AI, Int. Journal on Pattern Recognition and AI, Int. Journal Cooperative Information Systems, Journal on Pattern Recognition, Int. Journal on Intelligent and Robotic Systems, International Journal on Pattern Analysis and Applications (2000-2002), International Journal on Engineering Intelligent Systems, IEEE Multimedia (2002-2004), and a Guest Editor in 12 special issues in IEEE and International Journals related to his research interests. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/~papadop
Athanase PapadopoulosInstitut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université de Strasbourg Research areas Riemann surfaces and Teichmüller spaces, mapping class groups, hyperbolic geometry, low-dimensional topology, dynamical systems, hyperbolic groups, ergodic theory (discrete Laplacian, etc.) and mathematics applied to music theory. Diplomas 1981 Ingénieur, Ecole Centrale de Paris 1983 Doctorat de Troisième cycle, Mathématiques, Université de Paris- Sud, centre d'Orsay. 1989 Doctorat d'Etat, Université de Paris-Sud, centre d'Orsay. Positions held 1983-84: Assistant associé, Université de Paris-Sud, centre d'Orsay Since October 1984, I work at CNRS. Actual position : Directeur de Recherche. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Metakideswww.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/IT.htmlformer Director of ESPRIT, DG III - Industry, European Commission) a central figure in the formulation of Europe's information technology strategy. Nokia Foundation Award 2003 "for the Advancement of Information Technology Research and Development in Europe"www.metakides.net/business.htmBorn in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1945, Prof. Metakides received as a Fulbright scholar a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Logic from Cornell University in 1971. He pursued an academic career in the U.S.A. at MIT, Cornell University and Rochester University until 1978, when he returned to Greece to take the Chair of Logic at the University of Patras. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mylopoulos John P. Mylopoulos
University of Toronto
John P. Mylopoulos (born 1943) is a Greek-Canadian computer scientist, Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, and at the University of Trento, Italy. He is known for his work in the field of conceptual modeling, specifically the development an agent-oriented software development methodology. called TROPOS. Born in Greece in 1943, Mylopoulos in 1966 received his Bachelor of Engineering from Brown University. In 1970 he received his PhD from Princeton University under supervision of Theodosios Pavlidis with the thesis, entitled "On the Definition and Recognition of Patterns in Discrete Spaces." In 1966 he started his academic career as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, where he in 1971 he was appointed Professor in Computer Science. In 2009 he was also appointed Professor of Computer Science at the University of Trento. Mylopoulos was awarded the Peter P. Chen Award for outstanding contributions to the field of conceptual modeling in 2010. In 2012 he also received a Honorary Doctorate from the RWTH Aachen University in recognition of "his excellent and distinctive contributions on the methodology of conceptual modeling as a basis for databases, software technology and artificial intelligence, as well as its interdisciplinary applications.". Work Mylopoulos' research interest ranges from information modelling techniques, specifically semantic data models, to knowledge based systems and information system design and to the field of requirements engineering."[5] Borgida et al. (2009) summarized, that Mylopoulos made four mayor contributions in these fields: TORUS: Natural-language access to databases, which required the representation of the semantics of the data, and hence first led us to conceptual models of relational tables using semantic networks. TAXIS: Programming language for data-intensive applications which supported classes of objects, transactions, constraints, exceptions and workflows, all orthogonally organized in sub-class hierarchies with property inheritance. TELOS: Representation language for knowledge of many different kinds of software engineering stakeholders, including application domain and development domain, which exploited meta-classes, and treated properties as object TROPOS: Applying the ideas of early requirements (goal orientation, agent dependence) to the entire range of software development, and expanding its scope to many topics, including security and evolution. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46y5L1hmF------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihalis_Yannakakis Mihalis Yannakakis
Columbia University
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mihalis Yannakakis (born 13 September 1953 in Athens, Greece) is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He is noted for his work in computational complexity, databases, and other related fields. He won the Donald E. Knuth Prize in 2005. Yannakakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1953 and attended Varvakeio High School for his early education. He graduated from the National Technical University of Athens in 1975 with a diploma in Electrical Engineering, and then earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1979.His dissertation was entitled "The Complexity of Maximum Subgraph Problems". In 1978 he joined Bell Laboratories and served as Director of the Computing Principles Research Department starting from 1991 until 2001, when he left Bell laboratories and joined Avaya Laboratories. There he served as Director of the Computing Principles Research Department until 2002. In 2002 he joined Stanford University where he was a Professor of Computer Science, and left in 2003 to join Columbia University in 2004, where he is currently serving as the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science. From 1992 to 2003, Yannakakis served on the Editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Computing and was the Editor-in-chief between 1998 and 2003. He also was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the ACM from 1986 to 2000.Other editorial board memberships include the Journal of Computer and System Sciences, the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, and the Journal of Complexity. He has also served on conference committees and chaired various conferences, such as the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems and the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. As of November 2015, his publications have been cited close to 27,000 times, and he has an h-index of 86. Yannakakis is known for his contributions to computer science in the areas of computational complexity theory, database theory, computer aided verification and testing, and algorithmic graph theory. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46y6BZVVS--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stathis_Zachos Stathis Zachos
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stathis K. Zachos (born 1947, Athens) is a mathematician, logician and theoretical computer scientist.
Zachos received his PhD from the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) in Mathematics (and Computer Science), 1978. He has held the posts of professor in Computer Science at UCSB, CUNY and NTUA and Adjunct professor at ETHZ. He has worked as a researcher at MIT, Brown-Boveri.
Stathis has published research papers in several areas of Computer Science. His work on Randomized Complexity Classes,Arthur–Merlin Games,and Interactive Proof Systems has been very influential in proving important theorems and is cited in main textbooks of computational complexity.One of his important contributions, using Interactive Proof Systems and Probabilistic Quantifiers, is that the Graph isomorphism Problem is not likely to be NP-complete (joint with R. Boppana, J. Hastad). Graph Isomorphism is one of the very few celebrated problems in NP that have not been shown yet to be either NP-Complete or in P. Zachos's most influential work was introducing and proving properties of the class Parity-P (with Christos Papadimitriou).He also introduced Probabilistic Quantifiers and Alternations of Probabilistic Quantifiers to uniformly describe various Complexity Classes as well as Interactive Proof Systems and Probabilistic Games. His current interests include Probabilistic and Functional Complexity Classes, Combinatory Algebras as a foundation to Theory of Computations, the interconnections of Cryptographic Techniques and Computational Complexity as well as Algorithms for Graph Problems. He has co-organized International Conferences: STOC '87 (and programming committee of STOC '01), ICALP, CiE (Computability in Europe), PLS, ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic) European Summer Meeting, ACAC (Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity) and NYCAC (New York Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity). He has guided more than twenty doctoral students and more than fifty M.Sc./Diploma students, many of which have positions in Universities and research centers worldwide. He is the brother of theoretical physicist Cosmas Zachos. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46y7Gj71E---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos_Faloutsos Christos Faloutsos
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christos Faloutsos is a Greek computer scientist and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation (1989), seven best paper awards, and several teaching awards. He has served as a member of the executive committee of SIGKDD. He has published over 140 refereed articles, one monograph, and holds five patents. His research interests include data mining for streams and networks, fractals, indexing for multimedia and bio-informatics data bases, and performance. He also received the ACM 2010 SIGKDD Innovation Award and he was also named a Fellow of the ACM in 2010. www.cs.cmu.edu/~christosRead more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46y8jWfFJ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_S._Kechris
Alexander Sotirios Kechris
California Institute of TechnologyAlexander (Alekos) Sotirios Kechris (born March 23, 1946) is a descriptive set theorist and ergodic theorist at California Institute of Technology. He has made major contributions to the theory of Borel equivalence relations and the theory of automorphism groups of uncountable structures. Kechris earned his Ph.D. in 1972 under the direction of Yiannis N. Moschovakis, with a dissertation titled Projective Ordinals and Countable Analytic Sets. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46yAAcAK8------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markos_Mamalakis Markos Mamalakis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Markos Mamalakis (born October 30, 1932) is a Greek economist specialising in development economics, particularly in Latin America. Born in Salonika, he graduated from the Experimental High School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1950, then attended the Law School of the University and received a B.A. in Law, with the distinction summa cum laude in 1955. He did graduate work at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich from 1955 to 1957, and University of California, Berkeley from 1957 to 1962, where he received his M.A. (1959), and Ph.D. (1962) with a dissertation entitled Inflation and Growth: An Asset Preference Analysis. With a Case Study of the Chilean Inflation. He has taught or been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; University of Western Ontario; Universidad de Chile; Yale; University of Göttingen; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Inter-American Development Bank; and the University of Giessen. He is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
He was one of the first to argue that there is no "magic bullet" to development, but that development solutions must take into account the effects and circumstances of the location. He has published widely on macroeconomics in developing economies and welfare and sector effects. He argued for the fruitfulness of a mesoeconomic analysis of social interactions, rather than a strictly microeconomic or macroecomic approach. Markos is a father of twelve and grandfather of thirty-seven. He and his wife celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on January 31, 2010. Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46yJ4WE5u---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_J._Guibas Leonidas J. GuibasStanford UniversityLeonidas John Guibas is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he heads the geometric computation group and is a member of the computer graphics and artificial intelligence laboratories. Guibas was a student of Donald Knuth at Stanford, where he received his Ph.D. in 1976.He has worked for several industrial research laboratories, and joined the Stanford faculty in 1984. He was program chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 1996,is a Fellow of the ACM,and was awarded the ACM–AAAI Allen Newell award for 2007 “for his pioneering contributions in applying algorithms to a wide range of computer science disciplines.“He has Erdõs number 2 due to his collaborations with Boris Aronov, Andrew Odlyzko, János Pach, Richard M. Pollack, Endre Szemerédi, and Frances Yao.The research contributions he is known for include finger trees, red-black trees, fractional cascading, the Guibas–Stolfi algorithm for Delaunay triangulation, an optimal data structure for point location, the quad-edge data structure for representing planar subdivisions, Metropolis light transport, and kinetic data structures for keeping track of objects in motion. geometry.stanford.edu/member/guibas Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46yLvyik9------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.cis.upenn.edu/~kostasKostas Daniilidis University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science Computer and Information Science Department Associate Professor www.seas.upenn.edu/research/centers-institutes.phpGRASP Kostas Daniilidis, Director The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory integrates computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in a vibrant, collaborative environment that fosters interactions between students, research staff and faculty. GRASP has grown into a $10 million research center with impressive technological innovations. Pioneering GRASP researchers are building autonomous vehicles and robots, developing self-configuring humanoids, and making robot swarms a reality. www.upenn.edu/pennnews/researchatpenn/article.php?881&soc"Our collaboration with anthropologists goes back to two years ago when we started building 3D models of surface structures from camera images," noted Dr. Kostas Daniilidis, leading Principal Investigator and Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. "The scientific challenge in this NSF project is in solving the inverse problem of recovering surface 3D structures from their tomographic projections. We really want to resolve the bottleneck between the huge amount of raw signal data and meaningful information in the form of 3D geometric models." Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46yQe1QS3------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ionia.bu.edu/ Ioannis (John) Ch. Paschalidis
Boston University
College of Engineering
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Division of Systems Engineering.
Co-Director, Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE)
Yannis Paschalidis is a Professor in the College of Engineering at Boston University with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Division of Systems Engineering. He is a Co-Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) - a Boston University research center with 30 affiliated faculty and more than $ 12 million in externally funded active research projects. He is also affiliated with the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center (BMERC). Prof. Paschalidis serves as the Academic Director of the Sensor Network Consortium (SNC) - an industry consortium he spearheaded which currently consists of 14 companies focusing in sensor networks. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vasilis M. Fthenakis
Senior Research Engineer and Scientist
Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Eng. Dpt. /Henry Krumb School of Mines
Adjunct Professor (1997-present); Adjunct Associate Professor (1993-1996).
City College, CUNY, Civil Eng.. Dept
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Engineering (1996-1998); Adjunct Associate Professor (1992-1995)
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Demetri Psaltis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Residence Switzerland
Nationality Greek and American
Fields Electrical Engineering
Institutions Caltech
EPFL
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University
Demetri Psaltis is a Greek-American electrical engineer and the Dean of the School of Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne since 2007.He is also a Professor in Bioengineering and Director of the Optics Laboratory of the EPFL.He is one of the founders of the term and the field of optofluidics.He is also well known for his past work in holography, especially with regards to optical computing, holographic data storage, and neural networks. He is an author of over 350 publications, contributed more than 20 book chapters, invented more than 50 patents, and currently has a h-index of 80.
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www.arccfn.org.au/advisoryBoard.html#PratsinisProf. Sotiris PratsinisProf. Sotiris Pratsinis has a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1977) and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (1985). He was Professor (1985-2000) and interim Head (199 of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA until he was elected Professor of Process Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). In 1998 he established the Particle Technology Laboratory. He has also taught at the Univ. of Florida, Univ. of New Mexico (USA), TU Delft (Netherlands), TU Karlsruhe (Germany), and Univ. of Hiroshima (Japan).
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Prof.Pelagia-Irene (Perena) GoumaPelagia-Irene Gouma, also known as Perena Gouma, is a tenured Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook and also the Director of the Center for Nanomaterials and Sensor Development. Her research focuses on selective chemical detectors, biosensors and hybrid nanoprobes for electronic olfaction systems and nanomedicine applications. She was born in Athens. She received an M.S. degree in “Advanced Engineering Materials” from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki and continued her studies at the University of Liverpool and the University of Birmingham. «I was born in Athens Greece, in the Academy of Plato neighborhood at the City Center. My parents were born in Athens too. My grandparents came from the Cyclades, the islands of Kythnos, and Andros» Gouma said in her interview at ellines.com. During her tenure at Stony Brook, she established a new program on Sensor Nanotechnology and an Interdisciplinary Research Center (CNSD). She also established novel and highly successful programs on nanomedicine, including developing and characterizing materials for biosensing applications suitable for non-invasive diagnostic purposes («band-aid»-type sweat test). Several patents have been granted and many others are currently pending. Her team invented a simple breath test that could sense when an asthma attack may strike. On October 2, 2012, her team was selected to receive a three year National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the development of a personalized asthma monitor that uses nanotechnology to detect known airway inflammation biomarkers in the breath. «Our findings primarily involve novel nanostructured sensing elements for the detection of biomarkers (disease signaling molecules) in the breath of humans and animals that may indicate/signal the onset of a disease or metabolic malfunction. Thus, with a single exhale the individual may monitor for example the levels of nitric oxide (NO) in his/her breath to figure out if an asthma attack is impending and thus take medication as needed» she added. She holds Visiting Faculty positions in several universities of Japan, Italy and the USA. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/14352-o-pateras-tou-flash-memory/George PerlegosThe father of flash memory George Perlegos is the founder of ATMEL Corporation and the inspired businessman who developed flash memory. When George was 12, the Perlegos family leaved Tegea and relocated to the district of Lodi in California in 1962. Back in Greece, his father used to work as a farmer and later continued to grow vines and produce wine in the United States. Perlegos received his BSEE degree from San Jose State University after abandoning his childhood dreams of studyινγ medicine. Before concluding his studies, he started working for American Microsystems and later received his MSEE degree from Stanford University, while working for Intel. For 10 years, Perlegos had engaged in research on storage devices and eventually built flash memory, currently known and used as memory card. In 1981, he resigned from his Intel duties and together with 4 young scientists he founded Seeq Technology. The results of his research boosted the company’s value and also assisted in the implementation of innovative inventions, like the aircraft black box. One year later, Perlegos resigned from Seeq Technology, following the company’s stock market listing. In 1984, he built his own company ATMEL Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of computer microchips, after mortgaging his family fortune. ATMEL Corporation’s value exceeded $2 million, with international affiliates and over 10,000 employees. ATMEL Corporation was a pioneer in building wireless Internet devices. “It was always my dream and my parents’ dream that we finish school and go on to do something different , so I left everything behind”, Perlegos remarked in a former interview. svgsfund.com/members/core-members/perlegos-george/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/7649-protoporos-stin-anazitisi-tis-energeiakis-eparkeias-tou-planiti/Maria Flytzani-StephanopoulosA pioneer in the planet’s energy sustainability research Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos is Professor of Chemical Engineering in Tufts University and Director of Nanocatalysis and Energy Laboratory. Her pioneering research on clean energy production was honoured with Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professorship in Energy Sustainability in the School of Engineering (SOE). The goal of the research is to design catalysts that speed up reactions and produce hydrogen, the future fuel, more efficiently and faster. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos is also trying to create cleaner biofuels employing a process that uses biomass fermentation and catalysis to produce liquefied petroleum gas. If successful, the process will have a huge impact in improving energy sustainability. Professor Flytzani-Stephanopoulos has received several awards for her research, including honourable distinctions by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. In 1987, she also received NASA’s Space Act Award and Certificate of Recognition. Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida after having received her bachelor from the Polytechnic University of Athens. She later concluded and received her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Since 1994, Flytzani-Stephanopoulos works in the Chemical Engineering Faculty of Tufts University, after spending some years of her academic career with MIT-Chemical Engineering Department and Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
engineering.tufts.edu/chbe/people/FlytzaniStephanopoulos/ Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability Distinguished Professor Lab Nano Catalysis and Energy Laboratory Education B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Florida Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks?page=15#ixzz6C3n8OQB8
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www.isye.gatech.edu/users/christos-alexopoulosGeorgia Tech H.Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor Christos AlexopoulosEducation Ph.D. Operations Research (1988), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill B.S. Mathematics (1982), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Christos Alexopoulos is professor at the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Alexopoulos' research interests center on applied probability, statistics, and optimizations of stochastics systems. His recent work involves problems related to the optimal design of telecommunications and transportation networks.
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University of California,Irvine
UCL Samueli School of Engineering
Nicolaos Alexopoulos
Professor Emeritus,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Profile
Professor Alexopoulos is interested in electromagnetic theory, integrated microwave circuits, micro strip antennas and arrays, multi-function antennas, non-reciprocal materials, numerical methods, and percolation theory and applications. His research activities focus on the modeling and design of three-dimensional integrated circuits and printed antennas in multilayered materials, wireless communication antennas and systems. He also is studying interconnect problems in complex networks, novel materials and smart structures in low observable systems, and computational methods.
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering, 1968 M.S., University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering, 1967 B.S., University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering, 1965
Research
The applications for his research lie in the development of wireless communication networks that will extend the reach and capacity of the Internet. Dr. Alexopoulos is dean of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering.
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Prof.Charalambos D. Aliprantis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charalambos Dionisios Aliprantis (Greek: Χαράλαμπος Διονύσιος Αλιπράντης; May 12, 1946 – February 27, 2009) was a Greek-American economist and Mathematician who introduced Banach space and Riesz space methods in economic theory. He was born in Cefalonia, Greece in 1946 and came to the US in 1969, where he obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Caltech in June 1973.
He was a distinguished professor of Economics and Mathematics at Purdue University. He was the founding editor of the journals Economic Theory and Annals of Finance, an Editor of Positivity and a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.
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Dr.Denos GazisDr. Denos Gazis received a PhD in Engineering Science from Columbia University, in 1957. He worked at the General Motors Research Laboratories until November 1961, when he joined IBM Research. While at GM, he had been involved in early development of a nascent Theory of Traffic Flow, dealing with the mathematical modeling of automobile traffic. He was the co-recipient of the Lanchester Prize of Operations Research and The Johns Hopkins University for this seminal work. At IBM Research, he joined the Mathematics Department in order to pursue research in solid state physics, which was a follow-up to his PhD thesis. However, he soon discovered a great deal of interest at IBM in using computers for traffic control. Taking advantage of the high degree of freedom of choice given then to researchers at IBM, he pursued the development of traffic control modeling. It led to the development of a pilot system for computerized traffic control in San Jose California, which was later duplicated on a large scale in New York City. Later, together with associates at the New York Port Authority, he conducted real-time control experiments at the Lincoln Tunnel connecting Manhattan and New Jersey, which consistently increased the throughput of the tunnel by 12%. His work received international attention, with some of his review papers being translated into German and Dutch. He also received wide recognition within IBM. In 1967, IBM launched its first major advertising campaign featuring centerfold pictures of IBMers in seven leading magazines, advertising their contributions to the improvement of the lives of IBM customers. One of these advertisements, shown below, featured Dr. Gazis as the traffic scientist who was making people's driving life more enjoyable. ....
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Antonis MichalasAssistant Professor at the department of computing sciences at Tampere University of technology,faculty of computing and electrical engineering in Finland. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Athanasios Papoulis
Athanasios Papoulis (Greek: Αθανάσιος Παπούλης; 1921 – April 25, 2002) was a Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician.
Papoulis was born in Turkey in 1921, and his family moved to Athens, Greece in 1922. He earned his undergraduate degree from National Technical University of Athens. In 1945, he stowed away on a boat to escape the impending Greek Civil War and settled in the United States. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. He married Caryl Engwall in New York, New York in 1953, and had five children: Irene, Helen, James, Ann, and Mary. In 1952, after teaching briefly at Union College, he became a faculty member at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic Institute of New York University), where he earned the distinction of University Professor.
Studies
Papoulis contributed in the areas of signal processing, communications, and signal and system theory. His classic book Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes[2] is used as a textbook in many graduate-level probability courses in electrical engineering departments all over the world.
Two classic texts aimed at [engineering] practitioners were [first] published in 1965... [One was] Athanasios Papoulis' Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes... These books popularized a pedagogy that balanced rigor and intuition.
By staying away from complete mathematical rigor while emphasizing the physical and engineering interpretations of probability, Papoulis's book gained wide popularity.
Theory
Athanasios Papoulis specialized in engineering mathematics, his work covers probability, statistics, and estimation in the application of these fields to modern engineering problems. Papoulis also taught and developed subjects such as stochastic simulation, mean square estimation, likelihood tests, maximum entropy methods, Monte Carlo method, spectral representations and estimation, sampling theory, bispectrum and system identification, cyclostationary processes, deterministic signals in noise (part of deterministic systems and dynamical system studies), wave optics and the Wiener and Kalman filters.
Contributions
Papoulis's generalization of the sampling theorem unified many variations of the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem into one theorem.
The Papoulis–Gerchberg algorithm is an iterative signal restoration algorithm that has found widespread use in signal and image processing.
"Papoulis's eloquent proof" of the conventional sampling theorem requires only two equations.
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Lefteri H. Tsoukalas, PhDProfessor of Nuclear Engineering Purdue University Director, Applied Intelligent Systems Lab (AISL) Technical Chair, Consortium for the Intelligent Management of the Electric Power Grid (CIMEG) RESEARCH INTERESTS Smart methodologies for complex energy systems Energy policy and global resource analysis Intelligent sensors and networks ........................................................ Lefteris Tsoukalas is considered to be one of the five best Nuclear Engineers in the world. While he grew up in Greece, his talent was fully acknowledged in America, where he graduated from the University. He believes deeply that Greece could defeat the economic crisis if only the country could invest in the field of (nuclear) energy. In fact, he has noted in many interviews the importance of nuclear energy for Greece, and insists it constitutes a one-way street not only for Greece, but also for the humanity. read more www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/23594-one-of-the-top-nuclear-engineers-in-the-world/
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2.J Texas.www.unyt.edu.al/Lectures/D.%20Nanopoulos.htmDimitris NanopoulosDimitris Nanopoulos is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and holder of the Mitchell/Heep Chair in High Energy Physics at Texas A&M University, head of the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) Astroparticle Physics Group, and fellow and chair of Theoretical Physics, Academy of Athens in Greece.Professor Nanopoulos received his B.S. in 1971 from the University of Athens and his Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Sussex, England. He has made several contributions to particle physics and cosmology. He works in string unified theories, fundamentals of quantum theory, astroparticle physics and quantum-inspired models of brain function. Nanopoulos is fellow of the American Physical Society and was a Curie Fellow at the Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de l'Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (1975-76), Research Fellow Harvard University (1977-79); CERN staff member (1979-86), Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin (1986-8 and joined Texas A&M University in 1989. He is author of more than 515 refereed articles, with an excess of 27000 citations, placing him as the fourth most cited High Energy Physicist of all time (in 2001). He has given more than 250 invited presentations at international conferences. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Othon Rediniotis smart.tamu.edu/people/faculty/othonrediniotis.htmOthon K. Rediniotis Intelligent Systems Laboratory Department of Aerospace Engineering Texas A & M University www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/02/2233670.htm?site=science&amp;topic=energy----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dimitris C. Lagoudassmart.tamu.edu/people/faculty/dimitrislagoudas.htmJohn and Bea Slattery Chair of Aerospace EngineeringDirector, Texas Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles (TiiMS) Department of Aerospace Engineering Texas A & M University Research Areas: Micromechanics of Active Materials and Smart Structures Phase transformations in Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) Thermoelectric heat transfer in SMA actuators SMA Elastomeric Composite Dampers Oxidation and Damage in Metal Matrix Composites
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www.che.utexas.edu/georgiou/home.htmGeorge GeorgiouDept. of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin 2004-Present: Joe C. Walter, Jr. Endowed Chair 1998-2004: Joan and Keys Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair, U. Texas, Austin 1994-Present: Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, U. Texas, Austin 1994-Present: Professor, Biomedical Engineering Program, U. Texas, Austin 1994-Present: Member, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, U. Texas, Austin 1991-1994: Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, U. Texas, Austin 1986-1991: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, U. Texas, Austin EDUCATION Ph. D., Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 1987 M.S., Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 1983 B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England, 1981 ================================================================================ PrincetonGregory Vlastoswikipedia Gregory Vlastos (July 27, 1907 – October 12, 1991) was a scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of several works on Plato and Socrates. He was also a Christian believer and some of his later work is on the subject of the Christian faith. He was born in Istanbul, to a Scottish mother and a Greek father,[1] where he received a Bachelor of Arts from Robert College before moving to Harvard University where he received a PhD in 1931. After teaching for several years at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, he moved to Cornell University in 1948. He was Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University between 1955 and 1976, and then Mills Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley until 1987. He received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1990. Vlastos died in 1991, before finishing a new compilation of essays on Socratic philosophy. Many of Vlastos's students have become important scholars of ancient philosophy, including Terence Irwin, Richard Kraut, Paul Woodruff, and Alexander Nehamas. titan.princeton.edu/People/floudas.html------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christodoulos A. FloudasStephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Chemical Engineering Dr. Floudas is the Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University, Associated Faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, Associated Faculty in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, and Faculty in the Center for Quantitative Biology at Princeton University. He earned his B.S.E. in 1982 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, completed his Ph.D. in December 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University and joined Princeton University as a Faculty Member in February 1986. In July 1991 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in July 1994 to Professor. He held Visiting Professor positions at Imperial College, England (Fall 1992); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Switzerland (Spring 1993); University of Vienna, Austria (Spring 1996); the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (CPERI), Thessaloniki, Greece (Fall 1998); the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota (Spring 2008); and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota (George T. Piercy Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2008). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Athanassios Z. Panagiotopouloskea.princeton.edu/Panagiotopoulos/index.htmlSusan Dod Brown Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton Univ. Dipl. Ch.E., National Technical University of Athens (1982) Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986) Postdoctoral, University of Oxford (1986-87) National Science Foundation, Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989) Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1992) Colburn Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1995) John M. Prausnitz Award in Applied Chemical Thermodynamics (1998) National Academy of Engineering (2004) ================================================================================ Cornell UniversityEmmanuel Gianneliswww.mse.cornell.edu/mse/people/profile.cfm?netid=epg2Cornell University Department of materials science and engineering Emmanuel P. Giannelis is the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering. In addition to his primary appointment in Materials Science and Engineering, Giannelis is a member of the Fields of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research interests include polymer nanocomposites, nanobiohybrids, nanoparticle fluids and flexible electronics. His group is internationally recognized as one of the leading groups in polymer nanocomposites. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Malliaraswww.mse.cornell.edu/mse/people/profile.cfm?netid=ggm1Cornell University Department of materials science and engineering George Malliaras is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility.Prof. Malliaras received a BS in Physics from the Aristotle University (Greece), and a PhD, cum laude, in Mathematics and Physical Sciences from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). His thesis work was on photorefractivity in polymers. He then did a one year postdoc at the University of Groningen and a two year postdoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center (California), working on organic light emitting diodes. He joined Cornell University in 1998 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Prof. Malliaras is the recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award, the DuPont Young Professor Grant, and the NY Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. He is also the recipient of awards from the College of Engineering for his teaching and for his advising of freshmen. He is the chairman of the editorial board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, and serves on the editorial board of Sensors. He has also served as an overseas associate editor for the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. He has organized international symposia for the APS, MRS, ACS, IEEE, and was the lead organizer of the 6th International Symposium on Functional pi-Electron Systems held in Ithaca, NY in 2004. Prof. Malliaras' research interests span several aspects of organic electronics, including structure and morphology of organic thin films, their processing and patterning, charge transport and injection in organic semiconductors, device physics, and applications of organic devices in biosensors. He is the author of 100+ publications in peer-reviewed journals that have received 2,500+ citations, and has given over 150 invited talks and seminars. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.aep.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=lf56Lena F. KourkoutisDept: Applied and Engineering Physics Title: Assistant Professor and Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow Biography Kourkoutis received a Diploma in Physics from the University of Rostock, Germany in 2003, and then moved to Ithaca where she was awarded a PhD in 2009. As a Humboldt Research Fellow Kourkoutis spent 2011-2012 exploring cryo-electron microscopy in the Molecular Structural Biology Group at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. She returned to Cornell as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2012 and joined the Applied and Engineering Faculty in 2013. She has been selected by Microscopy Society of America as the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Albert Crewe Award. Research Interests Research Interests: Nanostructured Materials, Next Generation Energy Related Devices, Complex Electronic Materials, Atomic-resolution Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Cryo- electron Microscopy for Soft and Composite Materials The Kourkoutis electron microscopy group focuses on understanding and controlling nanostructured materials, from complex oxide heterostructures to materials for battery and photovoltaic applications to biomaterials. The presence of interfaces between different components is a key feature of all nanoscale materials and devices. Macroscopic properties of a system depend upon detailed atomic configurations, interfacial chemistry, and electronic coupling. We use aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy to determine the atomic-scale structure, elemental distribution and electronic structure of individual nanostructures and their interfaces. In order to explore a new range of phenomena and materials we are developing low temperature high-resolution electron microscopy techniques. The topics we are pursuing include: Novel phases that emerge at low temperatures at complex oxide interfaces; solid-liquid and hard-soft interfaces in next generation energy related devices such as photovoltaics, batteries and fuel cells and organic/inorganic interfaces in biomaterials. ================================================================================ Yale Universitywww.cs.yale.edu/people/makris.htmlYiorgos MakrisComputer Science Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Dipl. Eng., University of Patras, Greece, 1995
M.S., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1997, 2001
Joined Yale Faculty 2001Makris’ research interests are in the areas of Digital Systems Testing, Design for Testability, Computer-Aided-Design, Fault Tolerance, Validation, and Design Diagnosis. His work targets Register-Transfer-Level descriptions and focuses on hierarchical methods for identifying and utilizing transparency behavior in support of reliable integrated circuit design. Yiorgos devised a Register-Transfer-Level Testability Analysis methodology for hierarchical designs based on the concept of transparency channels, an innovative mechanism for expressing fine-grained design traversal capabilities. He designed and led the implementation effort for TRANSPARENT, a prototype tool that implements this methodology and he further investigated the effectiveness of Testability Analysis data in guiding Design-for-Test (DFT) and Synthesis-for-Test (SFT) approaches. Additionally, he explored the applicability of transparent paths in Hierarchical Test Generation, On-line Test, and Design Diagnosis. In his current research, Yiorgos is examining concurrent test methods for Analog and Digital Circuits, design and test of Asynchronous Circuits and new ideas in Test Generation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.cs.yale.edu/people/savvides.htmlAndreas SavvidesAssistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ph.D. 2003, University of California at Los Angeles Professor Savvides' focus is on wireless embedded systems and wireless sensor networks. Current emphasis is on the design and implementation of wireless sensor networks involving simulation, algorithm development, and implementation. I am interested in the design and development of ad-hoc node localization techniques in ad-hoc sensor networks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.yale.edu/polisci/people/skalyvas.htmlStathis N. KalyvasPolitical science Stathis N. Kalyvas (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1993), is Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. He is the author of The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996), and the co-editor of Order, Conflict & Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He has received several awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Award for best book on government, politics, or international affairs (2007), the Luebbert Award for best book in comparative politics (2008), the European Academy of Sociology Book Award (2008), the J. David Greenstone Award for best book in politics and history (1997), and the Gregory Luebbert Award for best article in comparative politics (2001 and 2009). He has been awarded fellowships and grants by the European University Institute, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Peace Institute, and the Folke Bernadotte Academy. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. www.wilsoncenter.org/ondemand/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.play&mediaid=050F532C-F1C4-F2B2-491F19F6993A45C4The Greek Riots: A Political and Historical Analysis Stathis Kalyvas 01/22/2009 The riots that erupted in Greece, in December 2008
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2.K Other Physicists and ChemistsThe Greeks of CERN ellines.ca/wpe/2008/09/greek-scientists-help-re-create-the-big-bang-at-cern/Michael Koratzinos, Maria Spyropoulos, Evgenia Chatziaggelis, Giannis Papafilippou, Paraskevas Sfikas, and Christos Zamantzas are amongst the 30 plus Greek scientists that participate in the experiments, coming from the Aristorle University of Thessaloniki, the Athens Technical University in Athens, and the University of Ioannina. ================================================================================ Nicolas Constantine ChristofilosA Greek American phycisist. www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/Christofilos.htmen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_ChristofilosChristofilos was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Greece. He attended the National Technical University of Athens at age 18, and graduated with a degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in 1938. He remained in Greece during World War II, working for an Athens elevator maintenance company during the Nazi occupation. He later founded his own elevator company. During all of this, he maintained an amateur interest in accelerator physics and high-energy particle physics, and studied German and American texts on the subjects extensively. In 1946 he independently developed ideas for a synchrotron and in 1949 he conceived the strong-focusing principle. Rather than publishing in a journal he submitted a patent application in the US and Greece. His discovery went unnoticed for several years, and strong focusing was rediscovered by Ernest Courant et al. in 1952 (who acknowledged his priority one year later),[3] and applied to accelerators at BNL, Cornell and CERN. Christofilos was offered a position at Brookhaven in 1953. In 1956 he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to continue his work on the Astron, a proposed fusion reactor under the Sherwood Project. At LLNL, Christofilos worked on a number of military projects. He became a member of JASON and was the principal behind Operation Argus, a series of high-altitude nuclear detonations intended to create a radiation belt in the upper regions of the Earth's atmosphere as a defence against Soviet ICBMs. In 1958 Christofilos proposed Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves as a way to communicate with submerged submarines, and subsequently invented the ground dipole, the only antenna that has proven practical for use at ELF frequencies. His ideas were implemented by the U.S. Navy in Project Seafarer, which constructed huge ELF transmitter facilities in Michigan and Wisconsin consisting of 56 miles (90 km) of electric transmission line. These were used from 1985 to 2004 for worldwide communication with U.S. nuclear submarines. In 1963 he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyriakos Kostas Nicolaouen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriacos_Costa_NicolaouKyriacos Costa Nicolaou is a Cypriot-American chemist. K. C. Nicolaou was born on July 5, 1946, in Karavas, Cyprus where he grew up and went to school until the age of 18. In 1964, he went to England where he spent two years learning English and preparing to enter the University. He studied chemistry at the University of London. (B.Sc., 1969, Bedford College; Ph.D. 1972, University College London, with Professors F. Sondheimer and P. J. Garratt). In 1972, he moved to the United States and, after postdoctoral appointments at Columbia University (1972-1973, Professor T. J. Katz) and Harvard University (1973-1976, Professor E. J. Corey), he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania where he became the Rhodes-Thompson Professor of Chemistry. In 1989, he started at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Chemistry, and The Scripps Research Institute where he is the Darlene Shiley Professor of Chemistry, and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry. In 1996, he was appointed Aline W. and L.S. Skaggs Professor of Chemical Biology in The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute. Nicolaou is active in the field of organic chemistry with research interests natural product synthesis and total synthesis. He is responsible for the synthesis of many complex molecules found in nature such as Taxol in the Taxol total synthesis and vancomycin. He is also the co-author of two popular books on total synthesis: Classics in Total Synthesis I[1] and II[2]. Awards K. C. Nicolaou has received numerous awards and honors including: Schering Prize (Germany) Aspirin Prize (Spain) Max Tishler Prize Lecture (Harvard) Yamada Prize (Japan) Janssen Prize (Belgium) Nagoya Medal (Japan) Centenary Medal (Royal Society UK) Paul Karrer Medal (Switzerland) Inhoffen Medal (Germany) Nichols Medal (USA) Linus Pauling Medal (USA) Esselen Award (USA) ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (USA) ACS Guenther Award in Natural Products Chemistry (USA) Nobel Laureate Signature Award Tetrahedron Prize Award Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member of the National Academy of Sciences www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/NicolaouC.html---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Alivisatosen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_AlivisatosPaul Alivisatos is an American scientist, researching the structural, thermodynamic, optical, and electrical properties of nanocrystals.Alivisatos graduated with a bachelors in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1981, and with a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, where he worked under Charles Harris. In 1986 he joined AT&T Bell Labs working with Louis Brus, and began research in the field of nanotechnology. He returned to Berkeley in 1988 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry, becoming associate Professor in 1993 and Professor in 1995. He was Chancellor's Professor for 1998-2001. In January 2003 he was appointed director of the Materials Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also director of LBNL's Molecular Foundry. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a co-editor of the scientific journal Nano Letters. He has served as a member of the Defense Sciences Study Group, and on panels of the Defense Science Board. As of 2000, he was a member of the Department of Energy Council on Materials Sciences ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paris Svoronoswww.greeknewsonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=729Queensborough Community College, located in Bayside Queens won this year its first ever national award, thanks to Greek American Dr. Paris Svoronos, chairman of the Chemistry Department at Queensborough Community College. He was named Outstanding Community College Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) at a ceremony conducted at the National Press Club on November 13. He was one of four professors – and the only community college professor – selected for this national award. An author of many scientific books and papers, Professor Svoronos did something extraordinary. Every semester he pickes the most talented young students, who attend Queensborough seeking to fill a health science requirement or to earn a GED and pushes those who dream of a career in medicine or engineering to achieve their goals. Most of those students are immigrant born. It was exactly his dream come true making ability that gained him the professor of the Year Award by the Carnegie Foundation. “We offer them the opportunity in their lives to make it in the States and eventually make the American Dream realistic”, Professor Svoronos says. He was born 53 years ago in Greece. His father’s family comes from Svoronata in Cephalonia and his mother’s family from Asia Minor. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry and Physics in 1973, from the American University in Cairo and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1979, from Georgetown, where he was a research and teaching fellow from 1973-1980. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Savas Dimopoulos www.stanford.edu/dept/phy...savas.htmlResearch Interests Physics Beyond the Standard Model. Savas Dimopoulos proposed the supersymmetric standard model with Howard Georgi in 1981. This theory made a precise quantitative prediction, the unification of couplings, that has been experimentally confirmed in 1991 by experiments at CERN and SLAC. This established it as the leading theory for physics beyond the standard model. Its main prediction, the existence of supersymmetric particles, will be tested at the large hadron collider beginning in 2007. He also proposed the possible existence of large new dimensions with Nima Arkani-Hamed and Gia Dvali in 1998. This links the weakness of gravity to the presence of sub-millimeter size dimensions, that are presently searched for in experiments looking for deviations from Newton's law at short distances. In this framework quantum gravity, string theory, and black holes may be experimentally investigated at the large hadron collider. Most recently he put forward the theory of split supersymmetry with Nima Arkani-Hamed. This theory is motivated by the possible existence of an enormous number of ground states in the fundamental theory, as suggested by the cosmological constant problem and recent developments in string theory and cosmology. It can be tested at the large hadron collider and, if confirmed, it will lend support to the idea that our universe and its laws are not unique and that there is an enormous variety of universes each with its own distinct physical laws. Most influential papers Biographical article in Stanford Report, April 5, 2006 Honors Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) Winner of the 2006 J. J. Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Physics: “For his creative ideas on dynamical symmetry breaking, supersymmetry, and extra spatial dimensions, which have shaped theoretical research on TeV-scale physics, thereby inspiring a wide range of experiments.” Winner of the 2006 Tomassoni Prize in Physics. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Houston, Texas Career History Ph.D., 1978, University of Chicago Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University, 1978-79 Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Stanford University, 1979-Now Visiting Professor, ITP UC Santa Barbara, 1981 Associate Professor, Harvard University, 1981-1983 Visiting Professor, Boston University, 1989 Staff Member, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1994-1997 www.answers.com/topic/savas-dimopoulos-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nikolaos Vlasopouloswww.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/31/cement-carbon-emissionsRevealed: The cement that eats carbon dioxideCement, a vast source of planet-warming carbon dioxide, could be transformed into a means of stripping the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere, thanks to an innovation from British engineers. The new environmentally friendly formulation means the cement industry could change from being a "significant emitter to a significant absorber of CO2," says Nikolaos Vlasopoulos, chief scientist at London-based Novacem, whose invention has garnered support and funding from industry and environmentalists. The new cement, which uses a different raw material, certainly has a vast potential market. Making the 2bn tonnes of cement used globally every year pumps out 5% of the world's CO2 emissions - more than the entire aviation industry. And the long-term trends are upwards: a recent report by the French bank Credit Agricole estimated that, by 2020, demand for cement will increase by 50% compared to today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phedon AvourisFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Phaedon Avouris (born 1945) is a Greek chemist at IBM. He is an IBM Fellow and the manager for Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 2005 he is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University.In 2003 he was awarded the Irving Langmuir Prize by the American Physical Society. This prize is awarded based on contributions in chemistry and physics, and honours Irving Langmuir. In 2003, he was a candidate for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on carbon nanotubes. Nomination Nomination Dr. Avouris was elected a member of the Academy of Athens on March 10, 2005. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas M Spyrou UniS Professor wins the George Hevesy Medal Award Professor Nicholas M Spyrou of the University of Surrey’s School of Electronics and Physical Sciences was recently awarded the internationally prestigious George Hevesy Medal at the 8th International Conference on 'Nuclear Analytical Methods in the Life Sciences' in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Hevesy Medal Award is the premier international award of excellence honouring outstanding achievements in radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry. It is named after George de Hevesy (1885-1966), who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1943 for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes. Established in 1968, the Hevesy Medal was awarded annually during the period 1968-86 and on six occasions in the last 20 years. The Award recognises the contribution of distinguished individuals who have defined the scope and depth of radioanalysis through the prolific post-war years of the nuclear era to today. Their achievements include pioneering radioactivation analysis methodology and applications. Professor Spyrou's work on the measurement of short-lived activation products and his highly original research in combining elemental analysis with the fundamental concepts of tomographic imaging gave new directions and impetus to the field, particularly in the study of biological systems. Prof Spyrou comments: "I am delighted to be awarded with the George Hevesy Medal in recognition of my research contributions over the last 30 years. As the only previous British recipient was back in 1969, this Medal is particularly encouraging for the UK scientific community. I hope we do not have to wait for another generation!" The George Hevesy Medal Award is adjudicated by the Advisory Board of the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry and the International Committee of Activation Analysis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.ibimet.cnr.it/Staff/georgiadisGeorgiadis TeodoroDoctor in Physics and in Astronomy, University of Bologna. Senior Scientist. Principally involved in studies on the transfer processes of energy and matter in the planetary boundary layer. Born in Bologna, Italy, on 26 June 1955. Doctor in Physics and in Astronomy, University of Bologna. Senior Scientist. Principally involved in studies on the transfer processes of energy and matter in the planetary boundary layer. Principal Investigator in the Arctic research on surface energy fluxes at "Dirigibile Italia" base. Coordinator of the Project "Baseline Surface Radiation Measurements" in Antarctica- PNRA. Member of the Executive Commitee of POLARNET. Editor of Polar Atmospheres Expert evaluator V, VI and VII EC Framework Programmes. Scientific Responsible of PIAN.TE. Laboratory (Pianificazione Territoriale)  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- wikipedia Constantino TsallisConstantino Tsallis is a physics researcher working in Rio de Janeiro at CBPF, Brazil. He was born in Greece, and grew up in Argentina, where he studied physics at Instituto Balseiro, in Bariloche. In 1974 he received a Doctorat d'Etat et Sciences Physiques degree from the University of Paris-Orsay. He moved to Brazil in 1975 with his family (his wife and daughter). He is credited with introducing the notion of what is known as Tsallis entropy and Tsallis statistics in his 1988 seminal paper "Possible generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics" published in the Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 52, p. 479-487. The generalization is considered to be one of the most viable and applicable candidates for formulating a theory of non-extensive thermodynamics. The resulting theory is not intended to replace Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics, but rather supplement it, such as in the case of anomalous systems characterised by non-ergodicity or metastable states. One of the most impressive experimental verifications of the predictions of q-statistics concerns cold atoms in dissipative optical lattices. Eric Lutz made an analytical prediction in 2003 which was verified in 2006 by a London team. www.abc.org.br/english/orgn/acaen.asp?codigo=tsallis#posiBrazilian academy of sciences He published about 300 articles in journals and books of international diffusion; delivered more than 700 lectures in events and institutions of nearly 40 countries; delivered regular undergraduate and graduate courses in Brazil, France, Argentina and USA; participated in 90 Juries for professorship admissions and theses; supervised 34 Master and PhD degrees; presented graphic fractals in 3 exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro; acts as Chief Co-Editor of Physica A/Holland; he is Researcher 1A (the highest level) of CNPq since 1984; was honored with the title "Distinguished Scientist of the Greek Diaspora" (1985) and Honorary Citizen of the Rio de Janeiro State (1988); "Conference Chairman" of the Triennial World Conference Statphys/IUPAP; was, during ten years, head of various departments at CBPF, including the Department of Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics / CBPF; he was distinguished with the Rio de Janeiro City Prize for Science and Technology, and the Mexico Prize for Science and Technology; three times voting member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Committee which awards the Boltzmann Medal, the highest world distinction in Statistical Physics. His works have received over 6200 citations in ISI international journals. He received the ISI "Citation Classic" Award for the Physics paper by Brazilian researchers most quoted during the decade 1990-1999. His 1998 paper is the world most cited Physica A paper in the decade 1993-2003. His name has received over 700 nominal citations / ISI (name quoted in the Title or Abstract or Key-Words of the paper), which makes him the second most cited Brazilian scientist of all times, after Carlos Chagas, the discoverer, in the early XXth century, of the disease named after him. Member of the Council of the Brazilian Physical Society. Head of the Center for Advanced Studies of the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas. Principal Investigator of 2 consecutive Projects Pronex, among others. Award "Scientist of the Rio de Janeiro State" de Nosso Estado" (1999 - ...). He co-edited various books on Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics, including recently one -"Nonextensive Entropy - Interdisciplinary Applications"-- by the Oxford University Press, with Prof. Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel laureate in Physics. There are all together 9, soon 10, books dedicated to the subject (BJP, Springer, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, World Scientific). Member of the Statistical Physics Committee (1999 - …) and of the Low Temperature Committee (1999 - …) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Invited lecturer at the Chamber of Representatives of Argentina to present Complex Systems (2000). 2004 recommendation by United Nations / Office for Outer Space Affairs for promoting studies in Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics applied to Astrophysics and Space Sciences [Updated in November 2004]. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ypsilantis.html Tom Ypsilantisscienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ypsilantis.htmlGreek-American physicist who specialized in the construction of sensitive detectors used in particle physics. Ypsilantis came from a distinguished family. In 1821, Prince Alexander Ypsilantis, a general in the Russian army, led a charge across the Danube against the Ottoman Turks at the beginning of the fight for Greek independence. Born in 1928 into a Greek family living in Salt Lake City, Ypsilantis studied physics at Berkeley where he obtained his master's degree and then became a graduate student under the direction of Emilio Segré. Together with Owen Chamberlain and Clyde Wiegand, Ypsilantis joined the 1955 experiment at the new Berkeley Bevatron that observed the first antiprotons, which became the subject of his Ph.D. thesis. After postdoctoral positions in the U.S. and after playing a pioneer role in teaching modern physics in Greece, he came to CERN in 1968, where he met Jacques Séguinot. Ypsilantis and Séguinot, working in Max Ferro-Luzzi's group, proposed the technique later named Ring Imaging Cerenkov (RICH) counter. Together with Tord Ekelöf, they introduced this technique for high-energy physics: the first large-scale application was for the DELPHI experiment at LEP. More recently they worked in the framework of the LAA Project on noble-liquid calorimetry and on a very large water neutrino detector based of the fast-RICH technique. Ypsilantis also made a major contribution to the LHCb experiment at CERN. Over the years, Ypsilantis was associated with CERN, Ecole Polytechnique, Collège de France and INFN. At times, he worked without a position and a salary. His office at CERN was always open for those who wanted to consult and discuss with him, even at weekends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web.umr.edu/~leventis/ Nicholas LeventisB.S. 1980 Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece Ph.D. 1985 Chemistry, Michigan State University Postdoctoral Associate, 1985-1987, MIT C.S.S. 1992, Harvard University RESEARCH INTERESTS MAGNETIC EFFECTS ON ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS Magnetohydrodynamic convection by electrolysis in the magnetic field Paramagnetic forces in electrolytic solutions AEROGELS Mechanically strong polymer crosslinked aerogels (X-Aerogels) Doped Aerogels as platforms of gas sensors ORGANIC ELECTROCHEMISTRY The effect of substitution on stepwise multielectron processes. Homogeneous electron transfer between electrogenerated species by multi heterogeneous electron transfer processes INTRAMOLECULAR PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE and ELECTRON TRANSFER> Charge transfer in the design of large Stokes shifts and emission in the near IR Photoinduced electron transfer in sensors and switches CONDUCTING POLYMERS AND COMPOSITES Sensors Electrochromics Dr.Leventis is the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2005) for "ground breaking research in the development of polymer cross-linked aerogels". This award granted for a significant, specific accomplishment or substantial improvement in operations, efficiency, service, financial savings, science, or technology which contributes to the mission of NASA. www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/MDWeb/MDExceptSci.htmle. www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/news/2005/05-032_Honor_Awards.html. Dr. Leventis new technology, "Reinforced Aerogels" has won the Nano 50 award in 2005. Nano 50™ Awards, recognize the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted - or are expected to impact – the state of the art in nanotechnology. www.nanotechbriefs.com/nano50_winners.html. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John H. Argyriswww.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/Argyris.htmJohn H. Argyris (Ioannis Hatziargyris) ((19.8.1913, Volos / Greece - 2.4.2004 Stuttgart, Germany) son of Nikolaos Hatzyargyris and Loukia Karatheodoris (later the wife of the Greek Prime Minister Themistocles Sofoulis). Outstanding specialist in the field of computers, aeronautics and mechanics of fluids, member of the Royal Aeronautic Society of London and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the Romanian Academy. His activity is reflected by around 500 studies and by his participation to various European scientific programs in the mechanics of fluids and computer applications.John Argyris was born in Volos, Greece, into a Greek Orthodox family of mathematical notorieties. Indeed, his great uncle was Professor of Mathematics Constantine Caratheodory of the University of Munich, a world renowned mathematician and recipient at the time of the world's highest mathematical honour. After studying engineering for four years at the Technical University of Athens, Argyris’s father decided to send him to Germany to complete his studies. One of the reasons that he left Greece is that one of his Professor's, Protopapadakis, was against him due to the support of Argyris family of Venizelos. His mother wanted him to go to England for this purpose but John Argyris's authoritarian father insisted that he went to Germany. There were two reasons why his mother wanted him to go to Britain. Firstly, her sisters were living there (unknown at the time one of his aunt's sons would give his life as a British pilot in the Battle of Britain) and his younger brother was serving in the Royal Navy. Secondly, John Argyris had a great contempt for the Nazis and what they stood for in pre 2nd World War Europe. He completed his Diploma in Engineering at the University of Munich with a pass of 9.95, the maximum being an unprecedented 10. Indeed, the German professors said that they were completely astonished at John Argyris's capabilities and his work at such an early age. He then looked for the first time in his life for employment in the world-at-large. He was employed by a private consulting organisation working at the leading-edge technical design of highly complex structures. One of these early incredible engineering accomplishments was that of designing a 320 metres high radio transmitter mast with a heavy mass concentrated at the top - at the time an unresolvable problem. He was imprisoned by the Nazi's for some time but with the help of Admiral Canaris he escaped and went to Switzerland where he continued his studies in Zürich (ETH). Before he was arrested in Spain but again he escaped and via Portugal he arrived in England. Inventor and creator of the Finite Element Analysis (including contributions from R. W. Clough and O. C. Zienkiewicz and the early mathematical work of Richard Courant) which Revolutionized Engineering Sciences, Director of the Institute for Computer Applications, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Emeritus Professor of Aeronautical Structures at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine University of London; Honorary Professor of the Northwestern Polytechnic at the University of Xian China, Honorary Professor of the Technical University of Beijing China, Honorary Professor of the Qinghua University Beijing China, World prize in Culture and the 1984 Personality of the Year of the Centro Studie Ricerce delle Nazione Academy Italia, Silver Medal RAeS, Von Karman Medal ASCE, Copernicus Medal, Timoshenko Medal ASME, B Laskowitz Award with Gold Medal, Daidalus Gold Medal, Gold Medal Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Henri Coenda Medal in Gold, Gold Medal Land Baden-Wurttemberg, Grand Cross of Merit of the FRG and Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the FRG, Stuttgart, Germany. (Chairman of The WIF). Einstein AwardProf. John Argyris FIC FRS FREng FRAeS has been awarded the Einstein Award, one of the United States of America's highest distinctions. The Award was given by the Einstein Foundation for his momentous work on the Finite Element method and Chaos Theory. To date, Professor Argyris has been presented with the pre-eminent scientific and engineering awards from 16 industrialised nations of the world including 5 G8 countries. Royal MedalProf. John Argyris for his great contribution to the development of finite element analysis and its application to the solution of engineering problems. (1985 given also to John Bertrand Gurdon and Roger Penrose) Professor John Argyris was presented with the Prince Philip Medal of the Fellowship of Engineering for his invention of Finite Element Analysis (the world’s most advanced mathematical tool) by HRH the Prince Philip. The award is only given for momentous achievements in the history of Engineering. Only five medals have ever been awarded and those previously honoured include the inventor of the ‘Jet Engine’ (which changed the world) - Sir Frank Whittle and the inventor of ‘Fibre Optics’ (which is continually changing the world) Naturalised American and British educated Professor Charles Kao. The involvement of the ICA in the development of finite element methods dates back to the very beginnings of this technology. Professor John Argyris, director of the Institute for almost 40 years, was one of the inventors of the finite element method in the 1950's and has been engaged in its remarkable progress ever since. This work has resulted in several commercial software products that are still widely used in Europe He is well known for his contribution to the solution of the problem of the heat protection of the NASA space shuttle during the entrance into the atmosphere. Prof. John Argyris died 2th April 2004 in Stuttgart, Germany. The World Wide Web has not been around for long, but with over 67,000 Web sites either dedicated to or which extensively utilise the Finite Element Method, or the Finite Element Analysis, and growing by the week, it is a clear indication of the greatness of the revolutionary invention of John Argyris. Indeed, some leading engineers in the world today have already commented that the FEM will, in the latter part of the 21st century, become an equivalent tool to Newton's CALCULUS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_SpiropuluMaria Spiropulu (Spiropoulou)CERNMaria Spiropulu (Ìáñßá Óðõñïðïýëïõ in Greek), born in 1970 in Kastoria, a mountain town in West Macedonia, is an experimental physicist at Caltech and CERN, the European high-energy physics laboratory outside Geneva, and is working on experiments for the Large Hadron Collider. These experiments are designed to test some of the most imaginative and far reaching ideas ever proposed in physics. She describes her work as part of the search to discover the origins of the universe. Maria Spiropulu received her Bachelor’s degree from the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1993. She had already begun research activity from 1991, working as a technical assistant at CERN’S DELPHI and later at BESSY, the synchrotron laboratory in Berlin, Germany. After graduation she went to Harvard University for her PhD in particle physics. For the next seven years her time was shared between Boston and Batavia, Illinois, home of Tevatron, the world’s highest energy particle accelerator at that time, where she worked for the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment. For her Doctoral thesis, which was completed in August 21, 2000, Spiropulu developed a blind analysis method, to search the accelerator’s output data for evidence of supersymmetry. With a PhD from Harvard, Maria Spiropulu joined the University of Chicago in 2001, and began searching for spatial extra-dimensions. Her analysis was based on Tevatron data obtained from 1992 to 1996. She was offered a research physicist position at CERN in 2003, while she was conducting extra dimensions analyses with Run II data. On September 19, 2003, she reported, along with Kevin Burkett of Harvard, that any extra-dimensions, if they exist, must be curled up into circles smaller than a hundredth of an inch. The hunting for physics beyond the Standard Model, including signals for supersymmetry and extra dimensions / Kaluza-Klein gravitons, led Maria Spiropulu, in 2004, back to Geneva and CERN, where the Large Hadron Collider will achieve an energy seven times larger than Tevatron. There, together with thousands of physicists, she helps prepare for a revolution she says “will blow our minds”. Publications M. Spiropulu (2004). Experimental Status of Beyond the Standard Model Collider Searches. Czech. J. Phys. 54. [1] M. Spiropulu (2003). Collider Experiment: Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions. [2] J. Hewett, and M. Spiropulu (2002). Particle Physics Probes Of Extra Spacetime Dimensions. Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Phys. [3] T. Affolder et al. (2002). The CDF Collaboration. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 241802 M. Spiropulu (2000). Harvard University Ph.D thesis www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/science/scientist-at-work-maria-spiropulu-other-dimensions-she-s-in-pursuit.html?sec=&spon=cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1228927?ln=sksprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/maria.html--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Iliopoulos John Iliopoulos
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Iliopoulos (1940, Kalamata, Greece) is a Greek physicist and the first person to present the Standard Model of particle physics in a single report. He is best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Lee Glashow and Luciano Maiani (the "GIM mechanism").Iliopoulos is also known for the Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term formula, which was introduced in 1974. He is currently an honorary member of Laboratory of theoretical physics of École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Iliopoulos graduated from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1962 as an Mechanical-Electrical Engineer. He continued his studies in the field of Theoretical Physics in University of Paris, and in 1963 he obtained the D.E.A, in 1965 the Doctorat 3e Cycle, and in 1968 the Doctorat d' Etat titles. Between the years 1966 and 1968 he was a scholar at CERN, Geneva. From 1969 till 1971 he was a Research Associate in Harvard University. In 1971 he returned in Paris and began working at CNRS. He also held the director position of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Ecole Normale Superieure between the years 1991-1995 and 1998-2002. In 2002, Iliopoulos was the first recipient of the Aristeio prize, which has been instituted to recognize Greeks who have made significant contributions towards furthering their chosen fields of science. Iliopoulos and Maiani were jointly awarded the 1987 Sakurai Prize for theoretical particle physics. In 2007 Iliopoulos and Maiani received the Dirac Medal of the ICTP "(f)or their work on the physics of the charm quark, a major contribution to the birth of the Standard Model, the modern theory of Elementary Particles." Read more: illyria.proboards.com/thread/2577/golden-modern-greeks#ixzz46yD74Y00------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotini_Markopoulou-Kalamara Fotini Markopoulou-KalamaraFotini G. Markopoulou-Kalamara is a Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics. She is on the faculty of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and is an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo.
Markopoulou received her Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1998 and held postdoctoral positions at the Albert Einstein Institute, Imperial College, and Penn State University. She shared First Prize in the Young Researchers competition at the Ultimate Reality Symposium in Princeton, New Jersey. She has been influenced by researchers such as Christopher Isham who call attention to the unstated assumption in most modern physics that physical properties are most naturally calibrated by a real-number continuum. She, and others, attempt to make explicit some of the implicit mathematical assumptions underpinning modern theoretical physics and cosmology. In her interdisciplinary paper "The Internal Description of a Causal Set: What the Universe Looks Like from the Inside", Markopoulou instantiates some abstract terms from mathematical category theory to develop straightforward models of space-time. It proposes simple quantum models of space-time based on category-theoretic notions of a topos and its subobject classifier (which has a Heyting algebra structure, but not necessarily a Boolean algebra structure). For example, hard-to-picture category-theoretic "presheaves" from topos theory become easy-to-picture "evolving (or varying) sets" in her discussions of quantum space-time. The diagrams in Markopoulou's papers (including hand-drawn diagrams in one of the earlier versions of "The Internal Description of a Causal Set") are straightforward presentations of possible models of space-time. They are intended as meaningful and provocative, not just for specialists but also for newcomers. In May 2006, Markopoulou published a paper with Lee Smolin that further popularized CDT Theory by explaining time slicing of the Ambjorn-Loll CDT model as result of gauge fixing. Their approach relaxed the definition of the Ambjorn-Loll CDT model in 1 + 1 dimensions to allow for a varying lapse. In 2008, Markopoulou, Tomasz Konopka and Simone Severini initiated the study of a new background independent model of evolutionary space called quantum graphity.
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Arthuros Zervos
Global wind energy council
The chairman of GWEC-global wind energy council-is a greek scientist,Arthuros Zervos.
He is also the President of EREC, the European Renewable Energy Council.
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Nikos ParagiosNikos Paragios is now full professor at the Ecole Centrale de Paris, one of the most prestigious engineering schools (Grandes Ecoles) in France leading the Information Processing Group at the Applied Mathematics and Systems laboratory (MAS). Prior to that he was professor (2004-2005) at the Ecole Nationale de Ponts et Chaussees, leading the Atlantis (vision & augmented reality) research group at the Center for Research in Computer Science (CERTIS), was affiliated with Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton, NJ) as a project manager (leading the smart cameras and machine vision group) (2002-2004), senior research scientist (2004) at the Real-time Vision and Modeling Department and research scientist (1999-2003) at the Imaging and Visualiztion Department. In 2002 he was an adjunct professor at Rutgers University and in 2004 at New York University. Professor Paragios has co-edited three books (the first in Mathematical Methods in CV, the second in Level Set Methods and the third in Video-based Surveillance) and published more than fifty papers in the most prestigious journals and conferences of computer vision. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, augmented reality and medical image analysis. He is a Senior member of IEEE, member of the SIAM, member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Vision and has served several times as a guest editor for the most prestigious journals of computer Vision. MIT's Technology Review has posted their top 35 innovators under the age of 35 for 2006.4 of them are greeks and 5 are indian.The names of the greeks are: 1) Apostolos Argyris 2) Manolis Kellis 3) Nikos Paragios 4) Paris Smaragdis --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Soukoulis & Economouwww.ee.duke.edu/%7edrsmith/about_descartes.htmTeam Leader, Costas Soukoulis The Descartes Prizes are awarded by the European Union, supported under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, within the Research Directorate Science and Society. It is one of Europe's foremost scientific awards. The Descartes Prize for Research has been awarded yearly, since 2000, to transnational research teams which have achieved outstanding scientific or technological research results through collaborative research in any field of science, including economics, social sciences and humanities. The amount of the prize, shared among the laureates, is one million euros. Primarily an award to encourage cooperation between European nations, the Descartes Prize celebrates team efforts rather than individual researchers. The work of teams is judged on "the criteria of excellence and cross-border cooperation, and the necessary balance between the two." The Research Prizes for 2005 For the Descartes Research Prize, the Grand Jury, chaired by Ene Ergma, Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of Estonia and President of the Estonian Parliament, chose five laureates from a highly competitive field of 85 entries. The teams which will receive €200,000 each are: The EXEL team for developing a new class of artificial meta-materials, called Left-Handed Materials or Negative Index Materials, which have the ability to overturn many familiar properties of light; Team EXEL is a multi-national research team whose members include:Costas Soukoulis, (Team Leader) Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Eleftherios Economou, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Sir John B. Pendry, Imperial College London, UK. David R. Smith, Duke University, US. Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent University, Turkey. Martin Wegener, University of Karlsruhe/DFG-Centre for Functional Nanostructures, Germany
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Theodore MoustakasThe award-winning Greek physicist with 62 patents Theodore Moustakas is a professor of Boston University. In 1964, Moustakas received his BS in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and decided to relocate to the United States to pursue his academic studies. In 1974, he received his Masters and PhD from Columbia University. He later worked at Harvard University as a Research Fellow and Exxon Corporate Research Laboratories as a Senior Scientist. In 1987 he was appointed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a position he has been holding to date. He is also a Professor of the Department of Physics and the Division of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Moustakas’ research contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics in optoelectronic materials and devices, including nitride semiconductors, amorphous semiconductors, III-V compounds, diamond thin films and metallic multi-layers. He has been granted 62 patents, including the gallium nitride thin film, used in the manufacturing of mobile and tablet devices by a popular brand. Currently, he’s legally claiming indemnity from the brand for the intellectual ownership over the patent since November 1997. (T. D. Moustakas «Highly Insulating monocrystalline Gallium Nitride Thin Films», US Patent No. 5,686,738 – Nov. 11, 1997). Dr. Moustakas is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Electrochemical Society. He holds an honorary doctoral degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and he also received the MBE Innovator Award in 2010 and the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Innovator Award, a scientific elite honour awarded to just 8 scientists up to now. Moreover, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the BU College of Engineering and after being elected Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, he also received the Innovator of the Year Award by Boston University. Dr. Theodore Moustakas has authored 8 books and 338 scientific papers. people.bu.edu/tdm/
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www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/3923-epikefalis-tis-europaikis-koinopraxias-astrosomatidiakis-fusikis/Prof. Stavros KatsanevasHead of European Astroparticle Physics Consortium Greek Professor of Physics Stavros Katsanevas has been shining for years in France and recently by being elected as the first Chairman of the newly established Astroparticle Physics European Consortium-APPEC. Born in 1953 in Athens, Katsanevas studied Physics in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he has also taught up to 1989 after having received his Doctorate from Paris Sud University in 1979. Currently, he is Professor at the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory of Paris VII Denis Diderot University and is widely recognized as a leading physician in Europe, playing a major role as the Deputy Scientific Director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in the research projects of CERN. The Astroparticle Physics European Consortium has come about through the existence of the Astroparticle European Research Area-ASPERA network, after 23 national funding agencies of 19 countries have been carrying out, promoting and coordinating research on astroparticle science for six years in Europe, with the participation of CERN. The consortium’s objectives comprise the development of a common action plan for Europe on astroparticle research and the rise of the resources to support the implementation of large scale research structures based on the relevant strategic Roadmap produced by ASPERA. Professor Stavros Katsanevas himself announced that he’s honoured to have been elected to chair the new APPEC Consortium, adding that, “APPEC’s focus will be to enhance European collaboration and coordination in funding to strengthen astroparticle physics in Europe and keep the leading role of Europe in understanding the secrets of the Universe”. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Prof. Stavros KatsanevasHead of European Astroparticle Physics Consortium Greek Professor of Physics Stavros Katsanevas has been shining for years in France and recently by being elected as the first Chairman of the newly established Astroparticle Physics European Consortium-APPEC. Born in 1953 in Athens, Katsanevas studied Physics in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he has also taught up to 1989 after having received his Doctorate from Paris Sud University in 1979. Currently, he is Professor at the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory of Paris VII Denis Diderot University and is widely recognized as a leading physician in Europe, playing a major role as the Deputy Scientific Director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in the research projects of CERN. The Astroparticle Physics European Consortium has come about through the existence of the Astroparticle European Research Area-ASPERA network, after 23 national funding agencies of 19 countries have been carrying out, promoting and coordinating research on astroparticle science for six years in Europe, with the participation of CERN. The consortium’s objectives comprise the development of a common action plan for Europe on astroparticle research and the rise of the resources to support the implementation of large scale research structures based on the relevant strategic Roadmap produced by ASPERA. Professor Stavros Katsanevas himself announced that he’s honoured to have been elected to chair the new APPEC Consortium, adding that, “APPEC’s focus will be to enhance European collaboration and coordination in funding to strengthen astroparticle physics in Europe and keep the leading role of Europe in understanding the secrets of the Universe”.
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Prof.Christos N. LikosFaculty of Physics Computational Physics University of Vienna Coordinates the research in soft matter physics A new European network for research and training in the filed of soft matter physics, COMPLOIDS was created by an international group of scientists and is coordinated by Christos Likos, a Greek professor of physics at the University of Vienna. The network’s focus is on colloids, various soft and non-solid materials that are either naturally occurring or man-made. Examples range from shaving foam to mayonnaise and liquid paint; despite their perceived differences, all three substances are strikingly similar and differ only in terms of molecular organization. Nowadays, the field of soft matter physics is becoming increasingly important to scientists around the world. COMPLOIDS” main purpose is to coordinate the relevant theoretical and research programs in EU countries, while simultaneously training students and young researchers. One of the scientists” main aims is to eventually create colloids that will assemble themselves into a desired structure- for example, a membrane or a symmetrical crystal. The network will enable specialists in soft matter physics from universities and research organizations in six EU countries- UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, Greece and Slovenia- to unite their efforts, with the support from researchers on the other side of the Atlantic. Associate partners include the Universities of Pennsylvania, Princeton, New York and others. WHO IS WHO Christos Likos was born in Athens in 1966. He began his studies at the National Technical University of Greece and then completed a doctorate in physics at the U.S. Cornell University. Between 2008 and 2009 he was president of the Physics Department at Dusseldorf University, while presently he is a professor in physics at the University of Vienna. Among other things, he is a member of the editorial council of “Molecular Physics” journal. comp-phys.univie.ac.at/homepages/homepage-likos/
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Savas Dimopoulos
Born 1952
Residence U.S.
Nationality Greek
Institutions Stanford University
Alma mater University of Houston
University of Chicago
Savas Dimopoulos (born 1952) is a particle physicist at Stanford University. He worked at CERN from 1994 to 1997. Dimopoulos is well known for his work on constructing theories beyond the Standard Model.
He was born an ethnic Greek in Turkey and later moved to Athens due to ethnic tensions in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s.
Education and career
Dimopoulos studied as an undergraduate at the University of Houston. He went to the University of Chicago and studied under Yoichiro Nambu for his doctoral studies. After completing his Ph.D. in 1979, he briefly went to Columbia University before taking a faculty position at Stanford University in 1980. During 1981 and 1982 he was also affiliated with the University of Michigan, Harvard University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1994 to 1997 he was on leave from Stanford University and was employed by CERN.
Dimopoulos is well known for his work on constructing theories beyond the Standard Model, which are currently being searched for and tested at particle colliders like LHC at CERN and at experiments all over the world.For example in 1981 he proposed a softly broken SU GUT model with Howard Georgi, which is one of the foundational papers of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). He also proposed the ADD model of large extra dimensions with Nima Arkani-Hamed and Gia Dvali.
Awards
In 2006, the American Physical Society awarded Dimopoulos the Sakurai Prize, "For his creative ideas on dynamical symmetry breaking, supersymmetry, and extra spatial dimensions, which have shaped theoretical research on TeV-scale physics, thereby inspiring a wide range of experiments."In 2006, he received the Caterina Tomassoni and Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize at the University of Rome, Italy. "The prize recognizes and encourages outstanding achievements in physics. Dimopoulos was lauded by the Tomassoni Committee as "one of the leading figures in theoretical particle physics. His proposal of the supersymmetric standard model has aided the understanding of high-energy physics mechanisms."
He appeared in the 2013 documentary film Particle Fever, about the work of the Large Hadron Collider.
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www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/21079-o-ellinas-kathigitis-fusikis-pou-sugkatalegetai-sti-dream-team-tou-cern/Prof.Evangelos Gazis
CERNThe Greek professor of Physics that constitutes an integral part of CERN’s “Dream Team” About 250 Greek researchers are presently working for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Moreover, about a hundred Greek professors have the fortune of doing free postgraduate studies in the same organization annually, and about 50 post graduate students have the fortune of receiving a scholarship which allows them to study at CERN. One of the most important members of the Greek «Dream Team» of CERN, is Particle Physics Professor at National Technical University of Athens, Evangelos Gazis. Gazis is mostly noted for being the National Contact Physicist (NCP) for the ATLAS Greek teams, CLIC, CAST, RD-51 Collaborations, from 2006 until today, and also the Coordinator of the CERN-Greek Working Group (2007-Today), positions which gave him the opportunity to perform measurements of Standard Model processes with Xb-meson and Higgs boson -the famous «God Particle»- at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He has also participated in six CERN experiments (NA14 and NA14΄, DELPHI, ATLAS, CAST and CLIC). read more www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/21079-o-ellinas-kathigitis-fusikis-pou-sugkatalegetai-sti-dream-team-tou-cern/
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2.L Greek scientists in Canada.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Mandelis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andreas Mandelis
Born 22 June 1952 Corfu Residence Toronto Nationality Greek, Canadian Fields Photonics, Physics, Biophotonics Institutions University of Toronto Alma mater Yale University Known for Photothermal spectroscopy, Photoacoustic spectroscopy Notable awards Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, Yeram S. Touloukian Award, Killam Prize Andreas Mandelis (born 22 June 1952),is a professor and researcher at the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and director of the Centre for Advanced Diffusion-Wave Technologies (CADIFT).He is an internationally recognized expert in thermophotonics.His research encompasses the non-destructive evaluation of materials with industrial and biomedical applications.He is considered a pioneer in the fields of diffusion-wave, photothermal and photoacoustic sciences and related technologies.He is the inventor of a photothermal imaging radar which can detect tooth decay at an early stage.
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www.perimeterinstitute.ca/people/asimina-arvanitakiPerimeter institute for theoretical Physics
Asimina ArvanitakiStavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute Area of Research: Particle Physics .................................................................. www.tornosnews.gr/en/tornos/people/15914-the-greek-female-%E2%80%98einstein%E2%80%99.htmlAsimina Arvanitaki wants to explain the universe.The Greek-born theoretical physicist’s goal will be a lot easier now that she’s received an $8-million research chair at the Perimeter Institute, which was established in 1999 and is considered the most advanced research centre in theoretical physics in the world.Arvanitaki was named the inaugural Stavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Waterloo, Ont.-based centre.She’ll spend her five-year term, jointly funded by the Perimeter Institute and the Greek-based Stavros Niarchos Foundation, furthering her own cutting-edge work and contributing to education and training for young people in Greece. Arvanitaki is a young superstar, on the cutting edge of research in supersymmetry, dark matter, and extra dimensions.She’s also the first female research chair at the Perimeter Institute and, after today, one of the best-funded academics in Canada. Neil Turok, the famous Director at the Institute says Asimina is an excellent and unusual physicist as her ideas bridge the theoretical aspect of physics with by experimenting with new and creative ways.‘She has a rare talent, which is necessary today more than ever’, as we are on the threshold of revolutionary advances, he says.Turok says Arvanitaki will have the chance to make new discoveries thanks to the funding by the Niarchos Foundation. Arvanitakis graduated from Athens University, before receiving her he doctoral from Stanford University, where she conducted research at the Institute for Theoretical Physics along with another Greek physicist Savvas Dimopoulos.She focuses her research on a ‘new’ type of theoretical physics called ‘precision frontier’ which involves taking highly precise measurements of tiny differences in particles and particle interactions.
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www.economics.utoronto.ca/index.php/index/person/person/faculty/2University of Toronto Department of Economics Professor Michelle AlexopoulosPh.D. (Northwestern, 1999), M.A. (Northwestern, 1995), Hon. B.Sc. (Toronto, 1994) Office: Max Gluskin House, 150 St. George Street, 205. Phone: 416-978-4962. Fax: 416-978-6713. Email address: malex@chass.utoronto.ca Personal website: www.economics.utoronto.ca/malex/Research fields: Macroeconomics, Applied econometrics Selected research Michelle Alexopoulos, "Read All About it!! What happens following a technology shock?", American Economic Review 101 (4) (2011), 1144–1179. Michelle Alexopoulos and Jon S. Cohen, "Measuring our ignorace, one book at a time: New indicators of technical change, 1909-1949", Journal of Monetary Economics 56 (4) (2009), 450–470. Michelle Alexopoulos, "A monetary business cycle model with unemployment", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31 (12) (2007), 3904–3940. Michelle Alexopoulos, "Unemployment and the Business Cycle", Journal of Monetary Economics 51 (2004), 277–298. Michelle Alexopoulos and Ian Domowitz, "Personal Liabilities and Bankruptcy Reform: An International Perspective", International Finance Journal 1 (1998), 127–159. All publications Honors and awards Dean's Excelence Award, University of Toronto, 2009. Dean's Excellence Award, University of Toronto, 2004. Dean's Excellence Award, University of Toronto, 2003. Teaching ECO 2031 Core Ph.D. Marcoeconomics ECO 325H1- Advanced Theory Macroeconomics ECO1011- Ph.D. Math-Stats Review ECO2061-MA Macroeconomics
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Grigorios I. Leontiadis
MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine
Mcmaster University
Dr Grigorios Leontiadis qualified from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1992 and trained in Gastroenterology in Greece (Papanikolaou Hospital, Thessaloniki) and in the UK (Royal Albert Infirmary, Wigan and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead). He was awarded a PhD in 2002 from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (title of PhD thesis: The effect of H. pylori infection on gastric emptying in patients with functional dyspepsia). He worked for a short period as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the University Hospital of North Durham, UK and then moved to Greece where he worked in private practice while being a Research Associate at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2006 he was appointed Consultant Gastroenterologist & Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine at the Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis. In 2008 he moved to McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada as Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine.
Dr Leontiadis has published 28 peer-reviewed articles and 2 book chapters. He is an advocate of evidence based medicine and is the deputy co-ordinating editor and criticism editor of the Upper Gastrointestinal and Pancreatic Diseases Cochrane Group. He has been involved in the development of the Hellenic and the international guidelines on the management of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Research Interests
His research interests include pharmacological treatment of peptic ulcer disease, pathophysiology and treatment of H. pylori infection, prevention of upper gastrointestinal side-effects of non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and diagnostic utility of small bowel capsule endoscopy. He was the lead author of the National Institute for Health Research (UK) Health Technology Assessment Programme on the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of proton pump inhibitors in acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (2005-2007).
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www.ellines.com/en/famous-greeks/423-h-ellada-exagei-ellines/Vasilios Spyridonakis«Greece exports Greeks!» Spyridonakis was born in New Irakleitsa, Kavala in 1931. He studied in the U.S. and in France. He holds a Ph.D. in European History specializing on the modern history. He taught at the University of Sherbrook and Quebec. He has been visiting professor at the Universities of Montreal and Laval. In 1989 he was elected to the History Department of Ionian University at the rank of Professor. His research interests focus on theory and practice of the intersection of historical time and particularly to the general history of the western world today. When asked what Greece meant for him, he answered without hesitation: «It is home, the birthplace. Wherever one goes, one loves his birthplace even if it is hurting you every time you come back. This is something I can say and repeat, over and over again. Each time I come back, I get heart from what I see…”
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