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Christos DIMAS Dr Christos Dimas is the Deputy Minister for Development and Investments in charge of Research and Innovation. He is a lawyer and Member of the Hellenic Parliament representing New Democracy in the district of Korinthia. Before entering politics, he worked in the private sector as a business consultant for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He was born on the 29th of May 1980. He graduated from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Queen Mary University in London. He completed his Master Degree in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He then finished his PhD in European Political Economy from the LSE, with a scholarship from the Alexander Onassis Foundation. Parallel to his studies, he worked as a correspondent in London for Apogevmatini newspaper while also practicing journalism at the BBC. At the age of 25 he was a teaching assistant at the LSE while teaching at ICON College in the University of Leicester and was a research fellow at the Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence. He was elected as an MP in the district of Korinthia, with New Democracy in the May 2012 elections and has been re-elected ever since. In his spare time he enjoys playing football and basketball and reading history books. He is married to the lawyer Nicoleta Syrengela and they have one daughter and a son. |
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Athanassios KYRIAZIS Athanasios Kyriazis is General Secretary for Research and Innovation and a Professor at the Department of Statistics and Insurance Sciences at the University of Piraeus. He has been a visiting researcher in Universities and Research Centers in the U.S.A. and Europe. His academic work includes four monographs, eight university textbooks and a great number of scientific publications and papers in international and Greek journals and in conference proceedings, while he has been the national representative in a significant number of European and international institutions and working groups. He has served for several years as the General Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs as well as the Special Secretary for Higher Education at the same Ministry. Finally, he has been a consultant in companies and Institutions in relation to educational and training subjects. |
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Dr. Nektarios TAVERNARAKIS
Chairman, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas Dr. Nektarios Tavernarakis is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Research Director at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), and Professor of Molecular Systems Biology at the Medical School of the University of Crete (Med UOC), in Heraklion, Greece. He is the Director of the Graduate Program on BioInformatics at the Med UOC, and Head of the Neurogenetics and Ageing laboratory of IMBB. He is an elected member and Vice President of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC), an elected member of the Academy of Athens, of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Governing Board and Executive Committee, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Academia Europaea. He has also served as the Director of the IMBB. He earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Crete, and trained as a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of necrotic cell death and neurodegeneration, the interplay between cellular metabolism and ageing, the mechanisms of sensory transduction and integration by the nervous system, and the development of novel genetic tools for biomedical research. He has received several notable scientific prizes, including two ERC Advanced Investigator Grants, and an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. He is the recipient of the EMBO Young Investigator award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel research award, the Bodossaki Foundation Scientific Prize for Medicine and Biology, the Empeirikeion Foundation Academic Excellence Prize, the BioMedical Research Award of the Academy of Athens, the Galien Scientific Research Award and the Helmholtz International Fellow Award. |
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Dr. Yuliana BOYCHEVA Dr. Yuliana Boycheva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She studied History of Art at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (1987-1992). In 2003 she presented her PhD thesis at the Institute of Art Studies /Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Title: “Aeres and Epitaphioi from Bulgarian Churches and Museums (XIV-XVII centuries)”. During the period 1997-2010 she has worked as researcher at the Institute of Art Studies/BAS. Building upon her extensive experience and professional and linguistics skills, Dr. Boycheva has successfully reoriented, since 2011, her research activity in the field of the study of Russian icons in the Balkans. She contributed greatly to the specific field through her Postdoctoral research project (2012-2015) on the “Russian Icons in Greece, 15th-20th c.” at IMS/FORTH. In the framework of the project she curated the exhibition “Talking Icons” at the Byzantine Museum (Athens) and she organized the international conference “Routes of Russian Icons in Greece and the Balkans” and she edited the volume with selected papers presented at the conference. In 2016-2017 Dr. Boycheva conceived and co-curated the exhibition “Religious art from Russia to Greece” (Benaki Museum (Athens). In collaboration with Dr. A. Drandaki, she edited the exhibition catalogue and organized the international symposium “Russian Religious Art in the Orthodox East: Politics, Art, and Technology” (2017). |
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Alceste BONANOS Alceste Bonanos graduated from Wellesley College (USA) in 2000 with a B.A. in Physics and Astronomy. She obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Astronomy from Harvard University (USA) in 2002 and 2005, respectively. She was a Vera Rubin Fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (USA) from 2005-2008, and a Giacconi Fellow at the Space Telescope Science institute (USA) from 2008-2009. In September 2009, she started working as an assistant research astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the National Observatory of Athens (Greece) and since 2017, as a senior researcher. Her research has been funded by a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant of the European Union European Research Council (2009-2013), the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation (2011), an “Aristeia” Greek Excellence Grant (2012-2015) and recently an ERC Consolidator Grant (2018-2023). She was PI of the ESA-funded projects “Hubble Catalog of Variables” (HCV; 2015-2019) and the lunar monitoring program NELIOTA (2015-present). The goal of her research is to understand the evolution of very massive stars and the accurate measurement of distances to nearby galaxies. |
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Eleni CHATZI Eleni Chatzi is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering of ETH Zürich. She received her PhD (2010) from the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University. Her research interests include the fields of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), nonlinear structural dynamics and data-driven decision support for engineered systems. She led the recently completed ERC Starting Grant WINDMIL on the topic of "Smart Monitoring, Inspection and Life-Cycle Assessment of Wind Turbines". Her work in the domain of self-aware infrastructure was recognized with the 2020 Walter L. Huber Research prize, awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). |
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Dr. Nektarios CHRYSOULAKIS Dr. Nektarios Chrysoulakis is a Director of Research at FORTH and Head of the Remote Sensing Lab . He is cPI of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant urbisphere, focusing on coupling dynamic cities and climate. He is the coordinator of the H2020-Space project CURE, focusing on Copernicus services exploitation for urban resilience. He has coordinated the projects URBANFLUXES (H2020), SEN4RUS (ERA.Net-RUS Plus), BRIDGE (FP7) GEOURBAN (FP7). He has also participated projects CoCO2(H2020), HARMONIA (H2020), ECOPOTENTIAL (H2020), THINKNATURE (H2020), IGIC (LIFE) and FLIRE (LIFE). Dr. Chrysoulakis is a member of the Board of Directors of the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence , in Earth Observation, space technology and geospatial analysis. He is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete, teaching the course “Principles and Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing”; and at the CIHEAM-MAICh, teaching the course “Remote sensing of Urban Environments”. Since 2016, he has been co-Chair of the SPIE Conference on Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments. He is involved in GEO Climate Change Working Group, as well as in GEO Programme Board Urban Resilience Subgroup. He has more than 250 publications in per-review journals and conference proceedings. |
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Vasso KINDI Vasso Kindi is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author, editor, co-author and co-editor of books and articles on philosophy of science, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, and ethics. She is the Editor-in-Chief of International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, member of the National Council of Research, Technology and Innovation, national representative to the ERC and to the Council of Europe Platform on Ethics, Transparency and Integrity in Education (ETINED). She has served on evaluation panels for ERC.
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Vasilis KOSTAKIS Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of P2P Governance at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center. Moreover, he is the Founder of the P2P Lab. In 2019, Vasilis was awarded a four-year grant from the European Research Council, to study how to create a sustainable economy based on locally productive communities that are digitally interconnected. He has written essays for several outlets such as the Harvard Business Review and Aeon. His work has appeared in 16 languages. Vasilis is also the director of TheOtherSchool.art science popularization project. |
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Vissarion PAPADOPOULOS Professor at the Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research (ISAAR) of the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). His research focuses on Computational Stochastic Mechanics with emphasis on Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification in multiple scales. He is Vice President of the Greek Association of Computational Mechanics (GRACM). He has co-organized a number of National and international Scientific Conferences and Minisymposium. He has published more than 170 papers in international refereed Journals and conferences. He has participated both as participant and as Coordinator in a number of EU and National projects, including an ERC Advanced Grant. He is founder of the research team ΜGroup (http://mgroup.ntua.gr/) which is active in the research area of Computational Mechanics. |
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Klelia SALPEA Klelia Salpea obtained her university degree in biology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2004 and worked as a research associate at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens. She moved to London in 2006 to work at the Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London (UCL), from where she obtained her PhD in medical genetics. In 2011, Klelia received an EU grant and joined the functional genomics laboratory at the Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Al. Fleming” in Athens. She moved to Brussels in 2017 to join the European Research Council Executive Agency, where she works since then as a Scientific Officer in the Life Sciences Unit.
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Christiana SIAMBEKOU Christiana Siambekou holds a MSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of Patras and a degree in Physics from the University of Ioannina, Western Greece. She has expertise in the Renewable Energy Sources and a long working experience in this field. Since 2013, she has been working for the Enterprise Europe Network – Hellas and has also been appointed as a National Contact Point in Horizon 2020 (Societal Challenges 3, 5 and Euratom) and Horizon Europe (Cluster 5, 6 and Fusion). Currently, she works for PRAXI Network as Head of the National Contact Points Unit within the organization, supporting the research community and the Greek research intensive SMEs in identifying and participating in suitable EU funding schemes. Christiana has a long standing experience in technology transfer and has participated in more than 10 European R&D projects. |
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Anastasia STATHOPOULOU Anastasia Stathopoulou is a holder of a Master of Science in Water Resources Science and Technology from the National Technical University of Athens with a specialization in Environmental Management of Water Resources. Her main studies are in Geology with a focus on hydrogeology. She is a teacher of Natural Sciences in secondary education since 2005. Currently she is seconded to the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI). She is employed as National Contact Point and Project Officer for PRIMA projects, as National Representative to the Horizon Europe Programme Committee for ERC and Cluster 6 (Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment) and as NCP for the Joint Research Centre. |
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