Achievements
Achievements of Greeks leave their mark, influence developments, determine the future of Greece, Hellenism and whole world.
The distinguished Greek professor and member of the USA Govermnent
Dr. George Sigounas became Administrator for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) on May 1, 2017, and is Professor and Director of the Department of Hematology / Oncology at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine. Dr....
One of the most important photojournalists of the Associated Press
Photographer Aristotelis Sarrikostas was born in Kesariani in 1937 and grew up in Greece’s German Occupation period, during the Second World War, and in the Civil War that followed right after, in the neighborhoods of Kesariani. He was the youngest of the five brothers who...
The Greek engineer of IBM
Dr. Evangelos Eleftheriou is a graduate engineer and Honorary Doctor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras and a Ph.D. of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Still, in 2018, he was elected a member of the National...
The master of the lyra
Sokratis Sinopoulos is the musician who reintroduced the playing of the lyra in Greece, moving one step further, with musical experiments on completely different streets. He masterfully plays the lyra, which he was taught by Ross Daly in the 1980s, but also by listening to...
Leader of America’s political scene
Originating from the village of Isari, Arcadia, Greek-American political scientist, William Antholis, has a long-standing role in shaping the international relations and strategy of the United States of America. Antholis earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in politics (1993) and his B.A. from the University...
The pioneer in cancer prevention
Dr. Apostolia M. Tsimberidou is a Ph.D. at the Department of Cancer at the University of Texas at Houston and her promising, published research on individualized cancer therapies has stood out in the global medical community. Dr. Tsimberidou, a native of Volos, wanted to be...
The internationally renowned researcher at IBM
Dr. Hariklia “Lili” Deligianni is a research scientist in IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Her current interests include materials and devices for power electronics, bioelectronics, biosensors, and brain-inspired computing. Dr. Deligianni has played a key role developing the solder bump technology that became the...
The voice of Mikis Theodorakis from the younger generation
Betty Harlafti is a modern classical interpreter with a wide-ranging repertoire in several languages, concerts in America and Europe and has sung in a concert dedicated to Mikis Theodorakis’ 90th birthday at Manhattan’s Merkin Concert Hall, where he was invited to perform works by the...
Τhe contemporary Greek family through the eyes of art
Dimitris Papanikolaou is an Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Oxford University, where he teaches since 2004, also covering the themes of cultural studies, queer theory (term referring to gender minorities and their rights) and gender studies. He is a partner of St. Stephen’s...
The Greek who conquers Bollywood
Elizabeth Avramidou is a Greek-Swedish Bollywood actress with great acting parts and participation in films, shows, video clips and advertisements in India, where she stands out as the “Greek Goddess”, as much as in Sweden and Iran, while in 2019 she was awarded the Sol...