Famous Greeks
Greeks are a special example in history they have a glorious past but they dont live in the past. They are powerful, even today. And they will always be. Greeks distinguished everywhere and always be FAMOUS and useful citizens of the world.
He developed the Method Of Splitting Tsunami model
Constantinos Synolakis is a leading tsunami engineer who research over the past three decades about natural disaster management. He was born in Athens in 1956 and studied at the California Institute of Technology. He is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California...
The Greek who fights against cancer
Dr. Philippos Tsichlis is Professor of Hematology and Oncology and Director of the Institute of Molecular Oncology at the Tufts University Medical School in Boston, United States of America. It belongs to the pioneers who created and applied experimental models using retroviruses to identify and...
The Greek cardiac surgeon who shines in America
Dr. John Elefteriades was born in Philadelphia, USA, by Greek immigrants and he is one of the leading heart surgeons in the United States. Dr. Elefteriades graduated magna cum laude with a triple concentration in Physics, French and Psychology from Yale University. He received his...
The leading Greek scientist of climate change research
Christos Zerefos is the president of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, supervisor of the Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology of the Academy of Athens and former chairman of the International Ozone Commission. Born in Cairo on April 22, 1943, he studied...
A leading scientist in Chemical Engineering
Yannis Yortsos, a member of the Academy of Athens and of the National Academy of Engineering of America, is one of the world’s most famous researchers in Chemical Engineering. He is the author of more than 145 refereed publications, he has given more than 175...
The renowned professor at the London School of Economics
Chrisanthi Avgerou is a professor of information systems at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her LSE students call her “Chrisanthi”, but at the same time she maintains the strict framework of a student-student relationship. Born in Volos in 1954. He received the Mathematics degree...
The Olympic Games artistic visionary
The award-winning Dimitris Papaioannou gained his early recognition as a painter and a comic-book designer before his interest turned to the performing arts as a director, choreographer, performer, set designer, costumes designer, make-up and lighting director. He became known to the wide Greek and international...
The incredible musician who plays Bach with a Cretan lyre
Yiorgos Kaloudis is a cellist, Cretan lyre performer, improviser, composer, cello professor at the Athenaeum Conservatory, in Athens, and producer at the DNA Classical Label. He performs his recitals “Innovating Tradition” and the “J.S.BACH: Cello Suites on the Cretan lyre, in concert halls, archaeological monuments,...
A prominent personality of University of Cambridge
Dr. Nikos Nikiforakis studied Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Manchester and he received an MSc on Aerospace Propulsion and a PhD on the ‘Evolution of Detonation Waves‘ from Cranfield Institute of Technology. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry, University...
The superhero of artificial intelligence
Demis Hassabis, the 46-year-old co-founder of the famous DeepMind of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a subsidiary of Google, is globally recognized as one of the smartest thinkers in his field, while he was called “superhero of Artificial Intelligence” by the “The Guardian”. He is a researcher...