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.
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...
The Greek who received the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
Known for his intuitive approach to complex technologies, Dr. Dimitri A. Antoniadis has had a tremendous effect on several areas of microelectronics technology, especially in field-effect controlled, quantum-effect devices and silicon process modeling. Dimitri A. Antoniadis was born on 1 January 1947, in Athens, Greece....
One of the 100 cited computer science authors
Dimitri Bertsekas’nearly fifty years of contributions to areas such as optimization theory, data networks, dynamic programming, and large-scale computation proves nearly impossible to measure. His 15 books take too long to summarize. But a few words capture his skill and passion: the language of mathematics....
The international artistic marvel of instrumental music
Yanni is a composer, keyboardist and musical producer of international recognition from his concerts in historical monuments of the world, with the video from “Live at the Acropolis” having yielded the second best-selling music concert video of all time. He has also played in Taj...
Dimitri Vassilakis is an internationally renowned jazz musician, award-winning saxophonist, singer, composer and teacher and has recorded 5 albums for the historic jazz company Candid Records based in New York and London. He is the first Greek jazz musician and academician with an international career...