Research

[:el] George Dedoussis is a professor of Human Cellular and Molecular Biology at Harokopio University in Greece. His research areas of interest are focused in human molecular genetics, nutrigenetics-nutrigenomics in obesity, ageing and coronary artery disease.He was part of major researches that led to the...

Greek researcher sheds light in the odd properties of water and ice

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[:el] We normally consider liquid water as disordered with the molecules rearranging on a short time scale around some average structure. Now, however, scientists at Stockholm University led by a Greek researcher have discovered two phases of the liquid with large differences in structure and...

A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved by a Greek researcher

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[:el] At EPFL, researchers challenge a fundamental law and discover that more electromagnetic energy can be stored in wave-guiding systems than previously thought. The discovery has implications in telecommunications. Working around the fundamental law, they conceived resonant and wave-guiding systems capable of storing energy over...

Pioneer in Photonic Sciences

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[:el] Gerasimos Konstantatos is a Professor at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona, where he leads a team of scientists in Nanosciences and Nanomaterials. ICFO is a centre of research excellence devoted to the science and technology of light. More specifically, he led...

Developing state-of-the-art technologies with nanomaterials

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[:el] Themis Prodromakis is a Reader professor in Nanoelectronics and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellow affiliated with the Nano Research Group and the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at University of Southampton. He leads a 20-people team...

Head of the Finance department in one of the best business schools in Europe

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[:el] Emilios Galariotis is a Professor of Finance, the Director of the Institute of Finance and Head of the Finance department, at Audencia Business School. Audencia Business School is a Triple Crown school that ranks well in both France and Europe, while its Masters in...

Aiming to clean energy

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[:el] Christos Maravelias is a Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Greek researcher is in the team that discovered new process for obtaining high-value products from biomass. UW-Madison researchers and collaborators have developed a new ‘green’ technology for converting...

Greek researcher uncovered 1000 new microbial genomes

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[:el] The number of microbes in a handful of soil exceeds the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, but researchers know less about what’s on Earth because they have only recently had the tools to deeply explore what is just underfoot. Now scientists...

Famous Greeks

One of the most important researchers in fighting cancer

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[:el] Leonidas C. Platanias, is Director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University and the Jesse, Sara, Andrew, Abigail, Benjamin and Elizabeth Lurie Professor of Oncology. He’s known for his work with specific proteins found in blood that have the ability to...

8 Greek scientists In the team that detected for the third time gravitational waves

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