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How a student of National Technical University of Athens won a place on Google

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Maria Dimakopoulou received Google’s Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship promoting excellence in computer science and technology. In December 2014, she will start working at Google’s advertizing systems in New York. During her studies at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Maria managed to solve a computing problem that had...
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An expert in nanophotonics

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Christos Argyropoulos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He’s an expert in nanophotonics, metamaterials and their applications. He has received a Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and later continued...
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Greek robot octopus takes to the sea

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The famous by now octopus robot created by Greek engineers at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas in Greece has finally conquered the sea! The world’s first robotic octopus, just like a real-life octopus, the robotic octopus propels itself forward by pumping its eight limbs in...
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Greek scientist participates in research opening the way for faster LED

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Duke University researchers, among them was Christos Argyropoulos, have made fluorescent molecules emit photons of light 1,000 times faster than normal, setting a speed record and making an important step toward realizing superfast light emitting diodes (LEDs) and quantum cryptography. This year’s Nobel Prize in...
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Aims to the development of autism diagnosis and treatment

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[:el] Theoharis Theoharides is the Director of the Molecular Immunopharmacology and Drug Discovery Laboratory, as well as a Professor of Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Internal Medicine and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He is the founder and president of AutismFreeBrain...
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Top researcher for diabetes

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Sofianos Andrikopoulos is the former President of the Australian Diabetes Society and head of the Islet Biology Research Group at the University of Melbourne Department of Medicine (Austin Health). He investigates the genetic susceptibility of islet dysfunction using animal models of diabetes. This research has...
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Australia: Greek historian among world’s best researchers

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Greek-Australian Joy Damousi, Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, was awarded with the highest academic award in Australia, the ARC Laureate Fellowship. She joins only 15 other distinguished researchers around the country in receiving this award. In addition to the...
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Greek scientist wins the Curt Brunnée Award

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The winner of the 2014 Curt Brunnée Award is Dr. Dimitris Papanastasiou, nominated by the Hellenic Mass Spectrometry Society for his contributions to the development of the theoretical understanding of ion behaviors and implementation of this knowledge in new devices for ion optics and ion mobility. Dr Papanastasiou  received the award in a...
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The neuroscientist focusing on thought-controlled movement

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Miguel Nicolelis is a Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University in the United States and the Head of the revolutionary Walk Again project developed by an international team of neuroscientists. Nicolelis of Greek origin was born in São Paulo and claims that his 10-year long...

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