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[:el] A mathematician and a physicist, Demetrios Christodoulou was born on October 19th, 1951, in Athens and currently holds the position of Professor at one of the major universities in Europe, the ETH Zurich. His research mainly focuses on Partial Differential Equations, Partial Geometry, the...

The only Greek doctor in Antarctica

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Evangelos Kaimakamis was born on April 27th, 1974, in Larisa and graduated the School of Medicine of Thessaloniki. He’s the only Greek scientist joining the European Space Agency Program, at the Concrodia Base in Antarctica. “I have the honour and responsibility to be part of...

From the sugarcane plantations to the University of Melbourne

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[:el] James Tatoulis is an internationally acclaimed heart surgeon and an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Melbourne. Tatoulis’s family was one of many Greek families that decided to leave Greece and seek for a new life in the Promised...

The Messinian NASA astrophysicist

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[:el] Dr. Periklis Papadopoulos, Aerospace Engineering Professor and Astrophysicist, has origins in Kalamata, where he was born in 1963. In 1982, he relocated to the United States to pursue his academic dream of studying Aeronautics and Aeronautical Engineering, with expertise in planet exploration and ultrasounds....

A Greek honoured with Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit

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Born in 1937 in Athens, Socratis Giapapas relocated from Greece to Germany during the ‘50s, where he graduated as a material mechanical engineer from Berlin Polytechnic University. Later on, he received his doctorate on plastics and metals coupling in the Polytechnic University of Warsow. As...

A long-term research on the mutation of cancer cells

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A group of researchers from Switzerland, Greece and Finland, led by Greek professors of the University of Geneva Thanos Halazonetis and Stylianos Antonarakis, recently identified a genetic mechanism for the transformation of precancerous of colon polyps into cancer tumors. Group’s scientists sequenced the DNA of...

A pioneer in the development of innovative thermoelectric materials

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[:el] Mercouri Kanatzidis is a Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. Kanatzidis was listed as one of the most cited researchers in Materials Science and Engineering...

Perennial research against Alzheimer

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[:el] Nikolaos Robakis is the First A.P. Slaner Professor for Alzheimer’s disease research anddirector of the Center for Molecular Biology and Genetics of Neurodegeneration, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. He was born in Finikounda of Messinia and studied Chemistry at...

Greek blood runs through my veins

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[:el] Greek American biologist Tom Maniatis is widely recognized by the international academic community for his excellent research on recombinant DNA and human genes cloning and he is also one of seven scientists awarded with the internationally prestigious Lasker-Koshland Achievement Award in Medical Science. Tom...

She identified the gene that causes childhood leukemia

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