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[:el] Professor Chryssostomidis is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and MIT Sea Grant College Program Director. He was appointed director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program in 1982 and established the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Lab in 1989 to develop technology and systems for...

Research led by a Greek scientist reveals how some old people retain memories

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[:el] A study conducted by researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) led by a Greek scientist has revealed something interesting: elderly people who are able to retain sharp memories have brains that look like they haven’t aged in decades. Alexandra Touroutoglou of MGH Neurology...

Chair of the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University

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[:el] Athanassios Panagiotopoulos is professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Chair the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. T. Panagiotopoulos received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982. Four years later, in 1986,...

Discovered a way to read into the intentions of the brain

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[:el] Apostolos P. Georgopoulos is Regents Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Brain Sciences Center. He has pioneered the application of analyses based on neuronal populations to decipher brain activity underlying the planning of movement, cognitive processing, and, more...

Professor at the Ocean Engineering Department of MIT

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[:el] Nicholas Patrikalakis is the Kawasaki Professor of Engineering in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the Department of Ocean Engineering. Regarding his education, Patrikalakis got his Diploma in Naval Architecture, Marine and Mechanical Engineering in 1977 from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. In...

Greek scientist awarded for his contribution in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

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[:el] Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis, Unidel Eugene du Pont Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the 2017 E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. The award is sponsored by ExxonMobil Research and Engineering...

Greek student won an Oscar for her documentary about the refugees

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[:el] Matziaraki’s film won in the documentary category of the Student Academy Awards, in which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selects the best student films in the country. The Student Oscars were held in Los Angeles in September 2016. The Academy has voted 17 students...

Participated in the detection of gravitational waves

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[:el] Erotokritos Katsavounidis is a Senior Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, a team of scientists who recently-in February 2016- made first detection of gravitational waves, something that Albert Einstein himself had predicted, almost a 100...

Developing and applying technology to sense marine life

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[:el] Nicholas Makris is an MIT Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and Director of the Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing. His research interest focus mainly on ocean exploration, undersea remote sensing of marine life and geophysical phenomena, musical instrument acoustics and evolution, and more....

Greek researcher wins the 2016 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award

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