61 Notable alumni of
National Technical University of Athens
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The National Technical University of Athens is 841st in the world, 293rd in Europe, and 3rd in Greece by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 61 notable alumni from the National Technical University of Athens sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alexis Tsipras
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- In 2000 studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineer
- Biography
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Alexis Tsipras is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019.
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Iannis Xenakis
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- engineermusicianmusic educatorpoetarchitect
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Giannis Klearchou Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
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Marina Satti
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- singerrecord producersongwriter
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Marina Satti is a Greek singer, songwriter, music producer and actress. Her music combines traditional Greek, Arab and Balkan sounds with urban elements, rhythm and production.
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Alexis Georgoulis
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- In 1993 studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm directorpresenteractorfilm actor
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Alexis Georgoulis is a Greek actor and politician.
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Alexandros Panagoulis
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- politicianwriterengineerpoet
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Alexandros Panagoulis was a Greek politician and poet. He took an active role in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels (1967–1974) in Greece. He became famous for his attempt to assassinate dictator Georgios Papadopoulos on 13 August 1968, but also for the torture to which he was subjected during his detention. After the restoration of democracy, he was elected to the Greek parliament as a member of the Centre Union (E.K.).
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Vasilis Leventis
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- politician
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Vasileios "Vasilis" Leventis is a Greek politician, leader of the Greek centrist party Union of Centrists (Ένωση Κεντρώων) since 1992, and a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2019.
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Constantinos Daskalakis
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- professorcomputer scientistmathematician
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Constantinos Daskalakis is a Greek theoretical computer scientist. He is a professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize and the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2018.
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Christos Papadimitriou
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- musicianuniversity teacherwritercomputer scientistmathematician
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Christos Charilaos Papadimitriou is a Greek-American theoretical computer scientist and the Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.
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Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis
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- politicianurban plannerarchitect
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Constantinos A. Doxiadis, often cited as C. A. Doxiadis, was a Greek architect and urban planner. During the 1960s, he was the lead architect and planner of Islamabad, which was to serve as the new capital city of Pakistan. He was later known as the father of ekistics, which concerns the multi-aspect science of human settlements.
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Maria Damanaki
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- Studied chemical engineering
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
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Maria Damanaki is a Greek politician. She is a former president of the Synaspismos party of the left and former state member of the Hellenic Parliament within the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). She served as the Global Managing Director for Oceans at The Nature Conservancy. In this capacity leads a global team focused on how the world manages its oceans, including sustainable fisheries management, large-scale protection and restoration of coral reefs and other ecosystems, coastal resilience, and mapping and quantification of the full value of the world's oceans to people.
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Ernst Ziller
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- university teacherarchaeologistart historianarchitectarchitectural historian
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Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greek national. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was a major designer of royal and municipal buildings in Athens, Patras, and other Greek cities.
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Loukianos Kilaidonis
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- composersinger
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Loukianos Kilaidonis was a Greek composer, songwriter and singer.
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Christos Staïkouras
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- politicianeconomist
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Christos Staikouras is a Greek economist and politician who is currently New Democracy's coordinator of economic affairs. Since the 2007 legislative election, he has been a Member of the Hellenic Parliament (MP) for Phthiotis. After the 2019 election, he was appointed minister for finance in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis serving from 2019 to 2023.
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Nikos Voutsis
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- engineerpoliticiancivil engineer
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Nikos Voutsis is a Greek politician, former MP who served as the Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction from January 2015 to August 2015, and as President of the Hellenic Parliament from October 2015 to July 2019.
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Chrysostomos L. “Max” Nikias
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- engineer
- Biography
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Chrysostomos Loizos "Max" Nikias is a Cypriot-American academic, and served as the 11th University of Southern California president, a position he held from August 3, 2010, to August 7, 2018. He holds the Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities and is president emeritus of the university. He had been at USC since 1991, as a professor, director of national research centers, dean, provost, and president. He also served as chair of the College Football Playoff (CFP) Board of Managers (2015–2018) as chair of the board of the Keck Medical Center at USC (2009–2018), as member of the board of directors of the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering (2001–2018), and as a member of the board of trustees of the Chadwick School, an independent school in Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif. (2001–2010). He is currently a tenured professor in electrical engineering with a secondary appointment in classics, and the director of the USC Institute for Technology Enabled Higher Education.
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Iosif Sifakis
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- engineercomputer scientistresearcher
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Joseph Sifakis is a Greek-French computer scientist. He received the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking.
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Mimis Androulakis
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- writerjournalistpolitician
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Dimitris Androulakis (Greek: Δημήτρης (Μίμης) Ανδρουλάκης) (born 24 November 1951 in Agios Nikolaos, Crete) is a Greek author and politician.
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Alexis Charitsis
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Alexis Haritsis is a Greek politician, Member of the Hellenic Parliament since 2019 and President of New Left since 2023.
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Haris Doukas
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- In 2008 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianmechanical engineerscientist
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Haris Doukas is a Greek mechanical engineer and Professor of energy policy and management at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. Doukas is the Mayor of Athens, having assumed office on 1 January 2024, succeeding Kostas Bakoyannis.
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Dimitris Papadimoulis
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- politician
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Dimitrios Papadimoulis is a Greek politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) as a member of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL.
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Panos Panagiotopoulos
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- politicianjournalistlawyer
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Panos Panagiotopoulos is a Greek politician of the New Democracy party.
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Georgios Candilis
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- architecturban plannerengineerfurniture designer
- Biography
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Georges Candilis was a Greek-French architect and urbanist.
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Dimitri Bertsekas
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- engineercomputer scientistmathematician
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Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas is an applied mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist, a McAfee Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also a Fulton Professor of Computational Decision Making at Arizona State University, Tempe.
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Alexis Stamatis
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- screenwriterarchitectwriterpoet
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Alexis Stamatis is a Greek novelist, playwright, and poet. Amongst other work, he has published nineteen novels, six books of poetry, and a number of plays. As of 2017, he has his own column at the Greek newspaper VIMA. He teaches creative writing at various institutions.
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Linda P.B. Katehi
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- academic administratorengineer
- Biography
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Linda Pisti Basile Katehi-Tseregounis is a Greek-born American engineering professor and former university administrator. Katehi was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2006) for contributions to three-dimensional integrated circuits and on-wafer packaging and to engineering education. Katehi worked as the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's provost from 2006 to 2009 and dean of engineering at Purdue University from 2002 to 2006. Beginning in 2009, she served as the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Davis.
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Theano Fotiou
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- politicianuniversity teacherarchitect
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Theano Fotiou is a Greek architect and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). From January 2015 to July 2019, she served as Alternate Minister of Social Solidarity in the First and Second Tsipras Cabinets.
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Aristidis Baltas
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- university teacherpoliticianphysicistphilosopher
- Biography
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Aristides Baltas is a philosopher of science and physicist who served as the Minister of Culture and Sports of Greece and as the Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs in the cabinet of Alexis Tsipras from 27 January 2015 to 4 November 2016.
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Kostas Skandalidis
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- politician
- Biography
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Kostas Skandalidis is a Greek politician and member of the Greek Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) for the Athens A constituency.
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Ioannis Iliopoulos
- Occupations
- theoretical physicistscientistphysicistteacher
- Biography
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John Iliopoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Ηλιόπουλος; 1940) is a Greek physicist. He is the first person to present the Standard Model of particle physics in a single report. He is best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Glashow and Luciano Maiani (the "GIM mechanism"). Iliopoulos is also known for demonstrating the cancellation of anomalies in the Standard model. He is further known for the Fayet–Iliopoulos D-term formula, which was introduced in 1974. He is currently an honorary member of Laboratory of theoretical physics of École normale supérieure, Paris.
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Nikos Christodoulakis
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Nikos Christodoulakis is a Greek politician, economics professor and electronics engineer. He was the Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece from 2001 to 2004.
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Georgios Souflias
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Georgios Ath. Souflias is a Greek politician. He is a member of the New Democracy political party and was Minister for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works for the duration of the Karamanlis administration.
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Ioannis Maniatis
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticiancivil servantengineer
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Giannis Maniatis is a Greek politician. He worked as an engineer and attended at the National Technical University of Athens. He served as a member of the Hellenic Parliament for PASOK from 2004 to 2019, and as Minister of the Environment and Energy of Greece.
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Nikolaos A. Peppas
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- In 1971 graduated with bachelor's degree in chemical engineering
- Occupations
- inventorbiomedical engineerpharmacologistuniversity teacherchemical engineer
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Nicholas A. Peppas (Greek: Νικόλαος Α. Πέππας; born August 25, 1948, in Athens, Greece) is a chemical and biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterials science and engineering, drug delivery, bionanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, chemical and polymer engineering has provided seminal foundations based on the physics and mathematical theories of nanoscale, macromolecular processes and drug/protein transport and has led to numerous biomedical products or devices.
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Giorgos Tsipras
- Occupations
- mechanical engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Giorgos Tsipras is a Syriza politician.
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Giorgos Mavrotas
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- water polo playerpolitician
- Biography
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George Mavrotas is a former member of the Greek Parliament, while also being a retired Greek water polo player and associate professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. In July 2019 he was designated as General Secretary of Sport in the Greek Government.
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Yannis Milios
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- 1977-1981 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in engineering
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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John Milios is a Greek social scientist and Marxian economics scholar. He is Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens. An author of several scholarly books, Milios is also director of the quarterly journal of economic theory Theseis.
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Mihalis Yannakakis
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- computer scientist
- Biography
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Mihalis Yannakakis is a professor of computer science at Columbia University. He is noted for his work in computational complexity, databases, and other related fields. He won the Donald E. Knuth Prize in 2005.
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Yannis Papathanasiou
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Yannis Papathanasiou is a Greek politician, former Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece. He is a member of the Hellenic Parliament with the conservative New Democracy party since 2002.
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Athanasios Papoulis
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- mathematicianengineer
- Biography
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Athanasios Papoulis was a Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician.
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Nicholas Christofilos
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- physicist
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Nicholas Constantine Christofilos was a Greek physicist. The Christofilos effect, a type of electromagnetic shielding, is named after him.
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Leonidas Drosis
- Occupations
- sculptor
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Leonidas Drosis (Greek: Λεωνίδας Δρόσης; was a Greek neoclassical sculptor of the 19th century.
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Alexandros Tzonis
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- university teacherwriterarchitectart historianarchitectural historian
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Alexander Tzonis is a Greek-born architect, author, and researcher. He has made contributions to architectural theory, history and design cognition, bringing together scientific and humanistic approaches in a synthesis. Since 1975, he has been collaborating in most projects with Liane Lefaivre. In 1985, he founded and directed Design Knowledge Systems (DKS), a multidisciplinary research institute for the study of architectural theory and the development of design thinking tools at TU Delft. Tzonis is known for his work on the classical canon, history of the emergence and development of modern architectural thinking, creative design by analogy, and introducing the idea of critical regionalism.
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Dimitrios Galanis
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- Studied in 1897-1899
- Occupations
- graphic artistengraverprintmakerpaintercaricaturist
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Demetrios Galanis was an early twentieth-century Greek artist and friend of Picasso. In 1920, the year he completed his Seated Nude (private collection), he exhibited alongside such major figures of modern art as Matisse and Braque, while from 1921 on he also exhibited alongside Juan Gris, Dufy, Chagall, and Picasso.
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Giorgos Lianis
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- university teacherpolitician
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George Lianis (Greek: Γεώργιος Λιάνης, 20 May 1926–4 January 2008) was a Greek scholar, activist, diplomat, and cabinet member of the first term of government of PASOK, in 1981–1985. As cabinet member responsible for higher education, he authored the 1982 university reform that introduced the departmental system as a replacement for the professorial chair system and that established graduate schools. Then in 1983-1985, as Greece’s first Minister of Research and Technology, he was instrumental in supporting the introduction of information technology and alternative energy, reorganizing the national research institutes, and establishing the system of centers of research innovation and excellence.
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Konstantinos Papadakis
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Constantine Papadakis was a Greek-American businessman and the president of Drexel University.
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Constantine Dafermos
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Constantine Michael Dafermos is a Greek-American applied mathematician. He received a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1964) and a Ph.D. in Mechanics from Johns Hopkins University under the direction of Jerald Ericksen (1967). He has been an Assistant Professor at Cornell University (1968-1971) and an Associate Professor (1971-1975) and Professor (1975-) in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. Since 1984, he has been the Alumni-Alumnae University Professor at Brown.
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Georgios Kosmas
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in telegraphy
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnelmilitary officer
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Georgios Kosmas was a senior Hellenic Army officer who distinguished himself in the Greco-Italian War of 1940–1941, served as Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff in 1949–51, and became a Member of the Hellenic Parliament and cabinet minister.
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Aristides Patrinos
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- academic
- Biography
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Dr. Aristides Patrinos is an expert in synthetic biology, and a former leader of the Human Genome Project.
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Christos Armandos Gezos
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- poetwriter
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Christos Armandos Gezos is a Greek author and poet. Gezos was born in Himara, southern Albania, and grew up in Skala Laconia, Greece. For his poetry collection Ανεκπλήρωτοι Φόβοι (Unfullfilled Fears), he received in 2014 the State Literary Award for Debuting Author. He has also published a novel, Η λάσπη (The mud).
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Ioanna Kontouli
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ioanna Kondouli is a Greek politician and topographer engineer who is leader of the Ecologist Greens party.
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Eleftherios N. Economou
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- 1958-1963 graduated with bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Eleftherios Ν. Economou is a Greek theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the department of physics of the University of Crete. He has contributed to various areas of theoretical condensed matter physics, starting with the study of surface plasmons during his thesis in 1969.
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Spyros Kokotos
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- 1933-.. (age 92)
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Spyros Kokotos is a Greek architect born in the city of Herakleion, Crete on October 30, 1933, to (father) Fotis (Greek: Φώτης) a.k.a. "Takis" (Greek: Τάκης) Kokotos and (mother) Anna Varouha (Greek: Αννα Βαρούχα).
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Dora E. Angelaki
- Born in
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Greece - Occupations
- researcherneuroscientisteditor-in-chief
- Biography
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Dora Angelaki is a Professor of Neuroscience in the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She previously held the Wilhelmina Robertson Professorship of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine. She looks at multi-sensory information flow between subcortical and cortical areas of the brain. Her research interests include spatial navigation and decision-making circuits. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
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Anastasios Ntalipis
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- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Anastasios Dalipis, usually referred as Tasos Dalipis, was a Greek Army officer and politician, who was elected many times as a member of the Greek Parliament and served as Minister Governor-General of Western Macedonia from 1946 to 1947.
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Anastasios Venetsanopoulos
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- 1941-2014 (aged 73)
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Anastasios Venetsanopoulos (June 19, 1941 – November 17, 2014) was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto, Ontario and a professor emeritus with the Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. In October 2006, Venetsanopoulos joined what was then Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) and served as the founding vice-president of research and innovation. His portfolio included oversight of the university's international activities, research ethics, Office of Research Services, and Office of Innovation and Commercialization. He retired from that position in 2010, but remained a distinguished advisor to the role. Tas Venetsanopoulos continued to actively supervise his research group at the University of Toronto, and was a highly sought-after consultant throughout his career.
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Nikolaos Hatzidakis
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Nikolaos J. Hatzidakis was a Greek mathematician.
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Emmanouil Lampakis
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Emmanouil Lampakis was a Greek painter, a member of the academic Munich School of the 19th century.
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Alexander Dinghas
- Enrolled in the National Technical University of Athens
- Studied in 1925-1930
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alexander Dinghas was a Greek mathematician.
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Theodosios Pavlidis
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Theodosios Pavlidis is a computer scientist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
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Panos Antsaklis
- Born in
- Greece
- Occupations
- electrical engineerresearcherteacher
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Panos Antsaklis is the H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and also Concurrent Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering and of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics. He is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and holds MS and PhD degrees from Brown University.
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Sofia N. Antonopoulou
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Sophia N. Antonopoulou is a professor at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and holds a PhD in economics from the University College London, UK. She has published four books as well as scientific and opinion articles in numerous publications in Greece and abroad.
