How do social and group identities affect electoral behavior, a partner or place of residence, as well as phenomena such as violence against members of other racial groups? With what mechanisms does the gastrointestinal system involve in the creation of oxidative stress? Can we depict the entire brain bark in life through computing techniques? How do particles accelerate in astrophysical creatures? These are just some of the pioneering issues that this year’s award -winning awarded with the Bodosaki Foundation’s scientific awards.

The institution of scientific awards is rewarding this year for the 13th time the course of remarkable young Greek scientists on the world research map and their international value research achievements.

Specifically:

  • OR Fouca BasilicaAssociate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, is awarded the Scientific Award for Social Sciences in her industry Political science. Vassiliki Fouca explores the factors that shape people’s social and political behavior and shaping social and group identities, with the aim of drawing conclusions about the design of public policies.
  • H Stavroula HatziouAssociate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology and Chemistry at Yale University is awarded the Scientific Award for Bioe Sciences in the field of BiomedicalN. Mrs Hatziou aims to discover new therapeutic tools for gastrointestinal infections and gastrointestinal cancer by combining chemistry and microbiology.
  • THE John GioulekasAssociate Professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University is awarded the Scientific Award in Applied Technology Sciences in her field Artificial intelligence. His work moves between artificial intelligence, computer vision and graphic computers and focuses on computing imaging. It studies the combination and integration of visual, electronic, and computational techniques, with the aim of creating imaging systems with unprecedented capabilities.
  • Finally, the Maria PetropoulouAssistant Professor of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, is awarded the Scientific Award for Basic Sciences in its field Physics. Ms Petropoulou is looking for solutions for fundamental problems of astrophysics, focusing on radiation processes in astrophysical creatures, the processes of acceleration of particles at high energies and neutrinum production.

The 2025 scientific awards ceremony will take place in June at the Zappeion Palace.

From 1992 until today, in the context of Bodosakis’ public benefit purposes for the promotion of education and the emergence of scientific excellence, 65 Greek and Greek scientists have been distinguished through the institution of scientific awards, which highlights the work of Greeks and Greeks. The criteria for the award of Bodosaki Scientific Awards are the excellent performance of candidates in their scientific field in which they have a comprehensive work, the contribution of candidates to the intellectual, scientific and economic development of our country, as well as their contribution, with their morality and work.

The main bodies of the Bodosakis Foundation’s scientific awards are the Committee on Scientific Awards and Special Judgment Committees. Candidates are proposed either by scientists in the same industry, the same or higher level, or by the universities and institutions in which they serve. Subsequently, the Special Crisis Committees, which are constituted specifically for each industry in which a prize is awarded, evaluate the nominations. Each Special Crisis Committee submits its proposals for the candidates selected by the Committee on Scientific Awards, which in turn recommends the most candidates to the Board of Directors of the Foundation.

The Committee on Scientific Awards is made up of Yiannis Aifantis, a professor at the University of New York Medical School, Theodora Varvarigou, Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens Kollia, Academic, Professor at the Medical School of the University of Athens and a collaborating researcher at the Biomedical Science Research Center “Alexandros Fleming”, Nancy Makri, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urban Professor Marine Technology at MIT, a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of the US and director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, and Thanassis Fokas, a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University of Cambridge.

The Committee of Scientific Awards is attended by Athena Desypris, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Theodoros Theodorou, Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Vice President of the Board of Directors.