Theme: EPHEMERAL

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Michael Cacoyannis Foundation
Pireos 206, Tavros
Athens, Attiki, 177 78
Greece

Fotis Floros

Content Creator - Art Historian

Fotis Floros is 22 years old and studies Theory and History of Art in the School of Fine Arts. At the same time, he is the creator of the community science project "The Dandy", a page that aims to bring the world closer to art through social media. Through interesting and strange stories, he tries to make his science more accessible to the public and prove that art is something that belongs to everyone. He searches for the faces and stories behind famous works of art and reintroduces them to the world through a new lens.

George Panagiotakopoulos

Physicist - Author

George Panagiotakopoulos studied Physics in the University of Ioannina and he has been a secondary education physics teacher for over 30 years. In the last 20 years, he has written many Physics books intended for students preparing for their exams, explaining Physics concepts and methods used in solving their corresponding problems. He has attained two Master's Degrees in the field of education, including Digital Teaching and Learning from the University of Edinburgh and Educational Psychology from the University of Nicosia. One of his favorite activities, is the research and dissemination of efficient ways of learning through the ever-changing disciplines of the field.

George Pleios

Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies

George Pleios is a Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a member of the coordinating committee of the Refugee and Migration Studies Hub, while he is also the coordinator of the "Revive" program Jean Monet Erasmus+: The Future of Displaced People under the EU auspices in the n the Post Pandemic Era - Lessons learned and new challenges.

Georgios Lyrakos

Clinical Health Psychologist - CBT Psychotherapist

Georgios Lyrakos is a Clinical Health Psychologist, Doctor of the Medical School of Athens and CBT Psychotherapist. He works at the Psychiatric Clinic of G.H. of Nikaia since 1998. In 2009 he started teaching, as a scientific associate, in the Medical Schools of Athens and Ioannina, at the University of Peloponnese and at the University of Western Attica, until today. He is the author of 3 books and has published over 100 research studies in international journals and conferences.

Iasonas Apostolopoulos

Rescuer - Humans Right Activist

Iasonas Apostolopoulos has studied Civil Engineering at the NTUA and has worked as a hospital construction engineer with Doctors Without Borders in missions in Africa. He started getting involved in refugee rescues in 2015 in Lesvos, co-creating the organization "Platanos Refugee Solidarity Lesvos". Since then, he has actively participated in search and rescue operations in the Aegean Sea and in the Central Mediterranean. Currently, he is the rescue coordinator of the Italian humanitarian organization “Mediterranean Saving Humans”, onboard the Mare Jonio rescue vessel. Most of his public interventions refer to the issue of border violence and pushbacks from Greece and Italy. He has been awarded internationally for his humanitarian action, while his articles and interviews have been featured in the Greek and international press, including the BBC, the Guardian and Le Monde.

Jason Spyromilio

Astrophysicist

Dr Jason Spiromilio is an astrophysicist at the European Southern Observatory. He studies supernovae and their use in cosmology. He has served as director of the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile and has been awarded the Gruber Prize for Cosmology and the Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics as a member of the High-z team that discovered the acceleration of the universe's expansion. He led the design study for the 39m diameter European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).

Konstantinos Kotios

Career Counselor

Dr. Konstantinos Kotios has been contributing scientifically and entrepreneurially in the field of education for the past 20 years. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with subsequent postgraduate and doctoral studies, and is currently working in the fields of Career Guidance, Career Strategy and Lifelong Education, through his new project, LABORA Education Consultants. He maintains a strong online presence, where he provides free content to students and parents on study and career choices. He has contributed to the education sector with several innovations and dozens of published research papers.

Nassia Philippidi

Entrepreneur - Brand Strategist

Nasia Filippidi is the founder of the Greek sustainable fashion brand, MUSA Collection, as well as the co-founder of the 360 Boutique Marketing Agency, The Philosophies. With studies in Marketing and professional experience in Greece and abroad, she decided to follow the path of entrepreneurship through "projects" and "actions" that have a purpose. With a vision and a guide of innovation and sustainability, he created the MUSA Collection with the aim of changing the attitude of consumers towards ecological fashion and to investigate more deeply the relationship between fashion and the psychology of the consumer.

Rapsodos Filologos (Alexandros Ptinis)

Psychologist - Psychotherapist - Lyricist

Alexandros Ptinis, also known as Rapsodos Filologos, was born on 15 August 1985 in Cholargos and grew up in Galatssi. He is a psychologist, a psychotherapist and a lyricist. He received his degree from the University of Greenwich on Psychology, and continued with postgraduate studies on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and various postgraduate seminars on Clinical Psychotherapy. In the artistic field, he started his musical career in 2004 with the band "Diarriktes" and later as a member of Ladose. Currently, he counts 5 solo albums, among which is "Egkefaliko Tet A Tet" and with most recent "Alexandreia", while still, he scores 5 albums with Ladose and another 2 with Diarriktes.

Spyridoula Varlokosta

Professor of Linguistics

Spyridoula Varlokosta is a Professor of Linguistics in the Field of Linguistics of the Department of Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is an active researcher, investigating the language-mind relationship and the cerebral bases of speech. She has also dealt with the language development of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (developmental language disorder, Down syndrome, etc) and the interaction of language with other mental functions, such as memory and attention. Her research interests also include the study of the verbal and cognitive skills of adults with acquired speech disorders, such as post-stroke aphasia and various forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, with the aim of designing effective intervention programs to improve their quality of life in vulnerable groups.