President of the Republic

Professor of Astrophysics with an extended profession at NASA, Chryssa Kouveliotou, and Professor of Molecular Methods Biology and president of the Know-how and Analysis Basis, Nektarios Tavernarakis, are being honored this yr with the Bodosaki Basis Award of Excellence for his or her pioneering life’s work.

The 2024 Bodosaki Award within the subject of Optimistic Sciences is awarded to Chryssa Kouveliotou, Professor of Astrophysics within the Division of Physics of the Columbian Faculty of Arts and Sciences at George Washington College, who with a tenure of greater than 25 years at NASA has made a major contribution to the deeper understanding of celestial transients phenomena, via the examine of phenomena associated to black holes, neutron stars and gamma-ray bursts.

With a wealthy analysis exercise, he has been included in Time Journal’s listing of the 25 most influential individuals within the subject of Area, in addition to within the listing of the 250 most cited researchers worldwide in Area science with 493 publications in scientific journals after disaster.

He’s a member of the US Nationwide Academy of Science and the US Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Athens Academy.

In her lengthy profession, she has acquired quite a few high honors, such because the Descartes (2002), Rossi (2003) and D. Heineman (2012) prizes, the Shaw Prize in Astrophysics (2021), whereas the Greek Authorities honored her with the Cross of the Brigade of the Order of Honor for Excellence in Science (2015).

The 2024 Bodosaki Award within the subject of Biomedical Sciences is awarded to Nektarios Tavernarakis, Professor of Molecular Methods Biology on the Medical Faculty of the College of Crete, President of the Know-how and Analysis Basis, and President of the European Institute of Innovation and Know-how (EIT).

Nektarios Tavernarakis is on the forefront of recent biomedical analysis within the fields of growing old, cell dying and neurodegeneration. Amongst his essential scientific discoveries are particular lessons of enzymes concerned in necrotic cell dying, the revelation of the position of key regulators of protein synthesis in growing old, and the decisive contribution to the invention of mitochondrial high quality management mechanisms associated to the regulation of mobile vitality homeostasis and of growing old.

Amongst others, he’s a member of the American Company for the Development of Science (AAAS), the European Molecular Biology Group (EMBO), the German Nationwide Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens.

In his lengthy scientific profession, he has acquired the European Molecular Biology Group (EMBO) Younger Researcher Award, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Analysis Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Basis, the Helmholtz Worldwide Fellow Award, the Galien Scientific Analysis Award, the Aretaio Award for Medical Biology of Sciences of the Academy of Athens, in addition to the Scientific Award of the Bodosaki Basis in 2005 within the subject of Life Sciences.

The 2 Bodosaki Excellences shall be awarded by the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, in a ceremony that may happen on Tuesday, June 25 at Zappeion Megaro.

The Bodosakis Excellence Award was launched in 2002 and returns 13 years after the final awards, with a brand new Excellence committee, consisting of eight overseas scientists of worldwide standing. The committee is co-chaired by Professor Emeritus of Physics on the College of Cambridge, Daan Frenkel, and Professor of Molecular Biology on the Erasmus College Medical Heart within the Netherlands, Frank Grosveld.

Each two years, two Excellences shall be awarded in two scientific fields, accompanied by a money prize of 100,000 euros every. “The Bodosaki Award goals to acknowledge and honor your complete scientific profession and contribution of Greek ladies and men scientists who performed a catalytic position within the improvement of their science, with a acutely aware dedication and fervour for scientific analysis, the promotion and improvement of data “, factors out the president of the Board of Administrators of the Bodosakis Basis, Athina Desypri.

Thus far, seven different personalities from the worldwide scientific neighborhood have been awarded the Bodosaki Award for his or her extraordinarily essential work, specifically professors Georgios Chrousos (2011), Charalambos Moutsopoulos (2011), Evangelos Moudrianakis (2009), Dimitris Christodoulou (2006), Athanasios Fokas (2006), Kyriakos Nikolaou (2004) and Ioannis Iliopoulos (2002).