ARISTEiA in 30 min | Experts discuss excellence

Lida Chatzi (Univ. of Southern California) and Despo Fatta-Kassinos (University of Cyprus) discuss about how Environmental Crisis creates challenges for Human Health and the Future of the Societies.

Othon Anastasakis, Director, European Studies Centre and South Easte European Studies, University of Oxford, based at St. Antony's College, UK, and Gerasimos Tsourapas, Professor of International Relations School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Chair of Ethnicity, Nationalism & Migration Studies Section at the International Studies Association, UK, discuss about "Wind of Change in the Global Map of the 21st Century".

Nicholas Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social & Natural Science Departments of Sociolgy statistics and Data Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Yale University, USA, and Nikos Kyprides, Head, Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Super Program, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Labolatory, Department of Energy at Berkeley, USA, discuss about "Understanding human social networks by deciphering microbial interactions with AI tools".

Vasiliki Artinopoulou, Professor of Social and Political Sciences, Director, Restorative Justice and Mediation Lab, Director, Institute on Crime & Criminal Justice, European Public Law Organization, Department of Sociology, Panteion University, Greece, and Argyris Stringaris, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pro-Vice-Provost UCL Grand Challenge in Mental Health & Wellbeing Immediate Past Rector, University College London, UK & National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, discuss about Youth Violence: Both a societal and a medical problem.

Vassilios Papadopoulos, Dean, Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, the John Stauffer Decanal Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor of Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, USA, and Thanos Dimopoulos, Professor and Chairman, Plasma Cell Dyscrasias Unit, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, Immediate Past Rector, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, discuss about higher education in Greece: Either State or Non-State, quality should prevail over quantity.

Litsa Kranias, Hanna Professor and Director Cardiovascular Biology, distinguished University research professor, Department of Pharmacology & Systems Physiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Angela Spatharou, Senior Partner & Leader, EMEA Healthcare & Life Sciences, IBM Consulting, Board Member and Emeritus Governor, London School of Economics, Health Supervisory Board Member , European Institute of Innovation and Technology, discuss about Women in Leadership: Turning Challenges into Advantages.

Stylianos Antonarakis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland; Manolis Kellis, Professor of Computer Science, MIT and Broad Institute, Boston, USA

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Yannis Yortsos, Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering, Zohrab Kaprielian Chair in Engineering and Chester Dolley Prof. of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California, USA, and Nektarios Tavernarakis, Professor of Molecular Systems Biology, University of Crete Medical School, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, discuss about excellence in our new podcast episode with title: “A brave new world for the leadership of large institutions”

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Michael Haliassos, Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany and Director of the Pan-European Network for Research on Household Finance, and Elias Papaioannou, Professor of Economics, London Business School and Co-Director of the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development, discuss about macroeconomics and household finance: Navigating the economy through the pandemic and recession.

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Alexandros Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943, Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Academy of Athens, and Evan Zarkadas, Independent Scholar in European History, discuss about the philosophy of pursuing excellence in everyday life.

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Phoebe Koundouri, Professor School of Economics, Director of ReSEES, Athens University of Economics & Business Professor Department of Technology, Management & Economics, Denmark Technical University Director, Sustainable Develpoment Unit, ATHENA Information Technologies Research Center discusses with Apostolos Paraskevopoulos, Energy Consultant & Graduate Student, Law and Economics in Energy Market, Athens University of Economics and Business, about Science and Business in search of the solution for the enviromental crisis.

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Marina Hatsopoulos, Chair of the Board of Levitronix Technologies & President of Hellenic Innovation Network, USA discuses with Eleftheria Ledaki, Director, Business Development and Alliance Management at Avacta, UK, about "Starting business up and getting them on success track".

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art History at Harvard University discuses with Dimitris Karampas, DPhil candidate, University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics and Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Georgios Tsolakis, PhD Candidate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University about Byzantine Art and the Modern World.

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Dimitris Caramitsos-Tziras, Ambassador of Greece in Japan and Evan Zarkadas, Independent History Scholar, discuss about "Diplomacy as a way to reach peace with excellence".

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Athena Coustenis, Director of Research Exceptional Class, National Centre for Scientific Research of France at Paris Observatory in Meudon, and Matina Gkioulidou, Senior Professional Staff Physicist, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, discuss about Having Fun by Exploring the Universe.

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Sir Menelas Pangalos (Executive Vice President at AstraZeneca) and Eleftheria Ledaki (Business Development Manager at Autolus Ltd.) discuss about "Navigation from a Greek captain's family to leading development of drugs for human diseases"

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Vassilis Ntziachristos, Director, Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging, Helmholtz Centre, Technical Univ Munich, Germany, and Georgios Siokatas, Graduate Student, Department of Biology, Aristotle Univ of Thessaloniki, Greece, discuss about "From studying next to an unknown Elon Musk to therapeutic applications of human body imaging"

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Christos Bartsocas, Univ. of Athens (Em), Nicandros Bouras, King's College London (Em), Konstantinos Drosatos, Univ. of Cincinnati & ARISTEiA, Apostolos Gerontas, Univ. of Coburg & ACG-Deree, Dimitrios Iliopoulos, Attica Sciences, and Sakis Mantalaris, Georgia Institute of Technology, discuss about the study of the ARISTEiA Institute and the ACG-Deree on "1821-2021: Greek Pioneers in Medicine & Biomedical Research"

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Professor Constantine Sedikides and Kristina Valkanas (Medical Student, University of Nicosia, Cyprus) discuss about "Healing Stress of Pursuing Excellence with Nostalgia"

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Evan Spiliotopoulos, film writer, director and producer, discusses with Mantalena Papadatou, movie, theater and tv series actress, about The course to "The Unholy" through "The Beauty and the Beast" of Holywood

ARISTEiA in 30 min: Dr. Dimitris Bertsimas, Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management Professor, Operations Research Associate Dean for Business Analytics discusses with Petros Efstratoudakis, Corporate Intern, Gupta Media, about excellence in entrepreneurship.

Stamatis Krimigis and Matina Gkioulidou (Senior Professional Staff Physicist, The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory) discuss about Applied and Space Physics & about career achievements that go beyond the sky

ARISTEiA in 30min: Ambassador Ioannis Vrailas and Evan Zarkadas (European History Graduate Student, University of Maine), discuss about "Politics of today, History of tomorrow"

Dimitris Agrafiotis and Eleftheria Ledaki (Commercialisation Manager, Queen Mary Innovation Ltd, UK) discuss about Research & Leadership in the Artificial Intelligence World.

ARISTEiA in 30min: Dr. Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics in the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ, USA discusses with Dimitrios Karampas (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK) and Georgios Tsolakis (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, USA) about Excellence, History, the Parthenon Marbles, and "Time Travel". The table is turned when Dr. Chaniotis asks Dimitrios Karampas and Georgios Tsolakis about their decision making and career planning.

ARISTEiA in 30min: Dr. Stratakis, Chief Scientific Officer & Executive Director of the ELPEN Research Institute in Greece discusses with Eleftheria Ledaki, Commercialization Manager, Queen Mary Innovations, UK, about science, research, faith and mentoring. The table is turned when Dr. Stratakis asks Ms. Ledaki about her dreams and industry insights.