From AI in Political Science – The four scientists of this year’s Bodosaki Awards

Four scientists under 40 years old in the fields of Political Science, Biomedical Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Physics are the winners of this year’s Bodosakis Foundation awards.

• OR Fouca BasilicaAssociate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University is awarded with the Scientific Science Award for Social Sciences in the field of Political Science.
• H Stavroula HatziouAssociate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology and Chemistry at Yale University is awarded the Scientific Award for Biomedical Sciences in the Biomedical Sciences.
• THE John GioulekasAssociate Professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University is awarded the Scientific Award in Applied Technology Sciences in the field of artificial intelligence.
• OR Maria PetropoulouAssistant Professor of Physics at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, is awarded the Scientific Award for the basic sciences in the field of Physics.

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

A total of 65 Greek scientists have been distinguished through the awards institution from 1992 to the present.

Criteria for their award are « the performance of candidates in their scientific field, the contribution of the candidates to the country’s intellectual, scientific and economic development, as well as their contribution, to their morality and work, to the international promotion of Greece, » the Bodosakis Foundation said.

The work of this year’s award -winning

OR Fouca Basilica It explores the factors that shape people’s social and political behavior and the formation of social and group identities, aiming to draw conclusions for the design of public policies.

It is based on theoretical tools and methods by various disciplines of social sciences, combining models of human behavior from economic science and social psychology.

By exporting information from historical data, it studies the evolution of concepts such as social and group identities over time, how they are influenced by state policies, as well as their impact on social and political behaviors with significant impacts, such as electoral behavior, the choice of companion or place of residence, as well as residences.

Her articles have been published in top scientific journals, including American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science and Review of Economic Studies, while she has been awarded with Austin Robinson Memorial Prize, Economic Journal and Joseph L. Bernd Best Paper Award, Journal of Politics.

The discovery of new gastrointestinal infections and gastrointestinal cancer is targeted by new therapeutic tools and gastrointestinal cancer Stavroula Hatziou, combining chemistry and microbiology. The purpose of its laboratory is to understand how bacterial cells and host cells are adapted to oxidative stress during infection, as adaptation can contribute to the development of serious diseases.

Her team has highlighted critical paths and antioxidant defense mechanisms to improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, including severe gastrointestinal cancers. He has held a large number of publications in international scientific journals such as Nature Chemical Biology and Cell and has been awarded, among other things, with the Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry and Beckman Young Investigator Award.

His work John Giouleka It moves between artificial intelligence, computer vision and graphics and focuses on computational imaging.

It studies the combination and integration of visual, electronic, and computational techniques, with the aim of creating imaging systems with unprecedented capabilities. Applications of their research are found in medicine in systems for non -invasive depicting blood vessels or brain cells, in optical tomography systems for disaster supervision and treatment applications and in systems that « see » around angles in navigation and monitoring applications.

I. Gioulekas has contributed to the performance for volumetric imaging and his work has received significant recognition, as he has received the NSF Career and Sloan Research Fellowship award.

OR Maria Petropoulou It is looking for solutions for fundamental problems of astrophysics, focusing on radiation processes in astrophysical creatures, the processes of accelerating particles at high energies and neutrin production.

She began her independent research career in 2020 and has made a spectacular course of her own publications with 97 articles in scientific journals with judges, ~ 3700 reports, and H-Index 35. High-energetic astrophysics and Astronomy of multiple messengers are the main fields of research.

The main bodies of the institution of the scientific awards of the Bodosakis Foundation are a) the Committee on Scientific Awards and (b) the Special Crisis Committees.

The procedure

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 on the selected candidates to the Committee on Scientific Awards, which in turn recommends the Board of Directors of the Foundation to be awarded to the Board of Directors.

The Committee on Scientific Awards consists of the following members:

• Giannis Aifantis, 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
• Nikos Vettas, Professor at the Department of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Economics
• George Kollias, Academician, Professor/Director of Physiology Laboratory, University of Athens Medical School and Associate Researcher, Biomedical Science Research Center « Alexandros Fleming »
• Nancy Makri, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Costas Grand, Professor at the Department of Economics at Yale University
• Michalis Triantafyllou, Professor Marine Technology at MIT, Visiting Researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, Director of Center for Ocean Engineering and Director of the Templary Tank Facility and Propeller Tunnel at the Technology Institute of Massachuset.
• Thanassis Fokas, Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University

In the Committee of Scientific Awards, the Foundation participates:

• Athina Desypris, Chairman of the Board of Directors Bodosaki Foundation
• Theodoros Theodorou, Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Vice President of the Board of Directors Bodosaki Foundation.