The results of the Onassis Foundation Scholarship Call for the academic year 2024–25

Maria-Eirini Vassilopoulou: She completed her bachelor's degree in the Department of Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Patras and obtained a Master's degree with Honors in Neuroscience from the University of Macedonia. She currently pursues PhD studies at the Cyprus University of Technology with research on the development of neurolinguistic profiles of children with speech and language disorders to obtain a better and more valid diagnosis as well as proper intervention.

Antonis Lyras: He graduated first from the School of Civil Engineering at NTUA with Honors and continues his studies at Columbia University with research on the analysis and mitigation of risks faced by our cities’ vital infrastructure in the wake of natural disasters brought on by climate change, using stochastic and probabilistic methods. If we also take into account the fact that, in the West at least, most key infrastructure is relatively old and therefore undergoes natural decline, the social impact and value of surveying the identification and reduction of the aforementioned risks hold critical importance, not only in the context of minimizing economic losses but even more so in terms of safeguarding human life.

Artemis Margaronis: She completed her studies in Biomedical Engineering with honors. She currently pursues PhD studies at Columbia University in the pioneering field of developing nanomaterials and biomaterials that will ‘reprogram’ the immune system in order to fight cancer. She has received multiple awards so far for her overall work.

Jason Milionis: He completed his undergraduate studies at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA with ten out of ten, the second person in the history of NTUA to ever accomplish this, with the first being previous Onassis Scholar Ms. Maria Dimakopoulou. His research is positioned at the cutting edge of technological developments and concerns Algorithmic Game Theory and its applications in market design for optimal allocation of resources.

Panagiotis Moumtsakis: He graduated first from the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Macedonia and completed his postgraduate studies at Sciences Po, France, in Political Sciences and Public Administration with honors. He has been accepted for PhD studies at Oxford University. His research will be related to how modern technological developments (especially artificial intelligence) challenge democratic societies and trigger geopolitical friction with authoritarian states. Panagiotis is a Youth Delegate to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.

Konstantinos Stefanakis: He graduated with honors from the School of Medicine in Athens, where he is continuing his doctoral studies. In the framework of his collaboration with Harvard University, he will visit the campus to further his research on AI applications in the diagnosis, monitoring, prognosis, and treatment of cardiometabolic diseases. He will work under the supervision of the internationally renowned physician Christos Socrates Mantzoros, also an Onassis Scholar.