Antonia Karamolegkou & Spyridoula Varlokosta
The city of Onassis Scholars
23.01.2024
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Antonia Karamolegkou meets Spyridoula Varlokosta. The former is doing a PhD in Computational Linguistics as a 2022 Onassis Foundation Scholar; the latter is a Professor in Linguistics and Director of the Psycholinguistics Laboratory at the University of Athens, having received the same scholarship in 1988. They discuss the future of linguistics, the influence of Artificial Intelligence and the importance of communicating each scientific discipline with the broader public.
“For me, it is highly important that all researchers communicate their scientific merits. Not to shut themselves in some laboratory and become consumed with experiments. I think that by doing it this way, you will have a better understanding of exactly what you are doing.” }
– Antonia Karamolegkou, 2022 Scholar
The City of the Onassis Foundation Scholars
There is an invisible city that does not appear on any map, yet it is everywhere. This city was founded in 1978 and keeps growing. Instead of buildings, it bears restless ideas, words, and algorithms. Its avenues are the sciences we know and the ones we are about to learn. It is inhabited by those who excel, create, innovate, and act so that our society can take steps forward. A city of 7.669 residents, the Onassis Foundation Scholars.
“Through what you do, you can make others fly farther and higher than yourself.”
– Spyridoula Varlokosta, 1998 Scholar
