Lucas Papademos holds a Chair in Economic Sciences at the Academy of Athens and is President of the Academy’s Moral and Political Sciences Section. He is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Athens, Senior Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, and Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.
He served as Prime Minister of Greece (2011-2012), leading a coalition government during a critical phase of the Greek debt and economic crisis. Previously, he was the Vice-President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and the Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002.
Lucas Papademos has also been on the faculty of Columbia University (1975-1984), the University of Athens (1988-2014), and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2011-2013).
He has served as a member of many boards, councils and committees, including the Executive Board and the Governing Council of the ECB, the G20 Financial Stability Board and its Steering Committee, the EU Economic and Financial Committee and the Central Bank Governance Group at the Bank for International Settlements.
In addition to numerous policy papers, he has published articles in a wide range of leading academic journals and has edited several books. He holds an S.B. in physics, an S.M. in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in economics, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos MD, FACP, FRCP (hc), Master ACR, Emeritus Professor, Medical Schools, Universities of Ioannina and Athens and Member of Athens Academy has developed, after being educated and having worked in academic centers of the USA, two centers of excellence in Greece for the study and therapy of Autoimmune Rheumatic Disorders. A considerable number of his students have joined the staff of Medicals Schools in Greece and abroad. His novel research contributions include: a) Studies in experimental animal mice models of autoimmune diseases, as well as clinical studies which revealed that the immune system in autoimmune diseases is activated and not dysfunctional b) clinical studies described new manifestations or subgroups of autoimmune disorders, prognostic risk factors of disease evolution, diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions (in Sjögren’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome and vasculitis), c) immunochemical studies evaluating autoantibodies, cryoglobulins, epitopes and complementary epitopes of autoantigens, c) immunopathologic and molecular studies of the pathologic lesion from Sjögren’s syndrome patients, which dissected the composition of autoreactive cells and showed the significant role of glandular epithelial cells as initiators and perpetuators of the autoimmune insult. His publications exceed 550, (citations 36.000 and h-index over 96, Google Scholar). He has been invited to present the results of his studies and teach in Medical Centers, Research Institutions and Meetings all around the world. For his scientific contributions he has been awarded with prestigious prices in Greece, Europe and U.S.A. Professor Moutsopoulos in addition to his scientific publications has written articles in newspapers and books, commenting issues related to Health System, education and research.
He was born in Athens. He studied Physics at the University of Athens and he graduated in 1971. He continued his studies at the University of Sussex in England, where he got his Ph.D. in 1973, in High Energy Physics. He has been a Research Fellow at the Center of European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland and for many years he has been a staff member. He has also been a Research Fellow in Ecole Normale Superieure, in Paris, France and in Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. In 1989, he was elected professor at the Department of Physics, at Texas A&M University where since 1992 he is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and since 2002 he holds the Mitchell/Heep Chair in High Energy Physics. He is also Head of the Astroparticle Physics Group in Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), in Houston, Texas, USA, where he is in charge of a research department of the World Laboratory, which is based in Switzerland. In 1997 he was appointed regular member of the Academy of Athens and in 2015 he was elected president for one year. From 2005 to 2009 he was the chairman of the Greek National Council for Research and Technology. He has served as the National representative of Greece to the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2013 until 2015. He was also the National representative of Greece to the European Space Agency (ESA) from 2005 to 2006.
He has made several contributions to particle physics and cosmology. He works in string unified theories, fundamentals of quantum theory, astroparticle physics and quantum-inspired models of brain function.
He has written over 680 original papers, all published in peer-reviewed journals, with high impact factor, including 15 books. He has over 46.612 citations (h_index=105), placing him as the fourth (4th) most cited High Energy Physicist of all time according to the 2001 and 2004 census. Since 1988 he is fellow of the American Physical Society and since 1992 a member of the Italian Physical Society. In 1996, he was awarded the Commander of the Order of Honour of the Greek State and in 2005, celebration year of the 100th anniversary of the Einstein’s Relativity Theory, he received for the 2nd time (first time was in 1999) the 1st place award from the Gravity Research Foundation (Massachusetts, U.S.A.). In 2006 he received the “Onassis International Prize” and in 2009 the “Enrico Fermi” Prize.
ASF has a BSc Degree (June 1975) from the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College; a PhD Degree (June 1979) from the Department of Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA; and a MD Degree (June 1986) from the School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA.
Employment
1979-80: Saul Kaplun Research Fellow in Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA
1980-86: Assistant Professor (1980-82), then Associate Professor (1982-86), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clarkson University, USA
1986-93: Professor and Chairman, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clarkson University
1987-88: Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, USA
1993-95: Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
1996-2001: Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, UK
2002-: Chair of Nonlinear Mathematical Science, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK
2015-: Visiting Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, USA
Awards and Honours
The Governors Prize in Aeronautics of Imperial College for 1975 (best student in the nal year).
The J.W. Graham Research Prize of Clarkson University for 1983.
The Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society for 2000 (the last ve earlier recipients were Sir Roger Penrose, Sir Michael Berry, Sir John Ball, F.P. Kelly and S.W. Hawking).
The Aristeion Prize of the Academy of Athens, 2004 (the most prestigious prize of the Academy given every four years to a single scholar chosen from science, or engineering, or medicine).
Elected in December 2004 a Member of the Academy of Athens (the Academy of Athens has about 45 members covering all areas including sciences, engineering, medicine, arts, letters, political and moral sciences; ASF is the sixth mathematician elected in the Academy -the first was C. Caratheodory- and the first ever applied mathematician).
Presented with the Decoration of the Order of Phoenix by the President of the Hellenic Republic on the 18th of January 2005 (only 14 people were included in the list of Honours).
Elected in June 2005 a Professorial Fellow of Clare Hall.
The Excellence Prize of the Bodossaki Foundation, jointly with Professor D. Christodoulou, 2006 (this premier scientific prize is awarded every two years to scientists of Greek origin, as chosen by an international committee chaired by a Nobel Laureate).
Selected as a Guggenheim Fellow by the Guggenheim Foundation, USA, in April 2009 (on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment").
Appointed Ambassador of Hellenism, Greece, March 6, 2010.
Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, December, 2010.
Onassis Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of Harvard, Fall 2012.
Awarded a Senior EPSRC fellowship, 2015-2020.
ASF has received honorary degrees from seven universities.
An honorary member of the Institute of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Greece, 2002, as well as an honorary citizen of Oinouses, Greece, 2004 and an honorary citizen of Delphoi, Greece, 2009. Also, ASF has been honoured by the Hellenic Medical Society of UK, 2014, as well as by the Greek-American Medical Association, 2016.
ISI Web of Science includes A.S. Fokas in the list of the most highly cited researchers in the eld of Mathematics (Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics , Propability and Statistics), see http://www.isihighlycited.com. According to Google scholar citations, ASF has around 14,000 citations and an h index of 60.
Editorial and Advisory Boards,
Co-founder of the Journal of Nonlinear Science. Associated Editor of the Series Progress in Physics and Mathematical Physics, Birkhauser. Member of the Editorial Board of the series Modern Mechanics and Mathematics, CRC. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Book Publishing Program in Mathematics, Gruyter.
ASF is or has been a member of the Editorial Board of more than twenty scientific journals, including: Proceedings of the Royal Society (Series A), Selecta Mathematica, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Nonlinearity and Studies in Applied Mathematics.
A.S. Fokas has served on the International Advisory Boards of several Institutions including the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College, UK and the Centre for Nonlinear Mathematics and Applications, Loughborough University, UK. He is currently a member of the Scientific Council of the International Center of Theoretical Physics {Eurasian Center for Advanced Research (ICTP-ECAR).
External Support
The Mathematics Section of the National Science Foundation of USA, 1982-1995.
The National Science Foundation of USA, USA-Italy Cooperative Program, 1991-1994.
The National Science Foundation of USA, USA-USSR Cooperative Program, 1992-1995.
The Mathematics Division of the Office of the Naval Research of USA, 1982-1988.
The Mathematics Division of the Air Force Office of Scienti c Research of USA, 1987-1995.
SERC, 1994-1997 (IBV Problems for Integrable Equations).
EPSRC, 1995 (Integrability of the Einstein's Equations).
EPSRC, 1999-2002 (Coherent Structures and the Asymptotic Behaviour of Nonlinear Integrable Equations in Multidimensions).
EPSRC, 1999 (Random Matrices, Orthogonal Polynomials, and Riemann-Hilbert Problems).
EC-TMR, 1998-2000 (Analytical and Numerical Aspects of PDEs Modelling Water Waves).
Royal Society, 2000 (Boundary Value Problems for the Laplace Equation).
EC-TMR, 2000-2002 (Whitham equations, Asymptotics, and Algebraic Geometry).
EPSRC, 2001 (Numerical Investigation of IBV Problems in Two and Three Dimensions).
EPSRC, 2002 (Boundary Value Problems for Linear PDEs with Variable Coefficients).
EC-TMR, 2002-2004 (ODEs and PDEs in the Complex Plane).
Royal Society, 2003 (Boundary Value Problems for the Tricomi Equation).
EPSRC, 2003 (Soliton Generation for Time-Periodic Boundary Conditions).
EPSRC, 2003 (A New Formulation of Water Waves in Three Dimensions and Integrable Reductions).
EPSRC, 2004-2008 (Boundary Value Problems for Multidimensional Nonlinear PDEs).
EC-TMR, 2005-2008 (Magnetoencephalography- to host as Marie Curie Chair of Excellence).
EC-TMR, 2006-2009 (Analysis of a Novel Class of Integrable PDEs).
EPSRC, 2008 (Aspects of Nonlinear Evolution PDEs).
MRC Discipline Hopping grant, 2009-2010 (Analytical Spect Image Reconstruction).
EPSRC { Materials, Mechanical and Medical Engineering { 2010-2013 (Analytical Methods For Certain Inverse Problems In Medical Imaging).
EPSRC, 2010-2014 (Integrability in Multidimensions and Boundary Value Problems).
EPSRC, 2015-2020 (the Unified Transform, Imaging and Asymptotics).
EPSRC Impact Accelerator Account, 2015-2016 (3D Brain Imaging using EEG).
Invited Talks
Has delivered around 350 talks in Congresses, International Conferences, Workshops and Colloquia, including:
The Naylor Lecture, London Mathematical Society, London, UK, 2001.
Ten lectures as the principal speaker in a NSF-CBMS conference organised at the University of Texas in 2005 (the conference was centered on the "unified transform" introduced by ASF).
The SIAM Invited Address at the Annual meeting of AMS and MAA, USA, 2006.
The Tsingua Global Vision Lecture, Tsingua University, Beijing, China, 2008.
The opening address of the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Greece, 2009.
The Boeing Distinguished Colloquium in Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, USA, 2010.
The Lagerstrom Lecture, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, 2014.
Among other presentations are: the opening address of the 45th Mathematical Olympiad, Greece, 2004; an invited address at the celebration of the Royal Irish Academy for the Bicentennial of W.R. Hamilton, Ireland, 2005; the opening plenary address of the international conference Nonlinear Waves: Theory & Applications, China, 2008; the opening address at the 2nd World Congress of Controversies in Neurology, 2008; an invited address at the 27th Colloquio Brasilero de Mathematica, IMPA, Brazil, 2009; the opening talk at the ESF Conference: Completely Integrable Systems and Applications, Vienna, Austria, 2011;the keynote address of the International Conference on Mathemadical Modelling in Physical Sciencies, IC-MSQUARE 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013; the opening address at the Annual Meeting of the European Musculo-Skeletal Oncology Society, Athens, 2015.
He has also given several presentations on relations between mathematics, philosophy and neuroscience, including talks at Boston, Oxford, Beijing and the Athens Concert Hall.
Among institutions where a colloquium has been given are: Harvard University (1983, 2009, 2012), Princeton University (1981, 1991, 1996, 2016), Yale University (1982, 1989, 1992, 2012), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982, 1996, 2009), Stanford University (1982, 1987, 1994, 2001), California Institute of Technology (1979, 1981, 1988, 1999, 2010, 2014), University of Berkeley (2005), Courant Institute (1980, 1981, 1989,2002, 2009), Cornell University (1982), Columbia University (1988), Duke University (1991, 1994), UCLA (1979, 1990), Brown University (1999), MSRI (1999), I. Newton Institute (1995, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2010, 2015, 2017), University of Cambridge (1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2009), Oxford University (1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2005), Imperial College (1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2012), University of Warwick (1994, 1998), King's College (1998, 2010), ICMS (1999, 2001, 2017), University of Bristol (1996, 2003), University of Edinburgh (1996), University of Bath (2001), University College (1999, 2008, 2009). Euler Institute (1992), Poincare Institute (1995, 2003, 2004, 2008), University of Paris VI (1995, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004), Tokyo University (1995), University of Kyoto (1995), University of Rome (1988, 1991), University of Amsterdam (1997), University of Lund (2002), SISSA (2005).
Vassilios T. Rapanos is currently Emeritus Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he has been a Professor since 1991. He was born on the island of Kos in 1947, and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Queen’s University of Canada, an MA in Economics from Lakehead University of Canada, and a BA in Business Administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Professor Rapanos is an economist whose research covers Public Finance, and in particular issues relating to incidence of environmental taxation, fiscal governance, tax evasion, and income distribution. He also worked as Research Associate at the Center of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE), and the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE). He has published extensively in academic journals and edited volumes, as well as in the Greek press on issues of public policy.
In parallel to his academic and research activity, Professor Rapanos worked as Advisor to the Greek Ministry of Finance and as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors at the Ministry of Finance. In the past he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece, and is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alpha Bank.