Scholarships 2022-23: Welcoming 95 new citizens to the City of Tomorrow

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This year, as every year since 1978, we are again welcoming new inhabitants to the City of Tomorrow – the 95 new Onassis Foundation scholars. We are supporting them on their journeys, so that they are free to open up new avenues with their ideas – to expand the sciences we know, and the ones we will come to know. Our 95 new scholars, together with another 7,408 inhabitants, will be taking steps forward and changing society for the better.

This year’s scholars have inspired us with their vision and their thinking. For the academic year 2021-22, we have awarded a total of 95 scholarships: 81 for international study (45 for postgraduate degrees and 36 for doctoral studies) and 14 for postgraduate studies in Greece. Our selection – which took academic excellence as its criterion – was made by leading Greek and international scientists, university professors, and academics within the framework of a merit-based evaluation. This year, an emphasis was placed on academic fields that have emerged to meet the needs of the present day, such as Earthquake Engineering, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Special and Inclusive Education, Computational Archaeology and Transplantation Research.

The selected fields and specializations all have connections to ONASSIS FOUNDATION areas of action, with their focus on innovation and breakthrough technologies. It is our hope that this City of Tomorrow will grow larger with each passing year, filling with innovative new ideas and beautiful minds.

Meet some of the several thousand scholars living in this city of tomorrow, who joined the community over the last decade:

Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos– 2019 Scholar
In December 2021, he was awarded for Excellence in Research from the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on Technology Parks, internationalization of micromultinational enterprises, global entrepreneurship, and global business strategy.

Christina Karafyllia – 2017 Scholar
Christina worked out the answers to two math problems that had remained unsolved since 1996.

Stefanos Levidis – 2017 Scholar
Stefanos is a member of the Forensic Architecture research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. The agency has played a vital role in the conviction of Golden Dawn members and in the former political party being declared a criminal organization.

Dora Chatzi-Rodopoulou – 2014 Scholar
She was awarded the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2021 for the category of Research. The “Control Shift” research project focuses on the practice of Industrial Heritage Reuse in Europe, with special emphasis on the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain, and Greece, and provides a much-needed alternative framework for the conservation of industrial heritage.

Danae Manolesou – 2015 Scholar
Danae is a member of the research group that designed a 3D printed face shield (3DVFaceShield) distributed free to hospitals on the front line in the fight against Covid-19.

Evangelos Delikonstantis – 2017 Scholar
He was awarded the 2021 EFCE Excellence Award in Process Intensification from the European Society of Mechanical Engineers for his ground-breaking work on a methane-to-ethylene conversion process.

Andreas Tsiartas - 2017 Scholar
He is one of the four winners, out of a total of 143 candidates, of the DYCE (Discovering Young Composers of Europe) competition, for his work “Pnoé” for chamber ensemble, which was performed in Oslo’s Sentralen by the Cikada Ensemble under the direction of Christian Eggen.

Maria Dimakopoulou – 2015 Scholar
Maria solved a problem with Intel processors that had been unresolved for years, and completed her studies with a perfect ten grade point average – the first graduate to do so in the history of the National Technical University of Athens.

Marianna Kapsetaki – 2017 Scholar
She was selected in the European “30 under 30” list of ‘Forbes.’ The main study in her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience focused on spatial memory in stroke patients.

Panagiotis Barkas – 2018 Scholar
He received from the Academy of Athens the Bank of Greece Award for his original scientific research entitled “Determinants of investments in Greece.”

Theodoros Giavridis – 2015 Scholar
Theodoros has contributed to the creation of new “weapons” in the fight against cancer. The treatment he proposes is based on “training” immune system cells in patients to recognize and destroy cancer cells.

Konstantina Kotzamani – 2016 Scholar
Konstantina has been honored three times by the Hellenic Film Academy with its Best Short Film Award, and was nominated for the same honor at the European Academy Awards in 2015 and 2017.

Dimitra Pouli – 2014 Scholar
Dimitra is part of a research team that discovered a pioneering new non-invasive technique for diagnosing skin cancer.