The President of the European Research Council (ERC), Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, paid his first official visit to Greece and the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), in the context of a series of scheduled meetings with ERC Grantees. During his three-day stay at Heraklion, Prof. Bourguignon also met with FORTH’s Chairman and, Member of the ERC Scientific Council, Professor Nektarios Tavernarakis and Members of the Board of Directors of FORTH, as well as with and the Rector of the University of Crete, Professor Odysseas Zoras. In addition, he had the opportunity to visit research laboratories in both Institutions.

Monheim, September 13, 2017 – Bayer and the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas in Greece (IMBB-FORTH) today announced the start of a five-year collaborative research project.

The Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series 2017 in Physics : - PUBLIC LECTURE (in English) by Serge Haroche “How blue sky research leads to innovations”

The management of the scientific data is of paramount importance as it can help to verify, reuse and exploit the scientific results.

Dr. Ioannis Talianidis, Research Director at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of FORTH, was elected Director of the Institute on June 6, 2017. His official appointment is expected in the next few weeks.

Dr. Konstantinos Palikaras, Postdoctoral researcher at IMBB, has been awarded the highly competitive AXA Research Fund postdoctoral Fellowship of 130.000€ to pursue his studies.

The 2017 recipient of the FORTH/ICE-HT "Stratis Sotirchos Lectureship Award" is Dr. Hal Alper, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Charalambos Makridakis’s research is focused on Computational Mathematics, mainly in the areas of Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and of Multi-Scale Modelling and Simulation. He is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sussex and Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Crete.

Ms Gelina Harlaftis, Professor of Maritime History in the Department of History of the Ionian University and Affiliated Researcher with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of FORTH, was elected Director of the Institute on February 10, 2017. Her official appointment is expected in the next few weeks.

Dr. Dimitris Plexousakis, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete and Head of the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of the Institute of Computer Science was elected Director of the Institute on December 22, 2016. His official appointment is expected in the next few weeks.