Angeliki I. Katsafadou is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Public and One Health at the University of Thessaly. Dr. Katsafadou holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine (2011), an M.S. degree from the Agricultural University of Athens (2013), and a Ph.D. in Animal and Veterinary Proteomics from the Proteomics Research Unit of the Biomedical Research Foundation at the Academy of Athens (BRFAA) and the University of Thessaly (2017); hers was the first Ph.D. thesis on veterinary proteomics in Greece. She continued with postdoctoral research in animal proteomics, worked in the animal health industry, and thereafter at the National Organization for Medicines of Greece as a scientific veterinary staff member in regulatory affairs. In 2021, she was appointed as Assistant Professor in ‘Proteomics in One Health’ at the University of Thessaly, which was the first faculty appointment in proteomics at a Greek university. Her research interests focus on the application of proteomic and metaproteomic methodologies in One Health aspects, including control of zoonoses, limiting antimicrobial resistance, food safety and environmental health, with interdisciplinary approaches. Dr. Katsafadou has published over 45 articles in refereed journals and has presented in conferences nationally and internationally - on several occasions as an invited speaker. She has participated in many research projects and currently supervises two Ph.D. students. She is a member of the editorial board of three international scientific journals. Furthermore, she is a member of the Executive Board of the Hellenic Proteomics Society, a member of the Educational Committee of European Proteomics Association, and secretary of European early career researchers in proteomics.

As a 2024-2025 Fulbright Scholar, Angeliki will be hosted at the Yale School of Public Heath, U.S., to conduct research on the assessment of health risks of both human and animal populations through the dietary intake and the food web, within the One Health framework, after a severe flood in Greece, precipitated by climate change. For that purpose, biomarkers of exposure will be searched in soil and wastewater from the previously flooded regions, from villages near farms and from local stream beds and banks, by applying high throughput -omics analysis. All that with the view to assess the aggregate exposures, by monitoring the possible contamination with chemical and/or medicinal residues in environmental matrices in terms of soil health and water quality.

Angeliki Spyropoulou (Spiropoulou) is a Professor of Modern European Literature and Theory at the Theatre Studies Department, School of Arts of the University of the Peloponnese, and Founding Director of the M.A. Program Creative Writing, Theatre and Culture Industries. She has been a Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, convenor of the Research Seminar Series Comparative Modernisms; and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Paris III-Nouvelle Sorbonne. She holds a B.A. in English and Greek Literature from the University of Athens, a Master of Arts in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature also from the University of Sussex. She has taught at Athens University, the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus, and has delivered invited lectures and graduate research seminars at many international conferences and institutions such as the Paris College of Art, Université Paris VII- Denis Diderot, Sapienza Univerity of Rome, Greenwich University, the School of Advanced Study-University of London, the Instituto del Teatro Barcelona, the Accademia di Belli Arte di Venezia, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Bogazici University, London Southbank University, Intistut Catholique de Paris, and Goldsmiths College-University of London. Professor Spiropoulou has published in Greek and international refereed journals, volumes and conference proceedings on English and Comparative Literature and Critical/Cultural Theory with an emphasis on literary and artistic modernism and concomitant issues of gender, historiography and ideology in modernity. Her monograph, entitled, Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin was published by Palgrave-Macmillan. Her new monograph Topoi of the Modern: Modernity and European Literature is due by Alexandreia publications. She recently co-edited with Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the volume Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics (Bloomsbury), dedicated to the distinguished philosopher of history, Hayden White. She has also co-authored the Hellenic Open University textbook, History of European Literature: From 18th to 20th Century, and has edited or co-edited the volumes: Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity, Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Rereading Texts, Contemporary Greek Fiction: International Orientations and Crossings, Representations of Femininity: Feminist Perspectives, alongside issues of international academic journals such as the European Journal for the Study of English. She has contributed to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, and the Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism as well as many volumes on modernism, such as Sentencing Orlando (Edinburgh University Press); and 1922: History, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press). She has organised and contributed to many international conferences and events in Greece and abroad, participates in several professional associations/academic networks; and publishes in the Greek Press since 2003. Professor Spyropoulou is Member of the Scientific Board of the ComLit refereed journal (ESCLS), and a Member of the Advisory Committee of the European Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres. She has also served on the Executive Committees of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies, the Hellenic Association of American Studies, and the Society of European Cultural and Literary Studies. She was twice elected Chair of the Theatre Studies Department, and served as a Deputy Dean of the School of Arts, a member of the Senate, the Quality Assessment and Accreditation Committee, and the Research Funds Committee of the University of the Peloponnese. She has also served on the Executive Committee of Anargyrios and Corgialenios Educational Foundation at Spetses, and the Hellenic NARIC.

As a Fulbright scholar she will be based at Columbia University, Classics Department, Program in Hellenic Studies where she will conduct interdisciplinary research on her new project entitled, Modernists as Historians: Writing Antiquity and the Past in Modern Times. The project examines the conceptualizations of the past, especially antiquity in history books and drafts by key 20th Century modernist literary writers in order to throw light on the self-definition and understanding of Western modernity. Professor Spyropoulou will also visit and give talks at other U.S. Institutions on her project during her Fulbright fellowship.

Christos Aliprantis is an Associate Professor in the Social Sciences at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), the tertiary division of Anatolia College. At ACT, he teaches courses on history, political science, sociology, security studies, philosophy, and anthropology. Dr. Aliprantis earned his B.A. in History from the University of Athens, an M.A. in Austrian History from the University of Vienna, and an M.A. in Comparative History of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe from the Central European University in Budapest. He obtained his Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge in 2020, with a dissertation on the origins of transnational political policing in Europe (1830-1870). Afterwards, he held a number of postdoctoral teaching and research positions including a Max Weber fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research associateship at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Upon his return to Greece, he was also an early career fellow (in Philhellenism) at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University in Nafplio, and a research fellow at the University of Athens, funded by the Tsagadas Trust. Dr. Aliprantis’ work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and is dealing mainly with state formation, security, transnational history, and international relations from the nineteenth century to the present. His earlier publications approached the above topics with a focus on German-speaking Central Europe (mostly Germany and the Habsburg Empire), while most recently his research interests have developed towards state security in the Cold War. In this context, he will conduct research at the National Archives (Maryland, College Park) in Washington D.C., hosted by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies of George Washington University between March and June 2025. Dr. Aliprantis’ Fulbright project studies the Greek-American police relations in the postwar era (1947-1974), and investigates the pivotal role that the U.S.A. played in creating a coercive state apparatus in post-civil war Greece. This three-month stay in the U.S.A. will be further extended through a subsequent visiting research fellowship at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies of Princeton University between June and August 2025. Dr. Aliprantis will benefit from his Fulbright-sponsored stay in the U.S.A. to gather material for his second monograph on the social history of Greek police forces between 1944 and 1974.

Georgios Malandrakis is a full time Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, School of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in the field of Environmental Education – Education for Sustainability. He is also Head of the Department of Sciences and New Technologies within the same School. He was born on the Greek island of Samos and nurtured in Chania, Crete, Greece. He is married and father of a son and a daughter. He holds a Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. from the School of Primary Education, University of Crete (Rethymno).

During his Fulbright Scholarship he will spend at least three months at Teachers College, Columbia University (NY). There, in cooperation with Associate Professor Oren Pizmony-Levy, will develop evidence-based educational materials, in the form of short-scale curricula, for pre-service elementary school teachers, empowering them to effectively teach topics of climate change (CC). The curricula will focus on cultivating participants’ understanding of CC, fostering critical thinking, raising awareness about CC-related misinformation, and honing their ability to translate knowledge into practical application. The experience and the material that will be produced through, will serve as a basis for the expansion and deepening of the collaboration between AUTh and Columbia on teachers’ preparation for the risks, potential alternatives, and their role in CC mitigation efforts.

Dr. Nektarios Chrysoulakis is a Director of Research at FORTH and Head of the Remote Sensing Lab (http://rslab.gr). He holds a BSc in Physics, a MSc in Environmental Physics and PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Athens. He has been involved in R&D projects funded by the European Union, the European Space Agency and the Ministries of Environment, Development, Culture and Education. His main research interests include climate change and urbanization, urban climate, urban energy balance, urban resilience, urban planning and metabolism, natural and technological hazards, surface temperature and albedo, environmental monitoring and change detection. Dr. Chrysoulakis is cPI of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project urbisphere, focusing on coupling dynamic cities and climate. He has coordinated the projects CURE (H2020), URBANFLUXES (H2020), SEN4RUS (ERA.Net-RUS Plus), BRIDGE (FP7) GEOURBAN (FP7). He has also participated projects CoCO2(H2020), HARMONIA (H2020), ECOPOTENTIAL (H2020), THINKNATURE (H2020), IGIC (LIFE) and FLIRE (LIFE). Dr. Chrysoulakis is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence (https://eratosthenes.org.cy), in Earth Observation, space technology and geospatial analysis. Dr. Chrysoulakis is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete, teaching the course “Principles and Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing”; and at the CIHEAM-MAICh, teaching the course “Remote sensing of Urban Environments”. He was the Conference Chair of the Joint Urban and Remote Sensing Event JURSE2023. Since 2016 he has been co-Chair of the SPIE Conference on Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments. Dr. Chrysoulakis is the Finance Chair of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 2024. He is involved in GEO Climate Change Working Group, as well as in GEO Programme Board Urban Resilience Subgroup. He has more than 300 publications in per-review journals and conference proceedings.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Chrysoulakis will be hosted at Yale University, in the Yale School of Environment and the Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability, New Haven, Connecticut. He will conduct research on the developing of a conceptual approach to combine multi-sensor observations to estimate the spatio-temporal patterns of urban radiation budget at local scale. A multiscale and multi-sensor analysis method for surface albedo, emissivity and kinetic temperature estimation will be designed, exploiting visible, near infrared, shortwave infrared, mid-infrared and thermal infrared observations from existing and emergent spaceborne sensors acquiring at different spatio-temporal scales. Several technical issues must be overcome to achieve this goal, as deriving radiation budget by spaceborne sensors in an urban setting, with strongly anisotropic radiometric behavior, is challenging. A validation study will also be designed, based on in-situ observations by net-radiometers at selected cities where flux towers are available. This research is expected to advance the current knowledge of the impacts of urban radiation budget on urban climate and on energy consumption, allowing insight into strategies for heat mitigation.

Nikos Koutsias, environmentalist, is a professor at the Department of Sustainable Agriculture (former Department of Environmental Engineering) of the University of Patras, where he delivers courses in remote sensing, GIS, spatial analysis and informatics. He held a postdoctoral position at the Geographic Information Systems division (GIS) in the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich. He has been working in the field of remote sensing and GIS with special emphasis on wildland fires, forestry, ecology and natural hazards for the last 25 years. More specifically, he develops algorithms for automatic burned land mapping with satellite, and he works with time series satellite data for constructing phenological patterns among others. He has participated in national and European projects and has several publications in journals, books, and international conferences. He conducts editorial activities, and participates in the editorial board of few journals. Finally, he is the recent recipient of a Marie Curie Individual Scholarship.

I am Professor of Biology and Genetics at Patras Medical School. I studied Biology at the University of Athens and I have a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Heidelberg for my work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. I carried out postdoctoral research at the EMBL in Heidelberg and at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. My lab at the University of Patras studies how cells maintain a stable genome, and how genomic aberrations are linked to disease, employing imaging, genetics and modeling approaches. I am the Director of the Laboratory of General Biology, the diagnostic Molecular Genetics Unit, and the Institute of Precision Medicine at the University of Patras, coordinating studies on the genetics of rare and common diseases. I am a member of the Evaluation and Accreditation Council of the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education, responsible for the evaluation of higher education in the Biosciences and Medicine in Greece, and I chair the Sectorial Scientific Council on Biosciences and Medicine of Greece. I am a member of the European Molecular Organization (EMBO) and a member of EMBO Council.

I will be visiting the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, to acquire experience in the derivation and gene editing of patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells, as tools for modeling rare diseases studied at the University of Patras. In addition, during the proposed visit I aim to seek strategic partnerships with academic institutions and biotech, paving the way for new collaborative projects.