Founded in July 1961 as a Research Centre for Nuclear Research, Demokritos is today the largest multidisciplinary Research Centre of Greece with approximately 180 Researchers in tenured and tenure-track positions and over 500 Research Personnel working in projects funded mainly by grants from State Funds, the European Union and Private Industries.
The Centre consists of five independent Institutes focusing on different scientific fields. It is governed by the Board of Directors and is supervised by the General Secretariat of Research and Innovation, which is in the Ministry of Development.
Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis is a graduate of the Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras (1989), with an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London (1990) and a PhD in knowledge representation and information extraction from the Informatics & Telecommunications Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1995). Currently, he is Research Director at NCSR "Demokritos", and head of the Software & Knowledge Engineering Lab (SKEL) at II&T. His research interests are in the areas of content analysis, big data management, knowledge representation, human-machine interaction. Coordinator, scientific and technical manager of many European and national projects. Organized international summer schools, workshops and conferences. Being responsible for the Institute's educational activities for more than 10 years, he initiated the joint PhD scholarship program with several Universities abroad, started the new MSc in Data Science program, and launched the NCSRD educational program for primary and secondary schools. Co-founded one of the first spin-offs at NCSRD, and participate in another one which is about to be launched.
Over 25 years of research experience related to aerosol physicochemical characterization, application of nuclear techniques to environmental studies and radioactivity including development of novel sampling and measurement techniques. He has established and is responsible for the Demokritos Regional Research Aerosol station, member of the Global Atmosphere Watch network (GAW-DEM), operating since 2007 and Helmos Mountain station since 2016. He has been actively involved in European initiatives for the development of standardized methods, through EUSAAR (European Supersites for Atmospheric Aerosol Research) and ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure) activities. He has also served as an Expert in missions for the Regional IAEA/AFRA projects, as well as the National Counterpart for Greece in Regional IAEA programs. He has been the PI and coordinated for Demokritos several EU FP and National programs. Among these, he has coordinated the ENTEC Infrastructure REGPOT FP7 programme for Capacity Building the NCSR Demokritos atmospheric science and technology Infrastructure, led the DG-ENV LIFE+ ACEPT-AIR, FROST DEFEND programmes and was PI for NCSR in the LIFE AIRUSE and LIFE-INDEX programmes. , He has more than 210 publications in peer reviewed journals regarding atmospheric aerosol science, measurement methodology and applications in radiation protection, air pollution and climate impact of atmospheric aerosol. President and founding member of the Hellenic Association for Aerosol Research, member of the Pan Eurasian Academy of Sciences
Dr Evangelos Gogolides is a Chemical Engineer from NTUA-Greece, and holds an MSc and a PhD (1990) both from MIT-USA. His thesis work was on plasma processing and simulation, and he did post-doctoral research on microlithography with Michael Hatzakis. He is presently director of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at NCSR “Demokritos”. He authored more than 290 publications (h-index 52 google scholar, 8589 citations, h-index-45 scopus-6783 citations) and 12 patent families, and coordinated several research projects on Nanofabrication and Microfluidics. He has founded the plasma nanotechnology laboratory at NCSR Demokritos. Dr Gogolides is a co-founder of two spin-off companies: Nanoplasmas pc and Nanometrisis pc. His current interests include microfabrication for Life Sciences, Plasma Nanotechnology, Surface engineering for wetting and surface property control, microfluidics and Lab on Chip, nanometrology and plasma simulation and atmospheric plasma applications for food preservation and water treatment. He is a board member of the iMNESociety, President of the Hellenic Micro&NanoSociety, chair of several large international conferences (MNE 1997, MNE 2008, MNE 2019, i-plasmanano 2016 etc) and editor in chief of Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE) Journal of Elsevier.
Dr. Christos Markou is an experimental physicist. His fields of expertise are Astrophysics, Particle Physics, instrumentation, distributed computing and data analysis, signal processing. Dr. Markou studied at Imperial College, University of London, UK, obtaining his B.Sc. (1985) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees in Physics. During his career, he has participated in several high energy particle physics experiments, at CERN, Geneva and DESY, Hamburg, and lately at KM3NeT. Before joining NCSR “D” he has held appointments at Imperial College and CERN.
He participates in KM3NeT, the international collaboration preparing the new generation underwater neutrino telescope to be deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. KM3NeT, a distributed research infrastructure to be deployed in 3 sites (France, Italy and Greece) is part of the ESFRI Roadmap. He is the Chairman of the KM3NeT Institution Board (since 2016), member of the Resources Review Board, the publication committee and is the Greek delegate to the KM3NeT ERIC. Dr. Markou is active in establishing a novel acoustic detector for ultra-high energy extragalactic neutrinos. He participates in several committees of NCSR Demokritos, the GSRT CERN advisory committee, and has led numerous research projects both at the National and International level. CM has been active in educational and outreach activities and has supervised 8 Ph.D. theses. He is the author of numerous research papers.
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Dr. Dimitris Kletsas holds a B.Sc in Biology from the University of Thessaloniki and a PhD in Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology from the Department of Biology of the University of Athens. He is the Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Applications (IBA) and Head of the Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Ageing, of the Laboratory of Cell Systems and Bioactive Compounds and of the Animal House of IBA. His research interests include: Mechanisms of ageing and longevity, cellular senescence and age-related pathologies, cancer, intervertebral disc degeneration, wound healing, intracellular signaling pathways, bioactive compounds (synthetic or from natural sources) with anticancer, anti-oxidant/anti-ageing or wound healing action.
His work has produced more than 190 papers in international refereed journals, 16 book chapters, more than 11000 citations and 2 patents. He was coordinator or principal investigator of more than 30 research projects, supervised a significant number of Post-doc fellows and Ph.D. students and participates in several postgraduate educational programs. He is currently the President of the Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Member of the Committee for Research and Innovation of the Attika Region, Member of the National Committee for the Wellbeing of Laboratory Animals. He served as President of the European Tissue Repair Society, National Expert for the FP6 of EU, and Member of the National Council of Research and Development, Sector of Biosciences.
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Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science
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The Research Ethics Committee (REC) was established in accordance with law 4521/2018, with the aim to ensure the ethically correct conduct of research projects at NCSR “Demokritos”.
The main mission of the REC is to provide support to the researchers in harmonising their proposals with the relevant legal requirements as well as with the generally recognised rules of conduct for research.
In addition, the Committee undertakes to keep the researchers and the administrative-technical personnel of NCSR “Demokritos” up to date with any developments relevant to its remit. Furthermore, it develops wider educational and training initiatives in the field of research ethics, as well as cooperating with its counterpart and related institutions in Greece and abroad.
Evangelos D. Protopapadakis is a Professor of Applied Ethics and Bioethics (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens); Director of the NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory; President of the Ethics and Deontology Committee of the National Center for Scientific Research “Democritos”; Member of the Hellenic National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics; Head of the Greek Unit of the International Chair in Bioethics (WMA Cooperation Center), Director of the MA Program Animal Welfare, Ethics and the Law, Director of the international MSc Leadership: Ethics and Politics, Member of the Pan-Orthodox Committee of Bioethics of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople, Member of the Greek National Authority of Assisted Reproduction, and Member of the Bioethics Committee of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute. He has published 4 books in Greek and 2 in English as the single author, as well as 12 edited volumes as the editor or the co-editor: 5 in English, 1 in Serbian and 6 in Greek. He has published more than 100 papers in domestic or international scientific journals and volumes. He is a member of several domestic and international philosophical societies; he is also the Editor-in-Chief of Conatus – Journal of Philosophy.
George Kosteletos is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), a teaching fellow at the same department, and an adjunct faculty member at the Open University of Cyprus. He also serves as Vice-Chair of the Research Ethics Committee of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” and as a member of the expert group on Artificial Intelligence of the National Commission on Bioethics and Technoethics. He is an affiliated researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Philosophy (Department of Philosophy, NKUA) and the Laboratory of Psycho-physiology of the University Mental Health, Neurosciences and Precision Medicine Research Institute “Costas Stefanis” (NKUA). He has also been a research fellow at the NKUA Medical School, conducting research on the neuroscientific mechanisms underlying moral cognition. He holds a PhD in Philosophy (Division of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology, NKUA) with a dissertation on the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, an MSc in Music Technology from the University of York, and a BSc in Physics from the NKUA. His main areas of research are the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Neurosciences, as well as Moral Philosophy. His research interests include the investigation of philosophical—and particularly ethical—issues arising from contemporary AI research and applications, as well as the experimental study of the neuroscientific dimensions of moral cognition.
Georgia Martha Gotsi holds a Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens and a Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne, where she defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Neurosciences in Criminal Trials: From Responsibility to Dangerousness”. She also holds postgraduate degrees in Philosophy of Law and in the History of European Legal Thought from the Law Schools of the University of Athens and Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, respectively. In 2018, she carried out a postdoctoral research at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens with a fellowship from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). From 2012 to 2016, she worked as a research associate at the Research Department of the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Lausanne, and from 2010 to 2012 as a research assistant at Ethos, the interdisciplinary ethics platform of the University of Lausanne. She has also served as a research associate in the Departments of History and Theory of Law, and of Criminal Sciences, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens. Dr. Gotsi has taught for several years at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the fields of Philosophy of Law, Bioethics, Criminology/Criminal Policy, and Neuroethics. She has published articles in Greek and international journals and has presented papers at a number of scientific conferences. Her research interests focus on Philosophy of Law, Bioethics, Neuroethics, Psychiatric Ethics, and the Philosophy of Punishment.
Dr. Garyfalia Drosopoulou is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Biosciences and Applications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" She has studied Cell Biology at University College, London, UK and holds a PhD in Developmental Biology from the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College, London, UK. Her research interests focus on the mechanisms involved in the pathology of chronic age-related diseases, i.e. diseases that occur mainly in middle age and may have a genetic predisposition. In particular, investigating the role of specific genes in the onset and progression of diabetic nephropathy, which is associated with diabetes mellitus, and in the use of stem cells as a potential therapeutic approach. She supervises the undergraduate and postgraduate students and is a member of evaluation committees for doctoral candidates, as well as a member of evaluation committees for research projects. She has published in many peer-reviewed scientific journals and has participated in more than 80 international and Greek scientific conferences.
Vergopoulos Dimitris is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Informatics at Ionian University, with research object "Analysis of big data in Education, Tourism, Health and Culture - Data mining with Artificial Intelligence algorithms". He completed his Phd at EKPA entitled "Artificial Intelligence - Ethical Responsibility - Modern and distance education", holds three master's degrees in "Information Systems" (Open University of Greece), in "Ethical Philosophy" EKPA - Univ. Peloponnese and "Computer Science and Adult Education" Middlesex University and holder of three bachelor degrees "Mathematics - Informatics", "Business Administration and Organizations" and "Accounting and Finance". He teaches at the level of Assistant Professor at the University of Patras, at the International University of Greece and the TEI of Peloponnese, while he has worked in primary and secondary education as a professor of Informatics.To date, he has presented papers at International and World Conferences, he is an anonymous reviewer of papers in International journals and has participated in European Programs as a researcher or research associate with partners Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), University of Peloponnese, EKDDA, EOPPEP etc. He is a founding member and President of the Messinian Association for Contact with Alzheimer's Disease (MESENA), a regular member of the Hellenic Ethics Society, EPE (Greek IT Association), MENSA Greece, EEPEK (Scientific Union for the Promotion of Educational Innovation), the DOE (Hellenic Teachers' Federation) and the Economic Chamber of Greece. He has also served as Deputy Mayor of Programming, Development and European Programs of the Municipality of Kalamata, member of the Management Committee of the Peloponnese Regional Development Plan (EYDE), Chairman of the Water Org and member of many Committees of the Municipality of Kalamata.
Alexandros Nousias is a Research Associate at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of NCSR-D in Digital and AI law, governance and ethics. He consults research organisations and tech companies in the context of research and real market projects. Alexandros is lead instructor of the Applied Ethics module in the context of MSc in AI at University of Piraeus, and MSc in Data Science at the University of Peloponnese and lectures at the MSc in Business Analytics of the Athens University of Business and Economics, MA in Digital Transformation at Panteion University and MSc Technology applications in Health at the Democritus University of Thrace, while serves as trainer and mentor for corporates and startups. Alexandros has been participating as technical consultant in the drafting of the national AI strategy held by the Ministry of Digital Governance and contributes to the Group of Experts for AI constituted by the National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics. Alexandros is an IEEE certified AI Ethics Lead Assessor.
Dora Katsamori is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos'. She holds a BSc in Political Science and Public Administration with a MSc and a PhD in the field of Citizenship and Human Rights Education and inclusion. Her research interests lie in the field of (Digital) Citizenship & Human Rights Education, focusing in social disadvantaged groups, AI Literacy & Media Literacy, AI Ethics as well as citizens’ engagement. She is an Academic Fellow in the field of Social Pedagogy (University of Patras). She is also a certified adult educator and collaborates with the Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation as a trainer. She has an extensive experience as a researcher and project manager through her participation in various national and European funded projects (Erasmus+, Horizon2020 & EEA grants).
Ioannis Zacharopoulos is a Sociologist – Social Researcher, Head of the Data Collection, Standardization and Methodological Tools Development at the National Organization for the Prevention and Treatment of Addictions (E.O.P.A.E.).
He received his Master's Degree in Bioethics from the University of Crete in 2024, a second Master's Degree in Sociology and Social Exclusion (MA) from Panteion University in 2008, and a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from Panteion University of Athens in 2003.
Mr. Zacharopoulos' research focuses on issues of addiction and public health, professional ethics and health structure evaluation, moral philosophy and bioethics, and has participated as a research coordinator in several qualitative and quantitative methodology studies in the field of addiction, and public health.
In addition, is a regular member of the Academic Council of the University of Western Macedonia and an alternate member of the Academic Councils of Panteion University, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Ioannina, and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research. while also being a member of the teaching staff registry of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government and a member of the Registry of Associates and Experts of the National Documentation Centre (EKT).
Dr. Ioannis Ladas was born in Athens. He studied Theology at the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion of the School of Theology at the University of Athens and Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Patras. He holds master's degree in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens and master's degree in Theology from the School of Theology at the University of Thessaloniki. He attended postgraduate courses in Theology at the Protestant School of the University of Charles in Prague and in Philosophy at the Bosphorus University in Istanbul. He holds PhD in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens (Thesis title: The problem of philosophical foundation of bioethics and the bioethical thoughts of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.) and PhD in Theology from the School of Theology at the University of Thessaloniki (Thesis title: Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church 2016: Preparation - Procedures). His research activity focuses on the broad field of Applied Ethics, mainly Bioethics, as well as on the also broad field of Inter-Orthodox and Inter-Christian Relations. Moreover, he has participated in European research programs and in World and International theological and philosophical conferences. He is a member, among others, of the Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory.
Dr Evangelia Diapouli is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences and Technology, Energy & Safety, of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”. She holds a Chemical Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens (2000), an MSc in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, USA (2002) and a PhD focusing in Indoor Air Quality from the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (2008). She has more than 20 years of experience in the study of indoor and ambient air quality. Her research focuses on the physico-chemical characterization of airborne particulate matter, aerosol source apportionment and population and occupational risk assessment. Dr Diapouli has participated in several European and national research projects, in some of them acting as Principal Investigator either for the NCSR “Demokritos” team or for the whole project. She has been also actively involved in European initiatives for the development of standard methods for aerosol characterization, including the quantification of carbonaceous species in airborne particles and the adoption of a European harmonized methodology in the application of receptor models for PM source apportionment. She has co-authored 97 papers in peer review journals and has presented more than 130 papers in national and international conferences. Since 2019, she is member of the Management Board of the Hellenic Association for Aerosol Research (HAAR).
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