Harry Mavrolefteros was born on 13th November 1987 in Sydney; his father Kyriacos having been born in Cyprus and migrated to Australia after the Turkish occupation of 1974 and his mother Katerina (nee Kapodistrias) born to Mytilinean migrants. Harry is
Prof Andy Koronios PhD is the CEO Designate of the SmartSat CRC, a consortium of industry and research organisations developing game changing smart satellite technologies to catapult Australia into the global space economy. Prior to this, he we was the
Dr Vassilis Adrahtas Sub specie aeternitatis (From the perspective of eternity) My life started on the land of the Dharug people –nowadays called Bankstown– on the 8th day of December 1968. I am the second of four siblings and my
Ilektra worked as a special teacher and completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield, UK in the area of inclusive education. She worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield, UK, and as a lecturer at the University of Athens and the University of Thessaly, Greece before moving to the University of Sydney. Her research interests include disability, classroom diversity, and curriculum differentiation.
George Paxinos AO FASSA FAA (Greek: Γιώργος Παξινός, born 6 December 1944) is a Greek Australian neuroscientist, born in Ithaca, Greece. He completed his BA in psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After a postdoctoral year at Yale University, he moved to
Mary Faleta was born on the 25th September 1950, in Kaisariani, to Vasileios (from Androusa Messinias) and Kanella Koutelas (from Areopolis Lakonia). Mary completed High School in Athens, and after her final exams decided to move to Australia where her
Although he was one of the contributors in ‘A Child’s Grief, A Nation’s Lament’ (P. Diamandis et al) in 1995, it was not until many years later when Vasilis Vasilas calling came- the documentation of photographs and oral stories from
ELIZABETH KEFALLINOS – SENIOR LECTURER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MACQUARIE Originally, from Zakynthos, Elizabeth Kefallinos immigrated to Sydney, Australia, in the 1970s; she was married and she has three children; she worked in the Greek Community Press (“To Vima”) for
Dr Panayota Nazou was born in Greece in 1951, in the north western township of Grevena. She studied nutrition and food science at the Harokopeion University Athens and received a Bachelor in Dietetics and Nutrition Science. She migrated to Australia
Dr Maria Tsoli is the lead scientist responsible for establishing state of the art techniques for research in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG) and the development of DIPG patient-derived xenograft models (PDX).
