NICOSIA - Key Persons
Achilleas Pavlou is a Lecturer in Psychology and Clinical Communication Skills at the University of Nicosia Medical School.
Dr Pavlou earned a BSc in Computer Science from the University of East Anglia, UK and then obtained a BSc in Psychology, an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and a PhD in Cognitive Science / Neuropsychology from the University of Essex, UK.
His research interests are in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, sleep science and the application of machine learning in the health sciences. He is particularly interested in using machine learning algorithms to track, diagnose and predict variables of interest in the medical/neuroscience field. Furthermore, he is passionate about the science of lucid dreaming and its potential applications in cognitive science, consciousness research, therapy (particularly for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and motor skill enhancement/motor rehabilitation. His PhD thesis investigated a novel protocol for inducing lucid dreams through acoustic stimulation that was powered by machine learning algorithms.
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- Senior Course Administrator ( MBBS T Year GEMD Year 1 )
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- Executive Vice President of UNIC Health
- Professor Executive Vice President - UNIC Health
Andreas Charalambous is the Executive Vice President of UNIC Health.
Prof Charalambous holds a BSc and an MSc from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and a PhD in Anatomy/Neuroscience from The Ohio State University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dept of Pathology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
His research covers the areas of medical education and environmental/public health.
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- Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Expert, Best - Selling Author
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world's foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world.
In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book, Mastering Bitcoin (O'Reilly Media), widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money, unveiled the "why" of bitcoin-and became a bestseller on Amazon- and led to the wildly successful follow-up The Internet of Money Volume Two. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O'Reilly Media) was published in December of 2018.
He is a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and has appeared as an expert witness in hearings around the world, including the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee.
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- Senior Enrolment Advisor
- Senior Enrolment Officer
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- Senior Course Administrator ( MD Year 1 GEMD Years 2 & 3 )
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- Quality Assurance Officer
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- Senior Officer Community & Public Affairs / Reception Supervisor
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology and Developmental Genetics at the University of Nicosia Medical School
Annita Achilleos is an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology and Developmental Genetics at the University of Nicosia Medical School.
Dr Achilleos obtained her BSc with Honors in Biology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and completed her MSc as a Fulbright Scholar in Cell Biology and her PhD in Developmental Genetics from New York University School of Medicine. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stowers Institute for Biomedical Research in the lab of Dr Paul Trainor in Kansas City, MO, after which she was a Research Associate at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, in the lab of Dr Ross Poché.
Dr Achilleos is a developmental biologist interested in the complex processes that control the intricate development of the craniofacial skeleton. Her work has focused on neural crest cells, a magnificent, multipotent cell population that gives rise to the majority of the craniofacial skeleton during embryogenesis. She has used mouse and zebrafish models to study the pathophysiology of human craniofacial disorders and she has recently discovered a novel role for the transcription factor Ronin in craniofacial development and ribosome biogenesis. She is currently interested in using molecular biology, histology, and genetic approaches to better understand the transcriptional regulation of neural crest cells and their subsequent differentiation into facial bone and cartilage.
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- CEO
- Chief Executive Officer of the University
Mr. Polemitis currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Nicosia (UNIC) and EDEX, as a Board member of EDEX and UNICAF, and as a member of the Council of the University of Nicosia. UNIC serves nearly 12,000 students, along with 6,000 additional students in its affiliated academic institutions. It is the largest university in Cyprus and is the largest English language university in southern Europe.
Mr. Polemitis has two decades of experience in private equity, higher education and software development in New York, as a principal or partner at Ledra Capital, ACG Capital and Oliver Wyman (formerly Mercer Management Consulting). He has been a principal or advisor for a broad range of corporate financings in the United States, Europe, Latin America and India, ranging from multi-billion dollar industrial buyouts to early stage venture capital
Mr. Polemitis helped found the world-leading Digital Currency / Blockchain Initiative at the University of Nicosia, co-taught the first university cryptocurrency course in the world, and is regularly quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Wired and other publications as an expert on cryptocurrency issues.
His research at Mercer on optimal financing strategy in private equity has been published in Buyouts and cited in the Financial Times Mr. Polemitis holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with highest distinction as a Baker Scholar, and a B.S. in International Studies, Accounting and Computer Information Systems from Indiana University, where he graduated with highest distinction as a Wells and Chancellor's Scholar.
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- Digital Communications Coordinator
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- Executive Assistant to the EVP - UNIC Health
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- Head of Medical School Laboratories
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- Senior Student Services Officer
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- Senior Course Administrator ( MD Years 2 & 4 )
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- Veterinary Laboratory Technician
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- Editorial and Project Coordinator
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- DaP Assessment Officer / Mailing Address / Office 101, 1st Floor Block B
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- Quality Assurance Officer
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- Director of Finance for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Clinical Services
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- Quality Assurance Officer
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- Vice President for Global Partnerships and Executive Director, Research and Innovation at the University
Professor Dimitris Drikakis is the Vice President for Global Partnerships and Executive Director, Research and Innovation at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He has a joint professor's appointment in the School of Sciences and Engineering, and Medical School. Prior to that, he held academic and executive posts as Professor, Executive Dean, and Head of Department at various UK universities over a period of 24 years; he has also held senior academic/research posts in Germany and France. He has obtained his MEng (Mechanical Engineering) and PhD from the National technical University of Athens (Greece). His research is multidisciplinary and covers topics of engineering science and emerging technologies, including fluid mechanics, acoustics, materials, computational science and nanotechnologies with applications to aerospace, defence, energy and biomedical sector. He has received the William Penney Fellowship Award by the UK's Atomic Establishment in recognition of his contributions to multicomponent flows; and the Innovator of the Year Award (2014) by the UK's Innovation Institute for a new generation carbon capture nanotechnology device. He has co-authored two books and has published 417 papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has graduated 45 PhD students who now hold positions in academia and industries around the world. He has also been an Assoc. Editor of Computers and Fluids; Journal of Fluids Engineering; The Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society; Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience; (advisory board) Physics of Fluids; as well as serves on editorial boards in several journals in the fields of Engineering (Aerospace, Biomedical, Energy, Defence), Computational Science, Applied Physics, and Nanotechnology. He has also served on the Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Board of Directors of the European Aeronautics Science Network; European Research Council (Engineering - Deputy Chair); European Commission (evaluator); UK's Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC), as a Chair of the academic panel.
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- Assessment Officer ( DaP, SSC & Projects for MBBS - CS & T Year, MD Year 4 )
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- Senior Lecturer ( Associate Professor
Dr Apostolos Kourtis is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Finance and the Head of the Finance Group at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK. His research areas include investment management, forecasting, blockchain finance and cryptocurrency markets, corporate finance, mathematical modelling and scientific computing. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Empirical Finance and the Financial Review. His research has also been featured in popular media outlets, such as the Financial Times, Bloomberg and the Telegraph. Apostolos read for his doctorate at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Prior to his doctoral studies, Apostolos obtained an MSc in Applied and Computational Mathematics from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Athens.
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- Lecturer / Department of Theology
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- Research Associate / School of Law
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- Data Scientist / Machine Learning Analyst
Dr Charis Savvides is an experienced corporate lawyer, member of the Cyprus Bar Association, and law lecturer at the Department of Digital Innovation, School of Business of the University of Nicosia. Charis obtained his law degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2005 and continued his postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom, with emphasis on International and European Business Law, obtaining his LL.M in International Commercial Law from the University of Nottingham and his PhD in Law from the University of Sheffield. His practice areas include, among others, the regulatory framework of digital services and digital markets, especially in the areas of corporate, investment and financial law. Charis is also one of the leading lawyers in Cyprus in the field of Blockchain and crypto-asset advisory services, serving a vast clientele in regulated markets, such as Investment Firms, Alternative Investment Funds and Fund Managers, Crypto Asset Service Providers, Banks and Electronic Money Institutions. Charis is a regular speaker and instructor at professional seminars, workshops and conferences, where he shares his knowledge and experience about the regulatory status and trends in the fields of Investment Funds and the broader area of regulation and technology, including Blockchain and digital currencies. He is also an Expert Panel Member of the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum (a European Commission initiative to accelerate blockchain innovation and the development of the blockchain ecosystem within the EU).
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- Faculty Member
- Member of the Cyprus Bar Association
Dr Christou received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in the field of Computer Graphics and Human Visual Perception and was previously a member of the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics Group at University College London. His interest in Virtual Reality (VR) started at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, where he developed VR systems for studying human cognition. He holds an MSc in Knowledge-Based Systems from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy and Cognition from the University of Sussex, UK. His research interests include virtual reality, virtual embodiment, intelligent virtual agents, human-computer interaction, 3D user interfaces, locomotion, navigation, and human perception.
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- Director of IT / University
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- Projects Manager
- Faculty Member - Project Manager
- Senior Researcher at the Blockchain Initiative
Dr. Elias Iosif is a senior researcher at the Blockchain Initiative - Institute For the Future at the University of Nicosia.Dr. Iosif received the PhD degree from the School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece, in 2013. From 2007-2013, he was a research assistant and a postdoctoral fellow at TUC, where he participated in a number of EU projects. From 2014 to mid-2017, he has been a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His areas of expertise include blockchains, machine learning, human language technologies (natural language processing, spoken dialogue systems) and data mining, where he has authored/co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications.
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- Director of the Institute for the Future
- Director, Institute for the Future / University
- Eecutive Director
Professor George M. Giaglis is Director of the Institute for the Future at the University of Nicosia, as well as a leading expert on blockchain technology and applications and advisor to many blockchain projects and technology start-ups. George has been working on digital currencies and blockchain since 2012, with his main focus being on new forms of industrial organization (programmable smart contracts, decentralized applications and distributed autonomous organizations) and new forms of corporate financing (token economy, crypto-economics and ICOs). He has been one of the first academics to research and teach on blockchain, having: designed the curriculum of the world's first full academic degree on blockchain (MSc in Digital Currency at the University of Nicosia); led the development of blockchain credentialing technology that has resulted in the first ever publishing of academic certificates on the blockchain; taught on the disruptive innovation potential of blockchain, both at academic programs and in executive seminars worldwide; organized a number of prominent blockchain conferences and events, including Decentralized. Throughout his career, he has published more than 10 books and 150 articles in leading scientific journals and conferences, while he is frequently interviewed by media and invited as keynote speaker or trainer in events across the globe.
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- Faculty Member
- Member at the Department of Accounting
Dr. Ifigenia Georgiou is a faculty member at the Department of Accounting at the Business School and a member of the Institute for the Future (IFF) of the University of Nicosia. She holds a Ph.D. (2010) and an M.Sc. (2002) in Finance from the University of Cyprus, an M.Sc. in Information Management (1999) from Lancaster University in the UK, and a B.Sc. in Public and Business Administration with concentration in Management Science (1998) from the University of Cyprus. She also holds a teaching qualification, a PG Certificate in Professional Practice in Higher Education (2012) from Aston University in the UK, and she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) of the UK. Dr. Georgiou has worked as a Lecturer at Aston University at the UK (2009-2014), and as an Assistant Professor at the Cyprus International Institute of Management (2014-2017) before joining the University of Nicosia. Dr. Georgiou's research is interdisciplinary and her main academic interests include cryptocurrencies, blockchain DAOs and DAO governance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investing, behavioral finance, and information management. In addition, she is also interested in Ethics learning in Business Schools. Dr. Georgiou has presented her papers in many international refereed conferences, and she has published papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings in the fields of Finance and Accounting.
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- Associate Professor and Co - Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab
Dr Ioannis Katakis is an Associate Professor and co-Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab (ailab.unic.ac.cy) at the Department of Computer Science at UNIC. Born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece, he studied Computer Science and holds a PhD in Machine Learning for Text Classification (Aristotle University, 2009). After his postgraduate studies, he served various universities as a lecturer and a senior researcher. Recently, Ioannis has been included in the "Ioannidis list" of "Top 45 young Greek scientists" based on the impact of his work. His research interests include Mining Social, Web and Urban Data, Smart Cities, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Deep Learning, Data Streams and Multi-label Learning. He has published papers in International Conferences and Scientific Journals related to his areas of expertise, organised multiple workshops, and special issues and is an Editor at the journal Information Systems. His research has been cited more than 5000 times in the literature. He has extensive experience in European research projects where he participated as a Quality Assurance Coordinator and a Senior Researcher. He regularly serves the program committee of international conferences and evaluates articles in scientific journals.
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- Blockchain Energy Expert
- Blockchains and Energy Expert
Dr Vlachos is a seasoned professional with more than 15 years of experience working with some of the biggest energy companies, consultancy firms, and system integrators worldwide. He is also actively working closely with both academia and industry in well-known projects in Europe, South America, and MENA region that merge the worlds of energy and ICT. Dr Vlachos has been awarded with the "Ericsson Award of Excellence in Telecommunications" and has authored more that 40 scientific publications in international journals and conferences. His current interests are focused at the crossroads of Internet of Things, blockchains, distributed ledger technologies, and cybersecurity with the energy sector. Dr Vlachos holds an MSc and PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Project Coordinator, AGORA Doctoral Network
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- Computer Scientist
- Researcher
- Software Architect
- Faculty Member
Dr. Konstantinos Karasavvas is a computer scientist with 20+ years of experience. He has worked in academic research in multi-agent systems and service-oriented architectures for about a decade and following that he worked in the industry as a software architect and engineer for several years and in several domains; from bioinformatics to finance. Currently, and for the last 6 years, he is focused solely on blockchain technologies as a consultant. He is teaching and leading several research and development teams in both academia and industry. He is also an open source contributor and an active member of local Bitcoin communities, organizing meetups and presenting in events.
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- Director of Research
- Director of Research / Professor Vassilis Assimakopoulos
- Founder and Director of MOFC / Professor Maria Michailidis
- Professor at the University
Dr Spyros Makridakis is a Professor at the University of Nicosia, the director of the Institute For the Future (IFF) and an Emeritus Professor at INSEAD. He has authored, or co-authored, twenty-two books and more than 250 articles. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting and is the organizer of the M (Makridakis) Competitions.
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- Assistant Head of Admissions
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- Senior Course Administrator
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- Director of Communications
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- Business Development and Enrolment Manager
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- Student Information Coordinator
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- LGH Senior Site Administrator
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- Student Health Services Administrator
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- Assistant Director of Clinical Education & Programme Management
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- Senior Course Administrator ( MD Year 3 Clinical & Communication Skills, Simulated Patients )
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- Senior Examination Officer
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- Senior Course Administrator ( MSc FM MSc HSA
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- Bandman Advisor
- Founder
- Principal
- Founder and CEO of BlockAgent Inc
Jeff Bandman is also Founder and CEO of BlockAgent Inc., a new independent SEC-registered transfer agent focused on blockchain-based digital securities. BlockAgent is the new regulated market infrastructure bringing trust and compliance to digital securities. Jeff also chairs the Blockchain Committee of the Securities Transfer Association.
Mr.Bandman started his career as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. He graduated from Yale magna cum laude, with honors in History and English. He received his law degree from Stanford Law School, with honors as a member of the "Order of the Coif". He is a five-time Jeopardy! Champion and spent his winnings backpacking around Africa, Asia and Europe.
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- Director of Quality Assurance
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- Senior Clinical Placement Administrator
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- Senior Admissions Advisor
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- Senior Examination Officer
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- Senior Full Stack Developer / University
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- Human Resources Officer - Faculty Matters
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- Senior Course Administrator ( MPH MBBS T Year PBL )
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- Course Administrator ( Clinical Placements MD Year 4 Research Project MSc FM ( WPPA )
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- Director of the Cyprus Center for Intercultural Studies
Marilena Zackheos holds a BA in Philosophy and a BA in English Language and Literature with a concentration in Poetry Writing from the University of Virginia. She also holds an MA in English Studies from Queen Mary, University of London, an MPhil in English and a PhD in English (specializing in Postcolonial Studies) from George Washington University. She has been the Director of The Cyprus Center for Intercultural Studies since September 2012. She is also Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Nicosia. Her specializations cover postcolonial literary and cultural studies, diaspora studies, island literatures, gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis and trauma. Her recent work includes a co-edited collection on The Role of Education in a Multicultural Cyprus(forthcoming in 2016), a co-edited collection of essays entitled Vile Women: Female Evil in Fact, Fiction, and Mythology (published by Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2014), and a chapter in Revisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century (by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2015) entitled "Misogynism as Disidentification." She is active in Literary Agency Cyprus, a group that promotes the Anglophone literatures of Cyprus, as well as of Whirling Words, a Literary Agency Cyprus project for women writers in Cyprus and for women writers with a connection to the island. She is a member also of the following non-profits: Write Cy, Cyprus Academic Dialogue, and the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research. She is interested in bringing to the forefront in public discourse individual and collective narratives of interpersonal and interethnic conflict, focusing particularly on cases of reconciliation, resilience, survival and recovery from trauma.
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- Library Coordinator / Mailing Address / Library Block a
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- Associate
- Director of Education and Training
Professor Marinos Themistocleous is the Associate Dean of School of Business and one of Directors of the Institute For Future (IFF) at the University of Nicosia. He holds a PhD in Information Systems Integration and a Postgraduate Degree in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education both from Brunel University, London, UK. Prior to that, he received an MSc in Information Systems Management and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, both from Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece. Marinos holds a certification in Blockchain, FinTech and future commerce from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts, Cambridge, USA and he teaches at the world-leading Digital Currency postgraduate programme at University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
He has developed blockchain applications in the areas of energy and healthcare and serves as blockchain advisor. Marinos retains close relationships with industry and serves as consultant in areas such as blockchain, ebusiness, ehealth and information systems integration. He has collaborated with the Greek Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Greece, the Greek Standardization body, the Greek Federation of SMEs, ORACLE UK, the B3-Blockchain Business Board UK, Intelen US, BTO Research Italy, the Cyprus National Betting Authority and other organizations.
He has authored more than 175 refereed journal and conference articles, several teaching textbooks and has received citations and awards of excellence. His research has attracted funding from various bodies and organizations. Marinos is on the editorial board of academic journals as well as on the board of prestigious international conferences and has run minitracks, tracks and journal special issues on Blockchain. In the past, he served as the managing editor of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS).
Mark has been involved with technology throughout his career. After decades of experience in the television industry he became heavily involved in the startup sector. He is a legal expert on cryptocurrencies and digital currency regulation.
In late 2012, he recognised the potential of digital currency and Blockchain technology. The firm he founded, helped organise and lead blockchain conferences at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Mark understands the legal, commercial, and the technical aspects of the technology. He has been a lecturer in a masters course on Digital Currency Regulation with the University of Nicosia since the end of 2015. The course has a strong international reputation for pioneering the field of cryptocurrency studies.
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- Art and Design Technical Officer
Mr Pericleous holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies from the University of West London, United Kingdom. Since 1989 he is the Executive Director and Manager of The Perick Pharmacal, a company which represents in Cyprus amongst other, the Swiss company SIGVARIS GROUP, the global market leader in the manufacture of medical compression garments.
Mr Pericleous has been a volunteer for many years, representing patient organisations in Cyprus and abroad. He travelled extensively in Middle East, Asia and North Africa advocating to and assisting national and regional health authorities in the areas of screening and prevention of thalassaemia, initiating medical treatments with the introduction of new medicines in their national formularies for thalassaemics. He made presentations on thalassaemia syndromes to patients and parents, to medical professionals, to the pharmaceutical industry and to healthcare authorities in affected countries. He participated and presented in local and international conferences on thalassaemia issues and was invited as the Key Note Speaker in international events. He also participated at European Medicines Agency Human Scientific Committees Working Party with Patients' and Consumers' Organisations (PCWP) as an Expert.
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- Special Teaching Faculty - Teaching Assistant
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- Coordinator of School Practicum and Adviser
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- Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Medical Council
- Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Australian Medical Council, ACT, Australia
Ms Theanne Walters is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Medical Council, Australia's accreditation and standards body for medical education and training. Since 1993, she has been responsible for the accreditation of medical programmes, and the AMC's national and international collaborations on standards setting and accreditation. Ms Walters is a senior adviser for the World Federation for Medical Education, and a founder and member of Australia's Health Professions Accreditation Collaborative Forum. In June 2019, Ms Walters was made a Member of the Order of Australia, for her services to medical education and accreditation.
Research interests: Medical School accreditation, Accreditation of Postgraduate Medical Education, Indigenous Health in medical education.
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- Student Services Centre Coordinator
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- Professor of Orthopaedics
Peter V. Scoles MD is Professor of Orthopaedics and Vice Dean for Academic Programme Development at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. He is Visiting Professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Minho, Portugal and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Agostino Gemelli School of Medicine, Universitá del Sacro Cuore, Rome.
Dr Scoles was responsible for the design of the JeffMD undergraduate PBL curriculum and directs the University's international medical education programmes. He leads new educational programme development at the medical college, and is responsible for co-curriculum pathways across the University.
Prior to joining the Jefferson faculty in 2013, he served as Senior Vice President and Executive Director for International Programmes at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). He was responsible for the design and oversight of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) programme and the NBME's portfolio of domestic and international certification examinations.
Professor Scoles graduated from the Pennsylvania State University-Jefferson Medical College 5-year programme in Medicine, and holds the degrees of Master of Science from Ohio State University and Master of Arts from John Carroll University. Prior to joining the NBME, Dr Scoles was Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Assistant Dean at the Case-Western Reserve University College of Medicine He is Board certified in Orthopaedic Surgery, with sub-specialty expertise in spinal disorders and is an Attending Surgeon at the Philadelphia Shriners Hospital for Children.
Research interests: Operative and non-operative management of scoliosis and related spinal deformities.
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- Center Assistant at the Cyprus Center for Intercultural Studies
Polina Petrou is a BA student in Law at the University of Nicosia. Since September 2015, she has assumed the position of Center Assistant at the Cyprus Center for Intercultural Studies. She there co-manages and co-creates material for the Center's social media use (https://www.facebook.com/cypruscenterforinterculturalstudies) and website (https://www.unic.ac.cy/research/affiliated-institutions-business-links/ac…). She is also responsible for the promotion and planning of events. Being herself bicultural and bilingual-as she is half Greek-Cypriot and half Russian-she is especially interested in heightening respect for cultural difference and enhancing an understanding of intercultural connections. Being also a classical ballet and contemporary dancer, she is inspired by the creative initiatives of the Center which promote the diversity of the island's cultures through also highlighting Cyprus's diversity of the arts.
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- Faculty Member
- Founder and Director of MOFC / Professor Maria Michailidis
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- Director of Partnerships
- Professor
Prof. Soulla Louca is a professor in the newly founded Department of Digital Innovation as well as a Director at the Institute For the Future (IFF) at the University of Nicosia. She was nominated by LATTICE80 in partnership with Miss Kaya as one of the top 100 women in Fintech for 2019. With a background in Computer Science, she is one of the first academics to get involved in blockchain technologies (2014) when she assumed the responsibility of the Blockchain Initiative at the University of Nicosia. The Blockchain Initiative (renamed later to Institute For the Future) has designed and developed the first MSc worldwide in Digital Currency, the technology for publishing academic certificates on the blockchain (http://block.co/). She is leading the DLT4ALL consortium, an Erasmus+ project on designing and developing material on Decentralized Ledgers and also leads the team at IFF for the design and development of a decentralized platform for social networks for trancing fake news for the H2020 project EUNOMIA. She is active in organizing or co-organizing tech events including the Decentralized series (www.decentralized.com) as well as in research.
For seven years, she headed the Domain Committee for ICT for the European program COST (www.cost.eu) for the 36 Member States of COST. Main duties were the evaluation and monitoring of the ICT Actions, which bring together more than 3000 researchers in areas like e-Society, Information Security, Networks, Nanotechnologies, etc. Furthermore, she was responsible for identifying trends, boosting pioneering research activities and help define strategies in science and technology through the organization and participation of strategic initiatives for promoting the ICT policy in Europe and beyond for the betterment and new digital experiences of European citizens. Even though her research interests for many years focused on information society (socio-economic aspects of ICT, e-learning, social integration and digital divide), due to her COST activities she had the opportunity to disperse her knowledge and work over a wide range of subjects such as personalized medicine, women in ICT, and open access. This enables her to integrate the knowledge she has gained over the years into a consistent worldview with a wider division of labor for working towards raising the standard of living for the European citizens and beyond. Her mandate ended successfully in September 2014.
Stamatis (Manos) Papangelou is a PhD candidate and researcher in the DLRC.
Stamatis holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics from University of Macedonia in Greece. He also holds a MSc in Data Science from International Hellenic University and graduated with honors.
Stamatis shows his passion about Blockchain technologies from his early part of his academic carrier with Bachelor thesis titled: Digital Currencies: A Multivariate GARCH Approach and Master Thesis titled: Chaotic pattern assessment and exploitation in Blockchain Technology. Stamatis also holds publications on the fields on blockchain, forecasting and dynamics of disaster.
His current PhD research focuses on the decentralization and autonomous aspects of a DAO in the DeFi ecosystem. The ambition of his study is to categorize and measure decentralization levels of DeFi protocols and study how can Artificial Intelligence can promote autonomous financial services.
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- PGH Senior Site Administrator
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- Research Fellow & Coordinator at Forecasting and Strategy Unit / National Technical University of Athens
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- Director of Research / Professor Vassilis Assimakopoulos
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- Quality Assurance Officer