Awards

Yiota Poirazi

  • Alexander von Humboldt Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, 2019
  • Einstein Foundation Visiting Fellowship, 2019
  • Visiting Fellow, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, April 2016 – April 2018
  • Elected EMBO member, 2017
  • Young Scientist and ERC Ambassador at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions, China, 2014-2015
  • Elected member of the Young Academy of Europe, 2015
  • FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar and first Chair, 2015.
  • “Manolis Christofidis” Young Investigator Award, Cyprus, 2013
  • Nominated by EMBO to join AcademiaNET – Expert Database of Outstanding Female Scientists and Scholars, 2013
  • European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, 2012
  • Marie Curie Individual Outgoing Fellowship of the European Commission, 2008
  • Young Investigator of the Network of European Neuroscience Institutes (ENINET), 2007-2014
  • EMBO Young Investigator Award, 2004
  • Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission, 2002
  • Fred S. Grodins’ Graduate Research Award for outstanding original research by a Biomedical Engineering graduate student, University of Southern California, 2000

Athanasia Papoutsi

  • Invited Faculty at the IBRO-Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2019 & 2020.
  • Invited Talk: Dendritic tree orientation preference in L2/3 pyramidal neurons of the visual cortex.
  • ELIDEK funding for excellent young PIs, 2018
  • NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2018
  • Invited Speaker: Dendritic integration and computation with active dendrites, EITN 2018 Workshop, Paris.
  • ELIDEK (HFRI) Grant, 2018
  • Invited Oral presentation, CNS, 2015
  • Scholarship for ranking 1st, Brain and Mind Master Program, 2008
  • Best Poster Award, Hellenic Society for Neuroscience, 2008
  • Maria-Michail Manassaki Scholarship, based on academic excellence, 2007-2008
  • Maria-Michail Manassaki Scholarship, based on academic excellence, 2006-2007
  • Onassis Foundation Travel Award, The Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series, 2007

George Kastellakis

  • Invited speaker, Neuroplasticity: From Bench to Machine Learning, 13 July 2018 – 14 July 2018, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
  • Best Poster Award, Hellenic Society for Neuroscience Meeting, 2010
  • Young Travel Fund Grant, Federation of European Biochemical Societies, 2010

Spiros Chavlis

  • Cajal course for Computational Neuroscience participant, awarded with full stipend, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown Lisbon, Portugal, 2018
  • Scholarship for participation at “The Brain Prize course. The Hippocampus: from Circuits to Cognition”, 2017
  • AREADNE 2016: Abstract was chosen for oral presentation

Panos A. Bozelos

  • Awarded full funding to participate in the 1st Evidence Synthesis Hackathon event, in Stockholm, Sweden, 2018
  • Bodossaki Foundation Award Scholarship to attend Seminar Lectures in Biology & Medicine, based on acanemic excellence, 2012
  • Bodossakis Foundation Scholarship for post­graduate research at PhD level, based on acanemic excellence, 2012
  • Latsis Foundation Scholarship for graduate research in the field of Life Sciences, 2011

Alexandra Tzilivaki

  • Best Poster award & Travel Grant for the FENS Forum 2020, at the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2019
  • EMBO workshop on DENDRITES 2018, 1st prize, Best Poster award.
  • Invited speaker: Liphy seminar (hosted by Canepari Lab). University of Grenoble France 2018.
  • “Maria Mihail Manassaki” scholarship awarded to postgraduate students of the Biology Department, UoC, based on academic excellence, 2018
  • Next Generation Woman Leader Award by McKinsey & Company, 2018
  • TEDx Chania Invited talk, 2017
  • Einstein Center for Neurosciences and NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence PhD Fellowship, 2017
  • Travel Grant by the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience for poster presentation in FENS forum 2016 in Copenhagen Denmark, 2016
  • Alexander C. Onassis Benefit Foundation Scholarship, based on academic excellence, 2016
  • First selected student to attend the Master Program “Molecular Biology and Biomedicine” coordinated by the University of Crete and the IMBB-FORTH, 2015
  • Highest G.P.A. Award for graduating with the highest G.P.A in the Biology Department University of Crete, 2015
  • Awarded by Google with the Google Europe Scholarship for Computer Science Students, based on academic excellence, leadership skills and demonstrated passion for Computer Science, 2015
  • Young Researcher Award for the selection to participate in the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, based on academic excellence, 2014
  • Travel Fellowship by the Alexander C. Onassis Benefit Foundation for attending the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, 2014
  • Vardinoyianneio Foundation Scholarship, based on academic excellence, 2013

Konstantinos Petousakis

  • The A.G. Leventis Foundation PhD research grant, 2019

Ioanna Pandi

  • IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience Imbizo 2018, Cape Town, South Africa (partial scholarship)