Tech Talks Central

Dr. Maria Koutsobogera, a Researcher at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), talks about the state-of-the-art research in Multimodal Communication, Information Processing and Retrieval. Research in Multimodal communication designs and optimizes models in order to create a more natural experience in agent-based communications. Recent studies on those models investigate applications beyond the improvement of context awareness and conversation flow, moving into sociological and psychological analysis of user groups. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

Dr. Vangelis Gerasopoulos, Research Director of Institute for Environmental Research & Sustainable Development and an expert on atmospheric physics, talks about how he got started with science and the impact of the economic crisis on atmospheric pollution, in Greece. Interviewed by Tina Miteko for Tech Talks Central.

Dr. George Kordas, Research Director at NCSR Demokritos, describes the very important project his research team is working on, during the last six years: delivering drugs for personalized chemotherapy to cancer patients. He talks about what inspired him to make this project the scope of his life, as well as the prospects of his life-saving method for the future. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

Smart devices are getting smaller and smaller but the main problem is the high power consumption of these devices. Novel materials like graphene, silicene, semiconductors and topological insulators might help us solve this energy efficiency problem. Dr Athanasios Dimoulas, Research Director in the field of Materials for Nanoelectronics at NCSR Demokritos, explains us what those materials can really do and how the nanoelectronics industry can benefit from them. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central.

In this interview, Maria Sachpazi, Research Director & Acting Director of the Institute of Geodynamics of the National Observatory of Athens, chats with Tina about the European Researcher's Night, what inspired her to pursue science and research, and whether seismologists today have the ability to predict the next "big" earthquake. Interviewed by Tina Miteko for Tech Talks Central.

Dr. Amiridis a Senior Researcher at National Observatory of Athens talks about BEYOND: a Centre of Excellence for Earth Observation based monitoring. BEYOND is a monitoring, aggregation, storage and analysis point for data related to natural phenomena. Data is collected from a variety of probes (satellites, seismic activity probes etc.) in collaboration with leading institutions. The vision of BEYOND is to become the central hub for natural phenomena in the region and provide services to businesses and the public sector spanning a wide range of applications, from real-time notification to task-force deployment strategy, recovery planning and forecasting. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central

Dr. Christos Tsambaris, Nuclear Physicist & Oceanographer of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, talks about nuclear physics, environmental protection, and advancements in marine technology such as the Katerina system he helped develop suitable for detecting radioactivity in polluted waters. Interviewed by Tina Miteko for Tech Talks Central.

Dr. Maria Christina Chatziioannou takes us into a unique field, that of social and economic history research, with a more specialised interest in the history of trade and entrepreneurs. She explains the term ‘The biography of the Entrepreneur’ and what it entails knowing the story of significant people who impacted our lives in the past. She explains how we can learn from history and how significant it is to base your research on archives and tools. Last, she answers our question on whether we can learn from entrepreneurs of the past. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central

Dr. Dimou tells us about her research in sign and 3D languages, describing the impact of facial expressions, body posture and gestures to the understanding of meanings. The target of her research team is to use these results for the deaf and hard of hearing people, as well as for experimentation in advanced projects, like MOBOT (MObile roBOT) and other applications, that promote independent living for elderly people or persons with reduced mobility and other kinds of disabilities. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

The main problem in the field of neutrino astronomy is the unambiguous detection and reconstruction of the neutrino induced signal. The KM3NeT collaboration with participants from Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Ireland, and Romania have been designing a deep-sea neutrino telescope to be built in the Mediterranean. Dr. Christos Markou, Director of Research at NCSR Demokritos, is talking about their research on multi-messenger neutrino astronomy and what they expect to find out in the next years. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central.