Global Greek Influence- Giota Pimenidou

In the second part of the interview with Dr Vasileios Adamidis, Principal Lecturer in Law and the International Manager of the School of Law at Nottingham Trent University, you will listen to: - the challenges of collaboration among legal systems and laws development despite their divergence, - the future of democracy and the legal system  - progress as a collective effort - how one could be...

In this episode, Dr Vasileios Adamidis, Principal Lecturer in Law and the International Manager of the School of Law at Nottingham Trent University, is my guest. We discuss: the commonalities of populism across the aeons and as an inhibitor to achieving democracy, the role and impact of populism on the rule of recognition, the synergy and the antagonism between the will of people and the rule of l...

In this episode, Dr Maria Kitsara, Lead Research Manager on biomedical applications at BioG3D – New 3D printing technologies, and I discuss: utilising nanotechnology, micro-fabrication and microfluidics to advance tissue engineering and regenerative medicine for faster and more economical drug development through in-vitro diagnostics as well as for reducing the risk of drug withdrawal after reachi...

Humanity's most significant challenges in the next 30 years will be on the environment, water- food, energy, and health. How could technology, aka engineering and science research and innovation, support them? Should engineers and scientists lead research and innovation beyond geopolitics and businesses? How so? Music: "Reel" by Adrian Berenguer Source: Storyblocks

In this episode, I am with Dr Emmanuel Stratakis, Greece’s Ambassador to the European Innovation Council, the Research Director at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH), also, leader of the “Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- processing” laboratory and founder and CEO of Biomimetic. We discuss: · What links #nano- #biomime...

Dr Kyriaki Sonidou (President and co-founder of the Pontian Society of the United Kingdom. President of the Hellenic Medical Society and the Vice- President of the Greek Society of professionals and scientists in the UK), Kleanthis Kriakidis (Policy Advisor – Negotiator – Public Relations Expert - Political Analyst), George Meneshian (the Middle East and Caucasus Studies. International affairs con...

In this episode, Dr Stephanos Nitodas, a chemical engineer, entrepreneur, now member of the Faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering (Stony Brook University, NY), and a specialist in nanomaterial hybrids (carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, polymers) discusses: · vital aspects of carbon-based novel materials at the nanoscale and their hybridisation, · nanomaterials im...

Mat Santamouris, the Anita Lawrence Professor of High-Performance Architecture at the University of New South Wales in Australia, is my guest this week. Professor Santamouris discusses combating urban climate change through the synergy of research and perceptions, science and politics: Enhancing communication of fragmented urban policies and activities between the different sectors. The measures t...

Professor Michael Bernitsas, the Mortimer Cooley Chair of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Director of the Marine Renewable Energy Laboratory and Chief Technology Officer of a start-up engineering company, Vortex Hydro Energy. Professor Bernitsas and I discuss how the vortex-induced vibrations, mostly known for damaging structures, but less known as part of the mechanism of...

Dr Celia Hadjichristodoulou, a specialist in Entrepreneurship and Management of SMEs, both from a practical and an academic perspective, founder and general director of GrantXpert, discusses vital aspects of fostering entrepreneurship and leadership across education, innovation and businesses: Through the emphasis on sustainable practices and becoming more humane. How consultants and trainers coul...

Professor Andrew Delios of the Department of Strategy & Policy and the Vice-Dean of MSc Programs of the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) discusses: the interaction of the society needs and government policies in East Asia as a result of culture affecting politics and consequently geopolitics, the synergy and direct investments of Japan to the first steps of the econo...

Why are education and learning so important? Education is a lifelong experience defined by society's changes, the economy, science and politics. Education should remain current to foresee changes and shape humanity. Do we need futurists in education? How will the barriers of the established mechanisms that made education the sleeping giant be lifted? Coming guests announced at the end of the episo...

Finding the courage to lead is through the human nature attached to specific thoughts and neural pathways. Success is all about changing our perspective, ourselves and part of our evolution to sustaining our continuation, remaining current, dreaming, hard work and having a vision. Featured opinions at the Global Greek Influence podcast: Orestis Omran (DLA Piper): Law, Energy and Connecting the Fut...

Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, the permanent Secretary-General of Hydrogen Europe, who has also been an active German politician and ambassador-at-large for the Greek government, talks about: · Hydrogen becoming an enabler of other technologies. · 2x40 Gigawatts Green Hydrogen Initiative. · Europe’s advantage to lead the global hydrogen economy. · Overcoming the “electrification religion”. · Bringing toget...

Dr Valentini Pappa, the Assistant Director for Education in the Texas A&M Energy Institute, leads Texas A&M on the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Initiative. We discuss: · the synergistic strategies aimed at the water-energy nexus as part of the circular economy, · the effect of the pandemic on redesigning undergraduate studies, · the post-pandemic post-graduate studies, · the sex...

Dr Memnia Theodorou talks us through the lessons of her journey from dentistry through sailing to psychology and gives us a taste of how to live our lives. We also discuss: · the importance of mentorship and networking · the pandemic as a collective trauma · being “rich” as the people who surround us · why we don’t follow our dreams · the human nature attached to specific thoughts and neural pathw...

Over a year ago, I started the Global Greek Influence podcast. The podcast explores the fragmental notions glued together by my guests' personalities and the solo episodes, along with the guests’ synthesise what this podcast is about and what it represents. Why Aristotle brings together education, politics, history, technology, engineering, science and business through the Global Greeks? Amazing g...

Dr Spyros Plakoudas, Assistant Professor at Rabdan Academy in Abu Dhabi, and I discuss the constructive disruption Greece, Cyprus, the EU, and NATO could bring to the Eastern Mediterranean, where existing and new hydrocarbon resources that largely contribute to the global economy are at play and stake. Are global foreign affairs' players still playing in the field of the past century? Self-destruc...

Marios Koutsoukos discusses the roots of the War of Independence of the Hellenes marked in 1821, about individual antiquarians binging the national heritage of Greeks in an occupied by Ottomans land, the role of the Philhellenes and the Big Powers of those times, the impact of classicism and that of philhellenism of the 19th century to the post War of Independence Greece. Marios latest publication...

Entrepreneurship is a multi-faceted aspect of the world today but not new to it. The terms and conditions under which entrepreneurship happens now, compared to the past, have only started to take structures and formats stemming from the governments, business and capital ventures. Is an entrepreneur born or made? What makes a great idea and a business plan of a startup to get to the stage of reachi...

In this episode, Professor Ioannis Athanasiadis, Personal Chair of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science at Wageningen University (Netherlands). talks about: . how automation and machine learning help big data, · why Artificial Intelligence and Big Data alone can not bring more food and avert climate change but can help us make more informed decisions, · how farmers can benefit from Artificia...

How ready are we to produce groundbreaking technology beyond the nature that surrounds us and what our planet offers? · Is our space exploration going to give us a better outlook on what is out there? · Are we missing out on some of the mechanisms of physics? · Are we doomed to fail as long as we are bombarded with technology that already surrounds us? · How easy is it to energy transition or shap...

In the second part of this two parts' episode, Orestis Omran, Partner in the Brussels Office of DLA Piper and the Head of EU- Greek Practice, an expert in EU regulatory matters in the energy, banking and infrastructure sectors and co-founder of the initiatives Brain Gain and Consensus, joins me to discuss: · How reviewing the industry legislation with the direct involvement of the industry and lau...

In the first part of this two parts' episode, Orestis Omran, Partner in the Brussels Office of DLA Piper and the Head of EU- Greek Practice, an expert in EU regulatory matters in the energy, banking and infrastructure sectors and co-founder of the initiatives Brain Gain and Consensus, discusses: · The current status of renewables in Greece · the oil and gas industries future in the EU, · the feasi...

In the second and last part of the episode “The past defines us”I am with Marios Koutsoukos, a PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool. Marios talks briefly about how we perceive religion and faith. Is it in the same as our ancestors did? If Romans manipulated philosophy and history as we read it today. How Plotinus, a famous Roman philosopher mar...