Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

 The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) was founded in 1925 and is the largest university in Greece and Southeastern Europe, with 13 faculties and a total of 42 departments and 4 independent Schools. About 73,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students currently study in AUTh (62,000 in 42 undergraduate courses, and 10,000 in 67 postgraduate courses) and the Teaching and Research Staff numbers 2,500 people. Moreover, AUTh cooperates with 19 universities abroad for the co-supervision of PhD dissertations. There are more than 2,150 faculty members: 739 professors, 435 associate professors, 634 assistant professors, and 342 lecturers. There are also 11 teaching assistants, 58 research fellows, 248 members of the Special Laboratory Teaching Personnel (S.L.T.P.), as well as 15 foreign language teachers and 4 foreign instructors. Faculty members are also assisted by 213 members of the Special Technical Laboratory Personnel (S.T.L.P.).

The School of Medicine (https://www.med.auth.gr/en) of AUTh is engaged in the project which is one of the most important and well-established Schools in Greece, both quantitatively and qualitatively, comprising the biggest School in the country regarding its enrollment, has more than 4.000 registered students, 58 departments and 26 laboratories. The School of Medicine offers nineteen Postgraduate Programmes. Some of them are Interdepartmental / Interinstitutional Postgraduate Programs where the School of Medicine is the Host School.

AUTh conducts research projects, participates in European research programs, cooperates with international institutions and organizations and attracts outstanding researchers from within Greece and abroad. AUTh supports research projects in a wide variety of disciplines related to the environment (natural and built), computing, new technologies and nanotechnology, telecommunications, industrial technologies, transport, biotechnology, biomedicine and health, agriculture, forestry and fishery, education and language, history and archaeology, social studies and economics.

Website: http://www.auth.gr/

 

Professor Magdalini Tsolaki

Magdalini Tsolaki was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied Medicine and Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). Afterwards, she initiated her collaboration with AUTh in 1982 as scientific collaborator and a year later received her specialty as a Neuropsychiatrist and her PhD. She has been a Professor of Neurology since 2010, and currently she was the Head of the 1st University Department of Neurology (2017-2020) She has founded the Greek Alzheimer Association in 1995 and the Greek Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in 2007, in which she is up to today the Chair, while also being the scientific director of two Public Dementia Units (founded by her in 2007 and 2009) for outpatients with Neurodegenerative diseases and their caregivers. Since September 2022 she is scientific director of a Public Unit of palliative care of patients with severe stages of dementia. The last seven years she was invited to join as a member the Greek National Observatory for Dementia. She has given more than 656 lectures throughout Greece. She has participated in more than 60 funded research programmes and 31 funded clinical trials. In total, she has received 73 awards. Dr. Magda Tsolaki has been the main author of many Books (60), many abstracts in Greek (531) and International (489) Conferences, she is the first author or co-author in many Papers in Greek (285) and International Journals (589 – 480 in PubMed), (h-index: 96, IF=2573,395 and more than 42237 Citations in Google Scholar). She has participated as invited speaker in more than 115 meetings-conferences in English and 256 in Greek Language.  Furthermore, she has been a reviewer for Conferences and Journals (430) and has organised 27 national and 5 international conferences on AD. Finally, she was one of the three or seven advisory members for 35 doctoral theses-completed and 40 postgraduate theses. Pr. Tsolaki is married with four children and ten grandchildren.

 

Marina Makri

Mrs. Marina Makri has a BSc and MSc in Biological Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Faculty of Sciences, School of Biology. She has also a MA in Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy. She is a PhD candidate in School of Medicine, AUTh in the field of Genetic Counseling. She has been awarded for her PhD by the A. G. Leventis Foundation’s Educational Grants Scheme for Doctoral students and she also held a scholarship of Excellence of AUTh. She works at the Greek Association of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders as a coordinator and responsible for all the Erasmus+ European projects, since 2015 and she has also worked in the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens.  She is the Greek Coordinator of the project “Greek families with autosomal dominant Alzheimer“ coordinated by the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) of School of Medicine-Washington University, USA. She is a senior researcher on issues of genetics, bioethics, genetic counseling, neurodegenerative disorders and supporting family caregivers, and she has taken part in many European meetings and in Training Courses for Patient Advocates. The last few years, she is a member of the Hellenic Society for Neurosciences and Federation of European neuroscience societies (fens), an Associate Member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors (Chicago, Illinois, USA), and a Member of the Transnational Alliance for Genetic Counseling (School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, USA). She has been selected and taken part in the 5th European Health Parliament and she is also the Ambassador of PhD students of AUTh in EPICUR Network (European Universities). As part of her advocacy work, she is one of the five board members of the Greek Carers Network and the main representative of the Alzheimer Hellas in all the events organized by Eurocarers. She has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed articles in international journals and book chapters. She has attended various National, European and International Conferences and Meetings and she has taken part in more than 50 presentations.