Hera was born in Athens and for some reason she has studied a lot of things. For example Physics in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After that, European Law and Policiesin the Economic University of Athens.Then,Telecommunication and Information Technologies in Athens Information Technology Center(where she was also employed as a researcher to work in the Optical Communications Systems and Networks Laboratory). That was a highlight in her professional life because she got to play with all the buttons of the LASERs and some km of optical fiber with some amazingly bright people. Next, she moved to Barcelona and worked with the Polytechnic University of Cataloniato finish her PhD in Optical Fiber Networks (co-operating again with amazingly smart people). And she stayed.

Meanwhile, she had done a little bit of gymnastics, dance,athletics, more dance, theater, painting and she had worked as a waitress, bar tender (yes, she knows how to make cocktails) math and physics private instructor.

Somewhere in the between, she learned French, English, very little Catalan and Spanish. She hopes she speaks Greek too. Oh yes – she obtained a sailing license at some point, which she is dying to use but hasn’t managed to do so in Catalonia yet. Sometimes she sails in Greece.

Mainly she works as a freelance researcher, project (FP7-H2020) manager and European project editor in several subjects like Big Data, Data transparency and biometrics, but occasionally she plays the role of the hosteler as well.

Honestly, she has no idea why she does all these things and she doesn’t just become a balloon to travel the world. Time will show.

Stathis Graduated from the Department of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and pursued his PhD in Solar Physics at the University of Stanford.
He is currently a NASA LWS Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow in the University Corporation for Atospheric Research (UCAR) while he is also a visiting scholar at Standford.

His research interests focus on SolarSeismology, Space Weather Forecasts and machine learning applications in solar physics.

Miltiadis Konstantinou was born in 1952 in Kozani. He studied theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and did special studies in the literature of the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia and Syria-Palestine in Tübingen, Germany. Since 1984 he teaches Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew Language at the Department of Theology of AUTH. He is a founding member of the Board of Greek Bible Society and in charge of the programme for the translation of the Old Testament in Modern Greek. He is also member of the Scientific Committee for the translation project of the United Biblical Companies worldwide.

Konstantinou was awarded by the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the honorary title of the “Teacher of the Gospel” while he is the delegate of the Greek church to the International Commission for the Angilcan-Orthodox dialogue.

Themis Tsalkatidis is a civil engineer. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering in the laboratory of Steel and Composite Structures of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2008. Since 2009 he teaches as Lecturer in the Department of Architects.

Gerardo Herrera Corral is presently working at the Physics Department of CINVESTAV in Mexico. Herrera is one of the first experimental physicists in Mexico breaking with a long tradition that was giving emphasis mainly on theoretical physics. Back in the ’80s, the theorists’ community decided to support the development of experimental physics. Many young students moved abroad to work on experimental HEP. Gerardo pursued his PhD in Germany in the mid 80s and returned to Mexico in 1991 to join the CINVESTAV institute. Since then Gerardo has been very active in the field of High Energy Physics and played a key-role in the development of the HEP community both in Mexico but also in other Latin American Countries. Gerardo has been working with ALICE/CERN for the last 18 years. Moreover, he is actively involved in science communication and outreach in Mexico as well as in other Latin America countries and is often invited to give public lectures on topics of modern physics. He is the author of two books and of many articles popularising science published in newspapers and magazines around the world.

A CERN physicist who played a leading role in the development of heavy-ion physics; one of the hottest topics in physics related to the understanding of strong interactions and the evolution of matter after the Big Bang. Following his long career in fixed-targer experiments both in Europe and in the US, Emanuele had been elected as the first Chairperson of the ALICE Experiment at the LHC on 20.04.94.  He has a long standing commitment and many valuable contributions to the community of superlativistic heavy-ion physics combining an in-depth theoretical and experimental understanding of the field.

A Senior Lecturer in Sociology. His research is grounded in the sociology of culture, and his main research interests include the sociology of taste and aesthetic value, middle class culture and cultural globalization. Before arriving at Portsmouth in 2008, he worked as a Fellow in the department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He completed his doctorate at University of Sussex (2006), where he also taught a wide range of courses. Prior to that, he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Postmodernism, Literature and Contemporary Culture (1996, Royal Holloway), and a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology (1995, Portsmouth).