Re-election of Ioannis Emiris to the Presidency of the Athena Research Center
21-12-2025
Professor Ioannis Emiris was re-elected to the position of President of the Board of Directors and Director General of the Athena Research Center, following an evaluation process conducted by a Special Selection Committee of international standing.
The new term continues his successful first period of leadership, during which the Athena Research Center doubled its human resources, strengthened its international outreach, expanded its participation in national and European research programs, and developed high-value activities in the fields of artificial intelligence, digital technologies, and computational science. Key milestones of his first term include the establishment of Athena’s 4th Institute in Robotics, the “Archimedes” Unit in Artificial Intelligence, and the Heron project for the creation of a Center of Excellence in Robotics.
On the occasion of his re-election, Professor Emiris stated:
“It is both an honor and a great challenge to undertake a second term at the helm of Athena, an organization that has proven its dynamism and is called upon to lead the research and innovation ecosystem in Greece and Europe. My commitment remains scientific excellence, the provision of high-quality services, the strengthening of our infrastructure, and the daily progress of our people. Through a united community, Athena serves the vision of advancing powerful new digital technologies for the benefit of society and democracy, with a strong sense of responsibility toward future generations”.
Short biography:
Ioannis Emiris has been Professor of Computer Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since 2002 and served as President of the Board of Directors and Director General of Athena from 2021 to July 2025. He was a Senior Researcher at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (1995-2002). His studies were in Computer Science at UC Berkeley (PhD) and Princeton University (BSc). He served on the first Scientific Council of Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), representing Computer Science and Mathematics (2018-2021). His research interests span scientific computing, computational geometry, robotics, bioinformatics, and data science. He is the author of more than 130 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, as well as the author of a book on computational geometry. Two of his papers have received the Distinguished Paper Award of the ACM International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC).
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