ΙΜΒΒ researcher Panayiota Poirazi to represent ERC at the World Economic Forum’s Meeting of New Champions 2014Panayiota Poirazi, a Research Director and Head of the Computational Biology Lab (www.dendrites.gr) at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (IMBB-FORTH) has been selected, together with three other ERC grantees, to represent the European Research Council at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions to be held from 10-12 September in Tianjin, China.

New Publication: New Visible Light Absorbing Materials for Solar Fuels, Ga(Sbx)N1-xThis work (theory and experimental details) has recently appeared in the (high impact factor journal) of Advanced Materials: DOI: 10.1002/adma.201305083; (2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim).

RESEARCH & ART COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES (ICRI 2014) ATHENS 2-4 APRIL 2014Art has long been interested in research and science: from Renaissance art and Leonardo da Vinci with his studies of physics, to 20th century art with Surrealists drawing on Freud and the subconscious, to the contemporary American James Turrell working with the optical illusions of light and the young Chinese WU Juehui dealing with the visual aspects of neuroscience, artists have been fascinated by research and science and have been deeply influenced in the course of their work. However, the creative approach of art by scientists and researchers could prove highly interesting as well.

TransForm: Theoretical Foundations of Transactional MemoryThe research project TransForm, where the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Ressearch and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) acted as the coordinator, has recently been completed. TransForm was a project funded by the European Commission in the context of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network Action. The project contributed significantly to building the theoretical underpinning for the design and analysis of Transactional Memory (TM) systems.