Members of the First Section


The date in bold indicates the year of election. Moreover, as far as the Corresponding Members are concerned, the locative definition refers to the scholar's residence at the time of his/her appointment to the Academy of Athens.

Section of Sciences

  1. George Contopoulos (Astronomy) (1928, 1997)
  2. Dimitri Nanopoulos (Theoretical Physics) (1948, 1997)
  3. Anthony Kounadis (Applied Sciences: Static - Dynamic, Analysis/Research into Technical Construction) (1937, 1999)
  4. Loucas G. Christophorou (Physical Sciences/Experimental Physics) (1937, 2001)
  5. Dimitrios Skarvelis (Military Sciences/Defensive Strategy and Means) (1933, 2002)
  6. Stamatios Krimigis (Science of Space) (1938, 2005)
  7. Athanasios Fokas (Mathematics/Applied Mathematics) (1952, 2005)
  8. Christos S. Zerefos (Meteorology- Climatology) (1943, 2007)
  9. Constantinos Vayenas (Chemical Sciences [Computational, Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry]) (1950, 2010)
  10. Charalambos Roussos (Internal Medicine) (1942, 2011)
  11. George Kollias (Molecular Genetics) (1958, 2013)
  12. Costas E. Synolakis (Geological Science) (1956, 2016)
  13. Emmanuel E. Gdoutos (Theoretical and Experimental Mechanics/Engineering Sciences) (1948, 2016)
  14. Dimitris Thanos (Biological Sciences/Molecular Biology of the Gene) (1960, 2017
  15. Haralampos Moutsopoulos (Medicine/Immunology) (1944, 2017)
  16. Andreas Tzakis (Medicine/Surgery and Transplant Surgery) (1950, 2021)
  17. Antonia Trichopoulou (Medicine/Epidemiology and Public Health) (1938, 2022)

Foreign Members

  1. Francois Gros (1925, 1981) Paris
  2. Eric Richard Kandel (1929, 2001) New York
  3. Nicole Le Douarin (1930, 2006) Paris
  4. Harvey Vernon Fineberg (1945, 2011) Washington, DC
  5. Bruce (Alan) Beutler (1957, 2016) Dallas, Texas
  6. Zdeněk Bažant (1937, 2017) Evanston, Illinois
  7. Peter John Barnes (1946, 2018) London
  8. Gérard Mourou (1944, 2020) Palaiseau, France

Corresponding Members

  1. Gerasimos Karabatsos (1932, 1970) Michigan
  2. Petros Argyres (1927, 1976) Boston, Massachusetts
  3. Adrian Melissinos (1929, 1976) New York
  4. Ioannis Moschovakis (1938, 1980) California
  5. Jean Iliopoulos (1940, 1980) Paris
  6. Peter Rentzepis (1934, 1980) New Jersey
  7. Jean Aubouin (1928,  1981) Paris
  8. Charles Sérié (1923, 1984) Athens
  9. Stratis Avrameas (1930, 1985) Paris
  10. Léon Le Minor (1920, 1986) Paris
  11. Georges Coen (1920, 1988) Paris
  12. Constantine Dafermos (1941, 1988) New York
  13. Dimitrios Seferis (1950, 1990) Seattle, Washington
  14. Nicolaos Samios (1932, 1994) New York
  15. Nicolaos Stefanidis (1928, 1994) Thessaloniki
  16. Athanasios Theologides (1931, 1994) Minnesota
  17. Sir Norman Leslie Browse (1931, 1995) London
  18. Argyris Efstratiadis (1941, 1998) New York
  19. Harisios Boudoulas (1935, 1998) Ohio
  20. Demosthenes Kazanas (1950, 2000) Greenbelt, Maryland
  21. Emmanuel Paschos (1940,  2000) Dortmund
  22. George Simitses (1932, 2001) Atlanta, Georgia
  23. Kyriakos K. Nicolaou (1946,  2001) Houston, Texas
  24. Spyridon Artavanis-Tsakonas (1946, 2002) Charleston,Massachusetts
  25. Polychronis Spanos (1950, 2003) Houston, Texas
  26. Emmanuel Sarris (1945, 2003) Xanthi
  27. Stylianos Antonarakis (1951, 2003) Geneva
  28. Evangelos Moudrianakis (1940, 2003) Baltimore, Maryland
  29. Eleftherios Diamandis (1953, 2004) Toronto
  30. Apostolos Georgopoulos (1944, 2005) Minneapolis, Minnesota
  31. Phaedon Avouris (1944, 2005) New York
  32. Argyrios Theofilopoulos (1940, 2006) La Jolla, California
  33. Antonis Trakatellis (1931, 2008) Thessaloniki
  34. Elefterios Zouros (1939, 2008) Heraclion
  35. George Roussas (1933, 2008) Davis, California
  36. Dimitrios Beskos (1946, 2009) Patras
  37. Eric S. Lander (1957, 2009) Cambridge, Masschusetts
  38. Nikolaos Zamboglou (1949, 2009) Offenbach, Frankfurt
  39. George E. Apostolakis (1946, 2010) Massachusetts
  40. Athanasios Theologis (1944, 2010) Berkeley California
  41. Antonios Valavanis (1942, 2010) Zurich
  42. Gregory Stephanopoulos (1950, 2011) Cambridge, Massachusetts
  43. Constantinos - Simos Simopoulos (1952, 2011) Alexandroupolis
  44. Andreas Acrivos (1928, 2011) California
  45. Litsa Kranias (1947, 2012) Cincinnati, Ohio
  46. George Paxinos (1944, 2012) Sydney
  47. George Giannopoulos (1946, 2013) Thessaloniki
  48. Satya N. Atluri (1945, 2013) Irvine, California
  49. Haralambos Gavras (1938, 2013) Boston, Massachusetts
  50. Yannis Yortsos (1951, 2013) Los Angeles, California
  51. Nicholas A. Peppas (1948, 2013) Austin, Texas
  52. Ares J. Rosakis (1956, 2013) Caltech, California
  53. Tassos Bountis (1950, 2014) Patras
  54. Andreas Tzakis (1950, 2014) Florida
  55. A. Paul Alivisatos (1959, 2014) Berkeley, California
  56. Anne Thompson (1948, 2015) Greenbelt, Maryland
  57. Chrysostomos L. Nikias (1952, 2015) Los Angeles, California
  58. Yannis G. Kevrekidis (1959, 2016) Princeton, New Jersey
  59. Chryssa Kouveliotou (1956, 2016) Washington, DC
  60. Antonios G. Mikos (1960, 2016) Houston, Texas
  61. George Dassios (1946, 2017) Patras
  62. Hazim J. Safi  (1946, 2017) Houston, Texas
  63. Lydia E. Kavraki (1967, 2017) Houston, Texas
  64. Isaac M. Daniel (1934, 2018)  Chicago, Illinois
  65. Philip England (1951, 2018) Oxford
  66. Philip Tsichlis (1944, 2019) Columbus, Ohio 
  67. Surendra P. Shah (1936, 2019) Evanston, Illinois
  68. John Alex Elefteriades (1951, 2019) New Haven, Connecticut
  69. Demetrios Demetriades (1951, 2019) Los Angeles, California
  70. Nicolaos Madias (1944, 2019) Boston, Massachusetts
  71. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (1950, 2020) Potsdam, Brandenburg
  72. Nektarios Tavernarakis (1967, 2020) Heraklion
  73. George Tchobanoglous (1935, 2020) Davis, California
  74. Martin Quack (1948, 2020)  Zürich
  75. Rena Bizios (1950, 2020) San Antonio, Texas
  76. George Michalopoulos (1946, 2020) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  77. Evangelie (Lia) Athanassoula (1948, 2020)  Marseille
  78. Evangelos Gragoudas (1941, 2021) Boston, Massachusetts
  79. Anastasios Germenis (1952, 2021) Larisa
  80. Georgios Giannakis (1958, 2021) Minnesota
  81. Sadis Matalon (1948, 2021) Alabama, Birmingham
  82. Constantine (Dinos) Arcoumanis (1947-2022) London