Head of Scientific Impact & Feedback to Policy @ERC_Research | @mirzayanfellow | #sustainability #climate #innovation #WomenInSTEM & 🎾 |🇬🇷🇪🇺| Views my own

Brussels, Athens
Joined November 2017
Proud to have contributed to #BBISF19 and to have witnessed first hand all the fantastic accomplishments of our portfolio #biobasedsolutions can deliver #sustainability and concrete #environmental benefits #EUGreenDeal #ClimateCrisis @EU_Commission @TimmermansEU @GabrielMariya – at Sint-Gillis, België
Looking back at #BBISF19 📽 @zikaele: ‘The social and #environmental 💚 improvements delivered by @BBI2020 are tangible. But the #bioeconomy 🌱 can deliver more. It needs to change habits to take up products that are better for the #environment and are good business cases.'
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Save the date! On 2 December, join us for the European Life Sciences Conference: Driving an Innovative Economy. We’ll explore medicines, food systems, industrial biotech, AI & how Research & Innovation can boost Europe’s competitiveness. More soon! 🔗link.europa.eu/fwqkty
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🏅Congratulations to all the new Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine! Prof. Peter Hegemann 🇩🇪 has received EU funding through two @ERC_Research and one @EU_EISMEA grants. We're proud to have supported him! The EU has a track record of supporting leading researchers.
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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🏅Congratulations to all the new Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine! The European Research Council has supported Prof. Peter Hegemann with two substantial grants since 2016. #EUfunded 🇪🇺
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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The latest from our team 👇
🔬 From discovery to impact. How does frontier biotechnology research move towards innovation and application? A new ERC analysis explores the journey - and what it takes along the way. 🔗 link.europa.eu/HYdf9m @EUScienceInnov @EU_Health @EU_EIC #biotechnology #innovation
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Where is biotechnology heading? A new report explores ERC frontier research in biotechnology and asks researchers what could shape the field by 2030 - from CRISPR-Cas to AI-enabled life-science research 🔗 link.europa.eu/HYdf9m #EUBiotech @EUScienceInnov @EU_Health
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The ERC will introduce a new evaluation panel dedicated to the fundamentals of AI. Starting with the 2028 calls, the new panel will cover fundamental research in machine learning, reasoning, computer vision, natural language processing and generative AI. erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…
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📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN #ERCStG #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @EUScienceInnov
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Η απονομή του 🥇και ο Εθνικός Υμνος 🇬🇷για τις Γαβριέλα Λιόλιου και Πασχαλίνα Μουρατίδου στο διπλό σκιφ ελαφρών βαρών στο Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα κωπηλασίας Κ23.
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Dr. Eleni Zika retweeted
Greece are water polo men's World Cup champions for the first time ever! 🥇🤽‍♂️ What a day to be Greek! 🇬🇷
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The first round of the 2026 ERC Proof of Concept Grant results is out! 🎉 182 researchers receive a total of €27.3 million to explore the commercial and societal potential of their ERC-funded findings. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4vD2uH6 #ERCPoC #FrontierResearch
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Congratulations to the new prize winners - all four funded by the ERC. Spinoza Prize: 🏅Karin Roelofs, also our Scientific Council member🏅 Hermen Overkleeft Stevin Prize: 🏅 Iris Sommer 🏅 Claes de Vreese Hats off! 🇪🇺 nwo.nl/en/news/spinoza-and-s…
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The #NewEuropeanBauhaus festival starts today and explores how citizens can shape greener, fairer communities. But who actually benefits when cities go green? Isabelle Anguelovski found out what policies make the green transition fair for everyone. 👉 bit.ly/43dIEG7
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🌍 Can science shape global decisions? Read the #ERCMagazine with @mleptin, @PeterGluckman, @RebAdlerNissen & others on: 🔹 Science & multilateralism 🔹 Ocean biodiversity talks 🔹 Evidence in constitutions 🔹 The emerging tech order 🔗 bit.ly/3GiZDyF #ScienceDiplomacy
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A new platform eliminates the cold chain for vaccines! ERC grantee @vincersurf: "Seeing years of rigorous science move from the laboratory into a company with real-world impact is always a privilege." More 👉 bit.ly/4d4cfHq #EuropeanImmunizationWeek #VaccinesWork
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Another good reason to read the ERC's report on #AdvancedMaterials! 👉 link.europa.eu/9WTQ6q It helped identifying the challenges that researchers are facing, which led to specific recommendations on fundamental research on advanced materials. 👇
Tomorrow, the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) experts will present their independent Opinion on Advanced Materials to Commissioner @EZaharievaEU. A key step to shaping Europe’s future in Advanced Materials. 🗓️ 21 April | 14:30–15:00 CET Watch live: link.europa.eu/YMq99r
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The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t. ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what this mean for applicants. link.europa.eu/xF7kjc
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How is #AI changing the future of healthcare? A new ERC report explores 238 frontier research projects using AI for disease detection, risk prediction, medical imaging, drug discovery and more. Explore the findings 👉 bit.ly/4bHkPdF #AIinHealth @EUScienceInnov
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🌟 Read the new report on ERC #FrontierResearch in #AdvancedMaterials and find out why the fundamental research pursued today is essential to tackling the societal challenges of tomorrow. 👉 bit.ly/4qNq9SK @EUScienceInnov
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A year in the making our latest #feedback2policy report is out 👇 Huge thanks to my team and to @NicolaSpaldin for her guidance 🙏 @EUScienceAdvice @EUScienceInnov @EU_Growth @EU_Health @EP_ScienceTech @EU_EISMEA @REA_research @EU_HaDEA
🚀 New report: ERC frontier research for advanced materials Discover how breakthroughs in materials science drive transformative change – for a more sustainable, resilient and prosperous Europe. 👉 bit.ly/4qNq9SK @EUScienceInnov
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🔬🌱 Also ERC grantees follow their curiosity to study biodiversity, asking fundamental questions that help us better understand the changes our world is facing. Explore their work. 👉 link.europa.eu/GvfHtn
Three years of work by 80 experts from 35 countries: the long-awaited report on Business & Biodiversity from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services will be negotiated at #IPBES12 starting today in Manchester. More info: link.europa.eu/rCFF8B
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