Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Thesis Prize 2019
I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded the 2019 Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Thesis Prize! The Judging Panel said the following:
‘Kostas submitted his PhD thesis entitled “Psychobiology of Emotion-Cognition Interactions in Ageing” on 7th September 2018 and had his viva on 23rd November 2018 which he passed with no corrections. Kostas’s PhD project focused on examining the physiological underpinnings of emotion-cognition interactions in ageing and, specifically, the role of glucose availability and overall Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) functionality. The Judging Panel was very impressed by the originality and quality of his PhD research as well as by the high level of publications that have resulted from his PhD work. The thesis by Kostas had an edge in that he derived important research questions for experiments that are not so obvious at first sight but were carefully motivated by the literature. To creatively generate innovative research questions is an important but difficult part of scientific endeavor and therefore, the Panel commended the thesis by Kostas for doing just that so beautifully.‘