Speakers

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  Panagiotis Bamidis Professor of Medical Physics and Informatics in Medical Education in the Medical Physics Lab of the School of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
  

  Panagiotis Bamidis

  Professor of Medical Physics and Informatics in Medical Education in the Medical Physics Lab of the School of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

  Panagiotis Bamidis is a Professor of Medical Physics and Informatics in Medical Education in the Medical Physics Lab of the School of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. He designs, implements and evaluates IT and Assistive Technologies systems that improve everyday activities of elderly or other vulnerable groups and improves their health or life quality or improves the education and training of health professionals. He conducts research that attempts to understand how the brain reacts to different stimuli, technological or educational interventions, as well as, the development and evolution of human emotions and sleep transitions. He is the co-ordinator of large European projects, and the principal investigator for many national and international funded projects. He is the President of the Hellenic Biomedical Technology Society (ELEBIT), the HL7 Hellas organisation, the international Society of Applied Neuroscience (SAN), a member of the Administration Boards of other societies and patient associations. He is/has been the Chairman/Organiser of more than 19 international conferences and several national Biomedical Technology conferences. Since 2012 he has established LLM Care ecosystem (www.llmcare.gr), the business exploitation of the LLM project, which is a 2-star reference site of the EIP-on-AHA. In 2013 he established the Active and Healthy Ageing Living Lab in Thessaloniki (ThessAHALL; http://www.aha-livinglabs.com/) which in 2016 became an adherent and in 2018 an effective member of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). In 2017, he became a visiting Professor of Medical Education Technology, Innovation and Change for the Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME) of the University of Leeds, UK. He received Prizes for the Best Track Record in funded research projects (AUTH Research Committee 2009; AUTH Dean of Health Sciences 2016) and the Best overall high/extra-ordinary academic performance (AUTH Dean of Health Sciences 2018, 2019, 2020). In 2020, as a result of the H2020 funded project named CAPTAIN, he founded CAPTAIN-COACH, one of the first 10 spin-offs of AUTH.
  His research interests are within technology enhanced learning in Medical Education (web2.0, semantic web and open linked data, serious games, virtual patients, PBL and scenario based learning, learning analytics), Affective and Applied Neuroscience, Affective and Physiological Computing, multimodal interaction and HCI, Health Information Management, Bio-medical Informatics with emphasis on neurophysiological sensing, signal analysis, and imaging of human emotions. He is also actively researching Assistive Technologies for Active and Healthy Ageing, as well as, special education/developmental disorders, and silvergaming/exergaming/silver-science and the associated use of semantic technologies and IoT.

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  Julie Payette Astronaut & Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto
  

  Julie Payette

  Astronaut & Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto

  Born in Montreal, Canada, Julie Payette is an astronaut, diplomat, corporate director and science communicator. She was the Governor General of Canada from 2017 to 2021.

  She has a degree in electrical engineering from McGill University and a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto. She was trained as a jet pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force and holds a civilian commercial pilot’s license.

  Ms. Payette was selected as an astronaut by the Canadian Space Agency in 1992 and joined the NASA astronaut class « group 16 » in 1996. She flew two missions in space for the construction of the International Space Station: STS96 (in 1999) and STS127 (in 2009) where she held the position of flight engineer. She has flown 611 hours in space and over 1500 hours in various types of aircraft. In between flights, Ms. Payette worked as a liaison officer in Russia, Japan and Europe, and held the position of CAPCOM (Capsule Communicator), the voice of NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas. Ms. Payette was Chief Astronaut of the Canadian Space Agency from 2000 to 2007.

  After her career in space, Julie Payette worked as a science diplomat in Washington DC until 2013, when she was appointed Director of the Montréal Science Centre. She has served on the boards of several public and not-for-profit companies. She is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.

  She remains active in the aerospace community as a science advisor and communicator. She has produced several educational programs and she often appears at technical forums and in the media to discuss science and environmental issues, including the search for solutions to the proliferation of orbital debris. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and is the President of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE).

  Ms. Payette can converse in six languages and has a passion for sports and music. She was a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Women in Sport commission and has sung with several ensembles, including the Ottawa Bach Choir, with whom she won a Juno Award in 2020 (the equivalent of a Grammy award in Canada). These days, she sings with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra choir, and during the Canadian winter, she volunteers as a ski patrol.

  Ms. Payette has received numerous distinctions, including 29 honorary doctorates. She is a Knight of the Ordre national du Québec and a Companion of the Order of Canada.