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Yiannis is Senior Scientist and Chair of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute and also Lead Software Design Engineer and Product Director for Ekkotek, High-tech Business incubator. Medical graduate of the Leipzig University, Germany, completed a PhD in Neurophysiology at the Karl-Ludwig Institute (Leipzig) and an MS in Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. He represented Cyprus in several pan-European networks and research projects related to special needs and solutions enhancing cognitive abilities, including, COST219ter: Accessibility for all to services and terminals for next generation mobile networks, COST2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication, and CARDIAC: Advancing Research & Development in the area of | Yiannis is Senior Scientist and Chair of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute and also Lead Software Design Engineer and Product Director for Ekkotek, High-tech Business incubator. Medical graduate of the Leipzig University, Germany, completed a PhD in Neurophysiology at the Karl-Ludwig Institute (Leipzig) and an MS in Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. He represented Cyprus in several pan-European networks and research projects related to special needs and solutions enhancing cognitive abilities, including, COST219ter: Accessibility for all to services and terminals for next generation mobile networks, COST2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication, and CARDIAC: Advancing Research & Development in the area of Accessible & Assistive ICT. He was the lead developer of MAPS-Mental Attributes Profiling System, a language independent cognitive abilities profiling system capable of predicting weaknesses as well as equipping experts with a profile of mental abilities so as to design personalized remediation programs. | ||
Laouris is also a social and business entrepreneur, member of the Board of the Institute of 21st Century Agoras, and Director of CYBERETHICS: Cyprus Safer Internet Center. He now leads a global project with title "Re-inventing democracy in the digital era", funded by both the Digital Futures Unit of the EC and the UN Democracy fund. He is one of the 12 experts who co-authored the Onlife Manifesto on behalf of the European Commission. | Laouris is also a social and business entrepreneur, member of the Board of the Institute of 21st Century Agoras, and Director of CYBERETHICS: Cyprus Safer Internet Center. He now leads a global project with title "Re-inventing democracy in the digital era", funded by both the Digital Futures Unit of the EC and the UN Democracy fund. He is one of the 12 experts who co-authored the Onlife Manifesto on behalf of the European Commission. | ||
