Daniel A. Barber is Chair of Architecture History and Decarbonisation at the Technical University of Eindhoven. His research on climate, comfort, and conditioning has established a novel and prominent agenda for architects and scholars worldwide.  

He is the author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton UP, 2020) and A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War (Oxford UP, 2016). Daniel’s essay “After Comfort” (Log, 2019) has been translated into five languages. He co-edits the series “After Comfort: A User’s Guide” and “Accumulation: Art, Architecture and the Media of Climate Change,” both on the e-flux architecture online platform; he is also co-editor of the Cohabitations book series for University of Minnesota Press. Daniel directed the film “Climate Portraits” for the 2023 International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam and led the theory and design team for the installation “Terms and Conditions” at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.  

He received a PhD from Columbia University and has taught at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard; he was recently Head of School Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. Daniel’s research is supported by the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, the British Academy, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. 

Jacob Moe is a researcher, filmmaker and translator. He received his BA in Politics from Pomona College, a Certificate in Literary Translation from the Academy of Athens and MFA in Social Documentation from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

He co-founded and directed the Syros International Film Festival (2013-2023) and since 2019 is founder and director of Archipelago Network, an initiative for research and documentation of material knowledge and audiovisual culture in the Cyclades islands. His research practice involves community media, radio and film documentary work, with a focus on peer-to-peer methodologies for knowledge building in island communities. In 2025 he was a fellow at the Athens-based Research Center for the Humanities, implementing the research project “Archival Practices and Traditional Knowledge of the Aegean islands, 1900-today.”

His English language translations of Modern Greek literature, history and theatre have been published by Yale University Press, Penguin and Hurst, among others.

Niki Evelpidou is a Professor in the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research focuses on geomorphology, sea-level changes, palaeogeography, and the study of natural hazards, with particular emphasis on adaptation and mitigation strategies.

Her scientific work includes over 400 publications and 40 books. She has organized dozens of educational workshops and conferences and is the founder of the initiative “Women in Geomorphology.” She is also the founder and director of the postgraduate program “Geographic Information Systems” at NKUA.

She promotes the dissemination of geoscience knowledge to the broader society through various initiatives, including the children’s book series “Environmental Stories.”

Her contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including two honorary prizes from the Academy of Athens — one for promoting geological knowledge in the Greek regions and one for her monograph “Sea-Level Changes” — as well as first-place innovation awards for a “green” method of coastal erosion management in three competitions. In 2026, she received the Award for Outstanding University Teaching from NKUA for the 2024–2025 academic year. In 2022, she was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Yadvinder Malhi is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the metabolism and functioning of ecosystems and of the biosphere, and how this is changing in the Anthropocene. He has worked across a range of ecosystems, from tropical forests and savannas to ocean islands, British farms and polar tundra.

He is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, which takes a multidisciplinary approach spanning the sciences and humanities to research what is needed to build a flourishing relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world.

He is a Trustee of the Natural History Museum of London and Fellow of the Royal Society, and has been President of the British Ecological Society and the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.

Alexis is Senior Music Programme Producer for the Cultural Programme at the Schwarzman Centre, Oxford University’s home for the Humanities, where she leads the development and delivery of the music programme. She joined Oxford in 2024 and was previously Chief Executive of the Three Choirs Festival and Music Festival Manager at Cheltenham Festivals. Her career spans roles with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, various festivals, and freelance work in event management and music arranging.  

Alexis holds a PhD in music and critical theory, has taught at Cardiff and Salford Universities, and is a trustee for organisations including The Carducci Music Trust and Streetwise Opera. 

Adrianos Golemis studied Medicine in Thessaloniki, Greece and obtained his Master’s on Space Studies from the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.

He began his work in Antarctica, implementing European research on human physiology and psychology in complete isolation for a full year.

He then worked for the French Institute of Space Medicine and Physiology, MEDES, on clinical studies that simulate the challenges to the human body by the spaceflight environment.

Since 2018 he contributes to the medical support of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) astronauts, where he now holds the position of Lead Flight Surgeon.

In 2022 he went through ESA’s astronaut selection procedure himself, finishing in the top 25 out of 22.500 applicants in Europe. As a result, in 2026 he became the first Greek citizen to commence astronaut training at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre and aspires to represent Greece and its research and technology in spaceflight.

He serves as a formal collaborator of the Hellenic Space Center (HSC) and is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). He holds a Private Pilot License, enjoys astrophotography and diving and actively contributes to science dissemination.

Alexander Choukér attended medical school at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. He completed clinical and some scientific training at the LMU and worked as a Fogarty award researcher at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH in Bethesda, MD, USA.

Currently he is based in the department of Anesthesiology at the LMU. In a joint endeavor with his team several experimental, clinical and space flight related studies in the field of stress-associated immune consequences have been conducted. His research focuses especially on an inter- and cross-disciplinary approach for the fundamental understanding of adaptation as well as minimal to non-invasive health monitoring of humans exposed to extreme environments, all with the goal of mitigating health risks, in space crew as well as in patients.

He has been chairman and an active member of several advisory boards, including space and non-space boards within ESA and other European organizations.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hellenic Post (ELTA), Mr. Daniel Benardout, is an experienced executive in the industrial sector. He holds an MSC degree in Civil Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and an MBA from the Athens University of Economics and Business.  

With over 40 years of professional experience, he has acquired technical and administrative skills, and has worked in executive positions at steel companies for most of his career.
Since 1999, he has been the General Manager and later CEO of SIDMA Steel S.A. During his tenure, the company was listed on the Athens Stock Exchange and founded two subsidiaries in the Balkans. He has successfully managed demanding projects, including mergers, negotiations, and crises.

Mr. Benardout is married and has one daughter. 

Greek musician Sokratis Sinopoulos is a contemporary master of the lyra, a bowed instrument that dates back to the Byzantine era. His playing is delicate and nuanced, yet highly expressive, and his proficiency on the instrument has been widely acclaimed. Sinopoulos has collaborated with numerous musicians throughout the world. He’s equally comfortable crossing genre boundaries into jazz and classical, as he is to staying true to folk traditions of Greece and Eastern Mediterranean.

Born in Athens in 1974, he studied Byzantine music and classical guitar as a child, and began playing the lyra in 1988, under the instruction of Ross Daly. Sinopoulos’ remarkable talent was immediately apparent, and he joined Daly’s group Labyrinthos a year later. He became highly prolific, contributing to recordings by countless musicians including Eleni Karaindrou for ECM, Charles Lloyd for Blue Note and Jean Guihen Queyras for Harmonia Mundi. He has also recorded with the French baroque ensemble L’ Achéron for Fuga Libera and with the Turk kemençe virtuoso Derya Türkan for Seyir Musik and Kalan Musik. Sinopoulos was awarded the Melina Mercouri award for young artists in 1999.

In 2010, he formed the Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet with pianist Yann Keerim, bassist Dimitris Tsekouras, and drummer Dimitris Emmanouil. The debut album of the quartet Eight Winds, was produced by Manfred Eicher for ECM Records and received excellent reviews globally. The second album of the quartet Metamodal, was released in 2019. Topos album, a duet with Yann Keerim based on Bela Bartok’s Six Romanian Folk Dances was released in 2025.

Sokratis Sinopoulos is a professor of music in the Department of Music Science and Art in the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.