Yiannis Laouris
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| Born | 1958 Paphos, Cyprus |
| Nationality | Greek Cypriot |
| Fields |
Medicine Neuroscience Systems Engineering |
| Institutions |
University of Goettingen University of Arizona Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology and Future Worlds Center |
| Alma mater | University of Leipzig |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Schwartze |
| Influences |
Uwe Windhorst Doug Stuart Aleco Christakis |
| Notable awards | PhD with summa cum laude Employers & Industrialists Creativity Award 1998 Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies Award 2008 Cyprus Civil Society Award 2008 Anna Lindh Award for Dialogue between Cultures 2011 |
Yiannis Laouris (Greek: Γιάννης Λαούρης) is a social and business entrepreneur. He is a neurophysiologist and systems scientist trained in Germany and the US, who has also become known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions in the fields of peace and development through the application of modern technology and the science of structured dialogic design.
Laouris was born in Pafos, Cyprus in 1958. Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including The English School, Nicosia, the Pancyprian Gymnasium and the Acropolis Gymnasium. In 1974 he became a refugee. He served in the Cypriot National Guard as the first Cypriot senior cryptographer in the Headquarters after the 1974 Cypriot coup d'état of the Greek military junta and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
He graduated the medical school of the Karl Marx University (today known as University of Leipzig (German: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig, Germany enjoying three parallel scholarships because of his top grades, and completed a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude with Prof. Peter Schwartze at the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology in the years of the cold war. Laouris and his wife Joulietta were the first foreign students who completed a PhD in parallel with the medical studies in the history of East Germany, an achievement that received press coverage. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August University Göttingen with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors Hans Diedrich Henatsch and Uwe Windhorst. He subsequently joined the Robotics, Prosthetics, Motor Control Group at the University of Arizona, where he collaborated with Douglas G. Stuart. In the US, he also completed a Masters in Systems and Industrial Engineering.
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