AHEPA Educational Foundation Chairman George Vorkas on behalf of the Supreme President and the Mavroyannis Family are proud to announce the Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis Scholarship recipients for 2026 are Thomas Clement of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Octavia Florent of Brown University; Andreas Hadjipaschalis of Stony Brook University; Nicholas Hatzis-Schoch of Yale University; and Odysseas Hilides of the University of Florida. All recipients will receive an award of $5,000 to support doctoral research in theoretical physics or physical chemistry for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Dr. Constantine and his wife, Patricia Mavroyannis, established the Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis Scholarship in 2013 to provide financial support to Hellenic students pursuing PhD programs in theoretical physics or physical chemistry. Since its establishment, including this year’s recipients, Dr. and Mrs. Mavroyannis will have personally funded 41 scholarships to PhD students in these fields from the United States, Canada, and Greece. The Mavroyannis Family would like to congratulate each of the recipients on their exceptional academic achievements.
About Thomas Clement: Thomas is in his third year studying physics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research area is plasma kinetic theory.
About Octavia Florent: Octavia is in her fifth year studying physical chemistry at Brown University. Her research area is electronic nematicity in multilayer graphene heterostructures.
About Andreas Hadjipaschalis: Andreas is in his sixth year studying physics at Stony Brook University. His research area is condensed matter physics.
About Nicholas Hatzis-Schoch: Nicholas is in his third year studying theoretical chemistry at Yale University. His research area is machine learning methods for simulating biomolecular vibrational spectroscopy.
About Odysseas Hilides: Odysseas is in his second year studying theoretical physics at the University of Florida. His research area is parity violation in the primordial universe.
The Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis Scholarship is open to graduate students who are either Greek or of Greek heritage and are enrolled in a PhD program in either theoretical physics or physical chemistry in the Faculty of Science at a North American university. The scholarship is in the amount of $5,000 and is awarded on an annual basis in the fall semester.
The purpose of the Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis Scholarship is to recognize the importance of education, specifically, to reward and encourage educational achievement by Hellenes in the fields of physics and chemistry and thereby support Hellenic contribution to the global scientific community. The scholarship honors the life and accomplishments of Dr. Constantine Mavroyannis and his wife Patricia.
Dr. Constantine Mavroyannis, an immigrant from Greece, achieved the seemingly unachievable, earning postdoctoral fellowships to complete PhDs from both McGill University and Oxford University, each in less than two years. He then became a career theoretical physicist at the National Research Council of Canada, publishing 140 scientific papers and teaching post-graduate PhD students from around the globe, continuing post retirement as a Physicist Emeritus at NRC’s Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences.