Gerasimos Siasos

Gerasimos Siasos (born 1979 in Thessaloniki, Greece) is a Greek Professor of cardiology and the current Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a position he has held since September 1, 2023. With his unanimous election, he became the youngest Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens—the largest and oldest higher education institution in Greece—as well as the youngest person to have assumed the office of Rector at a Greek higher education institution.

He previously served as Chair of the School of Medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) from 2021 to 2023 becoming the youngest elected Chair in the history of the School. From 2015 to 2016, he was a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School. He also served as vice-chair of the School of Medicine at the University of Athens from 2019 to 2021, and as President of the Board of Directors of the "Aretaieio" and "Aiginiteio" University Hospitals during the same period. He currently serves as Alternate Director of the 3rd Clinical Department of Cardiology at the School of Medicine, University of Athens, based at the Athens General Hospital of Thoracic Diseases "Sotiria".

Education Gerasimos Siasos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1979. He received his medical degree from the School of Medicine of NKUA. He completed his residency in cardiology at the 1st Clinical Department of Cardiology and its affiliated 1st Cardiology-Haemodynamics Laboratory at the NKUA's School of Medicine. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in "Intensive Care Units - Cardiology, Medical, and Nursing Care" from NKUA, and an MSc in "Health Care Management" from the Hellenic Open University. He earned his PhD from the NKUA's School of Medicine, graduating with First-Class Honours.

Career From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting assistant professor at Harvard Medical School based at the Cardiovascular Division of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Between 2015 and 2017, he also served as a research affiliate at the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then, he has continued his collaboration as a research affiliate with the Vascular Profiling Research Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Siasos served as Chair (2021–2023) and previously vice-chair (2019–2021) of the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During the same period (2019–2021), he was also President of the Board of Directors of the "Aretaieio" and "Aiginiteio" University Hospitals.

Since 2018, he has been directing the "Heart and Diabetes Unit" within the 1st Clinical Department of Cardiology at the "Ippokrateio" General Hospital in Athens, as well as the 3rd Clinical Department of Cardiology at NKUA, based at the Athens General Hospital of Thoracic Diseases "Sotiria". In 2017, he played an instrumental role in establishing the 3rd Clinical Department of Cardiology at the Athens General Hospital of Thoracic Diseases "Sotiria" in his capacity as Alternate Director.

He is the founder and former President of the "Heart and Diabetes" Working Group of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology.

Siasos is the current Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a position he has held since September 1, 2023, succeeding Professor Athanasios Dimopoulos.

Research Siasos's research focuses on molecular cardiology, diabetes mellitus, vascular profiling, and endothelial function, with a particular emphasis on the mechanisms underlying atherosclerosis progression.

His body of work includes more than 430 peer-reviewed publications in leading international scientific journals, such as the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the International Journal of Cardiology, and Current Medicinal Chemistry. He has served as Section Editor (Cardiovascular Diseases) for Current Medicinal Chemistry (Impact factor: 4.740). His research has been published in journals with a total impact factor exceeding 2.000, and his work has received over 23,000 citations in the international literature (H-index 70). His scholarly output comprises, among other contributions, the editing and authorship of 20 books and textbooks on cardiology.