Honorary Professors & Honorary Doctorates

Honorary Professors

The title of Honorary Professor of an academic Department is awarded by the Senate of the University of Ioannina to a Professor of another Higher Education Institution who has distinguished themselves in the scientific field served by the academic Department, following a recommendation of the relevant Dean’s Office and a subsequent decision of the Department’s General Assembly. The awarding of the title is published in the Government Gazette.”

Department of Physics

Department of Chemistry

Honorary Doctorates

The title of Honorary Doctorate of an academic Department is awarded by the Senate of the University of Ioannina to individuals who have distinguished themselves in science, the arts, or literature, or who have rendered valuable services to humanity, to Greece, or to the University of Ioannina, following a recommendation of the relevant Dean’s Office and a subsequent decision of the Department’s General Assembly.

Department of Mathematics

† Oscar Kempthorne, 10/06/1993

† Ioannis Argyris, 30/10/1995

Gerasimos Ladas, 15/06/2005

Mark J. Ablowitz, 22/10/2014

Department of Physics

Ioannis Iliopoulos07/11/2002
Jonathan R. Ellis, 26/05/2015

Vasileios Pontikis19/12/2018

Hans-Jürgen Butt06/04/2022

Department of Chemistry

 Murray H. Goodman28/11/1995
† Ιvano Bertini, 23/10/2002
† Klaus Unger, 23/10/2002
Richard R. Ernst, 10/11/2010

Nobel Prize in Chemistry – 1991

Akira Suzuki19/04/2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – 2010
Aaron Ciechanover27/11/2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – 2004