Every two years, the Bodossaki Foundation in Greece presents the Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Awards to four scholars of Greek heritage for their outstanding early-career research. The awards cover the fields of basic sciences, life sciences, applied sciences and technologies, and social sciences. Among this year’s recipients are two women professors at American-based universities.
Stavroula Hatzios, associate professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology and of chemistry at Yale University, received the 2025 Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Award in Life Sciences.
In her research, Dr. Hatzios combines methods from chemistry and microbiology to discover new therapeutic tools for gastrointestinal infections and cancers. She has been a professor with Yale since 2017, when she began her tenure as a member of the Microbial Sciences Institute.
Dr. Hatzios holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
Vicky Fouka, the Bing Professor of Human Biology and associate professor of political science at Stanford University, received the 2025 Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Award in Social Sciences.
A scholar of political economy and political behavior, Dr. Fouka studies topics such as immigrant assimilation, the determinants of prejudice against ethnic and racial minorities, and intergroup conflict. She is a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Dr. Fouka holds a bachelor’s degree in international and European economic studies from the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece, a master’s degree in economics from the Barcelona School of Economics in Spain, and a second master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics from Pompeu Fabra University in Spain.