Dear friends,
With deep sadness I would like to inform you that my beloved PhD and Postdoc supervisor, Mentor and Friend Professor Lukas H. Margaritis passed away yesterday after a long fight with cancer.
His funeral will take place at 11am on Monday in Athens.
Lukas was a spectacular teacher and internationally recognized researcher, a pioneer in establishing Cell Biology, Electron Microscopy and EMF research in Greece.
He was dedicated to research until the end of his life.
He was a great boss and a real leader!
He was treating everyone with kindness.
Greece lost one of its greatest minds :(
All the academic community is mourning...
Sincerely,
Adamantia Fragkopoulou
Assistant Professor
Karolinska Institutet
Dear Admantia,
it is with sadness that I read your unlucky communication.
Lucas was a great biologist. I knew him as a pioneer of the study of dynamics of animal populations under the pressure of environmental pollution, peculiarly physical pollution.
His research was not limited to the effects of such pollution on individuals but the focus of his research was shifted towards a higher level, highliting the shadows of the complexity.
Dynamics of population and animal behaviour are not phenomena that can be explained with reductionism, on contrary they witness the existance of collective properties that are meaningless at elementary level. An open minded scientific interest that did Lucas so near to me and to my scientific interests, beyond the interest for electromagnetic hazard, rather aiming to investigate bioelectromagnetism, thus the two matrixes of life: waves and water.
"Et in perpetuo frater ave atque vale"! *
Livio Giuliani
* (Ugo Foscolo, Sonetto "In morte del fratello Giovanni").
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