Kyriakos Anastasiadis, Professor of the Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Health Sciences, has been elected as the new Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

The electoral process was completed on Wednesday 11 June 2025, and was held by secret ballot and electronically, through the special information system “Digital Ballot Box ZEUS”. At the meeting of the Administrative Council of the AUTH, the candidates received the following votes:

Kyriakos Anastasiadis, Professor of the Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Health Sciences: 7 votes.

Professor of the Department of Spatial Planning and Development Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering Efstratios Stylianidis: 2 votes.

Blank Votes: 2 votes.

A short biography of the new Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Professor Kyriakos Anastasiadis, is available at the following link: https://kyriakos-anastasiadis.gr/cv/

On the occasion of his election as Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Kyriakos Anastasiadis, Professor of the Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Health Sciences, sent the following message to the members of the university community.

“Today the Board of Governors appointed me as the new Rector of the Aristotle University. For this great honour and the promise of cooperation that accompanies it, I would like to thank my fellow Councillors. My gratitude is also deserved by all of you who believed in my strategic plan and supported me during this long period after the elections.

Now is the time for all of us to work for the Aristotle University. It is the time for the restart that is now imperative for its sustainability and development. Our University is turning a new page, preparing to enter its second century of operation as a model Public, International and Innovative Academic Institution serving Education, Research and Freedom of Speech, as an important pillar of economic and cultural development of the country.

We have a lot to do! I will be by your side. Tomorrow will find us united and on a common path. We owe it to the AUTH, to our science, to our students.”