Professor Panagiota Fatourou, a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Crete, has been elected Chair of the Steering Committee of the prestigious conference ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC). The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing is an international forum for the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. It is categorized as an A* conference (according to all known international classifications) and attracts the most renowned and significant scientists in the research field of distributed and parallel computing. 

In 2024, the 43rd edition of the conference took place in Nantes, from June 17 to June 21, 2024. The conference jointly funds (with the EATCS Symposium on Distributed Computing – DISC) the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, named after the leading scientist in the field of distributed computing, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002). This prize is awarded for outstanding research papers whose significance and impact on the field have been evident for at least a decade.

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Crete warmly congratulates Professor Panagiota Fatourou for this significant distinction.