The Personal Background and Professional Work of One of the World’s Most Gifted Men
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/06/08
Dr. Evangelos Katsioulis, M.D., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D is a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist running his private practice in Thessaloniki, Greece. Having perceived the importance and impact of internet in our lives, he is also professionally active offering online psychotherapy and counseling for Psycall.com and Shezlong.com. He earned an M.D., Medical Doctor Diploma (2000), M.Sc., Medical Research Technology (2003), M.A., Philosophy (2012), and Ph.D., Psychopharmacology (2015), awarded by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Dr. Katsioulis is mostly challenged by expression, thinking and communication. Therefore, he is involved in writing articles, novels, quotes and screenplays. Since 2001, he is the Founder of the World Intelligence Network (WIN), an international organization targeting the detection, development and appreciation of abilities. Feeling a citizen of the world, he currently lives in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece.
On January 1, 2015, we published an interview. Here, we talk about personal views and professional life.
When I asked Katsioulis about the personal background from childhood through adolescence into adulthood, especially regarding the extraordinary giftedness, he stated, “Well, I didn’t have any forehead mark indicating that I have any special abilities, so my childhood was mainly full of activities that I enjoyed, such as reading literature, solving math, logical problems and puzzles, getting involved in discussions with adults and having rather many questions.”
He remarked on a time in childhood. When he was a boy, he made one assumption, reasonable at the time, about sheep. That is, white sheep produce white milk. So, by his thinking, black sheep should make cocoa milk. He spent lots of time alone rather than with friends. This continued into adolescence.
His teachers’ feedback remained “positive and promising at all stages” of his educational experience. “At this point, I should mention that I am very grateful to my parents, both teachers of the Greek language, who provided me a variety of mental stimuli and a proper hosting setting for my interests. During my adolescence, I had a distinction in the national Math exams in 1990 and in the national Physics Final exams in 1993 among some thousands of participants,” Katsioulis remarked.
On the first attempt at the School of Medicine, he was successful in the acceptance based on performance on the entrance examinations in 1993. He remained one of only six successful candidates who went and passed their examinations on their first attempt at it.
Indicative of the performances in scholastic achievements, Katsioulis scored some of the highest intelligence test scores on record, nationally and internationally. In many cases, he scored the highest. On the Physics National Final Exams (Greece, 1993), Cerebrals NVCP-R international contest (2003), and the Cerebrals international contest (2009), he earned the best performance in all three.
These points of the conversation led to the conversation about meeting other ultra-high IQ individuals and then feeling a sense of community.
“My ranking on the Physics National Final Exams is mainly the result of hard work and personal interest in Physics. Having scored quite well in some IQ tests and contests, I joined many High IQ Societies since 2001. I noticed that there were some difficulties in their proper functioning minimizing interactivity and subsidizing creativity,” Katsioulis stated, “Therefore, I took the initiative in 2001 to form a pioneer organization focused on promoting communication and enhancing productivity for the individuals with high cognitive abilities.”
This was the World Intelligence Network. It amounts to an international collective entity for the support of High IQ societies. At the time of the interview, there were 48 High IQ Societies affiliated with the World Intelligence Network. He took the initiative with five other organizations as well. Katsioulis sets a solid example for other gifted men and gifted people in general for perseverance, hard work, and service where little or no help exists.
Those five core organizations are for the 1st through 5th standard deviations, which, on a standard deviation of 15, amount to societies for the IQs of 115, 130, 145, 160, and 175. In order, these are QIQ, GRIQ, CIVIQ, HELLIQ, OLYMPIQ. There are two more for children and adolescents called IQID. Then one only for the Greek people, which is a “Greek NGO for abilities, giftedness, and high intelligence named Anadeixi.”
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Dr. Katsioulis earned the best performance in the Cerebrals international contest (2009), best performance in the Cerebrals NVCP-R international contest (2003), best performance in physics for the national final exams in Greece (1993), and third place in the Maths national contest in Thessaloniki, Greece (1989).
Dr. Katsioulis scored some of the highest intelligence test scores (SD16) on international record with IQ scores of 205 on the NVCP-R [Rasch equated raw 49/54] in 2002, 196 on the Qoymans Multiple Choice #3 [ceiling] in 2003, 192 on the NVCP-E [Rasch equated raw 35/40] in 2002, 186 on the NVCP-R [Fluid Intelligence Index Score] in 2002, 183 on the NVCP-E [Fluid Intelligence Index Score] in 2002, 183 on the Cattell Culture Fair III A+B [ceiling-1] in 2003, 180+ on the Bonnardel BLS4 – 2T [ceiling] in 2003, and 180+ on the WAIS-R [extrapolated full scale] in 2002.
Subsequently, Dr. Katsioulis remains a member in over 60 high IQ societies. In addition, he is the president and founder of Anadeixi Academy of Abilities Assessment and World Intelligence Network (WIN), and OLYMPIQ, HELLIQ, CIVIQ, GRIQ, QIQ, IQID, GREEK high IQ societies. He talked here with Scott Douglas Jacobsen who founded In-Sight Publishing and In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal.
In one listing, Dr. Katsioulis is listed among other smartest people in the world including Paul Allen, Christopher Michael Langan, Judit Polgar, Marilyn vos Savant, John H. Sununu, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kim Ung-Yong, Mislav Predavec, Manahel Thabet, Rick Rosner, Chris Hirata, Steven Pinker, Ivan Ivec, Garry Kasparov, Terence Tao, Scott Aaronson, Nikola Poljak, Alan Guth, Donald Knuth, Noam Chomsky, Magnus Carlsen, Shahriar Afshar, Akshay Venkatesh, Saul Kripke, Ruth Lawrence, Grigori Perelman, Andrew Wiles, and Edward Witten.
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