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Now I have is surname courtesy of the BBC, a google search brings me here, The Greek Neolithic Figurines (Gerasimos Vallerios Stergiopoulos)

So it seems his first name is Anglicised from Gerasimos

Gerasimos Vallerios Stergiopoulos leads the line-up, with a useful introduction to Greek Neolithic figurines (7-15) that argues against simplistic interpretations and in favour of the possibility of their having had several meanings and functions, not necessarily connected with cult.

A real intellectual at last!