Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (06/2022–present)
  Thesis: “Design and development of bioinformatics tools for the effective and systematic distinction between true (biological) and artificial somatic variants in pathological conditions, focusing on low-frequency variants”
  Supervisor: Andreas Agathangelidis

• M.Sc. in Digital Media and Computational Intelligence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (09/2019–09/2021)
  Grade: 9.20/10 (Excellent)
  Thesis: “Applications of Deep Learning on gravitational waves”
  Supervisor: Anastasios Tefas

• B.Sc. in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (10/2010–04/2019)
  Grade: 6.64/10 (Very Good)
  Thesis: “Study of the merging of a neutron star with a black hole and the role of the equation of state”
  Supervisor: Charalampos Moustakidis

EMPLOYMENT & SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE

• Research Associate, Bioinformatics Lab, INAB at CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece (11/2021–present)
  Group Lead: Fotis Psomopoulos
  Duties: Bioinformatics software development and ML applications, participation in the ELIXIR AI Ecosystem FG, involvement in student supervision and teaching, EU proposal writing, and participation in European-funded projects.

Duration	Project	Position Description	Funder
01/2025–present	SYNTHIA	ML methods for generating and evaluating synthetic data	HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05
06/2024–12/2024	EVERSE	Tools and practices for research software quality assessment	HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01
09/2023–05/2024	SciLake	Algorithms for large-scale biodata analysis	HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-04
11/2021–08/2023	Gallantries	Bioinformatics educational content development	Erasmus+

• PhD Student, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (06/2022–present)
  Development of synth4bench, an open‑source synthetic data generation and benchmarking pipeline for low‑frequency somatic‑variant deconvolution.

• Master Student, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (09/2020–09/2021)
  Software development for Deep Learning Methods for COST Action CA17137 in collaboration with the CIDL research group and the Gravitational Waves Group, AUTh.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University Courses

• Introduction to Python, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (03/2021)
  Six-hour crash course for 4th-year Physics students. Course Materials

Workshops

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Life Sciences, Aussois, France (19–23/05/2025)
  Instructor in an intensive course focused on ML and generative AI in the life sciences. Details | DOME Tutorial

• Exploratory analysis of biological data: Data Carpentry, EMBL Heidelberg & Virtual (22–26/01/2024)
  Helper in a hands-on workshop teaching data analysis fundamentals. EMBL Course

• WES / WGS Data Analysis, IMGGE, Belgrade, Serbia (28/11–01/12/2022)
  Taught CNV calling using CNVkit. Materials

Student Supervision

• Support in the supervision of M.Sc. thesis: Generative methods in bioinformatics: the use case of synthetic genomics data, “Applied Bioinformatics & Data Analysis”, Democritus University of Thrace.
• Support in the supervision of 2 student internships.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• Travel grant from the International Society for Computational Biology to present the poster Benchmarking Somatic Variant Callers: A Tale Unfolding In The Synthetic Genomics Feature Space at ECCB2024, Turku, Finland (16–20/09/2024).
• Invited attendee at BioHackathon Europe 2023 as co-lead for Project 2, Barcelona, Spain (31/10–01/11/2023), funded by ELIXIR.

ACADEMIC SERVICES

Ad hoc Reviewer

• Elsevier: Expert Systems With Applications, Neurocomputing, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
• Oxford University Press: Bioinformatics Advances
• IEEE: Data Descriptions

Organising Committees

• EOSC-EVERSE Kick-off Meeting, Thessaloniki, Greece (11–15/03/2024)
• 17th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (HSCBB23), Thessaloniki, Greece (10–12/10/2023)

MEMBERSHIPS

• Member, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) (2023–present)