Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

• 2022-present, Ph.D. in Biology, Biology Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  Thesis: “Design and development of bioinformatics tools for the effective and systematic detection of somatic variants with emphasis on low frequency variants”, supervision by Andreas Agathangelidis

• 2019-2021, M.Sc. in Digital Media and Computational Intelligence, Informatics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Thesis: “Applications of Deep Learning on gravitational waves” in collaboration with Gravitational Waves Group, AUTh, supervision by Anastasios Tefas

• 2010-2019, B.Sc. in Physics, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Thesis: “Study of the merging of a neutron star with a black hole and the role of the equation of state”, supervision by Charalampos Moustakidis

EMPLOYMENT & SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE

• 11/2021-present, Research Associate in the Bioinformatics Lab, Institute of Applied Biosciences at The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece, supervisor: Fotis Psomopoulos

  Duties:

  1. Bioinformatics software development, ML applications
  2. Participation in the ELIXIR Machine Learning Focus Group
  3. Student Internships and Master Theses Supervision
  4. Teaching
  5. Active involvement in the writing process of the following accepted EU proposals:
     • SYNTHIA, for the HORIZON Innovative Health Initiative JU Call 5, HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05-04
     • AHEAD, for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Staff Exchanges 2023 call, HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01-01

Participation in Funded Projects

• 07/2022-present, PhD Student, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  Duties: Design and development of bioinformatics algorithms focused on the deconvolution and disambiguation of low-frequency somatic variants in human DNA through Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. Additionally, employed synthetic data generation techniques and mathematical modeling to simulate and analyze biological processes, to achieve valuable insights of the behavior of biological systems.

• 09/2020-09/2021, Master Student, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  Duties: Software development for the purposes of master thesis in collaboration with Gravitational Waves Group, AUTh led by Nikolaos Stergioulas which consisted of members from the departments of Informatics and Physics from AUTh and the department of Physics from UoA.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• Recieved travel funding by the International Society for Computational Biology to present a poster with title Synth4bench: generating synthetic genomics data for the evaluation of somatic variant callers at the ECCB2024 conference in Turku, Finland, 16-20/09/2024.
• Invited attendee position to participate in BioHackathon2023 as one of the leads for Project 2 in Barcelona, Spain for the period 31/10/2023-01/11/2023. All travel expenses and accommodation covered by ELIXIR.

ACADEMIC SERVICES

• Ad hoc reviewer in
  • Bioinformatics Advances journal (1)
  • IEEE Data Descriptions journal (2)
  • Expert Systems With Applications journal (2)
  • Neurocomputing journal (2)
  • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine journal (1)
• Participation in the organising committee of
  • 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.

TEACHING

• 22/01/2024 - 26/01/2024 Exploratory analysis of biological data: data carpentry, EMBL Advanced Training Centre, Heidelberg and Virtual

  Helper duties for this hands-on workshop about teaching researchers the fundamental data skills they need to conduct their work and providing high-quality, domain-specific training covering the full lifecycle of data-driven research. The domain-specific approach allows participants to tailor the data, content, and tools to reflect the specific data and analysis needs of different areas. EMBL Course Page

• 28/11/2022 - 1/12/2022 WES / WGS data analysis, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGE), Belgrade, Serbia

  A training workshop in Bioinformatics which focused on germline small variant calling, larger variant calling – CNV pipeline, Genome Wide Association Studies and Common Workflow Language and Docker. The pipeline which I taught was that of somatic copy number variation calling using the CNVkit. Course Materials

• 03/2021 Introduction to Python, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Virtual Event

  A crash course, taught voluntarily, which consisted of six teaching hours, for 4th year students, at the Physics Department, who attended “Numerical Analysis” taught by Nikolaos Stergioulas. Course Materials

MEMBERSHIPS

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