Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

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

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

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

  Master 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, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Bachelor 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 Fellow in the Bioinformatics Lab, Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB) at The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), supervisor: Fotis Psomopoulos

  Duties:

  1. Bioinformatics software development, ML applications
  2. Writing European proposals (HORIZON, Cost Action etc.)
  3. Participation in ELIXIR Machine Learning Focus Group
  4. Involvement in the supervision of student internship projects and Master’s diploma theses
  5. Teaching
     
     

  Participation in Funded Projects:

  • (09/2023 - present) SciLake: Design and development of algorithms for analysing big biodata, funder HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-04
  • (11/2021 - 08/2023) Gallantries: Design, development and creation of Bioinformatics educational content, funder Erasmus+
    
    

• 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.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

• Invited attendee position to participate in BioHackathon as project lead 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
  • Expert Systems With Applications journal and
  • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine journal
• Participation in 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)