Collaborators

 

Elsa Karageorgou

Mathematician, Coordinator for People with Mental Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses

General Information

Elsa Karageorgou is a Ph.D student in the Department of Economics and Sustainable Development at Harokopio University. She received her Diploma in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.) and her master degree in Educational Psychology and Educational Practice from the Department of Economics and Sustainable Development at Harokopio University. Her second master degree is in History and Didactics of Mathematics from the Hellenic Open University.

Research Interests

Her research interests mainly concern Project-based management focused in adult education and innovative methods concerning mental and physical disabilities.

Expertise

Through her professional experience as a Secretary Generals’ Advisor in consulting and EU research programs focusing on Adult Education, she is highly expertised in EU and self-funding programs. She currently works in Harokopio University, while she has been collaborating with public authorities and policy makers. She is a founding member of “Hellenic Scientific Institute: Economics of Education & Life Long Learning, of Research & Innovation” and serves as a Coordinator for Mental Disabilities, and Chronic Illnesses in the Secretariat for People with Disabilities.

elsakarageorgou@gmail.com

Konstantina Skolariki

Post-doc Research Fellow, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

General Information

Konstantina Skolariki is a post-doc fellow at Johns Hopkins University. She obtained her PhD at the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory (BiHELab), Department of Informatics, Ionian University. She completed her undergraduate studies BSc in Biomedical Science at the University of Surrey, UK. She obtained her first MSc degree in Integrative Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and her second MSc in Digital Applications and Innovation from Ionian University, Greece. She has authored several papers in conference proceedings and journals. During the last 10 years, she has been working in the field of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modeling and their applications to Neuroscience. She has received a Scholarship for PhD Candidates, awarded by the Hellenic Foundation of Research & Innovation for her research proposal on the application of mathematical models in the field of disease progression.

Research Interests

Topics of interest include i) data analysis and utilisation of bioinformatics tools for genome and functional enrichment analysis, ii) data analysis with application of Machine Learning for disease prediction, and iii) analysis of electroencephalography data using statistical computing software.

kskolariki@hotmail.com

Margarita Chrysanthou-Piterou

Research Associate of the Laboratory of Histochemistry and Electron Microscopy, 1stDepartment of Psychiatry, Medical School, NKUA)

General Information

  • Laboratory Teaching Staff, Medical School, NKUA
  • Research Associate of the Laboratory of Histochemistry and Electron Microscopy, 1stDepartment of Psychiatry, Medical School, NKUA)

Research Interests

  • The effect of perinatal hypoxia on the catecholaminergic systems of the neonatal human brain 
  • Chromatin and histone modifications in peripheral blood leukocytes of patients with psychiatric disorders
  • Ultrastructural changes in diseased muscles (inherited and acquired neuromuscular diseases)

margarita.chrysanthou@gmail.com

Konstantinos P. Lazaros

MSc Student

General Information

Konstantinos Lazaros obtained his degree from the department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Greece. He is currently a master’s degree student at the inter-university Master’s Degree Programme “Bioinformatics and Neuroinformatics”.

Research Interests

His research interests are data science, machine and deep learning and their applications on biomedical data.

konlazaros@gmail.com

George Mantellos

Software Engineer

General Information

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Computer Science and Mobile Applications. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor’s degree focused in Informatics from Ionian University.