Faculty Members
SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR
Prof. Panagiotis Vlamos
Professor Panagiotis Vlamos is the Head of the Department of Informatics and the Director of the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory (BiHeLab) at the Ionian University. He completed his undergraduate studies BSc in Mathematics at the University of Athens and obtained his PhD degree in Mathematics from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is the recipient of numerous awards and he has authored more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings as well as 16 educational books. The topics of his papers are Mathematical Modelling, Applied and Discrete Mathematics as well as Bioinformatics.
Research Interests
His main research interest is to help bridge the translational gap from data to models and from models to drug discovery and personalized therapy by developing quantitative deterministic approaches to biological and clinical problems by utilizing high-performance computing. He is the founder of the series of the World Congresses GeNeDis (“Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research”), organized every two years starting from 2014. He also founded the Master’s Program “Bioinformatics & Neuroinformatics” and is the editor of the Handbook of Computational Neurodegeneration that will be published by Springer International Publishing. In addition, Prof. Vlamos is co-chair of the Hellenic Initiative Against Alzheimer’s (HIAAD). HIAAD is a joint collaboration between Greek researchers from Johns Hopkins University, USA and scientists from BiHELab who combine their knowledge and expertise in order to cope with the “epidemic” of Alzheimer’s and related disorders in Greece.
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Themis Exarchos is an Assistant Professor of Data Modeling and Decision Support Systems in the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and member of the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory in the same Department. He holds an Engineering Diploma, from the Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics of University of Patras and a PhD in Medical Informatics from the Medical School of the University of Ioannina. He has more than 65 publication in journals, more than 80 publications in conference proceeding and more that 15 publications in books. He has worked for more than 15 years in research and development projects, funded by EU and other bodies. He is collaborating with various institutes and universities in Greece and abroad. He is also a visiting professor in Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. He is participating in several committees for regional, national and European proposal evaluation.
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His research interests include data modeling and mining, healthcare decision support systems, big data analytics and biomedical informatics.
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Dr. Theodore Andronikos is Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics at Ionian University. He received his diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens. He holds Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same University. He was also as Postdoctoral researcher at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens.
Research Interests
His research mainly concern Internet programming, Dynamic scheduling algorithms for parallel and distributed heterogeneous systems, Query languages and inference engines for ontologies and the semantic the web, Quantum computation and quantum automata, Probabilistic automata and automata on infinite objects, Temporal logics for automated synthesis and verification of reactive systems
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Spyridon (Spyros) Doukakis is an Assistant Professor of Digital Technologies for Education in the Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and member of the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory in the same Department. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and a BSc in Computer Engineering, MSc degrees in Computer Communications and Networks and in Basic and Applied Cognitive Sciences and a MEd in Education. He earned his PhD in Education and Digital Technologies and he completed his postdoctoral research at Ionian University in the field of educational neuroscience. He has received a Fulbright Visiting scholarship where he was a visiting researcher at Villanova University, USA. Moreover, he has been awarded with the Harvard Prize Book Teacher Award. Ηe is working in research and development projects, funded by EU and other bodies and participating in regional, national and European committees.
His research interests include educational neuroscience, computing education, distance learning and educational technology.
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Aristidis (Aris) Vrahatis is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Modeling Complex Systems, in the Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, and a member of the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory in the same Department. He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, where he graduated in 2011 and received his M.Sc. Diploma in the program ‘Computer Science and Technology’ in 2012. He has more than 40 publications in journals and conference proceedings, including Oxford Bioinformatics, BMC genomics, IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, and Cellular and molecular life sciences. He has worked for more than 10 years in research and development projects, funded by the EU and other bodies.
Research interests
His research interests include Machine Learning, Biomedical Data Mining, Biological Complex Systems Modeling, and Network Medicine
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Marios Krokidis is Assistant Professor of Computational Molecular Biomedicine and Drug Modeling at the Ionian University Informatics Department, Corfu, Greece and member of the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory. He received his PhD from the Medical School of Patras University and holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry and a MSc degree in Drug Design and Development from the same University. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos and the Ionian University Informatics Department supported by competitive European (FP7, H2020) and national grants.
Research Interests
His research interests include Computational Biomedicine, Molecular Analysis and Biomarkers Discovery, Computational Drug Design and Structural Bioinformatics.