PhD Candidates
Eirini Banou
General Information
Eirini Banou received her diploma in Applied Informatics from University of Macedonia, in Thessaloniki and her Master in Science degree from Department of Informatics from Ionian University in Corfu.
Research Interests
Her research interest mainly concern Bioinformatics, Neurogenerative Diseases, Artificial Intellegence.
irene.banou@gmail.com
Katerina Kadena
Ph. D student
General Information
Katerina Kadena is a Ph. D student in Neuroinformatics in the Department of Informatics at Ionian University. She holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering, a Bachelor in Law and an MBA.
Research Interests
Her research interest mainly concerns Neurodegenerative disorders, Bioinformatics and personalized treatment focusing on ALS.
Expertise
Through her professional experience she has been working in consulting and EU research and e-learning projects, mostly taking care of SMEs that would like to innovate or expand. She is an expert in EU funding programs, IP and commercialization of innovative products while she has elaborated numerous of business plans and proposals. She has heavy PM experience (PM for IT projects in Health, Security and Defense, Manufacturing, EU RnD Projects etc.) while she has been collaborating with research centers, Universities, public authorities and policy makers. She is also PRINCE2 certified practitioner and certified GDPR expert.
katerina.kadena@gmail.com
Stefan Kallis
Ph.D student
General Information
Stefan Kallis is a Ph.D student in Bioinformatics at Department of informatics at Ionian University. She received her diploma from the Department of Nutrition from University of Greenwich in London and her master’s degree and diploma (MSc. & DLSHTM) with specialization in Public Health and Nutrition (Public Health Nutrition) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Research Interests
Her research interests mainly concern Bioinformatics.
stefikalli@gmail.com
Georgia Theocharopoulou
Research Engineer, responsible for administrative issues and managing technology development projects
General Information
Georgia Theocharopoulou is a Ph. D student in Neuroinformatics in the Department of Informatics at Ionian University. She received her diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering of Polytechnic University of Patras and her master degree in Informatics from the Department of Informatics of Ionian University
Research Interests
Her research is focused on understanding the neural mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases, using neuroinformatics through the development of brain models to analyze neural activities. More specifically: Nervous system morphology, protein folding, imaging of neurons and their processes and neuroinformatics. As a research engineer of Bionformatics and Human Electrophysiology Lab she is involved in the development of databases for light and electron microscopic data and new techniques and software tools to acquire and represent this knowledge within realistic neuronal models. In her research work, she has focused on the application of neuroinformatics in the areas of biomedical data integration and knowledge discovery.
zeta.theo@ionio.gr
Stefanos Patsiris
Physiotherapist, Clinical Instructor
General Information
Stefanos Patsiris lives in Corfu and works as a physiotherapist and clinical instructor at the General Hospital of Corfu.
Research Interests
His research interests include Physiotherapy in respiratory diseases, Education and teaching in physiotherapy and Hydrotherapy.
patsiris@hotmail.com
Manos Perakis
Ph.D Student
General information
Manos Perakis got the B.Sc Diploma in Mathematics at the University of Ioannina and the M.Sc Diploma in Applied Mathematics at the Open University of Greece. Now, he is a PhD student in the Department of Informatics at the Ionian University.
Research interests
His research is mainly focused on mathematical models in Neurobiology, applied to neurodegenerative diseases and is assisted by advanced Informatics tools.
majuio123@hotmail.com
Maria Sagiadinou
Psychologist, Coordinator for Behavioral and Cognitive Research
General Information
Maria Sagiadinou is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Informatics at the Ionian University. She received her Diploma in Psychology from the Department of Psychology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.T.) and her master degree in Social Clinical Psychology from the Department of Psychology of A.U.T. Her second master degree is in Informatics and Humanistic Sciences from the Department of Informatics from Ionian University.
Research Interests
Her research interests are focused in prodromal diagnosis of Alzheimer ’s Disease, Cognitive Experimental Psychology, Neuropsychology, study, assessment and training of cognitive functions and impairments, practice of neurofeedback, learning disabilities and diagnostic tests. Her professional activity is focused in Clinical Psychotherapy and Group Therapy.