M.Sc., University of Athens, Greece, 2003

Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2009

4/2014 - Present   Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College, City University of New York

4/2014 - Present   Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Translational & Basic Research

4/2014 - Present   Adjunct Faculty, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

5/2009 - 4/2014    Assistant Professor, J. Craig Venter Institute

8/2003 - 5/2009   PhD Student & Bioinformatics Engineer, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

8/2000 - 8/2003   Graduate Reseach Assistant, Department of Biotechnology, University of Athens

+   High-throughput bioinformatics infrastructures for cluster and cloud computing platforms.

+   Bioinformatics for clinical and personal genomics.

+   Interdisciplinary research and novel applications of genomics sequencing and bioinformatics.

+   Algorithmic Information Theory, Computability, and Biologically-Inspired Computing.

2017 - 2018 Principal Investigator, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) Seed Award Program. Project Title: "Next Generation Sequencing for environmental DNA monitoring: understanding global biodiversity through bioinformatics”. Amount: $10,000

2017 - 2018 Co-Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health. Project Title: “Mechanisms of regulation of progenitor proliferation and transformation” (ASRC Neuroscience sub-contract). Amount: $10,920

2016 - 2017 Principal Investigator, Center for Translational and Basic Research Pilot Award. Project Title: "Democratizing access to bioinformatics computing for health disparities research”. Amount: $78,000

2015 - 2016 Principal Investigator, Institutes of Health. Project Title: “Expanding Infrastructure and Services of CUNY-CTBR Bioinformatics and Genomics Core”. Amount: $123,832

2015 - 2017 Principal Investigator, Cornell Medical College, Clinical and Translational Science Center Pilot Award. Project Title: "Cross-platform, scalable Science as a Service (SciaaS) infrastructures for NGS data analysis”. Amount: $110,660

2014 - 2016 Principal Investigator, Investigator, University of New York. “Faculty startup award”. Amount $100,000

2014 - 2015 Principal Investigator, Institutes of Health. “Development of a Bioinformatics Core and Sequencing Facility at Hunter College for Minority Health Disparities Research”. Amount: $485,000

2014 - 2015 Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation. Project Title: “Development of the next-generation Arabidopsis Informatics Portal”. Amount: $2,434,910