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Dr Aggeli is currently Associate Professor in Biomedical engineering at the Dept of Chemical Engineering. Her research has been published in the highest impact peer-reviewed scientific jorunals, such as Nature (IF 35), Nano Letters (IF 13), Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.(IF 13.7) Advanced Functional Materials (IF 10), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF 10.7). She has h index of ca 29 and over 4,300 citations of her work. Her scientific work has been captured in a number of international patents that led to new products/medical devices in regenerative medicine, that are currently sold in the international market. She has co-organised 4 international conferences and workshops, whilst she has presented her work at >90 presentations at international conferences, research centers and industry in Europe, America, Japan and Australia..She speaks perfect English and French. She has been awarded two prestigious Royal Society Fellowships in the UK. She has participated in UG and MSc departmental teaching committees in the UK for over a decade. She has >20 years of teaching experience as lecturer and Aassistant Professor at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels in higher education in the UK. She has supervised >20 PhD students, > 40 UG and MSc dissertations and 7 postdoctoral researchers. In 2014 she returned to Greece as Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Dept of Chemical Engineering, AuTh.
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Michalis Aivaliotis is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and coordinator of the research group in Functional Proteomics and Systems Biology based in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation and the Laboratory of Biological Chemistry in the School of Medicine at AUTh. He is also collaborative faculty member of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Foundation of Research and Technology (IMBB-FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete. Since October 2020 he is also the chair of the steering committee of the Joint Postgraduate Studies Program “Precision Medicine: Translational Research and Therapeutics”. He received his diploma in Chemistry and his MSc. in Biochemistry from the University of Crete in 2000 and 2003, respectively. In 2005, he obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Crete in collaboration with the University of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). He received highly competitive fellowships from Alexander von Humboldt foundation and Max-Planck Society for post-doctoral research in the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, (Martinsried, Germany), and in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the University of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (2005-2008). In 2008 he was appointed by the Foundation of Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens as senior research scientist and in 2009, he moved to IMBB-FORTH as a senior research scientist to participate in the organization, establishment, and operation of the Proteomics Facility at IMBB (ProFI) from scratch. From 2017 till 2020, he was the scientific director of ProFI. He is currently the author or the co-author in more than 50 peer-reviewed research articles and 3 reviews in several international scientific journals. His research is focusing on the study of protein functional networks and pathways in complex biological systems. using integrative Systems Biology approaches employing state-of-the-art mass spectrometry-based proteomics and bioinformatics in combination to other methods of omics, molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics and analytical biochemistry.
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Anthony H. Aletras currently serves as Director and Professor of Biomedicine and Imaging Technologies at the Laboratory of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Imaging Technologies of the School of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He also serves as a part-time Researcher at the Department of Clinical Physiology of the Medical Faculty at Lund University, Sweden. He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1996. He did his post-doctoral studies and served as a Staff Scientist at the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics of the National Heart, Lund and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA until 2010. He served as a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics of the University of Thessaly until 2014. His published work is on cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging both for pathophysiological interrogations and diagnostic imaging. He is a co-inventor of DENSE strain imaging and CEST contrast agents. Area-At-Risk determination based on intramyocardial edema is his most cited work.
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Panagiotis Bamidis is a Professor of Medical Physics, Medical Informatics and Medical Education in the Medical Physics Lab of the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. He designs, implements and evaluates IT and Assistive Technologies systems that improve everyday activities of elderly or other vulnerable groups and improves their health or life quality or improves the education and training of health professionals. He conducts research that attempts to understand how the brain reacts to different stimuli, technological or educational interventions, as well as, the development and evolution of human emotions and sleep transitions. He is the co-ordinator of large European projects, and the principal investigator for many national and international funded projects. He is the President of the Hellenic Biomedical Technology Society (ELEBIT), the HL7 Hellas organisation, the international Society of Applied Neuroscience (SAN), a member of the Administration Boards of other societies and patient associations. He is/has been the Chairman/Organiser of more than 19 international conferences and several national Biomedical Technology conferences. Since 2012 he has established LLM Care ecosystem (www.llmcare.gr), the business exploitation of the LLM project, which is a 2-star reference site of the EIP-on-AHA. In 2013 he established the Active and Healthy Ageing Living Lab in Thessaloniki (ThessAHALL; http://www.aha-livinglabs.com/) which in 2016 became an adherent and in 2018 an effective member of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). In 2017, he became a visiting Professor of Medical Education Technology, Innovation and Change for the Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME) of the University of Leeds, UK. He received Prizes for the Best Track Record in funded research projects (AUTH Research Committee 2009; AUTH Dean of Health Sciences 2016) and the Best overall high/extra-ordinary academic performance (AUTH Dean of Health Sciences 2018, 2019, 2020). In 2020, as a result of the H2020 funded project named CAPTAIN, he founded CAPTAIN-COACH, one of the first 10 spin-offs of AUTH.
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Konstantinos Chatzistergos received both a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry (‘01) and a Ph.D. degree in Anatomic Pathology (‘06) from University of Ioannina, Greece. He did his post-doctoral studies in the USA, at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (UMMSOM-ISCI) until 2017, before joining the UMMSOM-ISCI faculty as an Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology. In May 2020, he moved to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Biology where he currently serves as Associate Professor or Developmental Biology. He is also a Voluntary Assistant Professor at UMMSOM-ISCI. His research is focused in the developmental and regenerative biology of the heart, with expertise in pluripotent stem cells and mouse genetics as experimental systems. Currently, his work has been published in 42 articles in high-impact peer-reviewed research journals, including the European Heart Journal, JACC, PNAS, Circulation, Circulation Research, and Science Advances (more than 4,000 citations and h-index 23 as of 08/2021).
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Ioanna Chouvarda (F) studied Electrical and Computer engineering, at AUTH and has completed her PhD on cardiac system complexity in the School of Medicine. She is Associate Professor in Medical Informatics and Biomedical Data Analysis, Lab of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Imaging technologies in the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences AUTH. She has been a collaborating researcher with CERTH, visiting researcher at VTT Finland and Polytechnic School of Milan. She teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses around biomedical data management and analysis, also oriented to interdisciplinary groups, and has supervised numerous Msc and PhD students. IC has been actively involved in biomedical research for more than 25 years. Within the Lab, she leads the BiOasys team with key objectives the development of data analysis & data-driven methods, and their application in connected health technologies and systems medicine. She has been involved in the R&D project / technical management of numerous research projects (EU/national funding), as well as EU cost actions for scientific networking. She has been an evaluator of national and EU research proposals and projects. She is member of the IEEE (board member in WIE and in EMB greek chapter), and of the VPH-institute, associate editor in IEEE-EMBC and previously CMPB associate editor. She has authored 86 articles in journals and over 190 articles in conferences/book chapters (h-index 29, 3864 citations 6/2021).
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Dr Dimitra Dafou is a faculty member of the Department of Genetics, Molecular Biology and Developmental Biology at the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She obtained her BSc in Molecular Biology (1997) from Liverpool University UK, her MSc in Medical Genetics and Immunology (1999) and PhD in Cancer Genetics (2004) from the Institute of Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics in Brunel University UK. She did post-doctoral research at the Bart’s and the Royal London at Queen Mary University, at the Institute for Women’s Health at University College London and at the Department of Medical Genetics at King’s College London. Dr Dafou’ s research focuses on molecular epitranscriptomic mechanisms and RNA diversification in the context of neurodegeneration, leading to the identification of molecular targets for the development of differential diagnostic platforms and novel therapeutics. She has been the co-author of more than 50 articles in high-impact peer-reviewed research journals and book chapters, including Nature Genetics, American Journal of Human Genetics, PNAS (more than 2,500 citations and h-index 24 as of 08/2021). She has supervised and trained more than 50 students, post-docs and visiting scientists.
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Dr. Anastasios Delopoulos was born in Athens, Greece, in 1964. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1987, received the M.Sc. from the University of Virginia in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree from NTUA in 1993. From 1995 till 2001 he was a senior researcher in the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of NTUA. Since 2001 he is with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he currently serves as a professor and as the director of the Information Processing Laboratory of the same department. His research interests lie in the areas of machine learning, signal and multimedia processing and computer vision. On the applied domain he works in the areas of multimedia retrieval, biomedical engineering and behavioural informatics. He is the (co)author of more than 120 journal and conference scientific papers. He has participated in 22 European and National R&D projects related to application of his research to entertainment, culture, education and health sectors. He was the coordinator of “SPLENDID: Personalised Guide for Eating and Activity Behaviour for the Prevention of Obesity and Eating Disorders” (EU-FP7, 2013-16) and he currently coordinates “BigO: Big Data against Childhood Obesity” (EU H2020, 2016-20) and “REBECCA: REsearch on BrEast Cancer induced chronic conditions supported by Causal Analysis of multi-source data” (EU H2020, 2021-25). Dr. Delopoulos is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the IEEE.
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Panagiotis K. Givissis currently serves as Director and Professor of Orthopaedics at A’ Orthopaedic Department of the School of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his Medical Degree (M.D.) in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Orthopaedics in 1992, both of them, from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He took his exams in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1989. He did his post-doctoral studies and served as a Staff in the UK, USA and Switzerland. He has been serving as an academic member continuously from 2002. He has participated in over 22 research protocols and he designed and published five novel Orthopaedic operations in peer reviewed journals. His published work (over 102 articles, 1170 citations, h- index 18) is on Trauma, Microsurgery of Hand, Arthroscopic Surgery, Arthroplasty, Tendons Transfers, peripheral nerve surgery and Tetraplegia. Professor P. Givissis is peer reviewer in International journals and Member in International Orthopaedic Societies .He is cooperating with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Faculty of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in many biomedical projects and recently, he has co-invented the Virus Terminator (VITER) device, which is using germicidal lamps, producing ultraviolet light (UVC) that inactivates all the air-transferred, harmful microorganisms. He has been organizing the last 7 years, International Seminars on Tendon transfers on cadaveric specimens (6 on Upper Limp, 1 on Foot and Ankle ). He was elected as President of Hellenic Association for Hand Surgery in 2013 and President of Orthopaedic and Traumatology Association of Macedonia and Thrace in 2018.
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Dr. Hadjileontiadis is working on signal processing in the fields of biomedical engineering (bioacoustics, ECG data compression, high density EEG-based 3D vector field tomography) affective computing (EEG-based emotion recognition), educational data analytics (blended-, affective-, collaborative-learning modeling), non-destructive testing data analysis (crack detection in beams and plates), behavioral modeling (swarm-based decomposition/transform) at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, AUTH. Dr. Hadjileontiadis is the Coordinator/Scientific Responsible for various EU H2020 projects with a total budget of up to EUR 10 million. He also has strong collaborations with international research networks/centers (e.g., Karolinska Institutet, Fraunhofer Institute, Kings College London, Harvard/MIT, Winnipeg University). He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, of the IEEE, of the Higher-Order Statistics Society, of the International Lung Sounds Association, of the American College of Chest Physicians, and of the Greek Composers’ Union (Vice-president). Dr. Hadjileontiadis is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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Anestis Kalfas is a Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Anestis Kalfas received his PhD in Turbomachinery Aerodynamics from Cranfield University in 1994 and his Dipl.-Ing. Mech. Eng. Aristotle University of his native Thessaloniki in 1989. He worked as a Research Associate at the Whittle Lab., University of Cambridge teaching Fluid Mechanics and Heat transfer at Girton College and as an Aircraft Engineer at the Hellenic Air Force. He has been a Senior Scientist at the Turbomachinery Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, 2000 where he lectured in Turbomachinery Design. Prof. Kalfas is active in the areas of biomedical engineering and instrumentation specialising in cardiovascular flows, aqueous fluid flow in the eye as well and olfactometry related to smell detection. He has also contributed in instrumentation design and medical equipment standardisation and conformity. He is active in research areas of boundary layer transition and turbulence and novel aerodynamic probe technology. He specialises in axial steam and gas-turbine aerodynamics and design, gas-turbine performance and power plant optimisation. He served in the editorial board of many international scientific journals as well as a board member at the International Gas Turbines Institute, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and member of the board of Hellenic Society for Biomedical Technology.
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George K. Karagiannidis is currently Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. and Head of Wireless Communications & Information Processing (WCIP) Group. He is also Honorary Professor at South West Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. His research interestsfall in the broad area of Digital Communications Systems and Signal Processing, with emphasis on Wireless Communications, Optical Wireless Communications, Wireless Power Transfer and Communications & Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineering. In the past, he was Editor in several IEEE journals and from 2012 to 2015 he was the Editor-in Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor-in Chief of IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society. Dr. Karagiannidis is IEEE Fellow and has been recognised from Clarivate Analytics as Web-of-Science Highly Cited Researcher in the six consecutive years 2015-2020.
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Dr Karakitsios is currently a Senior Researcher at the Environmental Laboratory at the Department of Chemical Engineering, AuTh. He has a Bachelor degree in Physics and an MSc in Chemistry from the University of Ioannina, Greece. He completed his PhD at the Department of Biological Applications and Technologies, University of Ioannina, Greece.
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Professor Dr.-Eng. Kostas Karatzas is at the School of Mechanical Engineering (MechEng), AUTh, Greece, where he founded and is leading the Environmental Informatics Research Group. He teaches Informatics, Environmental Informatics and Environmental Impact Assessment at a graduate level and Computational Methods in Environmental Physics, Modelling of Environmental Data and Development of online Information Services, and Air Pollution at an MSc level at AUTh. He has lectured at MSc and PhD courses and seminars in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia and Spain and served as a 3-month visiting research professor at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (Helsinki). Prof. Karatzas’ research is interdisciplinary and cross domain, with emphasis mainly in the field of environmental informatics, computational intelligence methods and tools for mechanical engineering and health, web-based urban environment management and information systems, quality of life – environment related – information services, air quality microsensors and citizen science. Prof. Karatzas has participated (and led) more than 25 research projects in the aforementioned domains, has published more than 200 papers in international scientific journals and conference proceedings and served as editor in international scientific publications. In addition, he has been serving as a member of various scientific and advisory boards in international conferences in the area of Environmental Informatics and Computational Intelligence for more than 20 years and has/is supervising a number of relevant PhD and MSc theses in various countries. He is currently a member of the Task Force on “Thresholds of allergen exposure in allergen immunotherapy outcome analysis” of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Zurich, Switzerland, and a member of the Executive Advisory Board of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies at WSB University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland.
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Vasilios K. Kimiskidis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He obtained his MD and PhD at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he also completed his Neurology Residency. He performed his post-graduate studies in Epileptology and Clinical Neurophysiology as a fellow at the University of Oxford. His interests are in the fields of epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology and neuroimmunology, and has authored 117 manuscripts (H-index 27, citations 3358) in these subject areas. He is currently Professor of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology and Head of the 1st Department of Neurology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He also serves as a Βoard member of the International League Against Epilepsy-Europe, member of the Epilepsy Scientific Panel of the European Academy of Neurology and member of the SIG (Special Interest Group) of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation.
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Ilias K. Kitsas received his Diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, in 2001 and his PhD degree in 2008. Since 2019 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of AUTH as a Laboratory Teaching Assistant. He has been teaching the courses of Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Signal Processing Techniques. He has also worked as laboratory associate in the Department of Informatics & Communications of the Technical Educational Institution of Serres (2003-2010), as well as adjunct Lecturer (National Legal Act: 407/1980) in the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia (2008-2010). His research interests lie in the field of signal processing in Biomedical Engineering, as well as system analysis and modeling in Bioinformatics.
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Constantine Kotropoulos received the Diploma degree with honors in Electrical Engineering in 1988 and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1993, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was a visiting research scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, USA during the academic year 2008-2009 and he conducted research in the Signal Processing Laboratory at Tampere University of Technology, Finland during the summer of 1993. He has co-authored 61 journal papers, 208 conference papers, and contributed 9 chapters to edited books in his areas of expertise. His current research interests include audio, speech, and language processing; signal processing; pattern recognition; biometric authentication techniques; human-centered multimodal computer interaction; and system theory with applications to biology. Prof. Kotropoulos was a Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and he is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals: Advances in Multimedia, International Scholar Research Notices, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization, Artificial Intelligence Review, MDPI Imaging, MDPI Signals, and MDPI Methods and Protocols.
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Dimitris Kugiumtzis has BSc in Mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), MSc and PhD at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. He is at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUTh, since September 2013, as Professor since February 2017. He was Assistant and Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences, AUTh (2001-2013), Lecturer B at the Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK (2000-2001), guest scientist (PostDoc) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany (1998-1999), and Research Associate at the State Center for Epilepsy, Norway (1997). He is currently the Head of the Lab of Informatics at the Faculty of Engineering, AUTh. His main research area is time series analysis and complex systems, as well as computational statistics, data analysis and machine learning. Applications of the methodology he develops extend from neurophysiology to geophysics and finance. He has published over 80 journal papers, 24 papers in international proceedings and 29 papers in national proceedings. He is regular referee for many international journals and academic editor for two international journals. He has participated in several national and EU research projects and acted as evaluator in several EU and national research programs. He currently supervises 2 PhDs and 6 MScs and has supervised 7 completed PhDs and over 40 MScs and 6 graduate theses.
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Nikos Laskaris received both the M.Sc. degree in Medical Physics (‘95) and Ph.D. degree in Computational Intelligence techniques for Brain Signal Processing (‘98) from Patras University, Greece. He joined, in 1999, the Human Brain Dynamics lab. of Cognitive Brain Science group in RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan and worked for 4 years towards the development of single-trial analysis methodologies for magnetoencephalographic data. He received a postdoctoral research grant from the Greek-GSRT (program ENTER-2001) with the research subject being the development of neuromorphic signal processing methodologies. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, Greece. He is a member of AIIA Laboratory and leads the Neuroinformatics.GRoup. He is a coauthor of more than 100 scientific publications. His current research interests include neuroinformatics, brain connectomics and the applications of signal processing, machine learning, data mining and nonlinear dynamics in biomedicine and neuroscience.
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Antigone Lazou is a Professor of Physiology and the Head of the Laboratory of Animal Physiology at the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She obtained her diploma in Biology with Hons (1980) from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and PhD in Physiology (1984) from the same University. She did post-doctoral research at the Dept of Cardiac Medicine, NHLI, Imperial College, London. She was a visiting professor at the University of Reading, UK and the Medical School, University of Torino, Italy. She is currently the director of the Graduate Program “Applications of Biology” of the School of Biology. Prof. Lazou’s research focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cardiac hypertrophic response, ischemia/reperfusion injury and cell death, leading to cardiac failure, and the identification of cellular targets for the development of cardioprotective interventions. She has been the co-author of more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, which have received more than 3200 citations. She has supervised and trained more than 90 students, post-docs and visiting scientists. Prof. Lazou is a member of various national and international professional organizations and she currently serves as the President of the Hellenic Society of Biological Sciences and the treasurer of the Hellenic Physiological Society. She has organized more than 20 national and international conferences and meetings and she has numerous invited talks at various scientific events.
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Nikolaos Maglaveras received the diploma in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece, in 1982, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering with an emphasis in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Lab of Computing & Medical Informatics, A.U.Th.  He has served as Visiting Professor at the McCormick School of Engng, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, director of the Lab of Computing & Medical Informatics, A.U.Th and the Graduate Program of Medical Informatics of the Medical School, A.U.Th. His current research interests include biomedical engineering, cardiovascular engineering, biomedical informatics, ehealth, AAL, personalised health,  biosignal analysis, medical imaging, and neurosciences. He has published more than 450 papers in peer reviewed international journals, books and conference proceedings out of which over 145 as full peer review papers in indexed international journals. He has developed graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of (bio)medical informatics, biomedical signal processing, personal health systems, physiology and biological systems simulation. He has served as a Reviewer in CEC AIM, ICT and DGRT D-HEALTH technical reviews and as reviewer, associate editor and editorial board member in more than 10 international journals, and participated as Coordinator or Core Partner in over 40 national and EU-funded competitive research projects attracting more than 17 MEUROs in funding. He  has served as president of  the EAMBES in 2008-2010. Dr. Maglaveras has been a member of the IEEE, AMIA, the Greek Technical Chamber, the New York Academy of Sciences, the CEN/TC251, Eta Kappa Nu and an EAMBES Fellow.
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Nikolaos Michailidis is Professor and Director of the Physical Metallurgy Laboratory (PML), School of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. He is also Research Professor at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), President of the Hellenic Metallurgical Society (HMS), Chair of the Centre for Research & Development οn Advanced Materials – a Joint initiative between TEES and AUTH and co-founder of PLiN Nanotechnology S.A. (AUTH’s spin-off). He is Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), member of various Scientific Societies and Boards, Chair of the Scientific Committee of EUROMAT 2019, Member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Materials by Taylor & Francis and FEMS. He served as Director of the Interdepartmental Post Graduate Studies Program: “Processes & Technology of Advanced Materials” – AUTH and as Chair of the Design & Construction Division (School of Mechanical Engineering-AUTH), while he was Visiting Professor at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT), Aachen-Germany (2008-2009). Ηe is author of 140 journal papers publications, 259 publications in International Conferences, 4 Book Chapters, 4 articles in International Encyclopaedias, 117 publications in Greek language in National Conferences, 14 Patents, with over 4224 citations and h-index: 37.
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Ioannis Papaefstathiou is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From 2004-2018 he was a Professor at ECE School at Technical University of Crete and a Manager at Synelixis Solutions SA. He is working in the design and implementation methodologies for CPS with tightly coupled design parameters and highly constrained resources as well as in heterogeneous High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and the associated programming/development tools. He was granted a PhD in computer science at the University of Cambridge in 2001, an M.Sc. (Ranked 1st) from Harvard University in 1996 and a B.Sc. (Ranked 2nd) from the University of Crete in 1996. He has published more than 100 papers in IEEE and ACM-sponsored journals and conferences. He is/has participating/ed in numerous European R&D Programmes(e.g. OSMOSIS, FASTCUDA, HEAP, FASTER, COSSIM ECOSCALE, EXTRA, OPTIMA, eProcessor, RED-SEA); in total he has been Principal Investigator in 16 competitively funded research projects in Europe (in 8 of them he was the technical manager), in the last 10 years, where his cumulative budget share exceeds €8 million.
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Emmanouil Papanastasiou was born in Kozani Greece, on January 18, 1968. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1990. In 1991 he obtained his M.Sc. degree in Medical Physics from the University of Surrey, UK. In 2005 he was awarded his PhD degree from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From 1997 to 2018 he has been working as a medical physicist at the AHEPA University Hospital in Thessaloniki. In 2018 he was elected Assistant Professor of Medical Physics at the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is teaching the courses of Medical Physics, Introduction to Biomedical Technology and Diagnostic Imaging (undergraduate level) Physics of Radiology, Radiation and the Environment and Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging (postgraduate level). He has co-authored 29 research articles and 50 abstracts in international peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of international conferences, 11 articles and 19 abstracts in Hellenic peer reviewed scientific journals and proceedings of Hellenic congresses and has authored one book chapter. He is a member of the editorial board of three scientific journals and a reviewer in other five. His research interests include radiation protection, dosimetry and image quality in nuclear medicine and diagnostic and interventional radiology.
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Dr. Vasileios Papapanagiotou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1989. He graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2013 and received the doctorate diploma from the same department in 2019. Since 2013 he has been working on EU-funded research projects as a research associate and developer. His research interests include behavioral monitoring and analysis, wearable sensors, digital signal processing, and machine learning. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE EMBS, and the Technical Chamber of Greece.
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Panos K. Prassopoulos is Professor of Radiology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and is the Chairman of the Department of Radiology at the AHEPA University Hospital of Thessaloniki (2018-today). He has graduated from the Medical School, University of Athens (“Cum Laude”) in 1984. He was specialized in Radiology in the “NIMTS” military hospital and the “Areteion” University Hospital in Athens (1984-1988). He received the Ph.D. degree in Radiology from the University of Crete in 1990.He worked as an attending Radiologist in the “Aghia Sophia” Children’s Hospital in Athens (1990-1993).He did his Fellowship in Abdominal Imaging at the Department of Radiology, BethIsrael – Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Harvard Medical School, USA. He served as Lecturer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology, University of Crete (1993-2003), and as Professor of Radiology at Democritus University of Thrace and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis from 2003 to 2018.He has worked as a full-time attending radiologist for 33 years. He has served as President of the Balkan Society of Radiology, President of the Hellenic Radiological Society and President of the Hellenic College of Radiology. He has organized one European Congress (ESGAR 2017), two International Congresses of Radiology, four Panhellenic Congresses of Radiology, and four European Educational Meetings. He was member of several Committees of the European Society of Radiology and of the European Society of Abdominal Radiology. His published research is predominantly in the fields of MR imaging techniques for Small Bowell diseases and of CT/MRI in pancreatic neoplasms and peritoneal malignancies.
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Prof. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of AUTH and Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) lab. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities. His current interests are in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging, autonomous systems, intelligent digital media, image/video processing, human-centred computing, affective computing. He has published over 920 papers, contributed in 45 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 13 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 5 international conferences. He delivered 98 keynote/invited speeches worldwide. He co-organized 33 conferences and participated in technical committees of 291 conferences. He participated in 71 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator in 43 such projects. Prof. Pitas lead the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: https://multidrone.eu/. He is AUTH principal investigator in H2020 R&D projects Aerial Core and AI4Media. He was chair and initiator of the Autonomous Systems Initiative https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/. He leads International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) and is PI in Horizon2020 EU funded R&D projects AI4Media (1 of the 4 AI flagship projects in Europe) and AerialCore. He has 33600+ citations to his work and h-index 86+.
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Nikos Pitsianis is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Computer Systems Architecture Lab at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science, at Duke University. His research interests include algorithms and architectures for high performance computing, numerical linear algebra and parallelization, use of symbolic math and compiler techniques for optimization and applications in integrated sensing and processing.
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Dr Salifoglou is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry with Emphasis on Science of Advanced Materials and Head of the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry with Emphasis on Science of Advanced Materials at the Dept of Chemical Engineering, AuTh. In the period 2008-2010 he was the Director of the Graduate Program “Processes and Technology in Advanced Materials” Faculty of Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has acted as Head of Chemistry Section at the Dept Chemical Engineering for several years. He has a Degree in Chemistry from Aristotle University and a PhD in Bioinorganic Chemistry from the University of Michigan, USA and postdoctoral research experience at MIT, USA . He has over 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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Theodoros Samaras received the Physics degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the MSc degree in Medical Physics (with distinction) from the University of Surrey, and the PhD degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 1998, he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He subsequently moved to the Hyperthermia Unit, Erasmus Medical Centre of Rotterdam with a Marie-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission. In December 1999, he returned to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he is currently a professor at the Department of Physics. His research interests include numerical techniques and computer modelling with applications in biomedical technology and telecommunications, as well as therapeutic applications and safety of non-ionizing radiation. He is currently a member of the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER).
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Born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece, Dr. Sardeli graduated from the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology from the Laboratory of Pharmacology of the same School. Dr. Sardeli is a specialist in Obstetrics-Gynecology (2006) and a subspecialist in Clinical Pharmacology (2021). She has worked as a research fellow at the Water and Salt Research Center, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark (1998-2000) and as a resident, clinical teacher (2000-2006) and postdoctoral fellow (2002-2006) in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Departments of Obstetrics-Gynecology and Surgery (at Randers Centralsygehus, Skejby Universitetshospital and Randers Centralsygehus respectively). She currently holds the position of Associate Professor (tenured) of Pharmacology-Clinical Pharmacology at the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2016-today). She also serves as the Deputy Academic Director of the Postgraduate Studies Program ‘’Clinical and Industrial Pharmacology – Clinical Toxicology’’ offered by the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology and the Laboratory of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology at the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2016-today). She is an associate member of the Laboratory for the Study of Medical Law and Bioethics, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2019 she is employed as an Ethics Expert at the Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission. Dr Sardeli is an associate member of ENTIS (European Network of Teratology Information Specialists) and a founding member of HeaLaB (European Network on Health Law Bioethics). Dr Sardeli speaks Greek (mother tongue), excellent English and Danish, as well as working French and German.
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Dr Sarigiannis is Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Director of the Environmental Laboratory of the Department. He completed his BSc/MSc integrated degree in Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, followed by his MSc in Energy & Resources and the University of California at Berkeley, USA and his PhD at the same University. His is currently scientific leader and manager of > 10 international and Europe-wide research projects on waste management, environmental and health risk and impact assessment.
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Personals: Georgios Skordaris, Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Education: Dipl.-Eng., Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. (2001), Dr.-Eng., Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2005). Research fields: Manufacturing processes, coatings for cutting tools and machine elements, FEA modelling, superficial treatments, characterization of coated tool’s strength, fatigue and adhesion properties. Publications: More than 80 papers in scientific journal (over 1700 citations and h-Index 25 (source Scopus)) and over 135 papers in international conference proceedings. Research projects: Scientific responsible in numerous research projects of the Research Committee of AUTH funded by research institutions, industries and European Union. Other research activities: Section Editor-in-Chief in Journal Coatings since 2019 and reviewer of many scientific Journals (Publishing house: Elsevier, MDPI, Springer, etc.).
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Assistant Professor Fani Stergioudi is a member of the Metallurgy Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her scientific interests focus on the characterization of the structure of metal materials, the evaluation of mechanical properties as well as the study of corrosion mechanisms of materials. In these areas he has published 44 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and 52 papers in international and national conferences. She has participated in 12 research and technological development projects from national and international funding organizations and directly from industry. He is a member of committees organizing international conferences while for her research in the field of metallic materials she has received 2 honorary distinctions.
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Dr. Andreas L. Symeonidis is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the Chief Research Officer at Cyclopt.com. His research interests include Software engineering processes, Model-driven engineering, Software quality and Software analytics, Middleware Robotics and Knowledge extraction from big data repositories. Dr. Symeonidis’ work has been published in over 150 papers, book chapters, and conference publications. He is co-author of the books “Agent Intelligence through Data Mining” (Springer publishing), “Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse” (Springer publishing) and “Practical Machine Learning in R” (Leanpub publishing). He is currently coordinating more than 10 contract R&D projects, while serving occasionally as an R&D project evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission.
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48 yo. Biologist with PhD studies on “Population genetics of animal organisms”. Member of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece since 2004. I have followed sabbatical studies in Katholieke Universitet Leuven (2010) and University of Oxford (2019). I have collaborated with Greek and European researchers in National and EU projects on food traceability and biodiversity conservation of Greek animal species using genetic and genomic tools. I have been a member of School of Biology and Aristotle University Committees on Programmes of Studies, Evaluation, Accreditation, Erasmus, ECTS and international mobility and affairs. Apart from my research interests, I’m also involved in projects related to the Social Responsibility of Universities such as “S.U.C.RE.: Supporting University Community Pathways for Refugees-Migrants” (Εrasmus+ KA2 funded) and “INSPIREUROPE-Initiative To Support, Promote, And Integrate Researchers@Risk In Europe” (H2020-MSCA-funded). Currently also member of the Aristotle University team implementing the University Alliance: “EPICUR European Partnership for an Innovative Campus Unifying Regions”.
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Dr Vareltzis is Assistant professor in Food Process Engineering at the Chemical Engineering Dept, Laboratory of Food and Agricultural Industries Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is also the Director of the Laboratory of Food and Agricultural Industries Technology of the Chemical Engineering Department. Furthermore since 2020, he is the Head of the Departmental Undergraduate Internship committee. He completed his BSc/MSc integrated degree in Chemical Engineering in Thessaloniki, followed by an MSc and a PhD in Food Science from the Food Science Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, and a postdoctoral position at at the Chalmers University of technology, Dept of Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science , Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Ioannis Vlachos received the B.S. degree in mathematics, the M.S. degree in statistics and operational research, and the Ph.D. degree in computational biostatistics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2002, 2004, and 2009, respectively. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Harrington Department of Biomedical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and from 2015 to 2018 an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics with the Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, USA. He is currently a Research Scientist with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Medical School at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, as also the Institute of Computer Science at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic. His research interests include time-series analysis, statistics, stochastic processes, chaotic dynamical systems, and biomedical signal analysis.
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He serves as Professor of Immunology-Molecular Biology at the Department of Genetics, Development & Molecular, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He was born in Larnaca-Cyprus (1957) and possess a BSc in Biology (1+G9982: School of Biolgy-AUTH) and a PhD in Immunology (1987: School of Biolgy-AUTH). He was post-doctoral fellow in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston-USA. From 1990 he serves at AUTH as Lecturer (1990) and from 2011 as Professor. From 1990-2000 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics of UTMB. He is teaching at both graduate and postgraduate level in courses of Immunology, Microbiology and Biotechnology. He supervised 17 PhD students (6 in progress) and more than 160 research undergraduate and MSc Diplomatic Dissertations. He is the author of two teaching notes and one CD rom in Biotechnology while he is the scientific editor for the Greek edition of the book “Cellular and Molecular Immunology/Abbas AK. He was the Coordinator of 2 educational programs. His Research Interest is focused in: a. Homeostasis and stress-mechanisms at molecular and cellular level, (b) Autoimmune diseases (arthritis-celiac) in experimental models – Cellular and gene therapy (c) Immunoregulatory activity of probiotic microorganisms and biotechnological applications, (d) Determination of new sensitive biomarkers for health biomonitoring and validation of anti-pollution technology. He is the author of 93 research articles and short communications while his research was funded by 11 national and international research projects in 6 of which he was the Principal Investigator. His research was awarded by 18 Global, European, American or National Scientific Societies and Organizations. Now he is the Head of the School of Biology-AUTH (3rd term). In the past he served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sciences-AUTH (2013-2014) , Head of the School of Biology-AUTH (2013-2017) and Director of the MSc program of the School of Biology-AUTH (2008-2013).
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