Aristides G. Eliopoulos

is Professor of Biology and Genetics and Director of the Laboratory of Biology at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He completed his PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Crete in partnership with the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens, Greece) and subsequently pursued an extensive international research career in the United Kingdom (University of Birmingham) and the United States (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, and Tufts NEMC, Boston). He served as head of a research group at the University of Birmingham Medical School, where he was awarded a Medical Research Council Career Development Award, one of the most competitive European distinctions of its time. In 2005, he returned to Greece as a faculty member at the University of Crete Medical School and associate researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Heraklion, Greece), and since 2017 he has served at NKUA.

He is also co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of GENOSOPHY®, an NKUA spin-off company in genomic medicine that has received several awards for developing innovative machine learning tools to harness genetic data for personalized disease prevention and therapeutic management.