Fotis E. Psomopoulos

15 Nov 2018

Fotis E. Psomopoulos

Dr Fotis E. Psomopoulos works as a Researcher at the Clinical Genetics research group of the Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery at Karolinska Institutet and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), with a primary focus on bioinformatics workflows and computational analysis of large bio-datasets. He has received his doctorate and engineering diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), in 2010 and 2004 respectively. In 2014 he has been awarded with a post-doctoral fellowship scholarship by the AUTh Research Committee. He has worked as a teaching assistant and academic fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as a Visiting Professor at Quest University (Vancouver, Canada) and as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Western Macedonia. Moreover, he has participated as a researcher and project manager in several European (RAPP, Microme, ASSIST) and national research projects.

His research interests are mainly focused on Bioinformatics (NGS data analyses and Data Integration), Data Mining techniques for knowledge extraction form large bio-datasets and Parallel and Distributed Computing (such as Cloud Computing) among others. In this context, he has been selected as an EGI Champion on Bioinformatics in 2013 and as an RDA Expert in 2017. Finally, he has organized several national and international training activities on NGS Data Analysis and Cloud Computing, as well as Software and Data Carpentry workshops, and has been elected as the deputy Training Coordinator of ELIXIR-GR in 2018. More information is available on his personal website: https://fpsom.github.io/

 

Sessions

 

Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 11:00 - Second workshop for Scientific Communities & Users meet the service providers: a discussion on needs and opportunities to define the EOSC service roadmap - Speaker 

Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 12:00 - Second workshop for Scientific Communities & Users meet the service providers: a discussion on needs and opportunities to define the EOSC service roadmap - Speaker 

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