Current Position
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
a. Lab. of Clinical Biochemistry - Molecular Diagnostics, 2nd Dept. of Pediatrics, "P. & A. Kyriakou" Children's Hospital, School of Medicine, NKUA
b. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, NKUA (Affiliated Member)


Previous Positions

• Academic Fellow, PostDoc Researcher - Faculty of Biology, NKUA (2017-2019)
• Hellenic Food Authority (EFET), Food Fraud Dept. - Public Agency (2011-2019)
• ETAT SA, Lab. of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering - Public Agency (2008-2011)

Education

• PostDoc Research Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, NKUA (2015-19),
• Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, NKUA (2010-15),
• M.Sc. (Master) in “Clinical Biochemistry & Molecular Diagnostics”, NKUA (2005-2007),
• B.Sc. Biology, Faculty of Biology, NKUA (1999-2004).

Research Records
88 publications in international peer review scientific journals (PubMed) including top class journals:
Nature Medicine (IF=58.7), Annals of Oncology (IF=56.7), Clinical Cancer Research (IF=10.0),
Trends Mol Med (IF=12.8), Blood Cancer J (IF=12.1), Molecular Therapy (IF=12.1), EMBO Reports (IF=6.5),
Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids (IF=6.5), Clinical Chemistry (IF=7.1), Br J Cancer (IF=6.4),
Eur J Cancer (IF=7.6), WIREs RNA (IF=7.3), Trends Anal Chem (IF=11.8), Sci Total Environ (IF=8.2), etc.

Corresponding or 1st author: 32 publications; 2nd author: 19 publications
Total IF: 606 (7.0 /publication)
Total citations: 3336 (Google Scholar) (December 2025),
h-Index: 30 (Google Scholar) (December 2025),
3 Patents
3 chapters in peer-review scientific books
143 publications in international and national scientific conferences

Research Interest - Major Projects

• Cancer Research - RNA biology
• Molecular Diagnostics - Molecular cancer biomarkers
• non-coding RNAs - miRNAs, lncRNAs, tRFs
• Epigenetics (DNA methylation)
• Epitranscriptomics (RNA epigenetics)
• cell-free DNA (cfDNA) - Liquid biopsies
• Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)

Research grants (selected)

• ELMUMY - Elucidation of risk factors and health determinants associated with PROGRESSION of Monoclonal Gammopathies to Multiple Myeloma, HORIZON Europe Framework Programme (EU funding), NKUA Research Team (2023-26), PI: Prof. Dimopoulos A.M., Medical School, NKUA
• EpiRNA - Study of m6A epitranscriptome in bladder cancer, Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation - HFRI (National Agency funding), co-PI and WP leader (2022-25), PI: Prof. Scorilas A., Dept. of Biology, NKUA
• UroMark - Non-invasive molecular method for diagnosis and personalized monitoring of bladder cancer , General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (National Agency), NKUA Research Team (2021-23), PI: Prof. Scorilas A., Dept. of Biology, NKUA
• Development of an intelligent epidemiological surveillance and environmental health monitoring system based on wastewater epidemiology, Region of Attica (National Agency), NKUA Research Team (2021-24), PI: Prof. Thomaidis N., Dept. of Chemistry, NKUA
• The role of Notch in the development of urothelial cancer, General Secretariat for Research and Innovation - GSRI (National Agency), BRFAA Research Team (2013-2014), PI: Dr. Klinakis A., BRFAA

Distinctions and Awards 

• Award for oral presentation (2025, 2024) and poster presentation (2025, 2024, 2019) from the Greek Society of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry (GSCC-CB)
• Award for oral presentation (2024, 2023) from the Hellenic Society of Pediatric Hematology – Oncology (EEPAO)
• Award from the International Society for Enzymology (ISE) in «ISE 2016 Annual Conference», Syros, Greece, July 2016.
• Bursary (poster presentation) from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) for the participation in FEBS-EMBO 2014 Conference at Paris, France, August 2014
• Distinguished Abstract Award from the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (NACB) of USA at AACC 2012 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 2012.
• Bursary (poster presentation) from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) for the participation in 36th FEBS Congress (FEBS2011), Torino, Italy, June 2011.
  
• Scholarship for best performance from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) of Hellenic Republic for the performance during M.Sc. “Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics”.