Maria Tsagiopoulou
Co-founder / CEO, Biologist / Bioinformatician
Dr. Maria Tsagiopoulou is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Centre for Genomic Analysis in Spain, one of Europe’s largest Genome Centres. She has more than 9 years of experience in analyzing and interpreting omics data to identify patterns in the genome, transcriptome, and epigenome levels that correlate with the pathogenesis and the evolution of diseases. Her research includes aspects of multiple disciplines, with a particular focus on immunology and oncology, utilizing bioinformatics and machine learning approaches to analyze omics data. Her expertise lies at the intersection of bioinformatics and deep knowledge of biology, enabling effective collaboration with researchers across various life science domains and clinicians. She has a comprehensive understanding of controlled vocabularies in biology, medicine, and computer sciences, facilitating efficient interdisciplinary communication
Konstantinos Kyritsis
Co-founder / COO, Bioinformatician
Dr. Kyritsis is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Applied Biosciences in the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (INAB/CERTH). His research interests are currently focused on studying molecular mechanisms and unveiling patterns of functional significance using machine learning algorithms to omics data. Furthermore, his interests include developing bioinformatic tools and pipelines for integrating and visualizing heterogenous bio-data.
Nikos Pechlivanis
Co-founder / CTO, Bioinformatics Engineer
Nikos Pechlivanis works as a Bioinformatics engineer at the Institute of Applied Biosciences in the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. His research interests focuses on studying machine learning algorithms and computational techniques with respect to their corresponding applications on genomic and meta-genomic data. In addition to his research, he supports open source/science principles, in support of reusability and accessibility of scientific results.
Fotis Psomopoulos
Co-founder/ CSO, ML engineer & Research Manager
Dr. Fotis Psomopoulos is a Senior Researcher (Associate Professor level) at the Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), in Thessaloniki Greece. His research interests lie at the intersection of Bioinformatics and Machine Learning, primarily working on the design and implementation of data mining algorithms for knowledge extraction from large datasets in Life Sciences. He is the Training Coordinator of ELIXIR-GR, a member of the ELIXIR Training Platform Executive Committee, and a member of the EOSC Association Research Careers, Recognition and Credit Task Force. Finally, he is a strong advocate of FAIR and Open Science; as applied in research software and machine learning in particular. He is a co-author of the Open Science Training Handbook and the Greek National Plan for Open Science, and is leading the ELIXIR Software Best Practices group, with a notable outcome the ELIXIR Software Management Plan, and the RDA FAIR for Machine Learning Interest Group.