Short CV
2022-Present Adj. Prof of Computational Neuroscience, Open University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Cyprus
2023-Present External Faculty, University of Athens, Dept of History and Philosophy of Science, Athens, Greece
2022-Present MA in Philosophy, University of Athens, Dept of Philosophy, Athens, Greece
2022-2025 Adj. Prof of Neuroscience and Psychology, College Year in Athens, Athens, Greece
2024 Adj. Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Dept of Psychology, Athens, Greece
2021-2023 Visiting Researcher, New York University, Dept of Philosophy, New York City, USA
2018-2021 Postdoc, New York University, Center for Neural Science, New York City, USA
2016-2018 Postdoc, New York Unviversity of Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2014-2016 Postdoc, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Spain
2008-2014 PhD in Theoretical/Computational Neuroscience, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
2007-2008 Research Fellow, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens, Greece
2005-2007 MSc in Condensed Matter Physics, University of Athens, Dept of Physics, Athens, Greece
2001-2002 Socrates/Erasmus student, University of Seville, Faculty of Physics, Seville, Spain
1999-2005 BSc in Physics, University of Athens, Dept of Physics, Athens, Greece
Academic Journey
Currently, Fall 2025
- Adjunct Professor at the Open University of Cyprus, teaching online the Graduate course COS514 “Computational Neuroscience” at the MSc “Cognitive Systems”, Cyprus
- Guest Lecturer and MSc Thesis Supervisor at the MSc in Cognitive Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
- Graduate student of the MA in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece - Independent Researcher
Spring 2025
- Adjunct Professor at the College Year in Athens, teaching the Undergraduate course “Consciousness”, Athens, Greece
- Guest Lecturer and MSc Thesis Supervisor at the MSc in Cognitive Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
- Graduate student of the MA in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece - Independent Researcher
Fall 2024
- Adjunct Professor at the Open University of Cyprus, teaching online the Graduate course COS514 “Computational Neuroscience” at the MSc “Cognitive Systems”, Cyprus
- Adjunct Professor at the College Year in Athens, teaching the Undergraduate course “Consciousness”, Athens, Greece
- Guest Lecturer and MSc Thesis Supervisor at the MSc in Cognitive Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
- Graduate student of the MA in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece - Independent Researcher
Spring 2024
- Adjunct Professor at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Psychology, teaching two undergraduate courses: (1) Introduction Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience (2) Psychology and Neurobiology of Language, Athens, Greece
- Adjunct Professor at the College Year in Athens, teaching the Undergraduate course “Consciousness”, Athens, Greece
- Guest Lecturer and MSc Thesis Supervisor at the MSc in Cognitive Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
- Graduate student of the MA in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece - Independent Researcher
Fall 2023
- Adjunct Professor at the College Year in Athens, teaching the Undergraduate course “Consciousness”, Athens, Greece
- Guest Lecturer and MSc Thesis Supervisor at the MSc in Cognitive Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
- Graduate student of the MA in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece - Independent Researcher
Spring 2023
- Visiting Researcher, sponsored by David Chalmers, at the Department of Philosophy, Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, New York University (NYU), New York City, USA
- Guest Lecturer and MSc Thesis Supervisor at the MSc in Cognitive Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
- Graduate student of the MA in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
Fall 2022
- Visiting Researcher, sponsored by David Chalmers, at the Department of Philosophy, Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, New York University (NYU), New York City, USA
- Graduate student of the MA in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
From September 2021 to August 2023
Visiting Researcher, sponsored by David Chalmers, at the Department of Philosophy, Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, New York University (NYU), New York City, USA
from November 2018 to August 2021
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Xiao-Jing Wang’s lab at the Center for Neural Science, of New York University (NYU), New York City, USA
from June 2016 to July 2018
Global Postdoctoral Researcher in Xiao-Jing Wang’s lab at New York University of Shanghai (NYU Shanghai) and the NYU-ECNU Institute for Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China
from March 2014 to December 2015
Postdoctoral Researcher in Alex Roxin’s lab at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
from November 2008 to May 2014
I received my Ph.D. (2014) in Gustavo Deco’s lab at the Center for Brain and Cognition, of Pompeu Fabra Universitat, as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, Barcelona, Spain
My PhD comittee was Nikos Logothetis, Rubén Moreno-Βote and Nava Rubin
from June 2007 to March 2008
External Research Fellow (Theoretical/Computational and Experimental Physics), with PI Nikos Papanikolaou, Institute of Microelectronics, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens, Greece
from September 2005 to December 2007
My graduate studies (M.Sc.m, 2007) were in condensed matter physics, at the Department of Physics of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
My MSc Thesis supervisors were Prof. Nikolaos Stefanou from the NKUA Dept of Physics and Dr. Nikos Papanikolaou from the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos
from September 2001 to June 2002
During my undergraduate studies (2001-2002), I spent one year at the Faculty of Physics of the Universidad de Sevilla, as a Socrates / Erasmus student, Seville, Spain
from September to 1999 to October 2005
My undergraduate studies (B.Sc., 2005) were in physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
My BSc Thesis supervisor was Prof. Emmanuel Syskakis
also, I have attended the following Schools
May 2022
Consciousness
Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies, Venice, Italy
invited by Giulio Tononi and funded by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
March 2021
Science Communication Workshop
New York University by Prof Brook Borel, New York, USA
January-March 2019 —— Improving Deep Neural Networks - Structural Machine Learning Projects - Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Coursera, deeplearning.ai
July-August 2011
Methods in Computational Neuroscience
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
My project was with Prof. Haim Sompolinsky
October 2010
Advanced Modeling of Neuroimaging Data
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
invited by Prof. Reiner Goebel
July 2010
Computational and Cognitive Neurobiology
Cold Spring Harbor Asia, Suzhou, China
the first year the Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School was held
my project with Prof. Xiao-Jing Wang
July 2010
Brain Imaging and its applications
Marie Curie FP7, European Initial Training Network CODDE, Great Malvern, UK
June 2010
4th Computational Neuroscience Summer School
University of Ottawa, Centre for Neural Dynamics, Ottawa, Canada
August 2009
Computational Vision
Marie Curie FP7, European Initial Training Network CODDE, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Hessia, Germany
June 2004
16th Summer School in Advanced Physics
Department of Physics, University of Crete, Crete, Greece
July 2003
Summer School in Materials
National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece
March-May 2001
C++ Programming Course
Union of Greek Physicists, Athens, Greece