Aristotelis Chatziioannou

Biography

 Degrees / Diplomas • 2005: Ph. D. on Metabolic Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, School of Chemical Engineering • 1996: Diploma in Electrical Engineering -direction Informatics (5 years 10 semesters official duration), National Technical University of Athens, School of Electrical Engineering (School with the Highest entrance barrier in the National Examination, among all Faculties in the Direction of Natural Sciences and Engineering) Research Experience 2004-05: Research Fellow (Post-Doc) in the field of Bioinformatics (Transcriptomic analysis)- Institute of immunology, BSRC Alexander Fleming. 2000-04: Ph. D. on Metabolic Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, School of Chemical Engineering Academic appointments (apart from Diploma thesis and Ph.D. thesis) 2013-today: Research Associate Professor, National Hellenic Research Foundation NHRF, Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology IBMCB (former IBRB), Metabolic Engineering and Bioinformatics Programme 02-16/03/2013: Short Time Scientific Mission (STSM) Scholarship for collaboration with the group of Professor G. Brockmann, in Breeding Biology and Molecular Genetics, at the Department for Crop and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, von Humboldt University Berlin. 12/02/2013: Qualified (qualification number 13127248046 expiry date 31/12/2017) in the Domain Informatics (no27), for Full University Professorship for the French Universities according to the National Evaluation of the French Ministry of Education and Research. 2012-2013: Invited Researcher of LaBRI/CNRS, Inserm U149 and CBiB/CGFB of the University of Bordeaux (sabbatical leave 11/2012-05/2013) 2009-2013: Research Assistant Professor, National Hellenic Research Foundation NHRF, Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology IBMCB (former IBRB), Metabolic Engineering and Bioinformatics Programme (under evaluation for promotion to Research Associate Professor) 2006-09: Research Lecturer, NHRF, Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology IBRB, Metabolic Engineering and Bioinformatics Programme 2005-2006: Post-doctoral fellow, NHRF, IBRB, Metabolic Engineering and Bioinformatics Programme The Greek Academic and Research System comprises four (4) echelons, the 4th level been considered a provisional period (similar to that of a PostDoc but with managerial rights and responsibilities regarding attraction of Research Funds), the 3rd level providing tenure track position and the upper two permanent employment. Current activity 2010-today: Principal Investigator, (Research Associate Professor-2 nd level), NHRF, IBRB, Metabolic Engineering and Bioinformatics Programme

Research Interest

 . the development of the first in-silico tissue model internationally for the modeling of the biosynthesis of neurotransmitter glutamate (cover of the respective Metabolic Engineering journal), 2. The development of GRISSOM, the first Grid-based (high-performance computing) platform at European level, for the analysis and interpretation of DNA microarray experiments, 3. The web application KEGGConverter, which is the first one to enable the massive automated integration of KEGG pathway data into fully functional models appropriate for dynamic kintetic simulation (featured article in BMC Bioinformatics, noted as Highly Accessed). 4. The first in-silico SBML model internationally of the Brassica Napus central metabolism. 5. Finally, within the frames of his participation to the EU FP7 Hotzyme project, which targets the characterization of thermophilic metagenomic archaeobacterial data, he supervises the development of the pipeline ANASTASIA (Automated Nucleotide and Aminoacid Sequence Translational plAtform for Sytemic Interpretation and Analysis). The pipeline, being already under testing, provides versatile, fully automated, massive, computational analysis of genomic data from different sequencing reads, unifying the assembly and multi-faceted functional characterization tasks for data derived from Next Generation Sequencing Experiments of different technologies.