Experience

• Italian Institute of Technology, Italy (2023)

Autism and neurodevelopmental disorders

Postdoc researcher on developmental neuroscience

• National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan (2022)

(personal grant from the JSPS) TUNE IN: The neural and behavioral mechanisms of interpersonal attunement in real-time social interactions

Postdoc fellow on hyperscanning neuroimaging 

• University of Lisbon, Portugal (2022)

Centre for Philosophy of Science

Postdoc researcher on philosophy of mind

• Nested Minds (2021)

Human-like Artificial Intelligence

Software engineer consultant on social interaction kinematics

• MPI of Psychiatry, Germany (2019-2021)

IMPRG for Social Neuroscience 

Postdoc researcher on neuropsychiatry

• MPI of Psychiatry, Germany (2015-2020)

IMPRG for Social Neuroscience & IMPRS for Translational Psychiatry

Doctoral researcher on neuropsychiatry

• ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2014-2015)

Neural Control of Movement Lab

Predoc researcher on computational neuroscience

• Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2014)

Autism Research Group

Predoc researcher on clinical neuroscience

• GyroTools Ltd., Switzerland (2011-2012)

MRI-based Medical Solutions

Software developer of medical computing tools 

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2009-2010)

Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Lab

Predoc researcher on artificial intelligence

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2006-2007)

Signal Processing and Biomedical Technology Unit

Predoc researcher on hybrid-pedagogy

• Honorary mention by the journal of Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience

• Postdoc fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

• Travel grant from the São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Social & Affective Neuroscience 

• Prize (#2) from the Society for research in autism spectrum conditions 

• Prize (#2) from the Neurocognitive psychology program in LMU 

• Prize (#2) from the Neurocognitive psychology program in LMU

• PhD grant from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain

• Prize (#7) from Microsoft in its 5th worldwide competition

• Prize (#1) from Microsoft in its 5th national competition

• 5 MSc theses

  • The interpersonal neural dynamics of real-time social interaction

  • Interpersonal attunement modelling and autistic trait prediction in real-time person-to-person interactions using machine learning methods

  • Investigating the dynamics of real-time social interaction using dual eye-tracking and EEG hyperscanning

  • Investigating the relation between real-time gaze-based social interaction and personal tendencies with a focus on autism: A two-person psychophysiology study

  • Investigating the relation between real-time gaze-based social interaction and personal tendencies with a focus on depression: A two-person psychophysiology study
    
    

• 2  MSc research projects

  • Interpersonal facial expression attunement in social interactions

  • Eye blink, you blink: Behavioral correlates of real-time dyadic social interaction
    
    

• 14 research assistantships 

  • Two-person psychophysiology

    • Medical degree (MD)

    • Neurocognitive psychology (MSc)

    • Clinical psychology (MSc)

    • Psychology (BSc)

• The International Society of Cultural-historical Activity Research

• Association for Psychological Science

• European Society for Cognitive Systems

• Society for Research in Autism Spectrum Conditions 

• Technical Chamber of Greece