General Info
My general research interests revolve around the study of electrical brain activity (EEG) activity for various applications (e.g. brain-computer interfaces), mental states (e.g. sleep), and disorders (e.g. epilepsy). My main research interest is the study of EEG during anesthesia. More specifically, I am investigating how the patterns of brain connectivity (in terms of causality, synchrony, etc) and their relationship to cardiovascular activity, are affected by anesthetic administration in order to identify mechanisms of anesthetic-induced unconsciousness and develop a device for monitoring awareness during surgery.
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Nicosia Medical School. I am an alumni (and alumni Visiting Research Fellow) of the Brain Embodiment Laboratory at University of Reading, UK, where I was part of the EPSRC-funded project "Brain-Computer Music Interface for Monitoring and Inducing Affective States". The project looked at the use of music to change the emotions of a listener via an affective brain-computer interface system. My role was to implement reinforcement learning to learn and modify music parameters to achieve specific emotional states online and real-time, and verify the system performance using EEG and fMRI recordings.
I was an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, where I have been a Research Fellow (2014-2016) under a 2-year Individual Marie-Curie Fellowship on "Monitoring Awareness During Surgery: a Multi-Modal Approach".
Prior to this I was a Research Fellow with the KIOS Research Centre and the Holistic Electronics Research Lab at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus. I received my BSc. (Hons) in Cybernetics & Control Engineering (First Class) in 2001, and my PhD in Cybernetics (Thesis title: 'Automatic artefact removal from Electroencephalograms') in 2006 from the Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK.