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Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Georgios A. Pavlopoulos earned a BSc/Diploma in Computer Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in Greece; an MRes in Bioinformatics from the University of Leeds (Department of Biochemistry) in the UK; and a PhD in Bioinformatics from EMBL-Heidelberg in Germany. He also holds a joint MBA from the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
His research career includes postdoctoral work at KU Leuven’s Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) in Belgium, and roles as a bioinformatics instructor and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Crete’s Faculty of Medicine in Greece, and at the DOE Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
Since 2018, he has consulted in bioinformatics for several U.S. companies and led the bioinformatics program at the Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming” (BSRC) in Greece, serving as Director of Bioinformatics (Research Associate Professor) and as an elected member of the Scientific Board at the Institute of Fundamental Biomedical Research (IFBR). In parallel, he served as Head of Bioinformatics at NKUA’s Center of New Biotechnologies and Precision Medicine for five years.
Appointed in 2024 as Director of Research (Research Full Professor) at BSRC “Alexander Fleming,” he is also a co-founder and board member of BioInnovation Greece; founder and CEO of GC2 Data Science; a bioinformatics data scientist at Ancilia Biosciences (New York); and a Visiting Professor at MBZUAI in the UAE (2026).
His work has been recognized among the top scientists in his field, and he has secured competitive grants, organized international conferences, and published extensively in high-impact journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Nucleic Acids Research, and Nature Biotechnology.
Pavlopoulos’s lab focuses on genomics and metagenomics, biological networks, text mining, data visualization, big data analysis, high-performance computing, data integration, machine learning, knowledge management and representation, and personalized medicine.
PostDocs
PostDocs
Elected Assistant Professor, University of Aegean
Bioinformatics PostDoctoral Researcher, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" (2020-present)
Bioinformatics Data Scientist, Ancilia Biosciences, NY, USA (2023-present)
PhD in Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens.
MSc in Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens
BSc in Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens
Bioinformatics PostDoctoral Researcher, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" (2026-present)
PhD, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" (2025)
MSc in Molecular Medicine, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" & Medical School - University of Athens (2018)
BSc in “Biology”, University of Patras (2016)
PhD candidates
PhD candidates
PhD candidate in Bioinformatics, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" & Medical School - University of Crete (Oct 2023-present)
Thesis: "Data Fusion Techniques to Decode Hidden Aspects of Reference Metagenomes and Genomes."MSc in Molecular Medicine, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" & Medical School - University of Athens (2023)
BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace (2021)
PhD candidate in Bioinformatics, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" & Department of Informatics and Telecommunications - University of Athens (March 2026-present)
Thesis: "Exploring the Functional Space of the Planetary Microbiome Using Scalable Bioinformatics"MSc in “Data Science and Information Technologies”, specialization in Bioinformatics-Biomedical Data Science, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications - University of Athens (2024-2025)
Thesis: "Charting environmental protein families through planetary metagenomes"BSc in Computer Science, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens (2023)
PhD candidate in Bioinformatics, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" & Medical School - University of Crete (January 2027-present)
Thesis: "Decoding the Microbial Functional Matter through Structural Analysis of Protein Families Across Diverse Environments"MSc in Molecular Medicine, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" & Medical School - University of Athens (2024-2026)
Thesis: "Mapping and exploring biosynthetic potential at the microbial gene-cluster level"Integrated Master's degree, School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) (2024)
PhD candidate in Bioinformatics, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" & Medical School - University of Crete (January 2027-present)
Thesis: "Mining the Planetary Functional Microbial Matter through Metagenomics"Research Assistant, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" (2025-present)
Bioinformatics Research Assistant, Ancilia Biosciences, NY, USA (2025-present)
MSc in “Data Science and Information Technologies”, specialization in Bioinformatics-Biomedical Data Science, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications - University of Athens (2023-2025)
Thesis: "Analysis of Rhizosphere at a protein family level through global metagenomics"BSc in Biology, University of Athens (2023)
Marios Itsios
PhD candidate in Bioinformatics, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" & Medical School - University of Crete (January 2027-present)
Thesis: "Bioinformatics Approaches for Mapping Protein Family Diversity Across Environmental and Biological Systems"Genomics Facility Analyst, "Alexander Fleming" (2025-2026)
Research Assistant, "Alexander Fleming" (2024-2025)
MSc in Molecular Medicine, BSRC "Alexander Fleming" & Medical School - University of Athens (2022-2024)
Integrated Master’s degree in Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens (2022)
MSc Students
MSc Students
MSc in Data Science & Information Technologies, Bioinformatics - Biomedical Data Science Specialization, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications (2025-present)
Thesis: "Integrative methods for high precision taxonomic profiling of metagenomic data."BSc in Biology, Department of Biology, University of Patras (2025)
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