Christoforos Nikolaou was born in Athens in 1978. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry from the University of Patras (1999) and a PhD in Molecular Biology from the Univesity of Athens, Greece (2005). From 2010 until 2020 he was an Assistant Professor of Computational Biology at the Department of Biology of the University of Crete. Since 2020 he is a researcher (Associate Professor level) at the Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming", where he leads the Computational Genomics Group (http://computational-genomics.weebly.com/). His expertise lies in the fields of Computational Genomics, Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation and his principal research interests are related to chromatin structure and genome architecture and evolution and how they may shape gene regulation programs.