Panagiotis Alexiou is a Junior Research Group Leader at the Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University. He received his Ph.D. in Bioinfromatics for work on small RNA biology at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki and the BSRC Alexander Fleming in Greece. He followed with postdoctoral research on the biogenesis and function of piRNAs and RNA binding proteins at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on the use of bioinformatics and machine learning to understand the biogenesis and function of RNAs and associated molecules.