Prof. Panagiotis Vlamos

Prof. Panagiotis Vlamos is a Full Professor, Head of the Department of Informatics, and Director of the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory (BiHELab) at the Ionian University. He has authored more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, as well as 16 educational books. The topics of his papers are Mathematical Modeling, Applied and Discrete Mathematics, as well as Bioinformatics. His main research interest is to help bridge the translational gap from data to models and from models to drug discovery and personalized therapy by developing quantitative deterministic approaches to biological and clinical problems by utilizing high-performance computing. He is the founder of the series of the World Congresses GeNeDis (“Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research”), organized every two years starting from 2014. He also founded the Master’s Program “Bioinformatics & Neuroinformatics” and is the editor of the Handbook of Computational Neurodegeneration that will be published by Springer International Publishing.