Costas Papaloukas is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the Dept. of Biological Applications and Technology, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina. He is also a collaborating member of the Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) of FORTH, member of the scientific committee of the Centre for BioSystems & Genomic Network Medicine (CBS.GenNetMed, University of Ioannina) and member of the Epirus Research Foundation. He has published 102 papers in international journals (49) and conference proceedings (53), 12 book chapters and 2 books. His work has received more than 2500 citations (h-index: 26). He has also worked in 34 research projects, in 5 of them as a scientific director. His research interests include computational analysis of genes and proteins, design of biological interaction networks, biomedical signal processing and machine learning.