About Me

  • Name: Dimitrios Kyriakis
  • Date of birth: 25 April 1992
  • Address: Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Nationality: Greek
  • Phone: (+30) 6931588646
  • Email: kyriakds@gmail.com

Objective

My full name is Dimitrios Kyriakis Ph.D. and I am a Bioinformatics Consultant in RoussosLab at Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai. I hold a B.Sc. degree in Biology, from Faculty of Sciences at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) , a M.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics, from School of Medicine at University of Crete (UoC) and a PhD in Computational Biology for neurodegenerative diseases, from Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at University of Luxembourg. You can consult my short resume online, or view a detailed version in PDF format which is available for preview or download. Please feel free to contact me.

What I Do ?

Currently, I am Bioinformatics Consultant at Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai , under the supervision of Prof. Panagiotis Roussos. Throughout my experience as a researcher, doctoral and now postdoctoral, I have been able to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field of neuroscience. I am excited to continue building on my experience and expertise as a postdoctoral researcher and look forward to making further contributions to this fascinating field, expand my collaborations and explore unknown for now areas.

 

Experience

  • 2/2024 – now

    Bioinformatics Consultant

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Computational Biology for neurodegenerative diseases
    Supervisors: Prof. Panagiotis Roussos

  • 6/2023 – 2/2024

    Post Doctoral researcher

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Computational Biology for neurodegenerative diseases
    Supervisors: Prof. Panagiotis Roussos

  • 2022 – 2023

    Post Doctoral researcher

    University of Luxembourg, Belval

    Computational Biology for neurodegenerative diseases
    Supervisors: Dr. Alexander Skupin

  • 2/2022 – 5/2022

    Visiting Researcher

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Roussos's Lab
    Supervisors: Dr. Panagiotis Roussos

  • 6/1017 - 10/2017

    Assistant Researcher

    Computational Biology Lab, IMBB,FORTH

    Title: Modeling of Mossy Cells in Hippocampus
    Supervisor: Dr. S. Chavlis

  • 09/2015 – 2/2016

    Erasmus Internship

    Wageningen UR Animal Breeding and Genetics laboratory, Netherlands

    Title: Transcriptome assembly and annotation of Yellow Tail King Fish.
    Supervisor: Prof. Hendrik Jan Megens

  • 09/2014 – 11/2014

    Internship

    HCMR, Heraklion, Greece

    Title: Preliminary study of genetic differentiation Sander lucioperca. Introduction to data analysis RNASeq.
    Supervisors: Dr. D.Tsaparis , Dr. T.Manousaki.


Resume

Education

  • 2018 – 2022

    PhD Candidate

    University of Luxembourg, Belval

    Computational Biology for neurodegenerative diseases
    Supervisors: Dr. Alexander Skupin

  • 2016 – 2018

    M.Sc. Bioinformatics

    School of Medicine • University of Crete, Heraklion

    Thesis: Scanning of genetic variants and genetic mapping of phenotypic traits in gilthead seabream through ddRAD sequencing data analysis.
    Supervisors: Dr.G.Potamias, Prof. I.Tsamardinos, Dr. P.Pavlidis.

  • 2010 – 2016

    B.Sc. Biology

    Faculty of Science • Aristotelio UR, Thessaloniki

    Thesis: Effect of exogenous lps administration on molecular mechanisms in gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata.
    Supervisors: Prof. E. Antonopoulou, Prof. A. Triantafyllidis

  • 2007 – 2010

    High school certificate

    20th High School of Thessaloniki

Skills

Programming


  • R
  • Python
  • Unix
  • HTML
  • Data Analysis


  • RNASeq
  • scRNASeq,
  • GWAS
  • Machine Learning
  • Softwares & Tools


  • Snakemake
  • LateX
  • GitHub
  • MS Office
  • More skills

    Motivation
    Creativity
    Team Work
    Adaptability
    Leadership

    Publications


    Get in touch

    Address/Street
    Thessaloniki, Greece
    Phone Number (+30) 6931588646