Beyond the research aspects of my work, significant time and effort is dedicated to education activities. Throughout my time as a Ph.D. student, I worked also as a Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course “Data Structures” at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). This allowed me to understand the particular needs of an undergraduate course as well as familiarize myself with pedagogical concepts and best practices. At the same time, I was co-supervising Diploma thesis students, therefore providing direct guidance for individual students.

After receiving my Ph.D. I continued my teaching activities on multiple levels; as an Academic Fellow, I provided undergraduate and graduate courses on subjects such as “Data Structures” and “Grid computing and applications in biomedicine” at AUTH. In this capacity I was responsible for preparing the training material, delivering the course as well as examining the students. As an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of West Macedonia, I taught “Advanced Topics in Software Engineering” with full responsibilities on the course, i.e. topics taught, course delivery, students’ assignments and examinations. Finally, as a Visiting Professor at Quest University Canada, I am charged with delivering a high intensity one-block course with daily classes on “Computer Programming” with Java.

Moreover, and beside the traditional academic activities, I have been involved with training activities for several international events as well as being a fully certified Instructor and Trainer for Software and Data Carpentry. Finally, since January 2018, I am the deputy Training Coordinator for ELIXIR-GR.

An indicative list of teaching and training activities can be found below (with links to the corresponding material where available):

Undergraduate courses

  • Data Structures (2005-2010 as TA, 2014-2017), Academic Fellow, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Computer programming (Feb. 2016 and Oct. 2017), Visiting Professor at Quest University Canada, Squamish, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Advanced topics in Software Engineering (2011–2012), Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Informatics Engineering and Communication, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece.
  • Lectures on Bioinformatics (2014–2016), Research Associate, Biochemistry Laboratory, School of Medicine, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Post-graduate courses

  • “Functional Genomics using Bioinformatics tools” and “Graph theory and applications in Medical Research” (2014–2017), Medical Postgraduate Programme, School of Medicine, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • “Applied Data Mining to Medical Research” (2016), “Medical Research Methodology” course, International Medical Postgraduate Programme, School of Medicine, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • “Introduction to Grid Computing” and “Grid computing and applications in biomedicine” (2013–2016), Postgraduate Programme in Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Other training activities

Diploma Thesis co-advisor

  • 12 undergraduate Diploma theses completed (since 2005)
  • 2 Master theses completed (since 2016)
  • 1 Master thesis ongoing (2018 - today)
  • Two diploma theses distinctions, both with the 2nd place award of the IEEE EMBS Greece Chapter (2011 – 2012 and 2013 – 2014)

Intern Supervisor

  • 9 internships completed (since 2015)

Invited talks

  • “e-infrastructures from the viewpoint of bioinformatics”, for the “Users meet the service providers: a discussion on needs and opportunities to define the EOSC service roadmap” session at the 2nd EOSC Stakeholders Forum, Vienna, 21-22 November 2018.
  • “Four recommendations for open research software development”, Open Access Week 2018, Library of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 30 October, 2018.
  • “Computationally solving the puzzle of mixed genome jigsaws”, CEITEC Metagenomics workshop, Brno, Czech Republic, 11 October, 2018.
  • “Bioinformatics meets Data Mining: a story of NGS Data Analysis”, EMB IEEE Student Chapter AUTH, April 26, 2018.
  • “End-to-end computational workflows for NGS data analysis”, ICGEB Workshop “Next Generation Diagnostics”, Skopje, March 22-24, 2018.
  • “Training for Open Science: Principles and Practicalities”, Open Data Day 2018, Library of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 14 March, 2018.
  • “The role of Bioinformatics in the today’s laboratory”, 27th Panhellenic Haematology Conference, Ioannis Vellidis Congress Centre, HELEXPO – Thessaloniki, Nov. 3 – 5, 2016.
  • “Bioinformatics activities in European e-infrastructures”, Workshop “Bioinformatics in AUTH: joining the ELIXIR infrastructure”, Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center, Oct. 13, 2016.
  • ELIXIR EXCELERATE workshop “Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics training”, CSC, Helsinki, Finland, May 23 – 25, 2016
    • “Clouds, VMs and other resources from EGI for bioinformatics training”,
    • “How to use bioinformatics applications running on the EGI FedCloud”.