Professional Posts

2012-today: Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece

2001-2012: Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece

1999-2001: Maternity leave

1998-1999: Lecturer (Temporary appointment), School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece

1995-1999: Researcher, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology (ICS-FORTH) – Hellas
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Other Posts & Activities

Secretary General, EAMBES: European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (December 2016 – σήμερα)

Communications Officer, EAMBES: European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (March 2016 – December 2016)

Treasurer, EAMBES: European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (March 2015 – March 2016)

Co-chair of the IFMBE International Committee “Women in Medical & Biological Engineering” (2015-today)

Member of the IUPESM Task Group on Women in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering  (2015-today)

Member of the Committee on IPR issues, Democritus University of Thrace (2015-today)

Adjunct Researcher, Institute of Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information Communication and Knowledge Technologies, Greece (2010-today)

Councilor, General Council, EAMBES: European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (2014-today)

DUTH representative in the General Assembly of EAMBES: European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (2014-today)

DUTH representative in the Greek Chapter of HL7 (2003-today)

Member of the IFMBE International Committee “Women in Medical & Biological Engineering” (2010-today)

Director of the Laboratory of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, DUTH (2009-2010)

Member of the Greek National Representatives Team in EU FP7-Capacities-Research Potential (2006-2010)

Member of the committee for internal evaluation of the School of Medicine, DUTH (2008-2011)

ICS-FORTH representative in the ERCIM working group “Health and Information Technology” (1998-1999)
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Education

1994 – Ph.D., Dept. of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, UCL, University of London, UK.

1989 – M.Sc. in Medical Physics, Dept. of Physics, University of Surrey, UK.

1989 – Certificate in Management Studies, One-Year Elective Course, University of Surrey, UK.

1987 – B.Sc. in Physics, School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Prizes & Awards

1992-1993 British Council Scholarship for postgraduate studies

1988-1991 Scholarship of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation for postgraduate studies

1983-1987 Prize of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation prize for outstanding performance in undergraduate studies
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Scientific Societies

Member of IEEE & IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society

Member of Greek Society for Biomedical Engineering (ELEVIT)

Member of Hellenic Physics Society
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Publications

See list of publications and invited talks
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R&D Funded Projects

See list of more than 20 R&D competitive funded projects
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Teaching

See list of PhD students and courses taught
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Editorial experience

See list of editorial posts in scientific journals and list of organized special sessions in scientific conferences
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Reviewing experience

Reviewer for 5 scientific journals, 2 books, and more than 15 international conferences

Reviewer for national and EU competitive grants