Fotis Psomopoulos
Position: Researchers
Fotis Psomopoulos, Eng, PhD, is a Researcher at the Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), in Thessaloniki Greece. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on Bioinformatics. His research interests lie at the intersection of Bioinformatics and Machine Learning, primarily working on the design and implementation of data mining algorithms for knowledge extraction from large datasets in Life Sciences. In this context, he was selected to be an EGI Champion on Life Sciences in 2013, an RDA-EU Ambassador for Bioinformatics in 2019, and he is currently co-leading the ELIXIR Machine Learning Focus Group. In addition to his research activities, he is particularly active in training efforts and initiatives (such as the Carpentries and GOBLET). He is the Training Coordinator of ELIXIR-GR, a member of the ELIXIR Training Platform Executive Committee, and was the National representative for the EOSC Skills and Training Working Group. Finally, he is a strong advocate of Open Science; he is a co-author of the Open Science Training Handbook and the Greek National Plan for Open Science, and an active mentor in the Open Life Science programme.