Nikolaos Demiris<\/big><\/p>\n
Contact Details are in my web page:\u00a0http:\/\/www.aueb.gr\/users\/nikos\/<\/a><\/p>\n EDUCATION<\/p>\n 2000 – 2004:\u00a0 PhD in Statistics, University of Nottingham, UK 1998 – 2000:\u00a0 MSc\u00a0 in\u00a0 Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece & Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (Second Semester) 1991 – 1996\u00a0 BSc in Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece<\/p>\n ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE<\/p>\n Jul 2016 – \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assistant Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES<\/p>\n Sep 2019 –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Visiting Senior Statistician, Cambridge Cancer Trials Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK<\/p>\n May 2009 –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Collaborator,\u00a0WHO Collaborating Centre for Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, Zoonoses & Geographical Medicine, University of Crete, Greece<\/p>\n NON ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE<\/p>\n 1996 – 1998\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During my military service I was engaged in meteorological observation and weather map issuing<\/p>\n PAPERS<\/p>\n 41.\u00a0A. Chatzilena, E. van Leeuwen, O. Ratmann, M. Baguelin and N. Demiris\u00a0(2019) Contemporary statistical inference for infectious disease models using Stan.\u00a0Epidemics, to appear, freely available at\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.epidem.2019.100367<\/a><\/p>\n 40.\u00a0N.E. Papanikolaou, N.G. Kavallieratos, M. Kondakis, M.C. Boukouvala, E.P. Nika and N. Demiris\u00a0(2019) Elucidating fitness components of the invasive dermestid beetle Trogoderma granarium combining deterministic and stochastic demography.\u00a0PLoS One, 14(2): e0212182 freely available at\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0212182<\/a><\/p>\n 39.\u00a0A. T. Paraskevopoulou, E. Kamperi, N. Demiris, M. Economou, C. Theleritis, M. Kitsonas and C. Papageorgiou\u00a0(2018) The impact of seasonal colour change in planting on patients with psychotic disorders using biosensors.\u00a0Urban Forestry & Urban Greening\u00a036: 50\u201356.<\/p>\n 38.\u00a0C. Malesios, N. Demiris,\u00a0K Kalogeropoulos\u00a0and\u00a0I Ntzoufras, (2017) Bayesian epidemic models for spatially aggregated count data.\u00a0Statistics in Medicine\u00a036(20): 3216\u20133230.<\/p>\n 37.\u00a0P. Pergantas, A. Tsatsaris, C. Malesios, G. Kriparakou N. Demiris\u00a0and Y.\u00a0Tselentis, (2017) A spatial predictive model for malaria resurgence in Central Greece integrating entomological, environmental and social data.\u00a0PLoS One,\u00a012(6):e01788361<\/span>\u00a0freely available at\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0178836<\/a>.<\/p>\n 36.\u00a0P. Mbala, M. Baguelin, I. Ngay, A. Rosello, P. Mulembakani, N. Demiris, W. J. Edmunds, J.-J. Muyembe (2017) Evaluating the frequency of asymptomatic Ebolavirus infection.<\/span>\u00a0Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B,\u00a0372 (1721), 20160303.<\/p>\n 35.\u00a0C. Malesios, P. Kostoulas, K. Dadousis, and\u00a0N. Demiris, (2017)\u00a0An early warning indicator for monitoring infectious animal diseases.<\/span>\u00a0Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment,\u00a031(2):\u00a0329\u2013337<\/span>.<\/p>\n 34. N. E. Papanikolaou, N. Demiris, P. G. Milonas, S. Preston and T. Kypraios, (2016)\u00a0Does Mutual Interference Affect the Feeding Rate of Aphidophagous Coccinellids? A Modeling Perspective.<\/span>\u00a0PLoS One,\u00a011(1): e0146168<\/span>\u00a0freely available at\u00a0http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0146168<\/a>.<\/p>\n 33.\u00a0C. Malesios, N. Demiris, P. Kostoulas, K. Dadousis, T. Koutroumanidis and\u00a0Z. Abas, (2016)\u00a0Spatio-temporal Modeling of Foot-and-Mouth Outbreaks.\u00a0Epidemiology and Infection, 144(12): 2485-2493.<\/p>\n 32. N. E. Papanikolaou, H. Williams, N. Demiris, S. Preston, P. G. Milonas and T. Kypraios, (2016)\u00a0Bayesian Inference and Model Choice for Holling’s Disc Equation: A Case Study on an Insect Predator-Prey System.<\/span>\u00a0Community Ecology,\u00a017(1): 71-78.<\/p>\n 31. Demiris N, Lunn D, and Sharples L.D., (2015)\u00a0Survival Extrapolation using the Poly-Weibull model<\/span>.\u00a0Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 24(2): 287-301, freely available at\u00a0DOI<\/a>.<\/p>\n 30. G. Maniatis, N. Demiris, A. Kranis, G. Banos and A. Kominakis, (2015)\u00a0Comparison of inference methods of genetic parameters with an application to body weight in Broilers.\u00a0Archives Animal Breeding, 58: 277-286.<\/p>\n 29.\u00a0E. Zeki, N. Papanikolaou<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0N. Demiris<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>D. Kontodimas<\/span>, (2015) Comparative demographic parameters and survival analysis of two phenotypes of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).\u00a0European Journal of Entomology, 192(1): 193-196.<\/p>\n 28. Demiris N, Kypraios T, and Smith L.V., (2014)\u00a0On the Epidemic of Financial Crises.\u00a0Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 177(3): 697-723.<\/p>\n 27.\u00a0C. Malesios, N. Demiris, Z. Abas, K. Dadousis and T. Koutroumanidis, (2014) Modeling Sheep pox Disease from the 1994-1998 Epidemic in Evros Prefecture, Greece.\u00a0Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology\u00a011(2): 1-10.<\/p>\n 26.\u00a0G. Symeon, A. Athanasiou, N. Lykos, M.A. Charismiadou, M. Goliomytis, N. Demiris, A. Ayoutanti, P. Simitzis and S. Deligeorgis, (2014) The effects of dietary cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) essential oil supplementation on broilers\u2019 feeding behaviour, growth performance, carcass and meat characteristics.\u00a0Annals of Animal Science,\u00a014(4): 883\u2013895.<\/p>\n 25.\u00a0N. Papanikolaou<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0P. Milonas<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0N. Demiris, D. Papachristos<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0Y. Matsinos<\/span>, (2014) Digestion Limits the Functional Response of an Aphidophagous Coccinellid.\u00a0Annals of the Entomological Society of America\u00a0107(2): 468-474.<\/p>\n 24.\u00a0E. Zoidis, N. Demiris, A. Kominakis and A.C. Pappas<\/span>, (2014)\u00a0Meta-analysis of selenium accumulation and expression of antioxidant enzymes in chicken tissues.\u00a0Animal\u00a08(4): 542-554.<\/p>\n 23.\u00a0N. Papanikolaou<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0P. Milonas<\/span>, D. Kontodimas<\/span>, N. Demiris<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0Y. Matsinos<\/span>, (2014)\u00a0Life Table Analysis of Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) at Constant Temperatures.\u00a0Annals of the Entomological Society of America\u00a0107(1): 158-162.<\/p>\n 22.\u00a0M. Baguelin, S. Flasche, A. Camacho, N. Demiris, E. Miller and W.J. Edmunds<\/span>, (2013)\u00a0Assessing optimal target populations for influenza vaccination programmes: an evidence synthesis and modeling study.\u00a0PLoS Medicine\u00a010(10):<\/span>\u00a0e1001527<\/span>\u00a0freely available at\u00a0http:\/\/www.plosmedicine.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1001527<\/a>.<\/p>\n 21.\u00a0Papa A, Sidira P, Kallia S, Ntouska M, Zotos N, Doumbali E, Maltezou HC, Demiris N and Tsatsaris A<\/span>, (2013)\u00a0Factors associated with IgG positivity to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in the area with the highest seroprevalence in Greece.\u00a0Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases\u00a04(5): 417-420.<\/p>\n 20.\u00a0N. Papanikolaou<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0P. Milonas<\/span>, D. Kontodimas<\/span>, N. Demiris<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0Y. Matsinos<\/span>, (2013)\u00a0Temperature-Dependent Development, Survival, Longevity and Fecundity of Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).\u00a0Annals of the Entomological Society of America\u00a0106(2): 228-234.<\/p>\n 19.\u00a0P. Simitzis, D. Veis, N. Demiris, M.A. Charismiadou, A. Ayoutanti and S. Deligeorgis, (2013) The effects of the light regimen imposed during lactation on the performance and behaviour of sows and their litters.\u00a0Applied Animal Behaviour Science\u00a0144: 116\u2013 120.<\/p>\n 18. G. Maniatis, N. Demiris, A. Kranis, G. Banos and A. Kominakis, (2013)\u00a0Model comparison and estimation of genetic parameters for body weight in commercial broilers.\u00a0Canadian Journal of Animal Science\u00a093(1)67-77.<\/p>\n 17. A. Al-Waeli, E. Zoidis, A. C. Pappas, N. Demiris, G. Zervas and K. Fegeros, (2013)\u00a0The role of organic selenium in cadmium toxicity: Effects on broiler performance and health status<\/span>.\u00a0Animal\u00a07(3):386-393.<\/p>\n 16. G. Maniatis, N. Demiris, A. Kranis, G. Banos and A. Kominakis, (2013)\u00a0Genetic analysis of sexual dimorphism of body weight in broilers<\/span>.\u00a0Journal of Applied Genetics.\u00a054(1):61-70.<\/p>\n 15.\u00a0P. Simitzis, M. Petrou, N. Demiris and S. Deligeorgis, (2012)\u00a0Effect of pre-weaning temporary isolation within different age periods on the early post-weaning behaviour of juveline lambs<\/span>.\u00a0Applied Animal Behaviour Science,\u00a0141:43-48.<\/p>\n 14. Kantzoura V, Kouam M.K, Demiris N, Feidas H, and Theodoropoulos G, (2011)\u00a0R<\/span>isk factors and geospatial modelling for the presence of Fasciola hepatica infection in sheep and goat farms in the Greek temperate Mediterranean environment<\/span>.\u00a0Parasitology. 138:926-938.<\/p>\n 13.\u00a0Wang Q, MA,\u00a0Rogers C.A,\u00a0Bonser R.S,\u00a0Banner N.R,\u00a0Demiris N, and\u00a0Sharples L. D, (2011)\u00a0Assessing the benefit of accepting a single lung offer now compared to waiting for a subsequent double lung offer.\u00a0Transplantation.\u00a091(8):921-926.<\/p>\n 12. Pappas A.C, Zoidis E, Georgiou C.A, Demiris N, Surai P.F, and Fegeros K, (2011)\u00a0Influence of organic selenium supplementation on the accumulation of toxic and essential trace elements\u00a0involved in the antioxidant system of chicken.\u00a0Food Additives and Contaminants: Part A. 28(4):446-454.<\/p>\n 11. Baguelin M, Newton J.R, Demiris N, Daly J, Mumford J. A, and Wood J. L. N, (2010) Control of equine influenza: scenario testing using a realistic meta-population model of spread.\u00a0Journal of the Royal Society Interface.\u00a07:67-79.<\/p>\n 10. Stoica, S., Goldsmith, K. A., Demiris, N., Punjabi, P., Berg, G., Sharples, L. D., and Large, S. (2010) Microsimulation and clinical outcomes analysis support a lower age threshold for use of biological valves.\u00a0Heart. 96:1730-1736.<\/p>\n 9. Symeon G, Zintilas C, Demiris N, Bizelis I, and Deligeorgis S. G, (2010) Effects of Oregano Essential Oil Dietary Supplementation on the Feeding and Drinking Behaviour as well as the Activity of Broilers.\u00a0International Journal of Poultry Science.\u00a09(4):401-405.<\/p>\n 8. Goldsmith, K. A., Demiris, N., Gooi, J. H., Sharples, L. D., Jenkins, D. P., Dhital, K. K. and Tsui, S. S. L. (2009) Life-Years Gained by Reducing Donor Heart Ischemic Times.\u00a0Transplantation. 87(2):243-248.<\/p>\n 7. Sharples\u00a0LD, Cafferty\u00a0F, Demiris\u00a0N, Freeman\u00a0C, Dyer\u00a0M, Banner\u00a0N, Birks\u00a0EJ, Khaghani\u00a0A, Large\u00a0SR, Tsui\u00a0S, Caine\u00a0N and Buxton\u00a0M (2007), Evaluation of the Clinical Effectiveness of the Ventricular Assist Device Program in the United Kingdom (EVAD-UK).\u00a0Journal of Heart and Lung Transplant\u00a0(Vol. 26, Issue 1) pp. 9-15.<\/p>\n 6. Sharples LD, Buxton M, Caine N, Cafferty F, Demiris N, Dyer M and Freeman C, (2006) Evaluation of the ventricular assist device programme in the UK,\u00a0Health Technology Assessment; Vol 10: number 48, freely available at\u00a0http:\/\/www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk\/hta\/volume-10\/issue-48<\/a><\/p>\n 5. Sharples LD, Dyer M, Cafferty F, Demiris N, Freeman C, Banner NR, Large SR, Tsui S, Caine N, Buxton M (2006) Cost-effectiveness of Ventricular Assist Device Use in the United Kingdom: Results From the Evaluation of Ventricular Assist Device Programme in the UK (EVAD-UK).\u00a0Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation\u00a0(Vol. 25, Issue 11) pp. 1336-1343.<\/p>\n 4. Demiris N, and O\u2019Neill P.D, (2006) Computation of final outcome probabilities for the generalised stochastic epidemic.\u00a0Statistics and Computing\u00a016, 309-317.<\/p>\n 3. Demiris N, and Sharples L.D, (2006) Bayesian Evidence Synthesis to extrapolate Survival estimates in Cost-Effectiveness Studies.\u00a0Statistics in Medicine\u00a025(11), 1960-1975.<\/p>\n 2. Demiris N, and O\u2019Neill P.D, (2005) Bayesian Inference for Stochastic Multitype Epidemics in structured populations via random graphs.\u00a0Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B\u00a067, 731-745.<\/p>\n 1. Demiris N, and O\u2019Neill P.D, (2005) Bayesian Inference for Epidemics with two levels of mixing.\u00a0The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics\u00a032, 265-280.<\/p>\n Other Publications<\/p>\n Sharples and Demiris (2019) Survival analyses and censored data. A chapter in the book\u00a0Bayesian Methods in Pharmaceutical Research, Edited by Lesaffre, Baio and Boulanger, CRC press, to appear.<\/p>\n Demiris (2009), Discussion on Rue\u00a0et al,\u00a0Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B\u00a071,\u00a0319-392.<\/p>\n Kalogeropoulos, Demiris and Papaspiliopoulos (2008) Diffusion-driven models for Physiological Processes. In the edited volume of the\u00a0International Workshop in Applied Probability\u00a0(IWAP) 2008<\/p>\n CITATIONS<\/p>\n A fast route to my citations is through\u00a0Google scholar<\/a>. They exclude paper number 7 due to a typo.<\/p>\n HONOURS\/AWARDS<\/p>\n 2005: Myrto Lefkopoulou Award from the Greek Statistical Institute for the best PhD thesis in the area of Biostatistics\/Statistics among Greek students for the years 2003-2004.<\/p>\n PEER-REVIEW<\/p>\n I am about to start a 4 year term on the editorial board of\u00a0Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C<\/i>\u00a0(Jan 2020 – Dec 2023)<\/i><\/p>\n I am\u00a0on the editorial board of\u00a0PLoS Medicine\u00a0(as a\u00a0statistical advisor) since 2011.<\/p>\n I just finished a 4 year term on the editorial board of\u00a0Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A\u00a0(Jan 2014 – Dec 2017)<\/p>\n I was on the inaugural editorial board of\u00a0Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases. I resigned on October 2012.<\/p>\n I have refereed papers for the following journals:\u00a0Annals of Applied Statistics, Biometrics,\u00a0Biometrika,\u00a0Canadian Journal of Statistics, Circulation, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of\u00a0Biological Systems, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, B and C, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Mathematical Biosciences, Mathematical Medicine and Biology, PLoS Medicine, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Statistical Methodology, Statistics and Computing\u00a0and\u00a0Statistics in Medicine.<\/p>\n RESEARCH SUPERVISION<\/p>\n Oct 2019 – \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Supervisor of PhD student Tasos Apsemidis, Athens University of Economics and Business. I’ve also been a member in a number of advisory committes for PhD, MSc and undergraduate students.<\/p>\n GRANTS<\/p>\n Feb. 2019 – Dec. 2019: Internal AUEB grant (\u20ac 3500) supporting on-going research on “Contemporary statistical inference for infectious disease models”. CONSULTING<\/p>\n I consult regularly on Statistical and Epidemic-related aspects for organisations like\u00a0Cambridge Clinical Trials Centre,\u00a0the Greek School of Public Health and Bioapplications Ltd.<\/p>\n TEACHING EXPERIENCE<\/p>\n 2012 – \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business 2017 – \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Department of Medicine, University of Athens 2009 – 2012\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Department of Medicine, University of Crete 2009 – 2012\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Department of Animal Science, Agricultural University of Athens 2004 – 2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge 2000 – 2003\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham PUBLIC OUTREACH<\/p>\n Occasionally I give public lectures. At\u00a0http:\/\/www.blod.gr\/lectures\/Pages\/viewlecture.aspx?LectureID=2392<\/a>\u00a0is a recent example (in Greek) on the Mathematics of Epidemics. I also spoke on the inaugural\u00a0Pint of Science Greece<\/a>\u00a0event.<\/p>\n SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP<\/p>\n I am a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Greek Statistical Institute<\/p>\n SERVICE<\/p>\n Academic<\/p>\n 2009- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Member of the Organising\/Scientific Committee of\u00a0Greek Stochastics<\/a> I have been an external PhD examiner at University College London, National Technical University of Athens, Athens University of Economics and Business, Agricultural University of Athens and\u00a0Democritus University of Thrace<\/span><\/p>\n Admin<\/p>\n 2012 – \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Member in various committees at the Athens University of Economics and Business PRESENTATIONS<\/p>\n At Workshops and Conferences:<\/p>\n Statistics5@Aegina<\/a>, Aegina, Greece At Universities, Research Centres etc (invited seminars):<\/p>\n Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine<\/a>, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. The abstract is\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and the flyer is\u00a0here<\/a>. Various internal presentations in the meetings of the Epidemics Group at the University of Nottingham, the MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge and the Athens University of Economics and Business.<\/p>\n OTHER ACTIVITIES<\/p>\n Resident Tutor, Florence Boot Hall, University of Nottingham, 2000-2003 Nikolaos Demiris Contact Details are in my web page:\u00a0http:\/\/www.aueb.gr\/users\/nikos\/ EDUCATION 2000 – 2004:\u00a0 PhD in Statistics, University of Nottingham, UK Thesis title: \u201cBayesian Inference for Stochastic Epidemic Models using Markov chain Monte Carlo Methods\u201d. Available online at:\u00a0http:\/\/eprints.nottingham.ac.uk\/10078\/ 1998 – 2000:\u00a0 MSc\u00a0 in\u00a0 Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece & Catholic University of Leuven, Read more about Nikolaos Demiris<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biostatistics.med.uoa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biostatistics.med.uoa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biostatistics.med.uoa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biostatistics.med.uoa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biostatistics.med.uoa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biostatistics.med.uoa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/biostatistics.med.uoa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1282\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biostatistics.med.uoa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThesis title: \u201cBayesian Inference for Stochastic Epidemic Models using Markov chain Monte Carlo Methods\u201d.
\nAvailable online at:\u00a0http:\/\/eprints.nottingham.ac.uk\/10078\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThesis title: \u201cMonte Carlo Techniques in Pricing Financial Derivatives\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSep 2018 – Aug 2019 \u00a0 Senior (Lead) Statistician, Cambridge Cancer Trials Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
\nJan 2012 –\u00a0 Jun 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lecturer, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
\nJan 2009 –\u00a0 Jan 2012 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lecturer, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
\nOct 2006 –\u00a0 Dec 2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Investigator Scientist, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
\nDec 2003 – Sep 2006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Career Development Fellow, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK<\/p>\n
\nOct 2018 – \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Supervisor of PhD student Petros Barbounakis, Athens University of Economics and Business.
\nOct 2018 – \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Supervisor of PhD student Magda Rigkou, with Andreas Tsatsaris, University of west Attica.
\nNov 2017 – \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Supervisor of PhD student Anastasia Chatzilena, Athens University of Economics and Business.
\nOct 2017 – \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Supervisor of PhD student Marios Kondakis, Athens University of Economics and Business.
\nOct 2011 – Jan 2015\u00a0 \u00a0 Supervisor of PhD student Valantis Malesios, Democritus University of Thrace. First job post-PhD: Marie Curie Fellow @ Aston University, UK.
\nMay 2009 – Oct 2012 \u00a0Co-Supervisor (with Antonis Kominakis) of PhD student Makis Maniatis, Agricultural University of Athens. First job post-PhD: @ the R&D of Aviagen Ltd, Edinburgh, UK.
\nOct 2006 – Jul 2010 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Co-Supervisor (with Linda Sharples) of PhD student Qing Wang, University of Cambridge. First job post-PhD: RA @ the University of Basel.<\/p>\n
\nNov. 2017 – Dec. 2018: Internal AUEB grant (\u20ac 3500) supporting on-going research on “Flexible Stochastic Growth Models and their Experimental Design”.
\nNov. 2015 – Oct. 2017: Internal AUEB grant (\u20ac 11000) “Action 1: funding excellence and extroversion” supporting on-going research on “Computationally efficient methods for high dimensional regression”.
\nMay 2015 – Dec. 2016: Internal AUEB grant (\u20ac 3000) supporting on-going research on “predictive model selection for Bayesian Spatio-temporal models”.
\nJan. 2014 – Nov. 2015: Collaborator in a Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs grant (\u20ac 21800 to AUEB) from Action “Cooperation 2011” (grant no. 447919\/11SYN_3_1087) on “Genomic Selection in sheep”.
\nFeb. 2013 – Jan. 2015: Internal AUEB grant (\u20ac 10000) “Action 1: funding excellence and extroversion” supporting paper number 28 and some on-going research on extending this work.
\n2003-2008: While at the MRC-Biostatistics Unit I was under the Unit’s “core funding” which covered travel expenses, computer equipment etc. Where possible I applied for additional funding, including a small (\u00a3 135) monetary award for financial assistance to attend the 2006 Isaac Newton Institute Workshop on Stochastic Computation for the Analysis of Ecological and Epidemiological Data and a \u20ac 250 award for partial financial assistance to attend the 2006 Valencia \/ ISBA 8th World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics.
\n2000: Three year Research Scholarship Award by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.<\/p>\n
\nTeaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including courses on Biostatistics, Bayesian Modelling, Data Science in Medicine, Epidemic Models, Survival Analysis and Epidemiology.
\nAlso teaching Theory of Statistics to our 1st year PhD candidates.<\/p>\n
\nTeaching the postgraduate course\u00a0Survival Analysis, part of the MSc in Biostatistics<\/p>\n
\nTeaching the postgraduate course\u00a0Epidemic Models, part of the MSc in Infectious Diseases<\/p>\n
\nTeaching the postgraduate course\u00a0Biostatistics. Also involved in undergraduate teaching.<\/p>\n
\nSupervisions (tutorials) for Principles of Statistics (3rd year), Statistical Modelling (3rd year) and Probability IA (1st year).<\/p>\n
\nDemonstrating and marking for various first and second year Probability and Statistics modules including Probability Techniques, Statistical Concepts and Methods, Decision Making under Uncertainty and Linear Models.<\/p>\n
\n2011- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Member of the Committee in some of the\u00a0IBS\/EMR<\/a>\u00a0conferences
\n2005-2008: Seminar Organiser in the MRC Biostatistics Unit<\/p>\n
\n2009 – 2012 Member in various committees at the\u00a0Agricultural University of Athens<\/p>\n
\nISPOR 2018<\/a>, November 2018, Barcelona, Spain. The presentation is available\u00a0here<\/a>.
\nJSM 2018<\/a>, August 2018, Vancouver, Canada
\nInvited Talk at\u00a0ISBIS 2018<\/a>, July 2018, Piraeus, Greece
\nPoster presented at\u00a0Bayes Comp 2018<\/span><\/a>, March 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
\nInvited Talk at the\u00a09th EMR-IBS Conference<\/a>, May 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.
\nUCL Workshop on Infectious Disease Modelling in Public Health Policy: Current status and challenges<\/a>, July 2016, London, UK. A video of the talk is available\u00a0here<\/a>.
\n3rd meeting in Statistics, June 2015, Athens, Greece.
\nPoster presented at Greek Stochastics \u03b6, December 2014, Athens, Greece.
\nWorkshop on Health GeoInformatics, December 2013, Athens, Greece.
\n10th Summer School in Stochastic Finance, July 2013, Athens, Greece.
\nPoster presented at the Bayesian methods in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, December 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
\nInFER2011, March 2011, Warwick, UK.
\nInvited Mini-Course at\u00a0Greek Stochastics \u03b2’<\/a>, August 2010, Lefkada, Greece.
\nInvited Discussant at the CFAP\u00a0conference on Interconnections in Financial Markets, March 2010, Cambridge, UK.
\n7th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, July 2008, Singapore
\n28th ISCB, July 2007, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
\nXXIII International Biometric Conference, July 2006, Montreal, Canada.
\nPoster presented at the 8th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, June 2006, Benidorm, Spain.
\n25th European Meeting of Statisticians, July 2005, Oslo, Norway.
\nInvited Talk at the ESI Meeting, May 2005, Rhodes, Greece.
\nYoung Statisticians Meeting 2005, Dublin, Ireland.
\nPoster presented at the fourth Workshop on Bayesian Nonparametrics: Methodology, Theory and Applications, June 2004, Rome, Italy.
\nESI Meeting, April 2004, Lefkada, Greece.
\nPoster presented at the Seventh Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, June 2002, Tenerife, Spain.
\nYoung Statisticians Meeting 2002, Edinburgh, UK.
\nInvited Talk at the TMR Workshop on Computationally Intensive Statistical Methods, 9-11 December 2001, Lancaster, UK.
\nBayesian Inference for Stochastic Epidemic Models, Research Students Conference 2001, Newcastle, UK.<\/p>\n
\nMapi Webinar, freely available\u00a0here<\/a>.
\nStatistics Section<\/a>, Mathematics Department, Imperial College London, London, UK.
\nCentre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
\nDepartment of Economics and Business,\u00a0Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
\nDepartment of Mathematics,\u00a0University of Athens,\u00a0Athens, Greece.
\nDepartment of Economics and Business,\u00a0Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
\nDepartment of Statistics, London School of Economics, London, UK.
\nFaculty of Business and Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
\nSchool of Mathematical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
\nInstitute of Mathematics Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
\nSchool of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
\nSchool of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
\nCambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
\nDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK.
\nHealth Protection Agency, London, UK.<\/p>\n
\nMember of the Basketball Team, University of Nottingham, 2000-2003<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"