Our core bioanalytical group has strong track record and wide recognition in their field. The BIOMIC_AUTh team has the experience, the know-how and the infrastructure to support research projects on metabolic profiling of virtually any type of sample necessary. The team has >33 years experience in developing and validating analytical technologies in life science research. The team holds leading positions in think tanks and science bodies: EURACHEM, mQACC, EFSA.
The group’s PIs are recognised experts on their field, editors/authors of books and numerous scientific publications and presentations. In the field of metabolic profiling and analytical characterization of foods and biological fluids, the group is second to none in Greece and is very well-known globally having successfully concluded more than 45 research projects
Coordinator Prof. Georgios Theodoridis has >260 research publications/book chapters, >180 presentations and > 14000 citations (h=59). He coordinated >40 research grants in AUTh and participated in >17 grants in Greece, The Netheralnds, Czechia, Italy and the UK, the majority of these being on metabolomics. He launched a series of metabolomics workshops in Greece, he serves in several committees of international metabolomics meetings. He edited special issues on metabolomics for J. Chromatogr. B and Methods in Molecular Biology. He serves as editor of J. Chromatography B and as editorial board member of several research Journals.
Dr. Helen Gika, Associate Professor of Bioanalysis, School of Medicine AUTh has > 130 publications with >9000 citations, h=44. She has more than 19 years expertise on bioanalysis and metabolomics. She has expierence in big Pharma (AstraZeneca UK), and work in research positions in Universiteis and Institutes in Austria and Italy. She has coordinated a number of research grants in AUTh, currently leading two major EU Grants: Biacem (twinning) and HUMAN DN MSCA.
Dr. Alexandros Triantafyllidis, Professor, School of Biology, AUTh leads the genetics/genomics research.
Dr. Christina Virgiliou (Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Engineering AUTh) leads method development and validation in LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS. She serves as Editor in J. Chromatography B.
The core team consists of more than 15 chemists, biochemists and informaticians with expertise in supplementary disciplines. In addition to their research expeditions, the members of the group have several years of working experience in GLP laboratories, developing and validating analytical protocols in compliance to ISO 17025, EC Committee (675/2002) and FDA guidelines.
All staff members have strong experience in the development of analytical separation methods (HPLC, GC, GC-MS, LC-MS, CE) and their application in bio-pharmaceutical analysis and metabolomics.
The core research of the group is on the field of metabolomics with emphasis on the discovery of biomarkers of disease or drug toxicity.
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Deda Olga, Biochemist, MSc Analytical Chemistry, PhD, exercise metabolomics, expert on pathway analysis
- Gkagkavouzis Konstantinos
- Karaiskou Nikoleta
- Begou Olga, Chemist, MSc Analytical Chemistry, PhD Metabolomics, expert on LC-MS method development
- Panteris Eleftherios
- Theodoros Liapikos
- Petros Pousinis, Chemist, MSc Analytical Chemistry, PhD LC-MS Lipidomics, Data mining, Disease Biomarker Discovery
- Dimitris Zaikis, Comp. Science., Machine Learning and AI in text mining scientific literature.
PhD Students
- Daniel Marques De Sa E Silva, HUMAN DC, focus on multiplexing
- Gallou Domniki, Metabolomics with emphasis on the generation of methods for conjugated metabolites
- Talilidou Sofia, quantitative analysis of PFAS, PFOS, BPAs in various specimens
- Petrocheilou Maria, Lipidomics in Disease
- Pesiridou Anastasia
- Marlene Nyambura Thaitumu, HUMAN DC, focus on untargeted UHPLC-TiMS-TOF-MS methods
- Minoudi Styliani
- Tsartsianidou Valentina
- Vana Ganali, Chemist, MSc Analytical Chemistry, Method Development for determination of pollutants and endocrine disruptors in biological samples.
- George Tsekos, Industrial PhD with TUV Austria Greece. Metabolomics and Lipidomics of dairy products.
MSc students
- Raptopoulou Foteini
- Stelios Papazoglou
- Argyro Antoniou
- George Alektoridis
- Nasos Nikolopoulos
- Katerina Gerou
- Ifigeneia Rizopoulou
Human Resources/Administration: Martha Chalkopoulou
NEW POSTS in EU Funded Projects
Biomic is seeking for researchers to work in EU funded research projects in cutting edge metabolomics in life sciences.
We are currently looking for enthusiastic young scientists for the following roles
- Bioanalytical Scientist LC-MS, GC-MS.
- Peptide Chemist. Peptide synthesis and analysis
Responsibilities:
Position 1. Bionalytical scientist to work on quantitative LC-MS and GC-MS methods in Horizon Europe Project CoDiet.
Method development and validation for the determination of small molecule metabolites in biological samples (blood, urine…). Analysis of human samples from cohorts. Collaboration with a multidiscplinary team to correlate findings with other data from omics and human nutrition
Position 2. Peptide Chemist : EU Project PROXIMED
Selection of target peptide sequences. Solid phase peptide synthesis. Development of LC-MS/MS analysis method for the targeted peptides. Collaboration with project partners to link data from bioavaiiability studies, animal nutrition and omics data.
Collaboration with project partners to link data from bioavaiiability studies, animal nutrition and omics data.
Qualifications
Position 1. Experience on Analytical Chemistry, Chromatography and (preferably) Mass Spectrometry.
Position 2. Experience on peptide chemistry and synthesis
Interested scientists please enquire with us with short CV: biomic@auth.gr.
For more information and updates check our linkedin accounts: Biomic, G. Theodoridis
We recently launched Thetabiomarkers, a spinoff with the aim to further pursue the development of our mature research services, especially those related to monitoring human wellness and health.