Meet the team
Prof. Electra Gizeli, FRSC
Group Leader
Electra Gizeli is a Professor in the Dept. of Biology at the University of Crete and Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH).
Dr. Achilleas Tsortos
Staff Research Scientist
Biophysicist with research interests including biointerfaces, biomaterial crystal growth, polymer adsorption, protein folding thermodynamics and molecular bioacoustics.
Postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Dimitra Chronaki
Postdoctoral researcher
Lab manager
Biologist, currently developing an acoustic immunoassay to detect antibodies/antigens in patients samples
Dr. Anastasia P. Galanopoulou
Postdoctoral Researcher
Biologist interested in enzyme and microbial biotechnology.
Dr. Martha Valiadi
Senior Research Associate
Project Leader
Marine molecular biologist leading the development of nucleic acid sensors as part of the EU project TechOceanS.
Dr. Despoina Varamogianni-Mamatsi
Postdoctoral researcher
Chemical engineer, currently interested in developing immunoassays to detect aquatic organic contaminants and biotoxins using biosensor technologies
Dr. Frédéric Verret
Postdoctoral Researcher
Molecular microbiologist involved in the development of nucleic acid sensors as part of the EU project TechOceanS
Researchers
Christos Chantzaras
Research Assistant
Environmental biologist working on developing assays for Environmental RNA sensing and Diatom whole-cell biosensors
Georgios Karolidis
Research Assistant
Molecular biologist developing point-of-care testing methodologies.
Maria Megariti
Research Assistant
I am a plant molecular biologist with interests in plant pathogens detection, using isothermal amplification techniques.
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Vaia Tsiakalou
Research Assistant
Currently working on developing molecular methodologies for point-of-care testing.
PhD students
Katherine Hartle-Mougiou
PhD Student
Marine molecular biologist currently working on developing a platform for in situ marine invasive species detection.
Stylianos-Nektarios Grammatikos
PhD Student
Currently working on synthesis, characterization and functionalization of nanoparticles for application in acoustic and colorimetric biosensors.
MSc students
Ioannis Markopoulos
Master Student
Molecular biologist and geneticist, currently working on the detection of algal environmental-RNA.
Zenia Viskadouraki
Master Student
Chemist, working on
point-of-care assay
development.