Short Bio

Nikos is  a Research Scientist (Associate Professor level) at the Mathematics Research Center, Academy of Athens, Greece.

He completed his DPhil (2012) from the University of Cambridge and worked in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) physics as a research associate at UCL until 2016. Prior to his appointment at the Academy of Athens in 2020 he was an Assistant Professor (tenure), at the department of Electrical Engineering, University of Surrey where he is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor. Since 2018, he has been a Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy from the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education (Recognition reference: PR158316). Further, since 2024, he has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Research Centers of the Academy of Athens. 

In 2019 he was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship to work with Elekta on the world's first linear accelerator integrated with high field MRI. The aim was to perform real-time visualization for truly adaptive radiotherapy, with a potential to monitor tumour response, so that treatment can be adjusted accordingly. He was also been awarded (2017) with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) first grant for the most promising UK researchers to work on imaging methods to optimize cancer treatment with high energy proton beams. His work in prostate cancer detection using multi-parametric MRI has been awarded twice with the Summa Cum Laude (top 5%) and once with Magna Cum Laude (top 15%) from the flagship conference in MRI (ISMRM) with more than 6000 attendees every year.

Research Interests

His research interests include tomography, inverse problems, cancer informatics and physics, where to date (04/2025) he has published 60 peer-reviewed papers (12 as first author, 3 as single author and 8 as last author), 2 book chapter and >30 refereed proceedings at major international conferences.