Artemis Hatzigeorgiou
University of Thessaly
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Thessaly. She studied Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart and received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy at the University of Jena in 2001.
From 2001 to 2007, she was an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and its School of Engineering. From 2007 to 2012, she was a Principal Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Oncology of the Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming. Between 2012 and 2019, she was a Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Thessaly. She also taught Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Algorithms in the postgraduate programme “Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology” at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She became an affiliated faculty member of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in 2015 and joined her current department in 2019.
Her research interests include computational biology, gene expression and regulation, and machine learning. Her work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Human Genetics, Genes & Development, Nature Methods and Genome Research. According to Google Scholar figures from 2020, her publications had received more than 18,000 citations, with an h-index of 49.
She has served as a reviewer and panel member for the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the US National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, European Union programmes including FP7 and CONNECT, and the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology. She has served as President of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and was an organiser of the 17th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB18).
