Gianni Panagiotou

Gianni Panagiotou is a classical trained chemical engineered graduated from the National Technical University of Athens. He obtained his PhD from the same university before moving to the Technical University of Denmark, initially as a Post-doctoral fellow, then promoted to Assistant Professor and soon after to Associate Professor. Currently he is Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Head of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Germany. Panagiotou’s group consists of 15 PhD students and Post-doctoral researchers. The expertise of the group is the generation, integration and interrogation of large heterogeneous datasets from microbes, microbial communities and their host to discover microbial consortia or species that characterize healthy and disease states. The ultimate objective of his research is the identification of new biomarkers for diagnosis and the discovery of new microbiome-based therapies. Panagiotou’s group is currently coordinating the Horizon 2020 ITN “BestTreat” and it’s a member of the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse”, Area of Excellence Hong Kong “Institute of Metabolic Diseases”, DFG Collaborative Research Cluster “FungiNet” and Collaborative Research Fund “MarineGEO Hong Kong” all related to the integration of phenotypic, genomic and microbiome data using machine learning models and network based analysis.

Education

• PhD National Technical University of Athens (1999 — 2004)
• MSc in Chemical Engineering National Technical University of Athens (1993 — 1999)

Companies

• Head of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (SBI) Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (2017)
• Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong (2012)
• Editor In Chief Computational and Structural Biotech Journal (2012)
• Associate Professor Center for Biological Sequence Analysis & Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU (2010 — 2012)
• Associate Professor Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (2009 — 2010)
• Assistant Professor Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (2007 — 2009)
• Postdoctoral Researcher DTU - Technical University of Denmark (2004 — 2007)
• PhD student National Technical University of Athens (1999 — 2004)