Dr. Fotis E. Psomopoulos, Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB) at the Center for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)

Fotis is currently a bioinformatician at the INAB (CERTH) in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2005 he has been working on several EU-funded research projects both at CERTH, as well as at the Information Processing Lab (IPL) in the Dpt. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests lay across three major pillars; (a) Bioinformatics and the involved computational workflows, (b) data mining methods and techniques in order to analyse the vast amount of data involved, and (c) Grid and Cloud Computing in order to optimize the developed methods for large-scale approaches and to ensure the reproducibility of results. His expertise at the intersection of Bioinformatics and Grid Computing allows him a unique insight into the specific requirements and bottlenecks expected in large scale computational approaches in Life Sciences. To this end he has been closely involved with EGI (www.egi.eu), and was selected as an EGI Champion for Bioinformatics in 2013. Moreover, he is the co-chair of two Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Groups (IGs); the Data Discovery Paradigms IG and the Early Career and Engagement IG. Finally, and in addition to his work in research, significant time is devoted to training activities. Beyond the traditional undergraduate and graduate courses (both in Greece and in Canada), he has organised several seminar Lectures at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Bioinformatics, as well as two international EGI-affiliated workshops on the use of Grid and Cloud Computing in Life Sciences. Finally, he is a certified Carpentries Instructor and Trainer and is actively involved in organizing CaprentryCon 2018.