Evangelos Pafilis

Submitted by Evangelos Pafilis on Fri, 2011-04-01 14:47

Personal Information

Last name:

Pafilis

First name:

Evangelos

e-mail:

pafilis@hcmr.gr

Function at IMBG:

Research fellow

Languages

Education and Training


2004 - 2009	PhD Bioinformatics (Magna cum Laude) EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) – University of Heidelberg, Germany (joint PhD) Thesis: Web-based data integration and text mining techniques to accelerate biomedical research Supervisor: Dr. Reinhard Schneider, University advisor: Prof. Roland Eils Funding: EMBL PhD Fellowship
2002 - 2003	MRes Bioinformatics (Distinction) University of Glasgow, Scotland Thesis: Visualisation Mechanisms supporting Genotype Analysis Supervisor: Dr. Ela Hunt, Dept of Computing Science
1998 - 2002	BSc Biology, 1998 – 2002, University of Crete, Greece

Specific Training


2011	Introduction to Systems Biology
2008	Exploration and Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions
2008	Train The Trainer
2008	Developing Enterprise Java Applications with Spring and Hibernate
2007	Effective Writing
2006	eProtein Scientific Meeting and Workshop
2006	Semantic Mining in Bio-Medicine
2005	Scientific Training at Bioalma
2005	EBI PhD Student Bioinformatics course
2004	EMBL PhD Training course

Professional Activities


2009 - 2011	Post-doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece
2003 - 2004	Research Assistant, Dept of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland

International Recognition of Scientific Work

Citations (excluding self-citations):

Self-citations:

h-index:

Impact Factor:

49.227

Reviewer in international Journals

BMC Bioinformatics

Frontiers in Systems Physiology

Invited Presentations


Web-based data integration and text mining to accelerate molecular biology research, , Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Madrid, Spain, 02/2011, (2011)


Automated annotation of scientific data and documents, , HSCBB , 10/2010, (2010)


Employing programmatic access to SRS to annotate biological entities, , Deploying Web Services for Biological Sequence Annotation EMBRACE workshop, 05/2007, (2007)

Scholarships / Awards


2011	EMBO Short Term Fellowship (356-2011) "Species Name Identification In Web Pages and Scientific Documents" to visit the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research in Copenhagen, Denmark
2009	1st place Award, the Reflect team in: The Elsevier Grand Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences (http://www.elseviergrandchallenge.com/)
2009	PhD in Bioinformatics with magna cum laude
2004 - 2009	EMBL PhD Fellowship
2003	MRes in Bioinformatics with Distinction

Teaching Activities

General teaching activities


07/2011	Introduction to Programming Using Python, 6*3hrs course, HCMR, Crete, Greece
03/2011	Automated annotation of scientific data and documents in: Mining The Biomedical Literature Workshop, University of Cyprus, March 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus
03/2011	Document clustering of Medline abstracts for concept discovery in molecular biology in: Mining The Biomedical Literature Workshop, University of Cyprus, March 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus
01/2011	Automated annotation of scientific data and documents in: MSc in Molecular Biology – Biomedicine, University of Crete, January 2011, Heraklio, Crete, Greece
01/2011	Document clustering of Medline abstracts for concept discovery in molecular biology in: MSc in Molecular Biology – Biomedicine, University of Crete, January 2011, Heraklio, Crete, Greece
05/2009	Reflect and OnTheFly: Automatic annotation of biological entities in web pages and scientific documents in: MSc in Bioinformatics, University of Athens, May 2009, Athens, Greece
05/2008	Reflect: Automatic annotation of biological entities in web pages in: MSc in Bioinformatics, University of Athens, May 2008, Athens, Greece
02/2008	Reflect: Automatic annotation of biological entities in web pages in: ◦ Exploring Protein Modular Architecture course, EMBL, February 2008, Heidelberg, Germany
05 - 09 / 2008	Heiko Horn MSc Thesis guidance, EMBL, Heidelberg

Research Activities

Organization of Workshops and Symposia


December	2005	7th International EMBL PhD symposium: Biology At Work	Organizer

Participation in International Committees, Conferences, Workshops


February	2008	BioHackathon 2008, Towards integrated web service in life science with Open Bio* libraries.	Database Center for Life Science, Tokyo, Japan

Other Activities

Psychological support help-line assistant (Oct 2009 – Feb 2010) Advising and assisting young people to overcome stress and anxiety