Associate Professor in Physiology, Department of Medicine
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Contact details
Telephone: +30 23109 99240
Email: kosmidef(@)med.auth.gr
Biography
Dr. Efstratios K. Kosmidis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1975. He graduated from the Department of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1998 and received his Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from the Pierre et Marie Curie University, France in 2002. He was Postdoctoral Fellow and later on Research Associate in the Yale Medical School, New Haven, USA from 2002 to 2006. He conducted research in the field of optical neural recordings working with Professor Lawrence B. Cohen. During the summer months the laboratory was transferred and continued research activities to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, USA. He then worked as a Research Associate in the Laboratory of Animal Physiology in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
In 2011, he was appointed Lecturer of Physiology in the Department of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he currently serves as Associate Professor of Physiology-Neurophysiology.
Dr. Kosmidis has written a book in computational neuroscience (in French) and published 30 papers in international journals with more than 850 references. He has been invited as a speaker in more than 100 Greek and international congresses and seminars. He has served as grant referee for the National Science Foundation in the United States of America and is an active reviewer for several international journals in neurophysiology and computational biology. In 2015, he chaired the FENS-Featured Regional Meeting in Neurosciences in Thessaloniki. His research interests include systems biology, computational neuroscience, neurophysiology and optogenetics.