Curriculum Vitae

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Experience

Head of AI — Myria Biosciences AGEdinburgh, UK · Basel HQ
Nov 2024 – Present · Full-time
  • Built MyriaLoop, an end-to-end closed-loop data platform (Python, Dash) unifying LC-MS peptide discovery with NRPS combinatorial-biosynthesis design.
  • Built the platform's ML engine predicting NRPS construct functionality and used it to guide the wet lab, moving the team from combinatorial screening to targeted, model-guided design.
  • Turned experiment planning into an active-learning loop so each round is chosen to be maximally informative.
Research Assistant — Weiße Group, University of EdinburghEdinburgh, UK
Jun 2023 – Nov 2023
  • Developed and validated mechanistic bacterial-growth models in Julia, linking ribosome allocation and nutrient uptake to whole-cell physiology.
Project Supervisor — University of EdinburghEdinburgh, UK
2020 – 2023
  • Supervised undergraduate and PhD students on ML-for-biology projects — data preparation, dimensionality reduction, and image-analysis pipelines for classifying neural stem cells.

Education

PhD, Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry & BiotechnologyEdinburgh, UK
University of Edinburgh · 2019–2024
  • Thesis: "Next-generation computational optimization of protein expression systems." Supervisors: Dr Diego Oyarzún, Prof. Meriem El Karoui.
Master of Research (MRes), Systems & Synthetic BiologyLondon, UK
Imperial College London · 2017–2018 · Distinction
  • Thesis: "Growth defects and loss-of-function in synthetic gene circuits." Supervisors: Dr Diego Oyarzún, Dr John Heap.
Bachelor of Liberal Arts (ALB), BiologyCambridge, MA
Harvard University, Extension School · 2015–2017 · GPA 3.87
  • Thesis: "Intrusion Prevention & Detection Models for DNA Data Storage Systems." Supervisor: Edward G. Freedman.
BSc studies, Molecular Biology & GeneticsAlexandroupolis, GR
Democritus University of Thrace · 2011–2013 · transferred to Harvard

Talks & Presentations

  • 2023Talk — Darwin Trust Symposium, Edinburgh. "Deep learning models of protein expression."
  • 2023Talk — Turing Workshop on AI, Engineering Biology & Beyond, Edinburgh.
  • 2022Talk — ICSB Satellite: "Synthetic Biology in the Age of Machine Learning", Berlin.
  • 2021Talk — Synthetic Biology UK, Nottingham.
  • 2022Poster — Microbes22, Leuven, Belgium (flash talk & poster).
  • 2022Poster — MOMI22, INRIA Sophia Antipolis (Best Poster Award).
  • 2022Poster — EMBO Workshop on Codon Usage, Edinburgh.
  • 2019Poster — Control Engineering & Synthetic Biology, University of Oxford.
  • 2018Poster — Synthetic Biology UK, Bristol.

Awards & Recognition

  • Selected participant (1 of 500) — Built with Claude: Life Sciences, Cerebral Valley (2026)
  • Principal's Career Development Scholarship, University of Edinburgh
  • Darwin Trust PhD Studentship in Biology & Biomedical Sciences
  • DDE Venture Builder Incubator grant (£2,000) — KOIOS, a cause-and-effect discovery NLP pipeline
  • Centenary Prize for MSc, Imperial College London
  • Best Poster Award — MOMI22 (2022)
  • Alpha Sigma Lambda (ΑΣΛ) Honor Society; Dean's List — Harvard Extension
  • State Scholarship Foundation excellence award (Greece)

Skills

Languages Python · Julia · C · MATLAB · SQL
ML & modelling Deep learning · Mechanistic & dynamical modelling · Whole-cell simulation · Active learning / DoE
Frameworks PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · Dash · FastAPI · SQLAlchemy
LLMs & agents MCP · Tool-calling agents · Claude Code · Codex · Ollama · OpenRouter
Tools Git · Bash · Docker