Fields of Scholarship
Regulation of gene expression
Structure, function and relationship of enhancers and promoters
Transcription factor relationships and interactions
Chromatin structure and epigenetic modifications
Gene regulatory networks

Honours and Awards
Undergraduate Thesis Award (1983). University of Athens
Special Graduate Studies Fellow Award. University of Crete (1984)
Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust, 1992-1994. Harvard Univ
Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award, 1996-2001
March of Dimes-Basil O’Connor Starter Research Scholar Award, 1996-1998
Pew Scholars Award in Biomedical Sciences 1996-2001
Scholar of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America 2000-2005
Christopher Lambort Award in Basic Sciences (2001)
Dean’s Distinguished Award in Basic Sciences (2003)
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Elect Member (2004)
National Representative in European Union for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) (2006-)
Life Sciences Panel Member of the European Research Council (2007-present)
Elected Member in the Federation European Biochemical Society (FEBS) Publication Committee (2010)
Elected Council Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (2010)
Steering Committee Member of the ISBE (Institutes of Systems Biology Europe) Research Infrastructures (2011)
Member of the Scientific Review Board, US Department of Energy-Systems Biology (2011)
Chair of the Scientific Reviewing Board of Max Delbruck-Centrum Fur Molekulare Medizin Berlin-Systems Biology (2009-present)
Excellence Science Award from the Greek Secreteriat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Education and Life long Learning (2012)