Christos A. Ouzounis, Ph.D. is Visiting Professor at University of Toronto, Associate Researcher and Principal Investigator at CERTH, Secretary at Mikrobiokosmos, BoD member at Hellenic Society for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, and Associate Editor at Public Library of Science (PLoS). He is also one of the founding members of the International Society for Computational Biology and in the past he worked as Scientific Editor for the “Bioinformatics” review published by Oxford University Press.

His research interests include genome structure, function and evolution, evolution of protein function, evolution of genetic information-processing systems, theory and applications of biological sequence comparison, data and knowledge representation for genomics, unsupervised machine learning in very large datasets, biologically-inspired hardware & software engineering, synthetic biology, exobiology, and science communication.

Christos earned his BSc in Biological Sciences at Aristoteleion Panepistimion Thessalonikis, Greece in 1987. He earned his MSc in Biological Computation at the University of York, United Kingdom in 1988. He earned his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at the University of York, United Kingdom in 1992.