is currently the President of NeHA Cyprus. He is Professor at the Department of Computer Science, at University of Cyprus, Head of the ehealthlab@UCY. He is also the President of the Biomedical Engineerng Research Center (BERC) at the University of Cyprus, and Leader on Smart, Ubiquitous, and Participatory Technologies for Healthcare Innovation, in the CYENS Centre of Excellence (Cyprus). He has >30 years of experience in eHealth systems, medical imaging, biosignal analysis, and intelligent systems. He has been involved in numerous projects in these areas funded by EU and other bodies, with a total funding managed more than 11 million Euros.
has been a Professor of Computational Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Cyprus, from 23/12/1991 to 31/08/2020. He is a Coordinator of the Digital Health Research at BERC UCY. He has served as Counselor to the President of the Republic of Cyprus on eHealth and Healthcare Reform (2015-2023), and has been President of NeHA CY. He studied at QMC, University of London, UK, B.Sc. (Eng). Graduate studies at the University of Indianapolis, USA, MBA, and at QMC, University of London, UK, PhD in 1981. He received the William Lincoln Shelley award from the University of London for excellence in research, and a Fulbright fellowship for collaborative research in the USA. He served as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of London, and Professor of Computer Information Systems at the University of Indianapolis. Also, he served as Vice Rector of the University of Cyprus, during 2002-2006.
Nicosia, Cyprus
was Prof. of Vascular Surgery at Imperial College School of Medicine and Consultant Vascular Surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital (1983–2000). He is Hon. Prof. of Surgery at St. George’s University of London/University of Nicosia Medical School, CY. His research is directed towards genetic risk factors for cardiovascular disease, identification of individuals at risk and the development of effective methods of prevention of stroke and chronic venous disease. He is Past-President of: the International Union of Angiology, and the Section of Measurement in Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine and currently Chairman of the EU Venous Forum Board.
is affiliated with the Vascular Non-invasive Diagnostic Centre London and the Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre, in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Dr Anastasia Constantinidou graduated with a first class from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens Greece (MD). She gained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in the UK and she subsequently completed her specialist clinical training in Internal Medicine and her specialist clinical training in Medical Oncology (CCT) at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London (2011). She gained an MSc in Oncology (Merit) from the University of London and she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship for laboratory research in Molecular Pathology for her PhD studies at the Institute of Cancer Research, University of London. Her basic science research has focused on the identification of genes involved in the process of cell differentiation as novel targets in cancer therapeutics with emphasis on epigenetics. Her clinical and translational research expertise is based on first-hand experience in participating in UK, European and international clinical and translational trials as a principal or co-investigator including first in human (phase I) clinical trials. She has been awarded a number of fellowships throughout her career including the Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology Clinical Training Fellowship and the ECCO-AACR-EORTC-ESMO Fellowship in Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop as well as grants from the Wellcome Trust UK, the Sarcoma UK, the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF Cyprus), the Horizon 2020 and the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programmes. She is currently involved in several research projects including CARDIOCARE (funded by HORIZON 2020, local PI), ECHOs (funded by HORIZON Europe, local PI), eCAN (funded by EU4Health, local clinical PI), E CAN PLUS (EU4Health, local clinical PI), BIOBREAST (funded by RIF, PI).
Dr Maria Anastasiadou earned her B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens in 2009 and completed her M.Sc. in Medical Physics at the University of Surrey, UK, in 2010. In 2011, she joined the KIOS Research Center at the University of Cyprus as a graduate-level researcher, focusing on epilepsy studies, multimodal seizure detection, and prediction. She successfully obtained her Ph.D. in January 2017 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. Prior to joining ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence, Maria served as a Research Associate at the KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus, from 2017 to 2023, where she coordinated several high-profile research projects, secured fundings of around 5M from European Union and Cyprus Government and excelled in proposal writing. Her research interests encompass signal processing, system identification, pattern recognition, and machine learning. ORCID: 0000-0001-8199-0146
Dr. Michalis Mavrovouniotis received the B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Computer Science from the University of Leicester, UK (2008), the M.Sc. degree in Natural Computation from the University of Birmingham, UK (2009), and the Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the University of Leicester, UK (2013). He is currently the Deputy Coordinator of the Big Earth Data Analytics Department at the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence. Before joining ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Centre of Computational Intelligence, De Montfort University Leicester, UK. His research interests include evolutionary computation, neural computation, swarm intelligence, memetic computing, combinatorial optimization problems, heuristic and metaheuristics, artificial intelligence in dynamic and uncertain environments, and relevant real-world applications. He has contributed to several funded research projects (with partners in both academia and industry). Dr. Mavrovouniotis has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications (with h-index of 29 according to Google Scholar) in international scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. He has been included in the Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists lists, and in the Top 0.05% Scholars Worldwide in the field of Ant Colony Optimization. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. ORCID: 0000-0002-5281-4175.
is currently a Professor in Oncology and Palliative Nursing Care at CUT, Adjunct Professor (Docent) at University of Turku (Finland) and a Visiting Professor at University of Maribor (Slovenia). Andreas Charalambous, BSc, MSc, PGCert (Research), PhD (Oncology Nursing), obtained his BSc in Nursing Science in 1999 by the Northumbria University (UK), his MSc (Nursing Science) in 2002 and his PhD (Oncology Nursing) in 2008 from Middlesex University (UK). He is currently the Chair of the Dept. of Nursing Science at CUT. He has a proven track in academia since 2004. He is the founder and Past-President of the Cyprus Oncology Nursing Society, European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) Former President and European Cancer Organization Immediate Past President. He is also the Founder of the Cancer Nursing Fund and the European Cancer Communities Foundation. He is involved in National and International research programs (HORIZON2020, ERASMUS+, COST, EU4HEALTH) in various fields of cancer care. Examples of externally funded projects include: PI in the ERASMUS+ project PROLEPSIS), PI in the ERASMUS+ project SAVE, PI (Cyprus team) in the ERASMUS+ project COMPASS, Co-PI (Cyprus team) in the EU4HEALTH Joint Action Project eCAN, PI (Cyprus team) in the HORIZON project INCISIVE and PI in the EU4HEALTH project TRANSiTION and EU4HEALTH project iNTERVENE. He has published over 200 National and International publications in esteem journals including Lancet Oncology (H-index at 43 and i10-index at 114).
Dr Theologia Tsitsi is a Lecturer in Surgical Nursing at the Dept. of Nursing at CUT, teaching in both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programs. She completed her PhD in Oncology Nursing at CUT in 2014. She holds an MA in Healthcare Management from the Open University of Cyprus (2010), an MSc in Nursing from the University of Liverpool, UK (1997), a BSc (Hons) in Professional Studies in Nursing from Anglia University, UK (1995), and a Diploma in General Nursing from the Nursing and Midwifery School in Nicosia, Cyprus (1993). She is actively involved in various research activities, as a senior researcher, project manager, financial manager, and evaluator of research program quality. She participates in several national and international research programs, including Erasmus+ projects such as Apps4carers, Tender4Life, PROLEPSIS, NM4SAFETY, SAVE, eLILY2, HERO, SeniorVlog, Compass, and EU4Health projects such as TRANSITION, DESIPOC, and the OpenCARE project, which will begin in January 2025. Her research covers various areas of care, with a particular focus on cancer and palliative care, surgical nursing and elderly care. She works on applying health technologies for cancer patients, dementia patients, and caregivers. She is passionate about creating blended learning programs for nurses, managers (nurses), and student nurses.
Dr Angelos Kassianos holds the position of Lecturer in Health Psychology at the Department of Nursing of the Cyprus University of Technology and is the founder and Director of the Behavior Science in Health -BSiH Lab. He is also a Member of the Executive Committee of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) and the Cyprus Psychologists’ Association. He is also a Member of the Scientific Committee of Psychology in Health of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA) and the EORTC Quality of Life Group. He leads or participates in several grants funded by the Research and Innovation Foundation, EU4Health and Erasmus+ among others. His research interests extend to a wide range of applications of behavioral sciences in health and public health including the development and evaluation of innovative intervention programs using technology, on understanding the determinants of health-related behaviors such as vaccination, breastfeeding, exercise and smoking, adherence to pharmacotherapy and psycho-oncology. He received the Early Careers Award of EHPS in 2018 and the Young Research Award of the Research and Innovation Foundation in 2020. He is currently an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Health Psychology.
Dr Eleni Theodorou is Assis. Prof. of Speech Pathology in the Dept. of Rehabilitation Sciences at CUT and a speech therapy program coordinator. She has founded and scientifically coordinates the EPI.LO.Go Lab. Her research focuses on diagnosing language disorders, language acquisition in typical and atypical populations, sample analysis, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, and voice disorders. She has >15 years of clinical experience. Since 2019, she has been an active Child Language Committee member of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She served as Chair of the Cyprus Registration Council of Speech-Language Pathologists (2021 to 2023). Today, she chairs the Special Committee for the Recognition of Continuing Professional Education for Speech Therapists in Cyprus.
Dr Marina Charalambous is a Speech and Language Therapist, specializing in stroke and aphasia rehabilitation. She works as a Special Teaching Staff/Clinical Lecturer at the Dept. of Rehabilitation Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology, and is the Clinical Coordinator of the Adult University Clinic. She holds a PhD in Medical Sciences from the Medical School of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Marina has trained in Advanced Adult Dysphagia at University College London (UCL) and Fiberoptic Endoscopic Esophageal Swallowing (FEES) at Boston Medicine School, Boston University USA. Marina is the founder of the Cyprus Stroke Association, Secretary of the Stroke Alliance for Europe, and Board Member of the International Aphasia Association. She is an alumna of the ‘Future Stroke Leaders Program Cohort 1’ of the World Stroke Organization (WSO), a member of the Rehabilitation Implementation Taskforce, and the World Stroke Campaign Committee of the WSO. Marina participated in numerous universal WSO projects on young people with stroke, and acute stroke rehabilitation, and she is the co-author of the updated Dysphagia, Aphasia & Communication WSO Checklist. Marina has standardized and published numerous scientific studies on the assessment and rehabilitation of aphasia for Greek-speaking individuals, through Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) methodologies.
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