Pantelis Topalis holds a degree in Biology, a MSc in genomic analysis of D. melanogaster and a PhD in ontology development. Since 2014 he is coordinator of the bioinformatics support group at IMBB-FORTH. His main research interests incude genomic analysis (genome assembly, genome annotation, detection of variations), the analysis of datasets related to gene expression and the maintenance and development of ontologies covering the biomedical domain.