Panayiota Poirazi holds a Degree in Mathematics from the University of Cyprus and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (Computational Neuroscience) from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She joined the Institute of Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) in 2002, first as postdoctoral fellow, in 2004 as a Researcher and since 2014 as Research Director of Computational Biology. She is currently head of the Computational Biology Lab at the IMBB-FORTH. Her research interests lie in the fields of biological data analysis and modeling, with emphasis on brain simulations for deciphering learning and memory functions
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