Alexandros Stamatakis

Alexandros Stamatakis is a distinguished academic currently serving as the Research Group Leader and Full Professor of Computer Science at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies since October 2010. In addition to this role, Alexandros holds a full professorship at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Alexandros has previously worked as a Junior Research Group Leader at TU Munich and the University of Munich, funded by the Emmy-Noether Program of the DFG, and has conducted postdoctoral research in computational molecular evolution at EPFL and ICS-FORTH. Alexandros earned a PhD and a Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich, complemented by a Licence en Informatique from École normale supérieure de Lyon and an Abitur from Deutsche Schule Athen.