Associate Scientist at the Bioinformatics Department
The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics
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The research directions of Dr. George Minadakis have been informed by a passion for multidisciplinary perspectives. Crossing over from statistical seismology to biomedical engineering and bioinformatics, his approach has built on and contributed to recent theoretical work suggesting common features in the generation process of extreme events, including biological ones. The employed analysis utilizes methods and metrics of scale-free statistics, graph theory, nonextensive statistical physics framework, entropic-information content and spectra-fractal methodologies, to examine issues of complexity, self-affinity, universality, self-organized and intermittent criticality, fractal structures and geometry. Dr. George Minadakis has developed several user interfaces and algorithms for real-time monitoring, mapping and analysis of multi-faced data. These include: applications (and web interfaces) on signal and image processing of geophysical, biomedical and biological data; pattern recognition algorithms and machine-learning; applications on a diverse set of statistical methods; simulation algorithms; applications for image processing and digital patient records; 2D and 3D mapping for data series observation; development of several algorithms and models for short-term prediction. In this context, his research is currently focused on Systems Bioinformatics approaches towards integration of diverse data-sets, within a unified framework of analysis that cross-fertilises and integrates the knowledge between diverse disciplines.
Dr. George Minadakis is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Bioinformatics Group at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING). Having completed his first degree in Biomedical Engineering and his Master’s degree in Data Communication Systems, his educational background and research experience have led him to engage in multidisciplinary perspectives and expand his expertise in the study of extreme events in complex systems. He completed his PhD study at Brunel University, UK with a research project that employed a unified approach to the study of earthquake dynamics, pre-seismic electromagnetic emissions and dynamics of regional brain activity. This study has been awarded by the Vice-Chancellor’s doctoral research prize. Aiming towards an integrated approach that cross-fertilizes knowledge and methods of different disciplinary domains, Dr. George Minadakis has completed his first postdoctoral research at the School of Applied Sciences, Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Geophysics & Seismology Laboratory, Technological Educational Institute of Crete (Greece). The accumulated research experience and scientific networking in various fields involves both independent and collaborative research in computational neuroscience, systems bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, statistical physics and seismology. Dr. George Minadakis has teaching experience since 2001, he has been involved in numerus European projects and national scientific conferences, and he also serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals.
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