Stavros Giannoukakos

Stavros Giannoukakos

Stavros Giannoukakos is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics and a newly appointed member of the DIANA-Lab. He earned his PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Granada in Spain, where he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow within the European Liquid Biopsy Academy (ELBA), a prestigious EU-funded research network dedicated to advancing cancer diagnostics. His doctoral research, titled “Bioinformatics Approaches for Lung Cancer Early Detection and Diagnosis Based on Liquid Biopsy Data,” focused on developing computational methods for the analysis of non-invasive liquid biopsy sequencing data, with the aim of improving early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer.
Stavros holds a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Crete.
He previously worked as a Junior Bioinformatician at the biotechnology company BaseClear in Leiden, the Netherlands. During his Master’s studies, he also completed research internships at two internationally recognized institutions: the Cancer Center Amsterdam at VU University Medical Center (Netherlands) and the Centre for High-Throughput Biology (CHiBi) at the University of British Columbia (Canada).
His expertise lies in the development of bioinformatics tools and analysis pipelines for high-throughput sequencing data, including both second-generation (Illumina) and third-generation (Oxford Nanopore Technologies and PacBio) platforms.