Sakkalis Vangelis
Dr. Vangelis Sakkalis is a Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science at FORTH (ICS-FORTH).
Research Interests
His research interests are in the broader area of Computational Medicine and Biomedical Engineering:
- Biomedical Informatics
- Computational Neuroscience
- Biosignal Analysis (EEG, MEG, ECG)
- Time frequency & nonlinear synchronization analysis
- Functional Connectivity analysis & Source localization techniques
- Network Visualization and Characterization
- Medical/ Diagnostic Imaging
- Optical Tomography and Tissue characterization
- Medical Image Analysis
- Molecular Imaging
- Software Architectures for Medical Image Management
- Computational Oncology
- In-silico tumor growth modeling
- Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
- Neuroeconomics
Participation in Research Projects
- TUMOR: Transatlantic Tumour Model Repositories, € 1.91 Million, 01/04/2010-31/03/2013 (Coordinator)
- YP.ER.THE.N: Clinical Research Infrastructure and methodology for personalized tumor diagnosis and therapy (Interreg Greece-Cyprus 2007-2013). 1.150.000 €, 1/6/2011-31/5/2013 (Project Coordinator on behalf of FORTH)
- p-Medicine: personalized ‘medicine’, € 13.329.908, 01/02/2011-31/01/2015
- INTEGRATE: Driving Excellence in Integrative Cancer Research through Innovative Biomedical Infrastructures, 818.300 €, 1/2/2011-31/1/2014
- EURECA: Enabling Information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and Care 2011-2015
- REMOTE: Health and Social Care for Independent Living of Isolated Elderly with Chronic Conditions, 06/2009- 05/2012 (Project Manager on behalf of CML)
- Contra Cancrum: Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling, € 5.167.660, 01/08/2008-31/07/2011 (Project Manager on behalf of FORTH)
- VPH Noe: Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE), € 806.877,77, 01/06/2008-30/11/2012 (third party through ECRIM, Project Manager on behalf of FORTH)
- ACGT: Advancing Clinico-Genomic Clinical Trials on Cancer: Open Grid Services for Improving Medical Knowledge Discovery, € 17.685.539, 01/02/2006-31/01/2010
- Rural Wings, € 14.500.000, 01/01/2006-31/12/2009 (Project Manager on behalf of FORTH)
- LOCCANDIA: Lab-on-chip based protein profiling for Cancer diagnosis, € 4.2M, 01/06/2006-31/05/2009
- HEARTFAID: A Knowledge based platform of services for supporting medical - clinical management of heart failure within elderly population, € 3.220.115, 01/02/2006-31/01/2009
- INFOBIOMED: Structuring European Biomedical Informatics to Support Individualized Healthcare FP6-2002-IST-1/European Union, € 4.85M, 01/01/2004-31/12/2006
- TWISTER: Terrestrial Wireless Infrastructure integrated with Satellite Telecommunications for E-Rural applications, € 6.83M, 01/02/2004-31/01/2007
- OPENECG: Computerized ECG Standards Interoperability Portal, € 457.894, 01/07/2002-30/06/2004
- HYGEIA' S PROTYPON, National Network of excellence on the use of standards in the national healthcare setting, Ministry of Development (Programme EΠAN), 2002-2004 (Project Manager on behalf of FORTH).
- ICT Services for the GR hostname National Registry
Short CV
Dr Vangelis Sakkalis holds an Associate Researcher position in the Institute of Computer Science (ICS-FORTH). He holds a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering and is currently a member of the Institute of Computer Science – Foundation for Research and Technology (ICS - FORTH). Previously he completed his Masters’ degree at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK. His background falls in Biomedical Engineering, Atomic-Molecular Physics, Optoelectronics and Laser. His research interests include biosignal and image analysis, visualization, classification algorithms, biostatistics and biomedical informatics and modeling. He is currently the Technical Coordinator of TUMOR (ICT EC project concerning cancer modeling interoperability).
He has participated in numerous EU projects and has published more than 80 papers in scientific archival journals, proceedings of international conferences/ workshops and scientific newsletters, related to his fields of expertise. He has given numerous invited lectures worldwide and his research has been funded by numerous funding agencies and companies.
