Affiliation: University of Sussex

Professor Georgios Giamas obtained his Biology degree (BSc) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. He then undertook his Doctoral degree (PhD - magna cum laude) at the University of Ulm in Germany. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Ulm, he moved to Imperial College London at 2007, working as a Research Associate in the Division of Surgery and Cancer. In 2011, he was awarded Imperial College's prestigious Junior Research Fellowship. In 2012, he was awarded a NIHR Senior Research Fellowship and was appointed as a Research Team Leader. In July 2015, he became an Associate Professor (Reader) in Cell Signalling at University of Sussex while holding an honorary contract (Visiting Reader) with Imperial College. Since May 2018, he is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedicine at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex.