Short CV

Georgios Koutsovoulos studied molecular biology and genetics at Democritus University of Thrace in Greece (2008). In 2009 he moved to Edinburgh, Scotland where he obtained an MSc in Bioinformatics (2010) and a PhD for his work on nematode phylogenetics (2015). He continued working as a PostDoc in the area of evolutionary genomics on different taxa (snails, tardigrades, fungi, bacteria, nematodes). In 2016 he moved to Sophia-Antipolis, France to work on plant parasitic nematode species at INRAe. In 2022, he started working at ANSES on honey bee pathogens. After 14 years abroad, he returned to Greece in 2023 at the Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas in Crete to work on biodiversity projects. He has authored more than 40 publications addressing various evolutionary questions.

Research Interests

• comparative and evolutionary genomics
• bioinformatics software
• phylogenomics
• horizontal gene transfer
• origin & evolution of host-parasite relationships.