Assist. Prof. of Medical Education Informatics, Lab of Medical Informatics , Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Panagiotis Bamidis is currently an Assist. Prof. of Medical Education Informatics, at the Lab of Medical Informatics & a member of the Medical Education Office, at the Medical School, AUTH. In the last 3 years, he has been the co-ordinator of three large European projects (www.meducator.net; www.longlastingmemories.eu; www.epblnet.eu) as well as the principal investigator for a number of national and international funded projects (more than 30 in total). His publication record consist of more than 60 international refereed journal papers, and over 200 international peer reviewed conference papers, as well as several book chapters / edited conference proceedings volumes and over some 280 citations (h-index=11). In addition, he has been acting as a referee in more than 20 journals, and as Guest Editor in more than 12 journal special issues. Finally, he is a member of the Administration Board of the Greek Federation of Alzheimer’s Associations and Related Disorders, the Innovation Zone of Thessaloniki, Greece, the Hellenic Biomedical Engineering Society (ELEBIT), where he also acts as the Treasurer, and the Greek Association of Space Medicine Research. He has been the Chairman/Organiser of six international conferences (iSHIMR2001, iSHIMR2005, MEDICON2010, GASMA2010, SAN2011, MEI2012) and the Conference Producer of the Medical Education Informatics Conference and Spring School Series. His research interests are within technology enhanced learning in Medical Education (web2.0, semantic web, serious games, virtual patients, PBL), Affective and Physiological Computing and HCI, Health Information Management, Bio)medical Informatics with emphasis on neurophysiological sensing, signal analysis, and imaging of human emotions, as well as, Assistive Technologies for Active Ageing and special education. In 2009, he was awarded the Prize of the AUTH Research Committee for the Best Track Record in funded research projects among AUTH young academic staff