Dr. Styliani Georgiou

Dr. Styliani Georgiou is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences at UNIC Athens, where she teaches Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Metabolism, Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Pharmaceutical Microbiology. She holds a BSc, an MSc, and a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of Thessaly.

Her research focuses on gene regulation, microRNAs, and molecular biomarkers. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, she led the liver transcriptomics group for the Horizon 2020 GALAXY project. Her work on a non-invasive biomarker panel for alcohol-related liver disease was selected for the "Best of The Liver Meeting" by the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease in 2019. Previously, her postdoctoral research at the Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR) in Portugal and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRAE) focused on the molecular regulation of skeletal muscle development.

In addition to her current teaching, Dr. Georgiou previously taught the Introduction to Biotechnology course as part of the MSc programme in Data Science and Information Technologies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has supervised doctoral and master's theses. She has authored 18 peer-reviewed scientific publications, a book chapter in The Human Gut-Liver-Axis in Health and Disease (Springer), and contributed to the Greek translation of Campbell Biology. Alongside her academic work, she also has practical experience in clinical trial operations and scientific affairs within the pharmaceutical sector.