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Professor Gkoutos has joined us as a UCCS fellow as a visiting scientist from June 2023. He holds the chair of Clinical Bioinformatics, a joint appointment between the University of Birmingham Medical School and the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, UK. He is the Director of the Health Data Science Centre at the University of Birmingham, a Faculty Affiliate Professor of Clinical Bioinformatics, Berkeley Lab, Associate Director of MRC Health Data Research UK, Co-Director of the WCH-Birmingham Research Institute, Alan Turing Fellow and a Fellow of the Robinson College at University of Cambridge.
His main interests lie within the areas of clinical and biomedical informatics, health data science and translational research aiming at the discovery of molecular origins of human disease and the development of novel disease diagnostic and intervention strategies. His expertise lies in the fields of integrative systems biology, biomedical knowledge formalization, standardisation and representation, multimodal large data harmonization, interoperability and integration, translational phenomics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and multiomics, multimodal integrative analytics. He has over 200 peer reviewed publications [total grant funding (last 5 years) > £60M, personal >5.2 million; h-index 59, i10 index 166] and is closely involved with international efforts to integrate large phenotype datasets from the main high throughput phenotyping centres in Europe, Australasia and North America, and policy development in data and resource standards and sharing.