Gkikas Magiorkinis graduated from the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, holds an MSc in Biostatistics and holds a PhD in Molecular Epidemiology of Viral Infections (Laboratory of Hygiene Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, University of Athens ). He specialized in Biopathology at the “Andreas Syggros”, “Laiko Nosokomeio” and 401 Military Hospital.
He then worked from 2010 to 2017 at the University of Oxford, as a post-doctoral researcher, Marie Curie Fellow and Fellow of the Medical Council of the UK, receiving at the same time the titles of Junior Research Fellow from St. Cross College and Research Lecturer from the University.
From 2013 to 2017 he worked concurrently as an Honorary Consultant in Medical Virology in the Virus Reference Unit, Public Health England in Colindale, London.
He is a member of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, the Medical Association of Athens, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathology and the Royal Society of Medicine.
He has received the “Ioannis Vlyssidis” medical sciences prize from the Academy of Athens, the first Marie Sklodowska-Curie prize in the Promising Research Talent category and for his clinical contribution to Medical Virology he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists.
He is a sub-domain leader of the 100,000 GeCIP at Genomics England.
His research interests concern the applications of evolutionary virology in modern medicine. He has more than 100 publications including editorials in the journals PNAS, Current Biology, PLoS Medicine, and PLoS Pathogens, as well as letters in Science, New England Journal of Medicine, and Lancet Infectious Diseases.
His work has been covered by Media such as BBC, CNN, New York Times and National Geographic.
His papers in PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Magiorkinis+g
His personal website: https://www.applevir.org