THOMADAKIS CHRISTOS

Christos Thomadakis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He received his degree in Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), specializing in Statistics and Operational Research, and continued with postgraduate studies in “Biostatistics” (NKUA). His doctoral dissertation focused on the development of methods for joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data, while his research trajectory includes participation in national and European research projects at NKUA and the University of Cyprus. He has been awarded the "Eleneio" Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in Statistics (2021–2022), as well as PhD student awards from international conferences (ISCB, EMR-IBS), and has been invited as a speaker at international conferences, including the 64th International Statistical Institute (ISI). His research interests focus on developing methodologies for joint modeling of longitudinal markers and failure events, on nonparametric Bayesian approaches for mixed models using Dirichlet processes, and on building user-friendly libraries (primarily in R) for applications to data from people living with HIV. He is also engaged in developing Bayesian multiparameter evidence synthesis methods to estimate the prevalence of chronic hepatitis C across European Union countries. He has published in leading Biostatistics and Statistics journals (Bayesian Analysis, Biometrics, Biostatistics, Statistics in Medicine, among others) as well as in high-impact Medical and Epidemiology journals (The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, American Journal of Epidemiology, among others).