Anastasios Gaitanis

Dr Anastasios Gaitanis is a research scientist at professor level at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. Dr. Gaitanis is responsible for the preclinical PET/CT imaging Unit and his research area is on PET imaging. Anastasios Gaitanis holds a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Medical Physics from the University of Patras, since 2010 and a postgraduate degree (MSc) in Medical Physics from the University of Surrey, the UK in 2001. He also holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering Technology from the University of West Attica (ex TEI of Athens) since 2000.  As a researcher, he has participated in Greek and international research programs and has taught courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Universities of Athens, West Attica, and Patras. Dr. Gaitanis is a reviewer in several research journals with impact factors and he is also an Expert Evaluator (reviewer) for several EU research grants. He works in the field of medical tomographic imaging since 2003. At the beginning of his career, he dealt with computed tomography (CT) dedicated to breast cancer imaging. His involvement with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging is since 2005. His research interests, apart from the PET image reconstruction, are in computational intelligence systems in PET, as well on quantification in PET imaging aiming to improve cancer diagnosis. Currently, he acts as a project manager in the development of a new Radiogenomics Unit of BRFAA, a program funded by the EU and RRF funds.