Georgios Pavlopoulos
Visiting Professor of Computational Biology
Research Interests
Professor Pavlopoulosís teaching and research interests span bioinformatics across the full stack of data-driven life sciences, with emphasis on genomics and metagenomics, biological networks, and large-scale data integration and mining. He develops computational methods for analyzing planetary-scale metagenomes and organizing novel protein families. He also teaches topics spanning graph/network biology and algorithmic foundations for multi-omics analysis. Professor Pavlopoulos's lab's portfolio extends to text mining, interactive data visualization, big-data analytics, and high-performance computing, with applications in knowledge representation and personalized medicine. Email
In addition to his position at MBZUAI, Professor Pavlopoulos serves as Research Director (Bioinformatics Research Professor) at BSRC 'Alexander Fleming'; is a co-founder and board officer of BioInnovation Greece; and is founder/CEO of GC2 Data Science. He has also consulted in industry and previously held roles at the DOE Joint Genome Institute/LBNL, EMBL, the University of Crete, and KU Leuven.
- Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
- MBA, Athens University of Economics, and Business and National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Master of Research in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Leeds, England
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece
- Breakthrough Paper, 2024 issue of The Nucleic Acids Research Editorial, 2024.
- Finalist for 'Extreme-scale many-against-many protein similarity search', Gordon Bell Prize, 2022.
- Included in the 'Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators' list (for scientists placed in the top 2% of their field worldwide), 2022.
- Chasapi MN., Chasapi IN., Aplakidou E., Baltoumas FA., Karatzas E., Iliopoulos I., Stravopodis DJ., Emiris IZ, Buluç A., Georgakopoulos-Soares I., Kyrpides NC., Pavlopoulos GA: "metagRoot: "A comprehensive database of protein families associated with plant root microbiomes." Nucleic Acids Research, 2025.
- Pavlopoulos GA., Baltoumas FA., Liu S., Selvitopi O., Nayfach S., Azad A., Call L., Pedro Camargo A., Ivanova NN., Chen IM., Paez-Espino D., Karatzas E., Novel Metagenome Protein Families Consortium, Iliopoulos I., Konstantinidis K., Tiedje JM., Baker D., Ouzounis CA., Ovchinnikov S., Buluç A., Kyrpides NC.: "Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics." Nature, 2023.
- Baltoumas FA., Karatzas E., Sirui L., Ovchinikov S., Sofianatos Y., I-Min C., Kyrpides NC., Pavlopoulos GA.: "NMPFamsDB: A database of novel protein families from microbial metagenomes and metatranscriptomes." Nucleic Acids Research, 2023.
- Karatzas E., Baltoumas FA, Aplakidou E., Kontou PI, Stathopoulos P., Stefanis L., Bagos PG., Pavlopoulos GA.: "FLAME (v2.0): advanced integration and interpretation of functional enrichment results from multiple sources." Bioinformatics. 2023.
- Karatzas E, Baltoumas FA, Panayiotou NA,Schneider R, Pavlopoulos GA.: "Arena3Dweb: Interactive 3D visualization of multilayered networks." Nucleic Acids Research, 2021.
- Paez-Espino D, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Pavlopoulos GA, Thomas AD, Huntemann M, Mikhailova N, Rubin E, Ivanova NN, Kyrpides NC: "Uncovering Earth's Virome." Nature, 2016.