OSF:https://osf.io/8zesw/Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos_OuzounisResearch interests:Genome structure, function and evolution; evolution of protein function; evolution of genetic information-processing systems; theory and applications of biological sequence comparison; data and knowledge representation for genomics; unsupervised machine learning in very large datasets; biologically-inspired hardware & software engineering; synthetic biology; exobiology; science communication.Journals and conferences:• [2007-20 ??]: Associate Editor, PLoS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, Public Library of Science• [2001-20 ??]: Associate Editor, BIOSYSTEMS, Elsevier• [2010-2017]: Associate Editor, PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science• [1998-2006]: Associate Editor, BIOINFORMATICS, Oxford University Press• Member of the FACULTY OF 1000 (www.facultyof1000.com), Bioinformatics Section• Member of the Editorial Board: ARCHAEA, Heron Publishing; BIOINFORMATICS, Oxford University Press; JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; STANDARS IN GENOMIC SCIENCES, Genomics Standards Consortium• Member of the Organizing Committees for the ISMB conferences in 1997 (Greece) & 2003 (Australia), the EMBO workshop “Microbial diversity and metagenomics: science, technology, applications & regulatory affairs” in 2008 (Greece) and the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (HSCBB), later Hellenic Bioinformatics (hbio.info) series• Co-organizer of the conference on Data Mining for Bioinformatics (1999), the BRIE (Biological Research with Information Extraction) satellite meeting at ISMB2001 and the UK BioCyc Tutorial series (2008-9)• Member of the Program Committees of various bioinformatics conferences, including ISMB, the GENOME INFORMATICS WORKSHOP (GIW) and the PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM FOR BIOCOMPUTING (PSB)• Founding officer & member of the Publications Committee, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (www.iscb.org), founding officer and member of the Executive Committees of the MikroBioKosmos initiative, HSCBB, and Hbio.info (Greece)Lived in: Kavala, Athens, Thessalonica, Chalkidiki, York, Heidelberg, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, Cambridge, London, Toronto, Vasiliki, San Francisco, Nicosia, Flic-en-Flac, now at Thessalonica Metropolitan Area (Greece)