Positions and Employment

• Predoctoral student in Max- Planck Institute for Cell Biology, - Ladenburg, F. R. Germany, 1985 – 1986
• Ph. D. thesis  in Max- Planck Institute for Cell Biology, - Ladenburg,  F. R. Germany, 1987 - 1989
• Post-doctoral fellow in the Cell Biology Program of EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 1990 – 1992
• Research Associate in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, in the group of Prof. E. Fuchs, 1992 – 1995
• Instructor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, in the group of Prof. E. Fuchs, 1995 – 1998
• Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois - Chicago, 1998  - 2003
• Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, Medical School – University of Ioannina – Greece, 2003 -

Honors and Awards

• Parker B. Francis Fellow, USA (1999 – 2002)
• Marie Curie Fellow, Greece (2005 – 2008)