Dr. Athanasios Zacharopoulos received his Degree in Mathematics, 1999, from the Department of Mathematics in the Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki. After an MSc in Vision Imaging and Virtual Environments he completed his PhD thesis “Three-Dimensional Shape-Based Reconstructions in Medical Imaging” from the Computer Science Department in University College London.  His main research interests lay in the field of (Biomedical) Imaging and more specifically 3D Image Reconstruction algorithms, Inverse problems, Parametric description of 3D surfaces and Boundary Element – Finite Elements modelling with main focus on the applications of Optical Tomography. He has been working as a Research Associate at FORTH since 2009.  

Other positions: Research Associate in the Computer Science Dept.  and the Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) of University College London 2005-2012.Researcher in Mathematics in the Departamento de Matematicas Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Dec 2004 until August 2005), Visiting Researcher in the Optical Imaging Lab, NMR Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston.(July 2004), Visiting Researcher in the Department of Applied Physics, University of Kuopio, Finland, (September – October 2003). Citations 696, h-index 13 (Oct 2024)

Interests

• Image Processing - Medical Imaging Processing
• Inverse Problems - 3D Image Reconstruction algorithms
• Microscopy - Optical Projection Tomography
• Image registration and fusion
• Fluorescence Molecular Tomography