Michail Kotsyfakis earned his Ph.D. in November 2004 from the University of Crete, supervised by Professor Kitsos Louis at the IMBB-FORTH. Following this, he joined NIAID/NIH, USA, in 2005, as a post-doctoral visiting fellow, specializing in tick molecular biology and biochemistry. In 2009, Kotsyfakis established his research group at the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Budweis, Czechia, supported by the prestigious Jan Evangelista Purkyně fellowship. By July 2016, he became a Full Research Professor at the same institution.

In April 2023, Kotsyfakis repatriated to Greece as a Researcher B at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH. At the age of 48, Kotsyfakis is highly cited, with over 4300 citations and an H-Index of 39 (source: Google Scholar). He has authored 80+ papers in international peer-reviewed journals, holds three patents, and has supervised three awarded Ph.D. theses. His group collaborates globally, delivering invited talks and contributing to five international journals' Editorial Boards.

For complete Publications list click here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Kotsyfakis+M&sort=date

I received a Diploma in Biology (2011) and a MSc in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine (2013) from the University of Crete. I did my PhD in the field of Molecular entomology at the University of Crete and the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (FORTH-IMBB, Heraklion).
My PhD thesis focused on the molecular characterization of organophosphate resistance in the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus.
In October 2017, I joined the Vector Biology group at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK and was awarded an LSTM Director’s Catalyst fund.  In 2019, I received a Sir Henry Wellcome Trust fellowship to study the role of the cuticle in An. gambiae insecticide resistance and physiology. In 2023 I became a Research Scientist at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (FORTH-IMBB) and obtained a grant from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation for the project: ”Unravelling the importance of sodium channel mutations in resistance to contact and volatile pyrethroids in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae”.

Evgenia Ntini received a Diploma in Biology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen. She received her postdoctoral training at Aarhus University, in the lab of TH. Jensen, and as an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow in Berlin (at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Freie Universität Berlin, groups U. Ørom and Annalisa Marsico). She recently started her lab at IMBB FORTH with research objectives in RNA biology and gene regulation.

• Associate Professor in Microbiology, Dept. of Biology University of Crete (Website)
• Associate Professor in Microbiology and Plant Biotechnology, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, UK (Website)