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Hi everyone, I’m Antonis and I am a lecturer at King’s College London!

My group works on developing methods to treat brain diseases. Our main tool is -surprise surprise- bubbles! Tiny bubbles, but still bubbles. I’m really looking forward to babble about bubbles, and have fun bubbling around with all of you.

If I am not at work, you’ll find me cooking, travelling, jogging, and watching movies at the local cinema.

Can’t wait to meet all of you! 🙂

I am an academic at King’s College London. Being an academic involves two main tasks: teaching and research. I teach medical imaging and therapeutic ultrasound applications, which are relevant to my research expertise. My research groups focuses on therapeutic ultrasound applications in the brain.

What we do is using focused ultrasound and tiny gas particles called microbubbles, to open up the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The BBB protects our brains from pathogens (e.g. bacteria, viruses) but at the same time blocks most of the drugs we have to treat brain diseases. The ultrasound beam forces these tiny bubbles to oscillate in the blood vessels. These oscillations push the BBB and temporarily disrupt it.

We use this technique to achieve targeted therapies of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and brain tumours. The possibilities are endless! We also welcome high-school interns throughout the year, so please reach out if you are interested in an internship in our lab!

I wake up between 6.30 and 7.30am. I usually have tea and a slice of bread with honey to get things going!

My day-to-day work typically includes meetings with my collaborators, researchers, and students. When we have an experiment, the first thing to do is prepare the experimental setup and then conduct the measurements. This can take a while, usually the whole day! I also prepare for lectures and then deliver them to undergraduate or postgraduate students. I spend a lot of time trying to help students with their career plans, conducting interviews, etc.

My main task it to write scientific grants, in order to fund my research and my lab members. This takes a lot of time and requires a lot of new ideas to solve existing problems. Most of the times your applications are not successful, but when we do get this funding it feels really nice!