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Graduate of the Department of Mathematics at Patras University (2003).He received his M.Sc in Applied Statistics (2006) and his Ph.D (2010) from the Department of Statistics at University of Piraeus.Since April 2020, he serves as Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics and Business.He worked as a post-doc Research Associate at the following universities:2011-2012 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Evry, Ile-de-France2012-2015 Faculty of Life Science, University of Manchester, UK2015-2018 Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, UK.Between2018-2019 he worked as adjunct lecturer at Athens University of Economics and Business.His research interests are focused on estimation of finite mixture models, model-based clustering,Bayesian and Computational Statistics and inference on big Bioinformatics data.Selected Publications1.Panagiotis Papastamoulis. Clustering Multivariate Data using Factor AnalyticBayesian Mixtures with an Unknown Number of Components. Statistics and Com-puting, 30:485–506, 20202.2. Panagiotis Papastamoulisand Magnus Rattray. A Bayesian model selection ap-proach for identifying differentially expressed transcripts from RNA sequencing data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 67(1):3–23, 20183.3. Panagiotis Papastamoulis. label.switching: An R package for dealing with the labelswitching problem in MCMC outputs. Journal of Statistical Software, 69(1):1–24,20164.4. Panagiotis Papastamoulisand George Iliopoulos. An artificial allocations basedsolution to the label switching problem in Bayesian analysis of mixtures of distribu-tions. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 19(2):313–331, 2010