Konstantina Boutsika

Professional Activities

  • Development of disease information systems
  • Management and curation of malariometric and research databases
  • Associate lecturer in the MSc courses of the Swiss Tropical Institute, University of Basel
  • Supervision of junior staff and students working on database projects

Higher Education & Qualifications

  • BSc, 1994 Honours 1st Class in Crop Protection, University of Agricultural Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • MSc, 1998 Honours 1st Class in Natural Sciences (Virology), Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari (IAM-B), Bari, Italy
  • PhD, 2002 in Biological Sciences (Nematology and Plant Pathology-Virology), University of Dundee, Scotland, UK 

Work Experience

  • 1994-1997: Research associate in the Virological Laboratory of Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Athens, Greece
  • 2000-2002: Associate lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
  • 2002-2003: Research associate in Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, Scotland, UK
  • 2003-2007: Postdoctoral research fellow in Epigenetics at Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2003-2007: Lecturer in plant cell and molecular biology at Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • 2007-todate: Database Scientist, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland