Orestis Efthimiou studied physics in the University of Athens and was awarded a PhD in theoretical physics in 2008, from the University of Ioannina, Greece. In 2017 he was awarded a second PhD in biostatistics, from the same university. In 2020 he was granted a Habilitation in Biostatistics by the University of Bern. In 2020 he was awarded an Honorary membership from the Psychiatry Department, University of Oxford, UK.
10/2022 – present
Senior Biostatistician, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) (40%)
Head of Research Group “Biostatistics and Methodology” at the Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM) (60%)
10/2018 – 2022
Post-doctoral Fellow at the ISPM, Principal Investigator of the SNF Ambizione grant titled “Predicting the real-world effectiveness and safety of medical interventions”.
09/2016 – 09/2018
Post-doctoral Fellow at the ISPM
09/2012 – 06/2016
Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece
10/2009 – 08/2011
Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, University of Ioannina, Greece
Education
09/2012 – 06/2017
PhD in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece
09/2003 – 06/2008
PhD in Theoretical Physics. Physics Department, University of Ioannina, Greece. Thesis: “Hawking Radiation from Extra Dimensional Black Holes”.
09/1998 – 07/2003
Bachelor’s Degree in Physics. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
