Michail Nomikos

Dr. Nomikos earned his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Liverpool (UK) in 2000; and his M.Sc. in Medical Genetics with Immunology from Brunel University (London, UK) in 2002. The same year, he was awarded a Ph.D. studentship from the School of Medicine to perform his Ph.D. studies at Cardiff University (UK). After completing his Ph.D., he joined the National Center for Scientific Research (N.C.S.R.) ‘Demokritos’ in Athens (Greece). In 2014, Dr. Nomikos was awarded a highly competitive Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship from European Commission to perform his research and teaching duties in the School of Medicine at Cardiff University until 2016. In September 2016, he joined Qatar University as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in the College of Medicine. One of the main research interests of Dr. Nomikos revolves around understanding the cell signaling mechanisms and metabolism during mammalian fertilization and early embryonic development. Moreover, Dr. Nomikos uses multidisciplinary approaches to study the structure and function of proteins involved in various signaling cascades in cardiomyocytes in an effort to understand their role, as well as the role of their disease-causing variants (mutants), in the pathogenesis, predisposition and diagnosis of human cardiac disease (such as arrhythmias, cardiac hypertrophy and early onset cardiac death). Dr. Nomikos has over 40 peer-reviewed publications (including 2 book chapters) in highly ranked scientific journals. In 2013, Dr. Nomikos was awarded the prestigious ‘Fertility and Sterility Investigator Achievement Award’ by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. More recently, Dr. Nomikos received the international "Outstanding Paper Award 2017" of the Asian Journal of Andrology (AJA), the official journal of The Asian Society of Andrology, in recognition of his publication ‘Is PAWP the "real" sperm factor?’ in AJA, for which Dr Nomikos was the primary and senior author. In August 2019, Dr. Nomikos was appointed as the Head of Research and Graduate studies in the College of Medicine at Qatar University.