Principle Investigator

Dr. Stylianou holds a position of assistant professor at European University Cyprus.

Dr. Stylianou received a Diploma (Bachelor of Science/Master of Science) from the Department of Physics, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Science, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2007. The same year he joined the Biomedical Optics & Applied Biophysics Laboratory and the graduate program of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NTUA, to pursue his doctoral studies. Simultaneously with his PhD studies, he was awarded a Master of Science in Medical Physics (2011) from the Faculty of Science, The Open University, United Kingdom. After the completion of his PhD (2014), Dr. Stylianou worked (2015) as a Special Scientist at the Cyprus University of Technology, as a Scientific Collaborator at the European University of Cyprus and as a Part Time Lecturer at the Intercollege-Limassol Cyprus. In June 2015 he joined the Cancer Biophysics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Cyprus, as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellow (project “MYO-DESMOPLASIA: Modulating the behaviour of cancer myofibroblasts to control tumour desmoplasia)”. Also in 2018 Dr. Stylianou received his second PhD in Health Care Management from the Faculty of Economics and Management, Open University of Cyprus. His overall research interests include the areas of Atomic Force Microscopy, Biomaterials-Collagen based biomaterials, Optical Radiation-Tissue Interactions (such as UV-collagen and Low Level Laser-collagen interactions), Cells-Biomaterials Interactions and Nanotechnology.He also worked as a post-doctoral research fellow for the project “”ReEngineeringCancer””, while now he works for the projects PacaFingerPrints and CancerFingerPrints.  Dr. Stylianou was recently awarded the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation  – Cyprus Research Award  – Young Researcher.