2024

  1. Alexandros Stamatakis Invited talk "The National Female Researchers and Professors Program", joint event organized by FORTH and the regional government of Crete on "Female Researchers in Positions of Responsibility", FORTH, December 9, 2024.
  2. Alexandros Stamatakis Invited talk "Machine Learning in Phylogenomics", EMBO Lectur Course on Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics, Nafplio, Greece, November 2024.
  3. Georgios Koutsovoulos Outreach talk "Υπολογίζοντας την Βιοποικιλότητα των Εντόμων στον Λίσταρο -Επιβιώνοντας την Ανθρωπόκαινο", Cultural Association of Listaros Village - Klimatogi, Summer Seminar Series on Science Culture and Sports, Listaros, Crete, Greece, July 2024.
  4. Alexandros Stamatakis Contributed talk "Biodiversity Computing 1.5 years after project start: Insights, Progress, and Challenges", 2nd annual Greek ERA chairs meeting, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, June 2024.
  5. Alexandros Stamatakis Invited talk "Recent Advances in General Phylogenetic Inference and Energy-efficient Computing", Conference on Cross-Linguistic Explorations in Space, Time and Evolution, Tübingen, Germany, June 2024.
  6. Alexandros Stamatakis Keynote talk "Eliminating Subjectivity, Quantifying Uncertainty, and using Machine Learning for Phylogenetic Inference", 2nd Panhellenic Conference of Bioscientists, Alexandroupoli, Greece, March 2024.
  7. Alexandros Stamatakis Guest Lecture "Phylogenetic Inference", University of Thrace MSc program "Applied Bioinformatics & Data Analysis", Alexandroupoli, Greece, on-line, March 2024.
  8. Alexandros Stamatakis Invited talk "Eliminating Subjectivity, Quantifying Uncertainty, and using Machine Learning for Phylogenetic Inference", Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, February 2024.
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2023

  1. Alexandros Stamatakis Keynote Speech in Greek: "RAxML: 20 χρόνια ανάπτυξης λογισμικού ανοιχτού κώδικα για την εξελικτική βιολογία" - "RAxML: 20 years of open source software development for evolutionary biology", Free and Open source Software Communities Meeting, University of Crete, Crete, Greece, October 2023.
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  2. Alexandros Stamatakis "Necessary Reforms in the Greek Academic System", 1st Greek ERA chairs meeting, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Crete, Greece, September 2023.
  3. Alexandros Stamatakis "Quantifying Uncertainty in Evolutionary Analyses", keynote talk, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2023.
  4. Alexandros Stamatakis "Why Greece needs a dedicated female researchers/professors program", Hybrid seminar for gender dimension in research @FORTH in Horizon Europe, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Crete, Greece, July 2023.
  5. Lucas Czech and Alexandros Stamatakis "Leveraging Phylogenetic Placement to understand the Environmental Drivers of Microbial Community Composition", XL Annual Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, Cornell University, USA, July 2023 (talk given by Lucas Czech).
  6. Alexandros Stamatakis "The role of Computer Science in Evolutionary Biology", outreach talk (in Greek), Darwinian Monday lecture series, Heraklion, Crete, May 2023.
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  7. Luise Häuser and Alexandros Stamatakis "General and Language-specific Aspects of Phylogenetic Inference", invited talk, Rethymno, Crete, May 2023.
  8. Alexandros Stamatakis "Quantifying Uncertainty in Evolutionary Analyses", contributed talk, EMBO Satellite Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, May 2023.
  9. Alexandros Stamatakis "Computational Reproducibility by Example of Phylogenetic Inference", lecture, EMBO Summer school on Computational Molecular Evolution, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, May 2023.
  10. Alexandros Stamatakis "Quantifying Uncertainty in Evolutionary Analyses", talk, Biomedical Sciences Research Center (BSRC) Alexander Fleming, Athens, Greece, April 2023.
  11. Alexandros Stamatakis "Optimizing and Parallelizing Phylogenetic Likelihood Calculations", guest lecture, ECE 284 graduate level course on "Parallel Computing in Bioinformatics" (ECE 284), University of California at San Diego, March 2023.
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2022

  1. Alexandros Stamatakis "Necessary Reforms in the Greek Academic System: A semi-outsider's perspective", Horizon WIDERA: Challenges and Perspectives (ERA Chairs), University of Crete, October 2022. PDF