Konstantinos Tzortzis

Pro bono Business Analyst Nov 2017 -

First Step Consulting

• Researching and analysing business strategies and financial decisions of business organisations, especially from the medical devices/pharmaceuticals/healthcare industry
• Writing articles presenting and assessing the financial and strategic environment of organisations

Student Facilitator Nov 2016 - Nov 2016

Healthcare Education, EIT Health

• Supervising and training university and master's student teams on design thinking projects relevant to healthcare and entrepreneurship during the i-Day.
• Supporting students training for their pitch.
• Facilitating talks and health innovation training and supporting student teams in the design thinking process (design, development and pitch of an innovative idea).
• Being trained about healthcare entrepreneurship and pitching skills.
i-Day is a European-wide event aimed at boosting the innovative spirit among undergraduate students and kick-starting innovation in the area of health and ageing in Europe.

Research Assistant Sep 2013 - Jun 2014

Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London

Haemato-oncology devision (former Centre of Haematology), Division of Experimental Medicine (Faculty of Medicine), Imperial College London

• Supporting the proteasome group of the Haemato-oncology devision with any supplementing experiments in daily basis
• Planning experiments and lab work
• Presenting research updates to lab meetings
• Supervising a BSc project: teaching, experiment design, academic support
• Co-ordinating in two independent projects which led to publications
• Carrying out molecular biology and biochemistry experiments: proteasome expression, western blot, proteasome activity assays, tissue culture, flow cytometry, chemical compound (affinity) assays

Imperial College London 2015 - 2018

Field of study: Clinical Medicine Research
Degree: PhD

Thesis: "Prediction of cardiac functional and structural abnormalities by electrogram morphology analysis and supervised machine learning"

• Managing an inter-disciplinary project which involves biological and mathematical research work, as a collaboration between NHLI and the Department of Aeronautics
• Teaching undergraduate and summer students and supervising their individual projects
• Developing MatLab code for automated data analysis
• Providing advice and MatLab programming technical support to collaborators
• Writing scientific publications and ongoing preparation of scientific reports
• Presenting research updates to lab meeting
• Presenting my research to national and international conferences and symposia, related to Cardiovascular Science and Cardiac Arrhythmias
• Organising the Machine Learning meetings of the ElectroCardioMaths programme for research updates of the team and a common platform for collaborations/co-operation
• Carrying out cellular, electrophysiology & microscopy experiments: tissue culture, primary cell isolation, animal handling, micro-electrode arrays on cell cultures and tissue slices, optical mapping, immunofluorescence, fluorescence/widefield microscopy, Second Harmonic Generation microscopy, western blot
• Advanced level data analysis & Statistics

Imperial College London 2014 - 2015

Field of study: Biomedical Research - Respiratory and Cardiovascular Research
Degree: MRes

Collaboration between the Cardiac Electrophysiology Lab (Division of Myocardial Function, National Heart & Lung Institute) and the Department of Aeronautics of Imperial College London, as part of the ElectroCardioMaths programme and within the BHF Centre for Research Excellence.
First MRes project: "Influence of atrial geometry on rotor core trajectories in a computer model of cardiac conduction"​, Department of Aeronautics - Supervisors: Prof Spencer Sherwin, Dr Chris Cantwell (5-month project)
Second MRes project title: "The effects of ion channel blockade on electrogram morphology", Division of Myocardial Function, National Heart & Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine - Supervisors: Prof Nicholas Peters, Dr Rasheda Chowdhury (5-month project)

Imperial College London 2012 - 2013

Field of study: Molecular Medicine
Degree: MSc

MSc research project: "Investigation into epigenetic silencing in Friedreich's Ataxia" (6-month project)
Gene Control Mechanisms & Disease group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Supervisor: Prof Richard Festenstein, Clinical Professor of Molecular Medicine

Democritus University of Thrace (Greece) 2008 - 2012

Field of study: Molecular Biology and Genetics
Degree: BSc

Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, School of Health Sciences
43 courses undertaken.
Diploma thesis title: "Study and evaluation of expression levels of HURP and Aurora A proteins in various types of cancer" (10-month project)
Description: Investigation of expression levels of HURP on a variety of gynecological cancers (breast, endometrial, ovarian) and gastro-intestinal cancers (stomach, gut, pancreatic) by qRT-PCR using clinical samples. Optimising experimental conditions for the investigation of HURP and Aurora A protein levels on tissue slices derived from the aforementioned types of cancer. Supervision of other undergraduate students. Setting up collaborations with other laboratories for the purposes of my research project. 

The research project was undertaken at the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Cell cycle & Proteomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace.