Assistant Researcher
ORCID: 0009-0006-7210-8987
Galatia Photiou is currently a Researcher within the Resilient Society Department of the Eratosthenes CoE working on Epidemics/ Health area. Galatia is an epidemiologist with a PhD in Environmental and Public Health from the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) focusing on Cardiovascular Epidemiology. The aim of her PhD was to decode the effect of social gradient and area indicators on arterial health: From the community to the individual and back (DEpICT study). Galatia has an MSc in Environmental Health from Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health in association of Harvard School of Public Health of Cyprus University of Technology and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Crete. Though these years she had several research positions under Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics Research Lab (CVEG Lab) under CUT, as the main investigator of the CARTESIAN – CY: “Covid-19 effects on ARTErial StIffness and vascular AgiNg”, a prospective cohort multicenter collaborative study initiated by the Artery Society with the support of COST Action VascAgeNet (CA18216), in order to explore medium- and long-term vascular consequences of COVID-19 , a project manager and a research associate of an Erasmus+ small scale programme called e-CREDENTIAL : Educating, Creating awareness and Empowering women with familial hypercholesterolemia and contributing to the development of a national patient registry for Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) in Cyprus (Cyprus-FH). She has also extensive teaching experience in various fields of Public Health and experienced in study design, logistics, including sample acquiring and storage, and analysis of large epidemiological studies. Her main research interest lies in cardiovascular and related ageing diseases, emphasizing on the epidemiology of arteriosclerosis and arterial ageing.
