I am Emmanouil D. Karagiannis, Ph.D, I was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece.

I graduated summa cum laude from the Chemical Engineering Department of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. I was an undergraduate research assistant in the Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials of Prof. Elias C. Aifantis and the Laboratory of Electrochemical Processes of Prof. Michael Stoukides. During the last semester of my undergraduate studies, I was a stagiaire in the Applied Fluid Dynamics Department in the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Brussels, Belgium under Prof. Michel Riethmuller.

I received my Ph.D from the Biomedical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland at the Systems Biology laboratory of Prof. Aleksander S. Popel. At Hopkins I collaborated with Prof. Zaver M. Bhujwalla (Radiology and Oncology), Prof. Peter L. Gehlbach (Ophthalmology), Prof. Roberto Pili (Oncology) and Prof. Andre Levchenko (Biomedical Engineering).

I was a post-doctoral research associate in the laboratories of Prof. Robert S. Langer and Prof. Daniel Anderson at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At MIT I collaborated with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Accelrys (currently Dassault Systems, BioVia).

I am currently a research scientist in the Synthetic Neurobiology Group of Prof. Ed Boyden at MIT's Media Lab.