Researcher profile

Alexia Sampri

Background Alexia holds a BEng and MEng in Environmental Engineering by Democritus University of Thrace. During her undergraduate studies she focused on Big Data analysis, statistical modelling, infodemiology and Internet behaviour. Then, she moved to Scotland and completed a MSc in Big Data with distinction, at the University of Stirling. For her dissertation, she applied unsupervised learning techniques to predict water quality parameters using remote sensing data. Afterwards, she completed her PhD in Health Informatics (funded by EPSRC) which was supervised by Prof Peek, at the Centre for Health Informatics at the University of Manchester. Her research focused on probabilistic methods to integrate structured biomedical data. She has co-authored research papers, is a management committee member in different European Networks, participates in training schools, has completed research visits and presents her research on multiple international and national meetings, and conferences. She has been also involved in teaching of many UG and PG courses which led her to obtain a Fellowship by Advance HE. Research Interests Alexia’s post-doctoral work at the CEU mainly focuses on longer-term effects of Covid-19 using whole population electronic health records within the CVD-COVID-UK consortium. Her goal is to pursue a career in researching concepts by aggregating health and environmental data, with a main interest in efficient AI tools for equitable handling of missing values in population-wide e-health records to advance prevention of chronic diseases.