Summary
Maria Kamouyiaros is a bioinformatician at the Natural History Museum, London, with eight years' experience applying 'omics to marine ecology and evolutionary biology. A first-generation university graduate and immigrant, she progressed from marine ecology to a PhD in marine biology and now builds accessible, reproducible bioinformatics tools—currently an automated metagenome assembly pipeline tailored for low-quality Illumina libraries and museomics. Her work blends applied research with a passion for open-access data and making STEM more inclusive, and she routinely tackles eco-evolutionary questions using computational approaches. Based in London, she combines field-born ecological insight with rigorous computational practice to deliver practical pipelines for challenging specimen-derived datasets.
8 years of coding experience
MSc, Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology, Distinction, MSc, Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology, Distinction at University of Aberdeen
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography at School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Grammar School, Limassol, Cyprus
Greek, English, German, Spanish