Sofia Georgakopoulou
Data Management Services Team Lead
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSofia Georgakopoulou is a data management leader with a decade of experience bridging biophysics research and secure scientific computing, currently heading the Data Management Services team at sciCORE, University of Basel. With a PhD in Biophysics and an MAS in architecture/CAAD, she combines deep domain knowledge of structure–function relationships with practical expertise in trusted research environments, data transfer orchestration, and data protection for national initiatives like SPHN and BioMedIT. She has led interdisciplinary teams, built university-wide data management strategy, and helped establish ITSM practices to operationalize secure health-data research at scale. Her background as a researcher and front-end developer gives her a rare ability to translate complex scientific requirements into usable, auditable infrastructure and tools. Notably, she has experience founding and steering a science-focused startup and designing interactive analysis platforms, reflecting both entrepreneurial drive and technical breadth.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biophysics, photosynthesis, PhD, Biophysics, photosynthesis at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion AthinonMAS, Arch - CAAD, MAS, Arch - CAAD at ETH Zürich
English, French, Dutch, German, Greek
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Github Skills (14)
ontologies10
triplestore10
api-platform9
rdf9
api8
angular7
cql7
angular-reactive-forms6
user-interface6
database5
material-design5
infrastructure5
image-gallery4
graphicsmagick2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sofiag/hello-world
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
testingdeletedto-be-deletedtest-repository
dhlab-basel/Salsah
Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
The generic user interface for Knora
Contributions:27 commits, 33 PRs, 209 pushes in 1 year 6 months
user-interfacecqlgenericdatabaseknora
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