Dr. Helen Gika is assistant professor of Biomolecular Analysis at the Department of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She studied Chemistry (2000) and received his PhD (2004) in HPLC of hormones from the Aristotle University.
She worked in the regulation and food quality control (Athens Greece), on the development of metabonomics tools for biomarker discovery research in AstraZeneca (Alderley Park, UK) and, as post-doctorate researcher through EU FP7 individual fellowship on biomarker discovery Aristotle University.
She then worked at FEM IASMA on plant/food metabolomics. She started as lecturer at the Dept. Chemical Engineering Aristotle University (2011) before moving to the Dept. of medicine (2015) where she is assistant Professor. Her research focuses on analytical separations (HPLC, LC–MS and GC–MS) and their application in life sciences. She received awards for her research and was in the list of top 40 under 40 for the Analytical Chemist. Her work has resulted in more than 140 publications and book chapters and generated more than 6500 citations (h=39). She has guest-edited three special issues on Metabolomics and a book in Methods in Mol. Biology Series (Metabolic Profiling, 2018, Springer).