Dr Demetris Lamnisos has a BSc degree in Mathematics and Statistics (University of Cyprus, 2004), and an MSc and PhD degrees in Statistics (University of Warwick, 2010). Currently, Dr Lamnisos is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and acts as a Chairperson of the Department of Health Sciences and co-coordinator of the Master of Public Health at the European University Cyprus. Dr Lamnisos has research interests in multivariate spatial statistics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with applications in Public Health and Epidemiology. In particular, he is developing spatial factor models for summarizing area-level deprivation indices from census-data and clustering methods for creating the Cyprus national statistics area classification. Furthermore, he has research interest in Bayesian Model Averaging and Bayesian Hierarchical models with applications in Public Health. Specifically, he is developing spatial hierarchical models for disease mapping to investigate the geographical distribution of health data and the social gradient in health across Cypriot communities. All the developed statistical models are implemented in freely accessible software such as R and BUGS using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. The work he authored/co-authored have been published in high impact journals, and disseminated widely at local and international conferences (EUPHA, ISBA, GEOMED). He is member of the Management Committee of the COST action: “Towards an International Network for Evidence-based Research in Clinical Health Research (EVBRES)” CA17117. His teaching experience covers a broad range of statistical subjects, including Biostatistics, Bayesian methods, Multi-level models, Methods for Missing data, Structural Equation Modelling, Meta Analysis and Computational Statistics at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level.

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