George K. Kostopoulos is currently professor and chairman of Physiology and directs research at the Neurophysiology Unit of the Medical School of the University of Patras, Greece. He received his MD in 1972 from the University of Athens and his PhD in Physiology in 1977 from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has received training in basic experimental neurophysiology (PhD supervisor J.W. Phillis) and EEG and epileptology (postdoctoral fellow under P. Gloor).
His early teaching appointments included several years at McGill University, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and of Physiology. Currently, besides teaching undergraduate and graduate neuroscience courses at the University of Patras, he is the founding scientific director of the Inter-School Graduate Studies Program: “Informatics for Life Sciences” and its direction Neuroinformatics. He is a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board and Education Editorial Board of the International Brain Research Organization. He was a founding member of the Hellenic Society for Neurosciences and its first president (1985).
He has received awards by the Medical Research Council of Canada and in 1983 the “Michael Price for Epilepsy Research”. His research interests in experimental epileptology have evolved from the single neuron and neurotransmitters level to that of several animal models and of human EEG/MEG and the relations between sleep and epilepsy (see: http://physiology.med.upatras.gr/NU).