Georgios Hadjigeorgiou is a Professor of Neurology, Medical School, University of Cyprus. He received his MD and PhD degree from Kapodistrian & National University of Cyprus. Previous academic positions include Professor of Neurology/Chair of the Department of Neurology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Greece. His postdoctoral training includes post-doctoral research fellowships at University of Milano, and Columbia University, New York. His major research interest is in the field of Neurogenetics/ genetic epidemiology of complex neurological diseases (Metabolic Myopathies, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Dementia, etc) His research output includes more than 240 PubMed publications and his activity has been recognized in >6000 citations in Scopus (h-index=40) and >9000 in Scholar (h-index=52).