Dr Nikolaos Maragkos
Associate Lecturer (Teaching & Scholarship)
Profile
Career
Associate Lecturer (Teaching & Scholarship), Department of Biology, University of York (October 2026–Present)
Visiting Academic and Course Instructor (Neuroscience), School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh (2025–Present)
Member of Council of the Botanical Society of Scotland (BSS), serving as Depute Programme Secretary (2026–Present)
BSS Field Meetings Programme Organiser (2025–2026)
Teaching Fellow in the Life Sciences, Abertay University (2025–2026)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research, The University of Edinburgh (2024–2025)
PhD Neuroscience, School of Psychology and Neuroscience; Postgraduate Teaching, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, and School of Biology, University of St Andrews (2018–2024)
Research Assistant (part-time, during MSc), Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen, Germany (2017)
MSc Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany (2015–2017)
BSc Biomedical Sciences (Physiology Hons.), School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh (2011–2015)
Departmental roles
UG Admissions Tutor (Neuroscience)
Teaching
Undergraduate
Year 2: Becoming a Bioscientist 3: Experimental Design and Communication [BIO00065I]
Year 3: (Honours) Bioscience Capstone Project (BSc) [BIO00028H]
External activities
Memberships
Royal Society of Biology (MRSB)
Society for Experimental Biology
Genetics Society
The Physiological Society
American Physiological Society (APS); APS Center for Physiology Education Community