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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
  • Society of General Physiologists
  • British Neuroscience Association
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • Hellenic Society for Neuroscience
  • Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
  • Biochemical Society
  • Microbiology Society
  • Botanical Society of Scotland

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Contact details

Dr Nikolaos Maragkos
Department of Biology
University of York
York
YO10 4DD

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 1736