Evangelos I. Kritsotakis
Short Bio
I am a Professor of Biostatistics at the Medical School of the University of Crete in Greece. I joined the School as an Associate Professor in December 2018 and was elected to a full professorship in May 2026. Before this, I held a post as a tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the University of Sheffield, UK (2014-2018), where I maintained an honorary post of Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Population Health until December 2024.
My first degree was in mathematics (University of Crete, Greece, 1998), followed by a Master's in statistics and operational research (University of Essex, UK, 2000). I underwent training in applied epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA, 2005). I was awarded a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Crete in 2007.
My academic teaching includes introductory and advanced modules in Medical Statistics, Epidemiology, and Research Methodology in undergraduate medicine, and postgraduate programmes in Public Health and the Surgical Sciences. I teach the core module Survival Data Analysis in the MSc in Biostatistics and Health Data Science at the University of Athens. I supervise several master's and doctoral students doing applied and/or methodological research in these fields.
I have 20 years of experience in designing and analysing clinical and epidemiological research studies in acute care hospitals and other healthcare settings. My published research comprises mainly collaborative, applied, and translational studies, with long-term interdisciplinary work on the clinical epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections, multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria, and antimicrobial drugs. My experience includes aetiological studies using survival analysis methods, prognostic studies to develop and validate clinical prediction models, quasi-experimental and time-series studies to evaluate clinical and population-based interventions, epidemiological cohort and case-control studies, complex sample surveys, and systematic reviews and meta-analyses. I have served as the lead biostatistician for more than 70 research studies, resulting in publications in international scientific journals that have garnered over 3,300 citations and a Hirsch index of 30 (i10 index = 51) as of June 2026, according to Google Scholar.
Other career landmarks:
- Recognising my research contribution, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America awarded me the William Jarvis Award in 2009, while I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, Zoonoses and Geographical Medicine at the University of Crete.
- During 2010–12 and 2015–17, I contributed actively to the ECDC European Network for Healthcare-associated Infection Surveillance (HAI-Net). I was a member of the National Coordination Team that designed and implemented the first two national prevalence studies of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in acute-care hospitals in Greece.
- In 2017, I achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK, following an external evaluation of my experience, practice, and leadership of teaching and learning.
- In 2018, the Royal Statistical Society awarded me the title of Chartered Statistician (CStat), the highest professional designation granted by the Society.
- In May 2022, I was elected as an Associate Editor for the journal "Public Health" under the auspices of the Royal Society of Public Health (published by Elsevier), and I was promoted to Senior Associate Editor in February 2024. In May 2024, I became an Associate Editor for the journal "npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine" of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (published by Springer Nature).
A recent academic CV can be downloaded from the link below:
Professional Activities
- Fellow and Chartered Statistician (CStat) of the Royal Statistical Society.
- Member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, serving on the ISCB Student Conference Award Committee since 2023. Member of the ISCB 45th Conference Local Organising Committee (Thessaloniki, July 2024).
- Fellow (FHEA) of the Higher Education Academy/AdvanceHE (awarded July 2017).
- Member of the Royal Society for Public Health (MRSPH).
- Senior Associate Editor of the journal Public Health and Member of the International Editorial Board of the journal Public Health in Practice (Royal Society for Public Health, published by Elsevier).
- Associate Editor of the journal "npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine" of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (published by Springer Nature).
- Guest editor of special issues in the journals Medicina and Antibiotics.
- Statistical reviewer for the Lancet Infectious Diseases, the Lancet Regional Health, the Lancet Microbe, and other Lancet group journals.
- Acknowledged as one of the top reviewers in 2020 for the journal Clinical Microbiology and Infection (recognition letter here).
- Expert reviewer for several high-impact medical journals: see my record in Web of Science.
- Mentor, The Tipping Point organisation, providing group mentoring sessions for secondary school students on academic, professional and career decisions (profile here).
Identifiers
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9526-3852
- WoS ResearcherID: R-2276-2016
- Scopus Author ID: 9242853500
- Dimensions record: ur.01242115032.99
- Google Scholar: bEsrTzwAAAAJ
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