Alexandros Vasilikopoulos

Employment

• Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, KU Leuven Bioinformatician
  2023 - Present
• Université Libre de Bruxelles Postdoctoral Researcher
  2022 - 2023
• Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig Research associate (Ph.D. researcher)
  2017 - 2020
• Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Teaching assistant - Bioinformatics for master students
  2015 - 2015
• Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Education

• Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Dr. rer. nat.
  2017 - 2021
• Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn M.Sc. in Organismic Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Palaeobiology
  2013 - 2015
• University of Crete Diploma
  2008 - 2012

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (11)

• Transcriptional profiles of the fish parasite Neoechinorhynchus agilis (Acanthocephala) emphasize energetic stress in males and high cell-division activity in females
  BMC Genomics 2025 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-025-12298-y
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• Whole-genome analyses converge to support the Hemirotifera hypothesis within Syndermata (Gnathifera)
  Hydrobiologia 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s10750-023-05451-9
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• Phylogenomic analyses clarify the pattern of evolution of Adephaga (Coleoptera) and highlight phylogenetic artefacts due to model misspecification and excessive data trimming
  Systematic Entomology 2021 DOI: 10.1111/syen.12508
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• An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)
  BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-020-01631-6
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• Correction to: An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)
  BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-020-01695-4
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• Resolving the phylogenetic position of Hygrobiidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) requires objective statistical tests and exhaustive phylogenetic methodology: a response to Cai et al. (2020).
  Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106923
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• The morphological evolution of the Adephaga (Coleoptera)
  Systematic Entomology 2019 DOI: 10.1111/syen.12403
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• Phylogenomics of the superfamily Dytiscoidea (Coleoptera: Adephaga) with an evaluation of phylogenetic conflict and systematic error
  2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.022
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• New data, same story: phylogenomics does not support Syrphoidea (Diptera: Syrphidae, Pipunculidae)
  Systematic Entomology 2018 DOI: 10.1111/syen.12283
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• Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1815820115
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