He has received his BSc in Neuroscience from University College London (UCL), followed by a PhD in Visual Neurobiology at Professor Semir Zeki’s lab at UCL. He has also worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the laboratory of Professor Nikos Logothetis, at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen. Since 2007 he has moved to the Department of Philosophy & History of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In his work, he has used neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, fMRI and psychophysical methods to study the brain mechanisms underlying visual perception, with an emphasis on the relationship between the latter and consciousness.