Digital sobriety? DNA might be the solution
Melpomeni Dimopoulou

Melpomeni Dimopoulou

POSTDOC Student combining Computer Science and Biology

A graduate engineer from the University of Patras in Greece, Melpomeni Dimopoulou combines her passion for computer science and biology. As a PhD student at the I3S laboratory (Université Côte d'Azur and CNRS) in Sophia Antipolis, her research areas focus on the storage of digital data on DNA. In 2018, Melpomeni received the best paper award at the CORESA (Compression and Signal Representation) congress. The following year, she won the final of the "My Thesis in 180 Seconds" competition of the University of the Côte d'Azur Chapter as well as one of the best student paper prizes at the EUSIPCO (European Signal Processing Conference).

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