Kostas Perisinakis was born in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in 1968. He received his BSc. in Physics from the University of Athens in 1991, his MSc in Medical Physics from the University of Patras in 1995 and his PhD in 1999 from the Medical School of the University of Crete. He joined the Medical Physics Department of the Medical School of the University of Crete and University Hospital of Heraklion in 1996 as Scientific Associate. In 2000 he was elected Lecturer of Medical Physics, in 2005 Assistant Professor, in 2015 Associate Professor and since 2020 serves as Professor of Medical Physics in the Medical School of the University of Crete. He is a member of the Greek Association of Medical Physicists (GAMP), the European Federation of Medical Physics (EFOMP), the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the Greek Association of Nuclear Medicine. He has been elected member of the administrative bord in the Association of Academic Personnel of the University of Crete.He is author or co-author in more than 120 scientific papers published in peer-review journals indexed in Index Medicus and PubMed, which have received more than 3000 citations (h-index 30, Scopus May 2022). He has participated as invited speaker in more than 100 national/international conferences/seminars. He is member of the Editorial Board of the ‘European Journal of Medical Physics (EJMP)’ and serves as Reviewer in >40 peer-review journals e.g. Medical Physics’, ‘Physics in Medicine and Biology’, ‘Radiology’, ‘European Radiology’, ‘Investigative Radiology’, ‘Journal of American College of Cardiology’ and ‘Circulation’ among others.
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