Assistant Professor

Applied Biosciences

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Dr. Erasmia Rouka is an Assistant Professor of Applied Biosciences at the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece. She graduated from the Nursing Department of the School of Health Sciences of the Alexandreio Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki and the School of Biology of the Faculty of Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In addition, she holds a Master's degree in Primary Health Care from the Medical School of the University of Thessaly with a Master's thesis in computational biology and a PhD degree from the Medical School of the same university in the scientific field of molecular epidemiology. She worked for several years at the University Hospital of Larissa, initially as a Nurse (June 2002-May 2008) and then as a Biologist (May 2008-May 2022). She is a member of the Hellenic Thoracic Society, the European Respiratory Society, the European Society of Virology and the European Association for Cancer Research. She has 33 publications in international journals and has participated in several national and international conferences. She has been serving as an Editorial Board member for Frontiers in Physiology since 2017 and is also an Ad-hoc reviewer in international scientific journals with high impact factor. Her current research interests focus on the study of lung and pleural diseases through in silico, immunological and molecular analyses. Dr. Rouka was recently awarded a young faculty research grant from the Research and Innovation Structure of the University of Thessaly for the in vivo study of Cigarette Smoke-induced COPD with the fruit-fly model.