Georgios Gkoutos

Prof. Georgios Gkoutos holds an honorary professorial appointment in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University. His research focuses on ontology development, computational biology, and integrative approaches to phenomics across species. He contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals through work in bioinformatics and biodiversity.

Key areas include phenotype ontology design, plant genomics (via Planteome database), and biomedical semantics. Notable projects include the 2014-2015 'Common Reference Ontologies in Plant Biology' funded by Oregon State University.

Publications span 1999-2018, emphasizing ontology integration (e.g., PhenomeNET), cross-species phenotype analysis, and tools like AberOWL for scalable ontology reasoning. His work bridges computer science with biological applications in agriculture, evolutionary biology, and medical genetics.