Solon Pissis

Solon Pissis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a visiting fellowship and focuses on algorithms and data structures for string and tree analysis, with applications in bioinformatics, data mining, and information retrieval.

• Education: BSc in Computer Science (University of Athens, 2003-2007), MSc in High-Performance Computing (University of Edinburgh, 2007-2008), PhD in Computer Science (King's College London, 2008-2012), and Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (King's College London, 2015-2016).

His research interests include pattern matching, indexing, and regularity detection in strings and trees. Recent work explores elastic-degenerate string comparison, subsequence covers, and applications in bioinformatics.

His 2025 publications highlight advancements in string algorithms (e.g., elastic-degenerate comparison, subsequence covers), graph-based marketing analytics, and privacy-aware data imputation. These contributions bridge theoretical computer science with practical applications in genomics and data engineering.

• Advising: Supervised 1 PhD thesis.
• Teaching: Courses include Algorithms in Sequence Analysis and Fundamentals of Bioinformatics.