Maria-Patapia Zafeiriou

Panelist

Maria-Patapia Zafeiriou obtained her PhD in Biochemistry in 2007 from Center of Experimental Gynecology & Eicosanoid Research in Charité, Berlin and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2019, she has served as an Application Specialist for “Stem Cells and Organoids” within the Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Electrically Excitable Cells at the University Medical Center Göttingen, where she also leads the research group “3D Excitable Cell Networks” since 2020. Her research focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing electrically excitable cell networks, with particular emphasis on brain–heart communication, channelopathies, and autonomic dysregulation. Using human tissue engineering, genome editing, and induced pluripotent stem cell technologies, her group develops advanced neuronal and cardiac organoid models to investigate questions in neurodegeneration, epilepsy, and cardiology.