Iro Koliakou

Dr. Iro Koliakou is the STEM Coordinator of Αnatolia College. She coordinates Erasmus + projects in Anatolia College related to STEAM education and teaches Physics in Anatolia College Highschool. She also teaches in the Masters Program Regenerative Medicine of the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a member of the instructional staff of the John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Greece and has developed the online course Biomedical Engineering and the future of Medicine. She is an ambassador for Scientix, the community for science education in Europe, a member of the executive board of European STEAM educators association and a member of Science on Stage Deutschland, developing STEM activities related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. She is a member of the Greek Women in STEM Association, a mentor for Real Science and a member of the Global talent mentoring program. She holds a Physics degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a Master of Science from the Biomedical Engineering Department of Imperial College London and a PhD from the Biology Department of Aristotle University Thessaloniki. From 2009 she has worked in the private biotechnology sector in laboratory quality management and research and development responsible for implementation and internal audits of European R&D projects. She has published 15 scientific papers in international journals. She has received teacher training from ESA Robotics and Automation Lab (2018), European Molecular Biology Learning Lab ( 2017 & 2020 ), CERN (2019) and European Schoolnet Future Learning Classroom ( 2019)