Mr. Markatos is an Academic Fellow - Researcher at the University of Athens. He received his degree in Speech and Language Therapy from Patras Technological Educational Institute.
After completing his studies in the Department of Speech and Language Therapy, he continued his studies at the University of Manchester (UoM) in England where he received a BSc degree with Honours in Audiology. Returning to Greece, he completed his military duties and joined Professor’s Biba research team (Ά ORL Clinic, Hippocration General Hospital of Athens) and at the same time he is PhD Candidate at the University of Athens, Greece under Prof. Biba supervision.
His clinical interest is in the field of Audiology with special interest in central auditory processing disorders. He has participated as a researcher in 6 European research programs (FP7 and Horizon 2020) related to mathematical cochlear modeling (SIFEM), the development of a computer system for the diagnosis and treatment of balance disorders (EMBalance), regeneration of hair cells (REGAIN), SMART BEAR (Smart Big Data Platform to Offer Evidence-based Personalised Support for Healthy and Independent Living at Home) and Big data analytics from the use of 'smart' hearing aids to form health care policies (EVOTION). He is currently involved in a new European program SMART-BEAR with purpose to offer Evidence-based Personalised Support for Healthy and Independent Living at home.
Research Interests:
Psychophysics: Speech and Music Perception, Musical Timbre, Psychometric testing. Performing Arts Medicine: Hearing deficits in Voice-Singing, Data Acquisition & Systems: Recording and analysis of acoustic, behavioral and biometric signals Big data from hearing aids and other wearables, Telemedicine, Teleaudiology, Multimedia & systems: Virtual and remote environments for vestibular rehabilitation
