Professor of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Crete
● Director, Lab of Movement Physiology
● Director, Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme in the “BRAIN and MIND” Sciences
● Collaborating Researcher, Group of Computational Neuroscience, IACM, FORTH.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
• Professor of Physiology, University of Crete, (Φ.Ε.Κ. 2338/01-10-2021 τ.Γ).
• Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Crete, (Φ.Ε.Κ. 519/08-06-2017 τ. Γ).
• Assistant Professor of Physiology (tenured), University of Crete, (Φ.Ε.Κ. 998/14-12-2009 τ. Γ).
• Assistant Professor of Physiology, University of Crete, (Φ.Ε.Κ. 201/17-08-2005 τ. ΝΠΔΔ).
• Full Faculty Member, Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme in the “BRAIN and MIND” Sciences, 2003-
• Collaborating Researcher, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, FORTH, 2002-
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Crete, 1999-2005
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Parma, 1996-1999
• Research Fellow, University of Verona, 1991
Education
6/1989 – 12/1994: Graduate student, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Crete, (12/1994 Doctorate).
9/1984 – 5/1989: Undergraduate student, Faculty of Biology, University of Patras (5/1989 Bachelor’s in biology).
14/10 – 20/11/2020: EUPRIM-Net & German Primate Center, Laboratory Animal Science Course on Non-Human Primates (FELASA accredited Course 057/17_48_2020)
Research Interests
• Το disentangle the role of the dorsal and ventral premotor cortex in the control of hand-grasping actions. In particular, to assess the intra- and inter-areal dynamics and examine the causality in the premotor grasping network.
• To reveal how the brain processes observed actions and the mechanisms whereby we assign meaning to the actions of other subjects, by investigating the underlying neural dynamics at the micro, meso, and macroscopic scales.
• To develop decoders for the real-time control of a dexterous hand able to manipulate objects versatilely using neural signals recorded from the forelimb representations of the dorsal and ventral premotor cortical areas.
Publications
Peer reviewed publications
Original articles
A1. Raos V, Savaki HE. 2021 Functional Imaging of the Cerebellum during Action Execution and Observation. Cereb Cortex Commun. tgab041, DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgab041
A2. Papadourakis V, Raos V. 2019. Neurons in the macaque dorsal premotor cortex respond to execution and observation of actions. Cereb Cortex 29(10):4223-4237, DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy304.
Memberships
• Hellenic Society for Neuroscience (Treasurer, 2019-2021; Secretary, 2022-2023; President, 2024-2025)
• International Brain Research Organisation
• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
• Society for Neuroscience
• International Neuropsychology Symposium (elected member)
