He is a member of Icahn Institute–Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Friedman Brain Institute. He is also a VA/MIRECC Research Physician at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center. He received his medical and doctorate degrees from the University of Crete in Greece and he completed his residency in Psychiatry (research track) at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai followed by a MIRECC research fellowship in schizophrenia. His research focuses on the integration of high-dimensional data, such as genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic, using advanced biostatistical methods in order to identify some of the mechanisms through which risk genetic variants increase the risk for neuropsychiatric diseases.