Nikolaos Maragkos

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Almeida Lab, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh (2024 – 2025). Research Project Topic: Studying molecular mechanisms of axonal neurotransmission in larval zebrafish.

Current Research Supervision

Undergraduate Students

• Four Honours Project Students (Biomedical Science)

Postgraduate Students

• One MSc Project Student (Biomedical Sciences)

Current Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

Module Leader:

• LSC113 – Getting Organised: Biomolecules to Structure and Function

Module Contributor:

First-year

• LSC111 – Science for Society
• LSC112 – Matter, Molecules, and Measurement
• LSC113 – Getting Organised: Biomolecules to Structure and Function
• LSC114 – Evidence-based Practice
• FOD107 – Applied Biomedical Sciences for Food and Human Health

Second year

• BMS204 – Medical Physiology

Third year

• BMS301 – Clinical Biochemistry and Cellular Pathology
• BMS305 – Applications Mini Project
• BMS307 – BMS Clinical Placement
• BMS310 – Advanced Methods in Biomedical Science

Fourth year (Hons.)

• BMS404 – Advanced Pathophysiology
• FOR402 – Substances of Abuse
• SCN423 – Project Research Methods and Management
• SCN424 – Honours Project

Postgraduate Teaching

Module Contributor:

• LSC525 – Experimental Design for Testing and Evaluation
• FOD508 – MSc Food Quality and Safety with Industrial Practice
• EEM517 – MSc Dissertation

Moderator

Third year

• FOR309 – Firearms, Fires, and Explosions

Visiting Scientist: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

Undergraduate Teaching

Course Instructor:

• Introduction to Cognitive Science

Past Teaching

Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh (2024 – 2025)

Postgraduate Teaching 

• MSc Integrative Neuroscience

PhD Candidate: School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews (2018 – 2022)

Undergraduate Teaching

Second year

• BL2305 – Cell Systems
• PS2001 – Advanced Principles of Psychology 1
• PS2002 – Advanced Principles of Psychology 2

Third year

• PN3312 – Neuropharmacology
• PN3313 – Neuroscience
• PN3322 – From Data to Insight in the Behavioural and Neural Sciences

Fourth year (Hons.)

• PN4231 – Neuromodulation

Postgraduate Teaching

• MRes Neuroscience

Affiliations and Service

• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) – Abertay University: Class Representative (2026 – Present)
• Representative of Abertay University on the Scottish Neuroscience Group (2025 – Present)
• Member of Council and Field Meetings Programme Organiser for the Botanical Society of Scotland (2025 – Present)
• Membership of discipline-specific learned societies: Royal Society of Biology (MRSB); Physiological Society; American Physiological Society; Society of General Physiologists; British Neuroscience Association; Society for Neuroscience; Hellenic Society for Neuroscience; Society for Experimental Biology; Genetics Society; Biochemical Society; Botanical Society of Scotland.