Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Head of Cancer Biophysics Lab

Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

About

Head of Cancer Biophysics Laboratory: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/cancer-biophysics/ Triantafyllos has been awarded all three ERC frontier grants by the European Research Council: an ERC Starting Grant (ReengineeringCancer, €1.44M, 2014-2018), an ERC Consolidator Grant (Immuno-Predictor, €2.0M, 2020-2025) and an ERC Advanced Grant (MechanoResistance, €2.5M, 2025-2030). He has published over 160 publications in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of cancer research, tumor microenvironment, animal tumor models, mathematical modeling and AI (> 25,700 citations, h-index=67).. Triantafyllos is the recipient of the 2016 YC Fung Young investigator award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, being the first non-US resident to be awarded this prize since its establishment in 1985. (https://www.asme.org/about-asme/participate/honors-awards/achievement-awards/y-c-fung-young-investigator-award). He is also the recipient of the prestigious UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Award for Research in Life Sciences (2024) https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/laureates-china-egypt-and-greece-win-unesco-equatorial-guinea-international-prize-research-life Triantafyllos has also received the Distinguished Researcher award (2021) and the Young Researcher award (2014) by the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus, and the Most Cited Paper Award by the Biomedical Engineering Society of USA (BMES, 2014). His team has also received the Athanasiou Best student paper award (BMES, 2019) for the best article written by a student or a postdoc in Annals of Biomedical Engineering in 2018. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the European Foundation of Clinical Nanomedicine (CLINAM) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

Experience

  • University of Cyprus (15 yrs 10 mos)
    • Professor
      Nov 2025 - Present · 8 mos

    • Associate Professor
      Oct 2020 - Nov 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    • Assistant Professor
      Jul 2015 - Oct 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School
    May 2008 - Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Susan G. Komen Post-doctoral Fellow Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology

  • Doctoral student at University of Minnesota
    2003 - 2008 · 5 yrs

    Computational Biomechanics