Alexandros Hadjilaou studied medicine at the University of Leipzig. From 2012 to 2014 he worked on the immunology of the dengue fever at the Virology Department of the University of Leipzig and of the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) under the supervision of Christian Jassoy and Eva Harris respectively. His work, which culminated in his MD thesis in 2017, focused on developing the Quad-Color FluoroSpot (QCF) to characterise the antibody repertoire of B cells generated following a dengue virus (DENV) infection. Driven by the fascinating and captivating complexity of neurological diseases, which interests him to the same extent as infectious diseases, he is currently pursuing his residency in clinical neurology at the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). To merge his interests in clinical medicine and biomedical research, he works as a postdoctoral scientist at the INIMS and enrols in the MD/PhD programme. In his PhD thesis, he aims to broaden our understanding of the role of the brains endothelium in the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria. He is also interested in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of meningoencephalitides of infectious or unknown origin.
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