Dr Nikolaos Maragkos

Teaching Fellow

Faculty Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences

Department Department of Built Environment and Life Sciences

Contact info

01382 308060

Biography

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
  • 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

Fourth year (Hons.)

  • BMS404 – Advanced Pathophysiology
  • 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

Moderator

First year

  • LSC114 – Evidence-based Practice

Third year

  • LSC311 – Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • 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

 

More Information

Esteem

Employment History

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.

 

Outreach

Other Scholarly and Professional Activities

Affiliations and Service

  • 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.

 

Meet the rest of the team

Dr Karen Barton

Dr Karen Barton

Department of Built Environment and Life Sciences | Interim Head of Department

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Dr Kevin Smith

Dr Kevin Smith

Department of Built Environment and Life Sciences | Senior Lecturer

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