Alexandros Onoufriadis is Associate Professor of Medical Biology and Genetics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He completed his doctorate at King’s College London, where he identified the main gene for pustular psoriasis. Upon completing his doctorate, he led an extensive research program for rare-disease gene search at University College London. He continued his postdoctoral research at King’s College London focusing on the transcriptomics of skin diseases. He has also received further training in the United States at the University of Minnesota and the University of California – San Francisco in genomic editing and single-cell sequencing technologies, respectively. For his contribution to dermatology, the British Society for Investigative Dermatology awarded him the “Early Career Investigator Award” in 2021. He has authored more than 85 peer-reviewed research papers with 6,692 references (h-index: 35, Scopus) and has been recognised among the Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide (2024) in his field, according to the global rankings by Stanford University and Elsevier.