Founder and CEO
Yiannis KourmpetisPhD
Connects AI, biological function and intellectual property. His background combines predictive modelling research with two decades in food and nutrition R&D and patents.
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Scientific depth.
Industrial experience.
Tech sovereignty.
Better development decisions need more than one perspective. We bring biology, AI, ingredient innovation and intellectual property into the same conversation.
Meet the teamCONNECTED EXPERTISEScience/AI & data/Development/Intellectual property
Chairman
Kees SchüllerPhD
Molecular biologist and European and Dutch patent attorney. Former Global Head of Patents with experience across nutrition, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
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Innovation Strategy
Vaia SarlikiotiPhD
Connects scientific opportunity with partner priorities and commercial development. Her experience spans plant physiology, statistical modelling, agricultural technology, operations and innovation strategy.
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Head of Translational Research
Anastasios GkountakosPhD
Connects biological mechanisms and AI modelling with experimental evidence. His research spans molecular pathology, pharmacology, biomarker discovery and assessment of treatment response.
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Head of AI-Ops and Data Engineering
Christos GoulasMEng
Architect of Sensi and its data infrastructure. Connects agentic AI, scientific information and engineering to build dependable discovery workflows.
LinkedInA TRACK RECORD YOU CAN EXAMINE
From published methods
to practical development.
Read the research. Examine the project. Our experience spans biological inference, ingredient evidence and work tested in the laboratory.
2010
PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH
PLOS ONE2013Inferring protein function from biological networks.
Yiannis Kourmpetis and colleagues developed a Bayesian approach to combining network information for protein-function prediction.
PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH
Nature Methods2024Putting prediction methods to a community test.
Team member contribution to a large-scale evaluation of computational protein-function prediction methods.
PEER-REVIEWED OPINION
Frontiers in Nutrition2026Nutrient efficiency at the core of nutrition and sustainability.
Co-authored by Yiannis Kourmpetis, this article explores nutrient efficiency as a framework for nutrition and sustainability, including fermentation and AI-guided food processing.
PREPRINT
medRxivStudying real-world signals around ingredients.
Gkountakos, Goulas and Kourmpetis examine concordance between clinically supported and Reddit-reported nutraceutical benefits.
LABORATORY-TESTED DEVELOPMENTA familiar ingredient.
A familiar ingredient.
A new development route.
An AI-designed fermentation protocol for vitamin B12 enrichment and lower phytic acid in wheat bran, tested with scientific partners.
Explore the wheat-bran caseLET’S EXPLORE THE SCIENTIFIC FIT
Bring your next development question.
Start with your ingredient, target application or evidence challenge.