Third-year ichthyology student / ML developer / founder of [ ████████ ] / on a long path toward AI alignment & interpretability research.
I'm a 21-year-old ichthyologist-in-training at the University of Thessaly, studying the population dynamics, genetics, and management of Mediterranean fish — currently halfway through a combined Master's-equivalent programme.
Outside the lab I'm building something — quietly, on purpose. Announcement soon. The rest of my time points at one target: contributing to AI alignment and interpretability research, ideally as an Anthropic Fellow.
Between those, I run a homelab, flip secondhand tech, play a lot of competitive games, and write code for fisheries models I plan to publish on the way to a PhD.
Ten programmes spanning data analytics, machine learning, scientific computing, BI, generative AI, and digital marketing — earned alongside my degree.
The work I'm drawn to has one thing in common: it's hard, and the difficulty is the point.
Fisheries modelling, interpretability, building a startup from a country that isn't supposed to produce them — none of these are the easy version of anything. I picked them on purpose.
I'd rather spend a year on a problem that resists me than a week on one that doesn't. Patience under difficulty is the actual skill — everything else compounds from there.
I want to be honest about this rather than hype it. These are bets, not guarantees — the kind I'm willing to spend years on.
Push the eDNA / SVM-vs-BLAST work and the ΟΚΑΑ landings analysis through peer review. Targeting Molecular Ecology Resources and a fisheries-economics journal.
There's a project I've been building in the background. It's the kind of thing that wants to be ready before it's announced. Soon.
Apply with concrete contributions to interpretability or alignment — not as a fan, but with original work to point at. The plan is to deserve the seat.
A PhD only if it sharpens the research, not for the title. Either via a strong alignment-oriented programme or directly inside an industry lab doing the work.