Antonis A Armoundas was born in Mytilini, Greece. He graduated from National Technical University of Athens, Department of Electrical Engineering, in 1991 and received the M.S. degree from Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, in 1994.  He received his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Nuclear Engineering, in 1999. He has been an American Heart Association sponsored Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Molecular Cardiobiology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.   Currently he is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital, while he maintains an appointment at MIT.  His research interests include biomedical signal processing, forward and inverse problem solutions and cellular electrophysiology methods (both experimental and modeling) with the intended goal of improving the understanding, prevention and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.