About the Author

Konstantinos I. Bougioukas received his PhD in Biostatistics and Research Methodology from the Faculty of Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2021. He has extensive experience teaching both basic and advanced Statistics. He has mentored and guided students and researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds, including mathematics, medicine, biology, psychology, and health policy, in applying statistical methodologies and R programming.

As a research methodologist and data analyst, he specializes in evidence synthesis—including systematic reviews and meta-analyses, overviews of reviews, and meta-epidemiological studies—as well as advanced data analysis and data visualization techniques. He has published more than 40 peer reviewed research articles in high-impact academic journals such as the British Medical Journal (the BMJ), Research Synthesis Methods, and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Additionally, he has contributed to the development of three open-source R packages: “ccaR”, “amstar2Vis”, and “musicolor”.