• January 2025 - January 2027: Program for strengthening the research of faculty members of the University of Thessaly from the Research, Innovation and Excellence Structure (DEKA) of the University of Thessaly (UTH) "Analysis of Complex Biological Networks in Systems Biology"
• November 2019 - November 2021: Scholarship for postdoctoral research on the topic "Analysis of Complex Biological Networks: Networks of Gene Polymorphisms-Gene Expression-Diseases" – State Scholarships Foundation (IKY).
• December 2016 - August 2017: IKY-Siemens excellence scholarship for postdoctoral research on the topic "Methodology for Meta-analysis of Gene Expression Data" – State Scholarships Foundation (IKY).
• 3rd Honorary Award at the 13th Panhellenic Medical Congress on Obesity, 28/2-2/3 2019, Athens for the paper: "Meta-analysis of gene expression data in adipose tissue of obese and non-obese individuals", I. Goutzelas, P. Kontou, P. Bagos, T. Sarafidou, Z. Mamuris
• Best Poster Award at the 8th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, November 22 - 24 2013, Lamia. For the paper: "Network analysis of genes and their association with diseases." Panagiota Kontou, Niki L Dimou, Pantelis G Bagos.