# Vasiliki (Vicky) Demas

> Vasiliki (Vicky) Demas is the founder, CEO, and board member of identifeye HEALTH, a chemical engineer, and a former founding member of Google Life Sciences. Her career includes magnetic resonance research, leadership at Verily and GRAIL, more than 20 patents reported in her company biography, and the illustrations for Physics on Your Feet.

- **Role:** Founder, CEO, and Board Member at identifeye HEALTH
- **Organizations:** identifeye HEALTH, Tesseract Health, GRAIL, Verily Life Sciences, Google Life Sciences / Google X, T2 Biosystems, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- **Nationality:** Greek (self-described in her Beyond the Binary interview; citizenship not independently established)
- **Education:** B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral fellowship, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- **Known for:** Founding member of Google Life Sciences, later Verily., Company biography reports more than 20 patents and scientific publications across disciplines., Developed portable magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging systems during doctoral and postdoctoral work.

## Career timeline

- **Age 10 (calendar year not established)** — Visited Kennedy Space Center and became interested in becoming an astronaut, according to her interview.
- **Age 17 (calendar year not established)** — Says she assumed responsibility for a NASA-sponsored engineering project after its principal investigator resigned.
- **2001-2006** — Doctoral study at UC Berkeley; researched nuclear magnetic resonance and portable systems.
- **Before Google Life Sciences (dates not established)** — Held several engineering responsibilities at T2 Biosystems.
- **2013-2016** — Worked at Google Life Sciences / Verily; was a founding member of the Google Life Sciences team.
- **2015** — Credited as illustrator of the first edition of Physics on Your Feet.
- **2016-2021** — Worked in platform product management and new product development at GRAIL.
- **2021-08-01** — Appointment as Tesseract Health CEO took effect; the company later became identifeye HEALTH.
- **2023** — Delivered the Johns Hopkins Engineering Design Day keynote.
- **2025** — Named to the inaugural Mayfield x Divot AI List by a company announcement.

## Achievements

- Founding member of Google Life Sciences, later Verily.
- Company biography reports more than 20 patents and scientific publications across disciplines.
- Developed portable magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging systems during doctoral and postdoctoral work.
- Illustrator of Physics on Your Feet by Dmitry Budker and Alexander O. Sushkov.
- Johns Hopkins Engineering Design Day keynote speaker in 2023.
- Named to the inaugural Mayfield x Divot AI List in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Named to the inaugural Mayfield x Divot AI List, whose honorees were announced on October 1, 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://www.identifeye.health/team/vasiliki-vicky-demas-phd
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasiliki-vicky-demas

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Last updated: 2026-10-14