Bio
Hi, I am a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Huddersfield, UK. From January 2004 till December 2011 I was Head of the Information Systems Laboratory at the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH in Greece, and Professor at the University of Crete.
I grew up in Greece where I finished School. Then I studied computer science in Karlsruhe, Germany, and completed a PhD in Osnabrueck, Germany, in 1989. I worked as an assistant professor in Osnabrueck until 1994, when I decided to move to the end of the world, namely down under. I held academic positions in Newcastle and Brisbane, Australia. I stayed in Austalia till 2001, my last appointment was Professor in Computing & IT at Griffith University in Brisbane.
Australia is beautiful, but too far away from Europe where my roots and heart lie, so I moved back to Germany to the Computer Science Department of the University of Bremen. But finally I decided to return to Greece - the most difficult of my choices. I fell in a mental trap typical of emigrants: the country changes in your years away. So I found a social environment far worse than I had hoped for, luckily long compensated by an excellent academic environment, much better than expected.
But the (not only financial) crisis in Greece, which started to affect the working environment as well, tipped the balance and it was time to move yet again - hopefully for the last time.
In the following you can find out more about my professional activities. Privately, my interests lie in reading, travelling, going to movies, hanging out with friends. All of the above were more important to me before I met Konstantina, the love of my life, who was silly enough to marry me. The Lord works in mysterious ways. In March 2007 and February 2010 my life was further transformed with the birth of my sons Vangelis and Giorgos, who are a constant source of joy.
My vanity project is to visit 100 countries. See below where I am at so far.
I grew up in Greece where I finished School. Then I studied computer science in Karlsruhe, Germany, and completed a PhD in Osnabrueck, Germany, in 1989. I worked as an assistant professor in Osnabrueck until 1994, when I decided to move to the end of the world, namely down under. I held academic positions in Newcastle and Brisbane, Australia. I stayed in Austalia till 2001, my last appointment was Professor in Computing & IT at Griffith University in Brisbane.
Australia is beautiful, but too far away from Europe where my roots and heart lie, so I moved back to Germany to the Computer Science Department of the University of Bremen. But finally I decided to return to Greece - the most difficult of my choices. I fell in a mental trap typical of emigrants: the country changes in your years away. So I found a social environment far worse than I had hoped for, luckily long compensated by an excellent academic environment, much better than expected.
But the (not only financial) crisis in Greece, which started to affect the working environment as well, tipped the balance and it was time to move yet again - hopefully for the last time.
In the following you can find out more about my professional activities. Privately, my interests lie in reading, travelling, going to movies, hanging out with friends. All of the above were more important to me before I met Konstantina, the love of my life, who was silly enough to marry me. The Lord works in mysterious ways. In March 2007 and February 2010 my life was further transformed with the birth of my sons Vangelis and Giorgos, who are a constant source of joy.
My vanity project is to visit 100 countries. See below where I am at so far.
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