S. Papakostas has been awarded his doctorate thesis in the domains of Population Genetics, Molecular Systematics, Evolutionary Genetics and Molecular Ecology in 2008 from the School of Biology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). Between 2009 and 2012, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Turku (UTU) in Finland in the Proteomics, Functional Genomics, and the Molecular Ecology of salmonids. From 2012 we started his own group at UTU as Principal Investigator in the domains of Microbial and Molecular Ecology and of Eco-evolutionary Dynamics at UTU. Between 2012 and 2013 he also worked for 1 year at [...]

Christos Tjortjis is the Head of the Department of Science and Technology and the Dean of the School of Science and Technology, International Hellenic University. He is Programme Director for the MSc in Data Science, the MSc in ICT systems, the MSc in Mobile and Web Computing: Internet of Things Applications, the MSc in Cybersecurity, the MSc in e-Business and Digital Marketing and the MSc in Smart Cities and Communities. Formerly he was a tenured Lecturer at the University of Manchester, Schools of Computer Science and Informatics, as well as UMIST, Department of Computation. He also was an adjunct Associate Professor [...]

I am Associate Professor at the International Hellenic University, University Center of International Programmes of Studies, Department of Science and Technology in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Associate Research Fellow at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Public Governance Institute, Belgium. I also work as IT Strategic Analyst at the Council of the EU Brussels, Belgium. My teaching and research focus on the areas of the digital transformation of modern organisations. More specifically my research areas cover the following fields: business information systems, eGovernment, eCommerce, interoperability, data and information management strategies and semantic web technologies. I try to create bridges between business and technology, as well [...]

Maria Drakaki is Professor in Humanitarian Engineering in the Department of Science and Technology, at the University Center of International Programmes of Studies of the International Hellenic University. She is the Dean of the School of Science and Technology. She received her Ph. D degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department (1992), an M. Sc. degree from the University of Westminster in VLSI System Design (2004) and a B. Sc. degree from the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1986). She was Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the International Hellenic University [...]

Panayiotis Bozanis is a full Professor at the Department of Science and Technology, IHU. Previously, he served as a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece (Full Prof.: Mar. 2015 – Aug. 2019, Assoc. Prof.: May 2011 – Mar 2015, Assist. Prof.: Oct 2007 – May 2011, Lect.: Apr. 2003 – Oct. 2007, Adj. Prof: Sep. 2000 – Apr. 2003), where he taught Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures, Algorithms, Computer Graphics (undergraduate), and Algorithm Engineering (postgraduate). He held various academic positions at University of Thessaly: Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (Sep. [...]