Personal Data: Born in Zakynthos, Greece (1956), Greek nationality, Languages: Greek, English, Italian, French, little Spanish.
Education : National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Dipl. in Electrical Engineering, (1979), Master of Science M.Sc., University of Manchester, UMIST, UK, (1980) Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D, University of Manchester, UMIST, UK, (1983).
Research Interests: Software Technology and Interactive Systems Design. Human-machine interaction with emphasis in cultural and educational fields.Special interest and experience in Distributed Intelligent Systems, collaborative systems, usability and accessibility of interactive systems, mobile systems, web applications and services, open and distance learning, learning analytics.
Positions: Research and teaching experience in industry and academia for over 30 years:
- Research fellow of the University of Manchester, UK (1983-1984);
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Athens Technical Education College (1985-1986);
- Scientific officer of the European Commission served at the Joint Research Centre Ispra, Italy (1986-1993);
- Senior Software Engineer of the Public Power Corporation of Greece (1993-1994).
- Associate Professor of Software Technology at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Patras (1994- 2001).
- Full professor of Software Technology and Human-Computer Interaction (2001-today). Founder and leader of the Human-Computer Interaction group and subsequently of the Interactive Technologies Laboratory.
Key researcher in many national and international funded research projects in the frame of IST, ESPRIT, Environment, Horizon, etc.
Deputy Rector for Research and Development, Head of the Research Committee (2013-2014) End-term Report (8/2014)
Coordinator of the OpenCourseWare Project for the University of Patras (2013-2015) in the frame of which more than 350 open courses have been developed.
Author or editor of ten books and author of over 200 scientific journal and conference papers in the above research areas. (full publications list with associated author's prints)
Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (1979-2016), Greek Electrical Engineers Association (1979-2016), Greek Computer Society (1992-), IEEE Computer Society (1995-), founding member of the Greek Artificial Intelligence Association (EETN) and of the Greek Society of Electrical and Computer Technology in Education (ETPE).