MARINOS KAVOURAS
Professor
GIScience, Cartography, Geoinformatics, Geospatial Engineering,
Knowledge Systems, Education and Capacity Building
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
SCHOOL OF RURAL, SURVEYING AND GEOINFORMATICS ENGINEERING
a spatial story
Empowering the cross-cutting spatial abilities of people, especially the youth, inspiring them to work inclusively to understand, map, and shape their own world in a global context is the best investment for their future and society at large.
Engaging with young, talented, enthusiastic and passionate learners and seeing them develop into bright scientists and successful professionals has been a privilege and a rewarding experience.
Brief profile
Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering (1979) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece.
MScE (1982) and PhD (1987) from the University of New Brunswick in Canada
Professor of GIScience and Cartography at NTUA
Director of the NTUA Cartography Laboratory
Director of the NTUA Geoinformatics Postgraduate Programme
Adjunct Researcher of the “Athena” Research and Innovation Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies
Served as:
Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Administration of the NTUA (2018-2019)
Co-chair of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE)
Dean of the NTUA School of Rural and Surveying Engineering for 8 years
Vice President of the Hellenic Cadastral Agency (2004-2009)
Chair of Working Group II/6 –System Integration and Interoperability (2004-08) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Member of numerous conference organizing/scientific/program committees
Editorial Boards member of scientific journals such as the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information an Open Access MDPI Journal, the Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards journal by Springer Open, the Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis by Springer, the Semantic Web Journal, and the GISDISS series of dissertations in Geographic Information Science by IOS Press.
Furthermore,
Undertook various research programmes in Geoinformatics and formed the OntoGeo group, conducting Ontological Research in GIScience
Co-authored the book “Theories of Geographic Concepts –Ontological Approaches to Semantic Integration” published by CRC Press T&F, two electronic open books in GIS, and over 160 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings with over 1500 citations.
