Ph.D.:   Computer Science, Univ. of California, Berkeley, July 1986.

M.Sc.: Applied Mathematics (Computer Science), Harvard University, June 1983.

Diploma:  Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Hellas, July 1982.

Department of Informatics, Univ. of Athens, Hellas 

Computer Sciences Department, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Over 50 publications in journals and conferences on Database Systems (JACM, ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, VLDB Journal, Information Systems, ACM Sigmod, VLDB, ACM PODS, etc).

Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) from the USA President, 1991.

Taught 7 different courses in the areas of Databases and Human-Computer Interaction.

Obtained 5 Teaching Awards, including the "Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award", from the Univ. Of Wisconsin – Madison.  

Supervised 6 Ph.D. and 5 MS graduates

Database and Information Systems (Query Optimization, Heterogeneous Systems, Object-Oriented Systems, Intelligent Databases)

Human-Computer Interaction (Database User Interfaces, Complex Data Visualization)

Scientific Systems (Scientific Experiment Management, Scientific Database Systems, Workflow Management)

Digital Libraries

Program Committee Chair of the 4^th IFIP TC-2.6 Conference on Visual Database Systems (May 1998) and of the 9^th Intl. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (Aug 1997).

Participated in more than 30 program committees of international conferences (ACM Sigmod, ACM PODS, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, EDBT, etc.)

Associate Editor of the VLDB Journal, Information Systems, and Intelligent Information Systems Journals.

Panel/Tutorial Committee Chairman (VLDB 1997, 1998).

Reviewer of the Science Council of the Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS), Greenbelt, MD, 1998-2000.

Review board for the Computing Science Directorate at Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab, 1997 & 1999.

Holder of a Patent.