Georgios Boustras, PhD
Founder and Director
Development, use and evaluation of statistical and mathematical risk models with an emphasis on occupational, process and societal safety.
Team
A diverse and multi-disciplinary group of people bring creativity, experience and expertise to the table to ensure different perspectives and holistic view to challenges and their solutions
Management
Christos Dimopoulos, PhD
Founder and Co-Director
Analysis, design and implementation of Decision Support Systems with application emphasis in the areas of Disaster Management and Safety Science, Educational Technology and Applications, Engineering Education, Human and Organisational Factors in System Design.
Pierantonios Papazoglou
Research and Strategy Manager
Safety in Operations of First Responders within the Context of the Climate Crisis and Disaster Risk Reduction Nexus with Safety and Security.
Pericles L. Cheng, DIT
HEAD OF TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT
Head of Technical Development at CERIDES, involved in several European H2020 and ISF projects. Areas of interest include robotics, artificial intelligence, databases, networking, e-learning as well as embedded programming. CISCO Certified Academy Instructor, Moodle Certified Administrator and Course Creator, LEGO Certified Teacher Trainer.
Cleo Varianou-Mikellidou, PhD
Operational Manager
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS), Ageing of the workforce, Well-being, Performance at work, Ergonomics, Sleep quality, Health impacts from air quality, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Climate change.
Faculty
Thalia Prastitou Merdi, PhD
Lecturer, European Private Law & European Environmental Law
Education PhD, University of Bristol (UK) Law, 2013 LL.M. University of Bristol (UK) Commercial Law, 2006\ LL.B. University of Warwick (UK) Law, 2004 Research interests European Contract Law, Consumer Protection Law, Business Law, Data Protection and Privacy Law,...
Paris Vogazianos, PhD
Lecturer, Research Methods and Statistics
Education Ph.D. University of Masaryk, Brno, Czech Republic, General medicine, field of preventive medicine, hygiene and epidemiology, 2004 PGDip. Heriot -Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, Actuarial Sciences, 1998 B.Sc. (Hon.), Southampton University, Southampton,...
Konstantinos Katzis, PhD
Associate Professor, Computer engineering & Telecommunications
Dynamic Spectrum Access and Machine-Learning-Based Cognitive Spectrum Assignment, Architectures for 5G and beyond 5G wireless communications from Aerial Platforms, Spectrum Geolocation Databases, and TV White Space Systems, Low-Power Wider-Area Networks (LPWAN), Standards and Applications, IoT-Health.
Demetris Hadjiloucas, PhD
Associate Professor, Dynamical Systems & Ergodic Theory
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, Skew-Product Systems with Dynamically Attracting Invariant Subspaces, Dynamics of Hypercyclic and Cesaro Hypercyclic Operators, Dynamics of Skew-Products of Operators, Dynamics of Semigroups of Commuting Linear Operators, Dynamics of Non-Homogeneous Markov Chains, Iterated Function Systems, Universal Series, Combinatorics and its interplay with Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.
Christos Kassimeris, PhD
Professor, International Relations
International Relations, International Security, European Politics, Greek Politics, Foreign Policy, Greek Foreign Policy, Greek-Turkish Relations, Nationalism, Racism and Xenophobia, Discrimination in Sport
Researchers
Shifa Mathbout, PhD
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Education PhD with an International Mention, University of Barcelona, Physical Geography, Climatology. 2016 M.Sc Damascus University, Renewable Natural Resources and Environment, 2011 Higher Diploma of Graduate Science, Tishreen University, Agricultural and...
Risquez Oneca Daniel, PhD
Researcher
Education PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Astrophysics, 2008 Bachelor's degree, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Physics, 2002 Training at University of Southampton (UK), Space System Engineering, 2010 Training at ESA/ESTEC (The...
Olga Nicolaidou, PhD
Research Associate
The impact of weak signals management on occupational safety and health, emphasizing in the elimination of occupational accidents, work-related diseases, dangerous occurrences and other unwanted incidents, ergonomics, new forms of work (teleworking, working platforms, etc.)
Michalis Papamichael, PhD
Security and Emergency Response for on-shore and off-shore installations and structures and remote sensing and management.
Matthieu Jost
Research Associate
Education Master of Engineering, French Institute of Advanced Mechanical Engineering, 2002 Research interests Integrated approaches to raise resilience of territories in a climate change context, integrated water management, humanitarian-development nexus, climate...
Klelia Petrou, PhD
Scientific Collaborator
Fire safety in buildings including the behavior of structural materials when exposed to elevated temperatures due to fire, smoke movement either via natural or mechanical means and human behaviour during a fire incident while evacuating a building. Developing tools for assisting the fire safety management of buildings for eliminating the risk of a fire incident and its effect on occupants safety.
Evangelos Katsaros, PhD Candidate
Research Associate
Education BSc, National Technical University of Athens, Chemical Engineer, 1995 MSc, University of Thessaly, Analysis and Planning of Industrial Systems, 2001 PhD Candidate, University of Western Macedonia, Emergency Logistics Research interests Civil Protection,...
Elina Argyridou, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Education PhD Applied Mathematics, Brunel University – UK (2017) MSc Applied Mathematics, University of Cyprus (2013) MSc Financial Mathematics and Computation, University of Leicester – UK (2010) BSc Mathematics specialized in Computational Mathematics, National...
Christiana Panayi, PhD
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Education PhD Quantum Key Distribution – University of Leeds, 2016 MSc in Quantum Technologies – University of Leeds, 2011 Bachelors in physics – University of Cyprus, 2010 Research interests Quantum Communications · Network Infrastructure · Quantum Physics ·...
Adjunct Professors/ Lecturers/ Trainers
Lcl Frédéric HARRAULT
Adjunct Trainer
Experience Operational firefighter officer since 27 years Trainer and Course Leader for the UCPM Training Progra UCPM National Training Coordinator & Foreign Policy Officer at the General Directorate for Civil Protection Spokesperson for the General Directorate...
Jordi Vendrell
Adjunct Trainer
Education Direction and Management of Non-Governmental Organizations Program (2022 - 2023) Leadership and Social Innovation Program (2020 - 2021) Master’s degree on Interventions in Emergencies, Catastrophes and International Cooperation (2016 - 2018) Research...
Jeroen Warner
Adjunct Professor/ Lecturer/ Trainer
Education Natural hazards and disaster risk management Multistakeholder resource conflict and cooperation Deltas and nature-based solutions Research interests Politics and policies of crisis and disaster management, Transboundary water and disaster diplomacy,...
Guillermo Rein
Adjunct Professor/ Lecturer/ Trainer
Education PhD Mechanical Engineering at University of California at Berkeley, 2005 MSc Mechanical Engineering at University of California at Berkeley,2003 MEng Ingeniero Industrial at ICAI Universidad Pontificia de Comillas,1999 and University of Texas at Austin...
Cathelijne Stoof, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor/ Lecturer/ Trainer
Education MSc Soil, Water & Atmosphere; Wageningen University, 2005 PhD Fire Effects on Soil and Hydrology, Wageningen University, 2007-2011 Post-doctoral research associate; Cornell University, 2011-2014 Research interests Pyrogeography, integrated fire...
Adrien Mangiavillano
Adjunct Trainer
Education Avignon University - Master Geography - Forest fires Avignon University - Ph.D Geography - Analysis and mapping of forest fire risks Research interests Agency interoperability, Airport Development, Wildfire Management and Civil Protection Integrated...
