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

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.

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Christos Dimopoulos, PhD

Director of Science in Civil Protection & CERIDES Co-Founder

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.

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Pierantonios Papazoglou

EUC Senior Research Associate - CERIDES Head of Research & Strategy

Safety in Operations of First Responders within the Context of the Climate Crisis and Disaster Risk Reduction Nexus with Safety and Security.

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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.

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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.

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Faculty

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.

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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.

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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

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Researchers

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.)

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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.

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Adjunct Professors/ Lecturers/ Trainers