Faculty Members

Dr. Vasiliki Diamantopoulou is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean and a Senior Researcher at the Department of Digital Systems at the University of Piraeus. Currently, she is participating in a number of European H2020 projects, focusing on Security and Privacy Requirements in various environments (Cloud Computing, Connecting Vehicles). She has worked as a Research Fellow at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Brighton, UK.

She holds a Diploma in Product and Systems Design Engineering, an MSc in Management of Information Systems and a PhD in Information Systems and Innovation, from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece.

Her public scientific work includes book chapters and one book. Moreover, her work has been published in journals and in the proceedings of international refereed conferences. The focus of her publications is on Privacy and Security of Information Systems, eGovernment and Interoperability Frameworks, and eBusiness and Innovation of Information Systems.
She has reviewed several journals and conference papers.
She has eight-year experience in managing several National and EU funded R&D projects from a research and an administrative viewpoint.
She is a member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the British Computer Society (BCS).

She is certified ISO 27001:2013 Lead Auditor by TÜV Austria Hellas and Data Protection Officer (DPO) Executive by TÜV Austria Hellas.

Yannis Charalabidis is Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of the University of Aegean. In parallel, he serves as Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit of the University, designing and managing youth entrepreneurship activities, and Head of Information Systems Laboratory, coordinating policy making, research and pilot application projects for governments and enterprises worldwide. He has more than 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, managing and applying complex information systems as project manager, in Greece and Europe, designing and leading several FP5, FP6, FP7 and HORIZON projects. He has been employed for 8 years as an executive director in SingularLogic Group, leading software development and company expansion in Greece, Eastern Europe, India and the US. He has published 10 books and more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences, while actively participating in international standardisation committees and scientific bodies. In 2016, he was nominated as the 8th most productive scholar in the world, among 9500 authors in the Electronic Government domain, according to the Washington University survey. He has been Best Paper Award winner in the International IFIP e-Government Conference (2008, 2012, 2016), 1st prize winner in OMG / Business Process Modelling contest (2009) and 2nd prize winner in the European eGovernment Awards with the ERMIS project (2009).

Dr. Euripidis Loukis is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Decision Support Systems at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean. Formerly he has been Information Systems Advisor at the Ministry to the Presidency of the Government of Greece, Technical Director of the Program of Modernization of Greek Public Administration of the Second Community Support Framework and National Representative of Greece in the programs ‘Telematics’ and ‘IDA’ (Interchange of Data between Administrations) of the European Union. He is the author of numerous scientific articles in international journals and conferences; one of them has been honoured with the International Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Controls and Diagnostics Committee. His current research interests include e-government, e-participation, information systems value/impacts and internal/external determinants, business process adaptation and medical decision support systems.

Dr. Charalampos Alexopoulos (m) is a postdoc researcher at the Information Systems Laboratory of the Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean, working on European and National funded research projects and publishing at several conferences and journals on open data infrastructures, IS evaluation, interoperability and e-government. In parallel, he is responsible for the International Relations of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit of the University. Charalampos serves as a reviewer in several journals and conferences and as a Programme and Organisation Committee Member of the annual Samos Summit on ICT-enabled Governance and of 2 UAEGEAN summer schools. Charalampos is a computer science graduate from the University of Peloponnese with an MSc in Management Information Systems from the University of the Aegean.

Dr. Spyros KOKOLAKIS is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean. He holds a B.Sc. (Informatics) and a Ph.D. (Information Systems) from the Athens University of Economics & Business (GR). He has been involved in several national and EU-funded R&D projects in the area of Information and Communication Systems Security. He is an author of several refereed papers in international scientific journals and conferences. He is a member of AiS.

Dr. Maria Karyda holds a PhD in Information Systems Security Management, a M.Sc. in Information Systems and a B.Sc. in Informatics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. She is currently Assistant Professor with the University of the Aegean, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering. Her research interests lie in the fields of organizational and human aspects of information security management, including employee security behaviour, awareness and culture, security policies, and privacy protection. Dr Karyda has participated in EU funded R&D projects and her published work includes more than forty refereed papers in international academic journals and conferences.