Professor of Computational Mathematics with the School o Production Engineering & Management at the Technical University of Crete, Greece, and a collaborative member at FORTH-IACM. He holds a Mathematics degree from the University of Crete, Greece, and an M.Sc. in Numerical Analysis and Computing from Manchester University and UMIST, U.K., and received his Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1998. His research interests are focused on the numerical solution of PDEs, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Scientific Computing, emphasizing environmental and geophysical flows.