1990-1996: BEng degree in Agricultural Engineering from Agricultural University of Athens, Greece (5-years diploma, Grade: 7.37/10).1997-1998: Taught courses taken at Newcastle University upon Tyne, UK, “Turbomachines, Diffusion, Convection and Radiation, Food Process Engineering, Controlled Environment, Crop Storage and Quality, Computational Fluid Dynamics”. 1997-2002: Ph.D. degree from Newcastle University upon Tyne, UK. Ph.D. title: “Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer and Biological Changes in a Grain Store”.2008-2010: MSc degree from National Technical University of Athens, Greece in “Mathematical Modelling in Modern Technologies and Financial Engineering” direction of “Modern Technologies” (www.mathtechfin.math.ntua.gr/english/index.php). Taught courses taken: “Computational Mathematics, Linear Statistical Models & Time-series, Transport phenomena, Bioinformatics and Quantitative Systems Biology, Molecular Simulation of Materials, Numerical methods, Dynamical Systems & Chaos, Probability Theory, Algebraic Specifications of Information Systems, Neural Networks and Machine Learning”. MSc title: “Mass transport analysis in perforation-mediated modified atmosphere packaging”. Grade: 8.37/10.