Panagiotis Perakis received his BSc degree in Physics, his MSc degree in ICT and his PhD in Computer Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. After many years in the IT business, as a software engineer, CTO and entrepreneur, he made a shift to his career for the academia. He has been actively involved in various EU funded research projects, and worked as a research and teaching associate at the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), as a research associate at the Dept. of Computer and Information Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), as head of the School of Computing at Mediterranean College, and of the School of Computing at UNICERT College, Athens, Greece. His research interests include computer graphics, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, machine intelligence and physics-based modelling and simulation. He has a strong publication record in top scientific journals and conference proceedings. He serves as scientific journal reviewer, and as research and innovation assessor of the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Innovation (GGEK). He is a member of the Hellenic Physical Society (EEF), since 1987, and of the IEEE Computer Society, since 2011.