Yannis Manolopoulos

Yannis Manolopoulos is Professor of the University of York, Europe Campus at Thessaloniki, serving as Dean of the School of Sciences. He holds a 5-years Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering (1981) and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering (1986), both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH).

He is Member of Academia Europaea (London) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg). In addition, he is Professor Emeritus of AUTH, and the Open University of Cyprus, where he served as first Vice-Rector. He has been visiting or adjunct staff with the University of Toronto, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Cyprus and the Hellenic Open University, where currently he is student of the Graduate Program on Creative Writing.

He has also served as President of the Board (acting Rector) of the University of Western Macedonia, Vice-President of the Greek Computer Society, Member of the Board of the University of Macedonia, Member of the Board of Alexander Innovation Zone of Thessaloniki, Member of the Board of the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus, as well as President of the Excellence Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

His research interests focus in Data Management. He has co-authored 6 monographs and 10 textbooks in Greek, as well as more than 370 journal and conference papers. He has received about 20,000 citations from more than 3000 academic institutions from more than 100 countries (h-index=64). He has also received 6 best paper awards from SIGMOD, ECML/PKDD, MEDES (3) and ISSPIT conferences. Currently, he serves in the Editorial Boards of the following journals (inter alia): Digital (Editor-in-Chief), The Computer Journal (Deputy Editor), SN Computer Science (Track Editor).

He has delivered keynote talks at 25 conferences at: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Greece, India, Italy, Kosovo, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Morocco, Panama, Poland, Romania and Russia. External member of 20 doctoral examination committees at: Albania, Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland and Spain. Evaluator for national funding agencies at: Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, EU, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hong-Kong, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland and UK. Evaluator for university programs at: Denmark, Latvia and Lithuania. He supervised 27 doctoral graduates who have had careers at: Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UAE, UK, USA, as well as at Cyprus and Greece.