Konstantinos Votis

Dr. Votis Konstantinos (M) is a computer engineer and a senior researcher (Researcher Grade C’) at Information Technologies Institute/Centre for Research and Technologies Hellas (CERTH/ITI) and Director of the Visual Analytics Laboratory of CERTH/ITI. He is also a Visiting professor at the De-Montfort University in UK in the field of Human Computer Interaction, VR & AR. He received an MSc and a Ph.D. degree in computer science and service oriented architectures from Computer Engineering and Informatics department, University of Patras, Greece. Also he holds an MBA from the Business School department in the University of Patras. His research interests include Human Computer Interaction, information Visualisation and management of big data, knowledge engineering and cloud-based decision support systems, as well as Blockchain Technologies, with major application areas such as IoT, Energy, Health, automotive. His PhD was in the domain of service Oriented Architecture, decentralised and Information management systems in inclusion and healthcare. Since 2001 he has published more than 80 international scientific articles on different application areas including Cloud computing, Big data and Information visualization, Decentralised and Blockchain technologies, human-technology interaction.