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I was born in Athens in 1968 and graduated from the 17th High School of Thessaloniki in 1986. I continued my studies at the School of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, finishing first in June 1990. During my military service in the Hellenic Navy, I started my PhD at the Geophysicsl Laboratory in the School of Geology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki under the supervision of Ass. Professors P. Chatzidimitriou, D. Panagiotopoulos, and G. Tsokas, which I completed in June 1994. In parallel with my PhD, I was a undergraduate student in the School of Geology (after competitive examinations), getting my BSc in Geology in July 1994.
I received a scholarship from I.K.Y. and continued as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Geology and Geophysics (now Department of Geosciences) of Princeton University, working with professors G. Nolet and R. Phinney on inversion theory and its applications to the study of the Earth’s interior. In 1995, I was appointed to the position of Junior Researcher at the Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (ITSAK) in Thessaloniki.
In June 1998 I was appointed to the position of Assistant Researcher, while in June 1999 I was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Geophysical Laboratory of the School of Geology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, to which I was appointed in December of 1999. I was tenured in April 2003 at the rank of Assistant Professor, and in June 2005 I was elected to the rank of Associate Professor of the School of Geology of the A.U.Th.
In May 2010 I was elected to the rank of Professor, a position I hold to this day. Since 2011 I perform almost annual scientific cooperation and teaching visits to the University of Potsdam (Institute of Earth and Environmental Science), with Dr Matthias Ohrnberger as my main collaborator.
In 2017 I was a visiting researcher at the Earth Science Department of the University of Oregon, USA, as a Meierjurgen Fellow, where I worked with professors E.Hooft and D.Toomey on inversion theory and its applications for the attenuation tomography of the Santorini volcano, using data from the PROTEUS experiment.