Dr. Vassilis M. Papadakis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Attica. He has 20 years of experience in research and teaching in Greece and abroad. He has taught and worked as a researcher at the Delft University of Technology, the Institute of Technology and Research, the University of Crete, and also at the Hellenic Mediterranean University of Crete in diagnosis and imaging. He has a PhD in tissue spectral imaging from the medical school of the University of Crete and a second PhD in the observation of organismal behavior through machine vision from the Biology department of the University of Crete. His expertise is in the development of new diagnosis methodologies through spectroscopy and imaging and their application to material surfaces, with the aim of observing and quantifying the changes they undergo under the influence of stress factors or foreign materials.