Nikos Karacapilidis is a Professor of Management Information Systems at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece. He received a B.Sc. degree in Computer and Information Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Operations Management from the University of Patras, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Before joining the University of Patras (August 2000), he worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, and as a Research Associate at EPFL – LITH (Switzerland), INRIA – Sophia Antipolis (France), GMD – AiS (Germany), and Queen Mary & Westfield College (UK). His research interests include informed decision-making, computational argumentation, digital democracy, e-collaboration/e-participation, knowledge graphs, explainable artificial intelligence, and business intelligence. He was the Scientific Coordinator of the Dicode FP7-ICT Project (title: Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making) and a Principal Investigator in the Palette FP6-IST IP Project (title: Pedagogically Sustained Adaptive Learning through the Exploitation of Tacit and Explicit Knowledge). He is the Editor and the main author of a Springer book titled "Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making" (Studies in Big Data Series).