Dr. Christos Vasilakos

Christos Vasilakos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography of the University of the Aegean. He is an Environmental Scientist and holds a Ph.D. in Fire Risk Assessment with GIS, Remote Sensing, and Neural Networks. From 1999 to 2000, he collaborated as a GIS specialist with the Forest Research Institute of the National Agricultural Research Foundation. In 2000, he was appointed as an external researcher at the National Observatory of Athens within the THEMA project, and part of his work was conducted at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Germany. Since 2002, he has been affiliated with the University of the Aegean, working as a Senior Research Scientist in 13 research projects funded by E.U., Greece, and in the field of geoinformatics and artificial intelligence in wildfires and other applications in the private sector. His main research fields focus on Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Hazards, and Geo-informatics Applications. Since 2014, he has been teaching various courses in the field of Geo-Informatics (Remote Sensing, GIS, Photogrammetry) at the Department of Geography and supervises the theses of undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is an author and co-author of more than 60 scientific articles and book chapters. He has also been a peer reviewer for several international scientific journals dealing with geo-informatics and was invited to act as an evaluator in several Greek and EU works.