Dionissios Hristopulos is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete (TUC) in Greece. He holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1985) and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University (1991), where he did his PhD research in the group of the Nobel Laureate Philip W. Anderson. Following military service in Greece, he worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Post-doctoral Researcher and then as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. In 2000, he moved to the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (currently, FPInnovations). For his research he was awarded (jointly with T. Uesaka) the 2003 Johannes A. Van den Akker International Prize for Advances in Paper Physics. In 2002, he moved to TUC. Dionissios has co-authored 202 publications (articles, conference proceedings and abstracts, technical reports) and the books “Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling” (Kluwer, 1998) and “Random Fields for Spatial Data Modeling” (Springer, 2020). He serves on the Associate Editor board of the journal Computers & Geosciences (Elsevier). He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Mineral Resources Engineering at TUC (2004-2009) and as Member of the University Council of TUC (2012-2017). He has coordinated and participated in several national and European research projects.